# 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:** 138
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2746 "2021-07-25T20:46:24Z")
Uncle Ben’s becoming Original Bens at least makes sense as a rebranding. Aunt Jemima becoming Pearl Milling Company is basically just torpedoing the entire brand. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2747 "2021-07-25T20:48:23Z")
They’re playing a Sonics commercial the soundtrack of which is supposed to be the banter of the kitchen crew. They sound like they’re a little too into it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2748 "2021-07-25T20:55:34Z")
meant to add this weeks ago … no more free taxes commercials: [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/despised-maker-of-turbotax-tells-americans-the-free-ride-is-over/ar-AAMgRZr?ocid=SK2DDHP](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/despised-maker-of-turbotax-tells-americans-the-free-ride-is-over/ar-AAMgRZr?ocid=SK2DDHP) ---
**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:** [July 26, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2749 "2021-07-26T00:17:11Z")
Some ad for a doctor- or dentist-finding service has been running way too much on Animal Planet today…there’s the much too realistic sound of a tooth cracking, followed by a child shrieking in pain for her father. Enough already!!! ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2750 "2021-07-26T18:35:20Z")
Old songs that get “modernized” with a hip cover version just so they could play as the base for a very long medical ad. Rybelsus I’m looking at you. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2751 "2021-07-26T19:15:31Z")
Yes! They ruin the real song, if it’s any good at all. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2752 "2021-07-27T04:25:43Z")
There is a Verizon commercial featuring a black pantsuit wearing blonde wobbling around in red high heels. This woman is giving Flo a run for her money afa obnoxious spokesperson. She’s probable a SNL alum, but I don’t know or care. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2753 "2021-07-27T05:45:10Z")
The stupid Hanes “Ball-ance” comercials, which seem to get played in heavy rotation. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps0ue1EZwe0) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2754 "2021-07-27T16:58:50Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There is a Verizon commercial featuring a black pantsuit wearing blonde wobbling around in red high heels. This woman is giving Flo a run for her money afa obnoxious spokesperson. She’s probable a SNL alum, but I don’t know or care. I love Kate McKinnon, but she really cannot walk in those heels. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2755 "2021-07-27T19:19:45Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Old songs that get “modernized” with a hip cover version Kohl’s is using a heavily reworked obscure Zombies tune, _This Will Be Our Year._ Not ‘bad’ per se, but nearly unrecognizable. I bet I’m the only one who notices it and knows what it is. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2756 "2021-07-27T19:25:50Z")
I’d know it if I heard it, but then I have their complete box set. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2757 "2021-07-27T20:48:05Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I’d know it if I heard it Maybe. Like I say, it’s damn near unrecognizable. I just caught the first five words and had to work backwards to figure out what it was. It plays for maybe 4 seconds. Couldn’t find a link on the you’se tubes, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2758 "2021-07-31T01:49:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m seeing commercials touting the fact that Uncle Ben’s Rice is now Ben’s Rice, in order to be more “inclusive”. Message to Ben: Do you even know what the word “inclusive” means? Did you just hear it somewhere and thought that’s a good word to use in your commercial, without actually knowing its meaning? Exactly who or what is now being included that wasn’t included before removing the Black man from your packaging? It’s not a Black man on the package, it’s referring in historically racist terms that’s the problem. Most people would think being less exclusive is being more inclusive. YMMV. > [@Asuka](#): > > Aunt Jemima becoming Pearl Milling Company is basically just torpedoing the entire brand. And how would you propose they salvage “Aunt Jemima”? What about that branding is salvageable? ---
**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:** [August 2, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2759 "2021-08-02T16:04:51Z")
There’s a commercial that’s recently started showing up frequently, apparently for a medication or treatment for Grave’s Disease, in which close-ups of faces on a black background are shown with bulging eyes and bright red sclera, while a caption says that (X)% of people with Grave’s Disease also get TED (Thyroid Eye Disease). There’s a head shot of a guy who puts tape over his eyes, from his forehead to his cheeks, apparently to stop the bulging. And a closeup of a woman’s bright red eye with a tear flowing from it that looks…milky? (shudder). I feel bad for people who suffer from Grave’s Disease, but the commercial is pure nightmare fuel dysmorphic body horror, looking like it was directed by David Cronenberg. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2760 "2021-08-02T18:12:01Z")
I think the tape is to close his eyes so he can sleep, as the voice-over says during that part. Still nightmare-inducing for sure! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2761 "2021-08-02T23:20:11Z")
Hy-Vee is running that damn steak-grilling ad again with the not-the-sound-of-a-steak-grilling sound effect cranked up to 11. My wife says it sounds like rain. I say it sounds like something cooking in a deep fryer. But it’s NOT what steak grilling sounds like! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2762 "2021-08-03T06:02:44Z")
Here in Austin we’ve been inundated with creepy ambulance chaser Thomas J. Henry, who has gone all in on slick commercials that run all the freakin’ time and on cable as well as local stations. He scares my daughter. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3SF2ciLlpEo/maxresdefault.jpg "Accolades (2021) - Thomas J. Henry Law - Personal Injury Attorneys") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SF2ciLlpEo) He’s also got some community service ads clearly shot by the same production company so you know the women’s shelter and the back-to-school drive has his hands on it. **solost** I clicked on that Graves’ disease commercial and it’s fully leaded nightmare fuel! I’d like to see a ban on pharmaceutical ads. None of them are even mildly entertaining. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2763 "2021-08-03T13:02:50Z")
I wonder if my not seeing the Graves’ drug ads is because of viewing choices or regional disease variances; maybe _hypo_thyroidism is more common in these parts. On the other hand (based on ad frequency), everyone around here must suffer from psoriasis. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2764 "2021-08-03T13:04:34Z")
Moderate to _severe_ psoriasis! 😉 ---
**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:** [August 6, 2021, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2765 "2021-08-06T00:47:45Z")
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