# Again with the annoying commercials! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [June 28, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089 "2017-06-28T22:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 127
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2526 "2021-05-01T05:29:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I think she’s kinda cute. But then, I’m into metal. > Once you go chrome… Sy Borg Gimme dat, gimme dat Sy Borg Gimme dat, give me the chromium leg, I beg Sy Borg Gimme dat, gimme dat Sy Borg Gimme dat, give me the chromium leg, Little wires, pliers, tires They turn me on Maybe I’m crazy Maybe I’m crazy Maybe I’m crazy, mon . . . ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2527 "2021-05-01T19:01:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I see they changed the ending to the automobile commercial where the little boy has to pee. Instead of him saying “Too late!” as they arrive at their destination, the mother hustles him out of the car and says “Come on!” > > I guess someone somewhere finally realized that failing to make it to a toilet on time is not a good way to flog automobiles. There’s a Hungry Howie’s Pizza commercial where they changed a line after it had run for a little while. A woman comes home and finds her husband had been writing equations all over the wall trying to work out all of HH’s 40,000 flavor combinations. Even their little baby had equations written on him. The wife scoops up the baby and says “ummmm…I’m going to go.” The husband says “to get more pizza? Yeah!” The wife says “no, I’m leaving you”. My wife even said wow, that’s kind of grim for a pizza commercial. They soon changed the last line to “no, I’m going to call your mother”. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2528 "2021-05-01T22:26:18Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The husband says “to get more pizza? Yeah!” The wife says “no, I’m leaving you”. My wife even said wow, that’s kind of grim for a pizza commercial. Next version: _“And Junior here isn’t really yours! I was cheating on you with your Best Friend!”_ I’d buy that Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2529 "2021-05-02T00:52:47Z")
Similarly there was a The General auto insurance ad about 5 years ago where The General is at a latin night club dancing and one of the women says “Aye Papi!” after seeing him break dance. They took out the Aye Papi! in later versions because presumably it was seen as too sexualized, like if The General asked a woman “Who’s your daddy” at a club. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2530 "2021-05-03T02:22:51Z")
What’s with commercials still referencing 2020? Corona and Mike’s Twisted Tea are both running ads that would have made much more sense last year. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2531 "2021-05-03T02:37:50Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > What’s with commercials still referencing 2020? I know, Man! 2020 is _SO_ last year! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2532 "2021-05-05T12:46:23Z")
There’s a new Buick commercial where a passenger in a Buick asks the driver if she can play some music from her phone. He says, yeah, I have ApplePlay. She pulls out a tangled jumble of wires from somewhere and asks “where do I plug in?” He says “it’s wireless” and she says “that’s so YOU”. As if to say, you’re so hip and cutting edge in your embrace of new technology! Bluetooth has been available in vehicles for like 20 years now. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2533 "2021-05-05T14:15:57Z")
I wonder who Buicks appeal to. I just can’t imagine any one under the age of at least 50 buying one. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2534 "2021-05-05T14:20:50Z")
Which made it even funnier that the girl who was so befuddled by wireless vehicular technology in the Buick commercial, as well as the guy driving, were both 20-somethings. She would literally barely remember, if at all, an era when vehicles did _ **not** _ have wireless capability. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2535 "2021-05-05T14:24:39Z")
Note to Folger’s: The worst part of waking up is hearing some woman SCREECHING in my ear. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2536 "2021-05-06T00:21:21Z")
Buick has been trying to appeal to younger buyers for years now - remember the Tiger Woods ads? They’ve supposedly gotten the average buyer age down below 50 (depending on who you believe), but it can’t have been a good sign for “Fred Mertz’s favorite car” when they removed the Buick lettering from models a few years ago, leaving only the logo. > **[Is GM Mapping The End Of Buick In America?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2018/03/13/is-gm-mapping-the-end-of-buick-in-america/)** > > General Motors Buick brand is dropping the name "Buick" from their cars, and hoping that buyers will gravitate to just the Tri-Shield logo. Still selling well in China though. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2537 "2021-05-06T01:06:52Z")
I’m under 50 and would LOVE a Cascada. Man, I want a convertible. There’s a commercial I see a lot on YouTube TV for, of all things, Pull Ups. It has a cartoon girl walking next to a cartoon bear saying how happy she is in her Pull Ups and does a cartwheel. She then asks the bear “did ya see it?” and he responds with “yeah!”. What irrationally angers me about that commercial is how regular the bear’s voice it. It’s like a regular dude is talking. The voice isn’t, I don’t know, bear-y enough ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2538 "2021-05-06T01:29:46Z")
When I see that commercial it reminds me that I don’t really like kids. 🤷‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2539 "2021-05-10T22:49:18Z")
I wonder if I’m the only one creeped out by the Lady Gaga perfume commercial where, at the end, she seems to histrionically approach the camera. I think it’s supposed to be sexy, but since I’m immune to her charms, I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2540 "2021-05-11T00:36:51Z")
I just saw that! Her demeanor is that she’s awkwardly trying to like the product, but my strong impression was that she knows that the perfume, and all commercials, are all a crock. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2541 "2021-05-11T02:48:03Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > When I see that commercial it reminds me that I don’t really like kids This is such a refreshingly honest proclaimation. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2542 "2021-05-11T11:52:50Z")
One of the Visit California commercials has the actors saying lines from _Born to be Wild_ . . . . “Get your motor running” “Head out on the highway” “Looking for some _touch keys_” WTF is a “touch key”? I heard this commercial probably fifteen times before I actually saw it and realized she’s saying “tchotchkes” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2543 "2021-05-11T12:17:50Z")
😄 Ah yes, when I drink I am very refreshing! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2544 "2021-05-11T14:23:35Z")
For some reason, Ryan Reynolds is standing in a farm field with his pants on backwards. From the left comes Beardo, his only customer. RR announces that they have big plans for this service, and Beardo says, “like what?”. RR looks at the camera and says, “I have no idea”. I confess, the corners of my lips twitched slightly upward the first time I saw this, but the subsequent 10,000 viewings took care of whatever humor there was there. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2545 "2021-05-16T22:04:29Z")
This Google Fi commercial. Not only is the animation stupid and bad, but the tune! Someone obviously was impressed by Schoolhouse Rock, but had no talent for making a good song in that style. And they play it every 20 minutes! [Google Fi](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/O6RN/google-fi-ode-to-google-fi) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=128)