# 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:** 142
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2826 "2021-09-10T16:09:42Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I do not pick-up on the whole Down Syndrome thing you are seeing there. To me, they are just showing an awkward person stumbling thru every-day activities, trying to do them “old school” style, but since CarMax is so easy, it’s easy for him, too. Thank you for finding it. And, wow, I feel bad (but I still think he looks like he has DS). Am I the only one who sees it? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2827 "2021-09-10T18:57:35Z")
I have seen this commercial where I definitely get a Down Syndrome vibe from the young actor. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LCNCTSPt8) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2828 "2021-09-10T20:35:16Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Thank you for finding it. And, wow, I feel bad (but I still think he looks like he has DS). Am I the only one who sees it? I got a bit curious, since I agree that the commercial is meant to illustrate awkward, clumsy events in his life and how buying a car doesn’t have to be that way. So I found the casting here: [CarMax TV Commercial, ‘Old Ways’ Song by Wilson Phillips - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ORIN/carmax-things-we-dont-need-to-experience-again-song-by-wilson-phillips) Which lists the lead as [Zack Kahn](https://www.ispot.tv/topic/actor-actress/kjN/zack-kahn) From there it was a hop and a skip to IMDB where we see: > **[Zack Kahn](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4362639/mediaviewer/rm359284480/)** > > This is a still from my upcoming movie about dudes who wear collared shirts under sweaters.Don't let anyone spoil the ending! and his mini-bio: > Zack Kahn was first seen in his kindergarten production of “Flatliners.” > > After NYU Tisch Film School, Kahn worked as a writer, producer and director for MTV Networks and then for TV and digital ad agencies. > > He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting in addition to production and has since appeared in numerous commercials. > > He can currently be seen in “‘Panic Room’ on Ice!” So, I can now assign 99% confidence to the assertion that the commercial does not intend to portray its lead as having Downs Syndrome. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2829 "2021-09-10T20:52:16Z")
Thanks. I had actually looked him up also and I accept that I’m mistaken. So, it’s not that I’m challenging that, I’m just wondering if it looks that way to anyone else, or at least if anyone can understand why I thought that. I mean no harm or disrespect; the actor just has certain physical characteristics that led me to think he has DS. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2830 "2021-09-10T21:09:32Z")
Wooki, I don’t think any harm was done and you didn’t make any mean comments. It was just an assumption that did not bear out. I hope I did not come across snarky in my response to you - I just saw it differently is all. Anyway, back to the annoying commercials!.. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2831 "2021-09-10T21:19:23Z")
You weren’t snarky at all, but thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2832 "2021-09-10T21:56:35Z")
I’ve only seen this commercial once so I can’t remember what it is about. But it shows a 1950s Corvette morphing into a new car. For awhile it shows the car from the above the front with both old and new sides split down the middle. The new side is a Mustang. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2833 "2021-09-10T23:22:16Z")
I see it. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2021, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2834 "2021-09-10T23:54:18Z")
Thanks for saying that. I’m not trying to be right. Just lately I seem to need reassurance that I’m not losing my mind! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2835 "2021-09-11T16:15:33Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4gP93bffc) I just saw this and liked it. By the time October 1st roles around it will be annoying me. Nice concept however. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2836 "2021-09-11T18:56:37Z")
There is a Snuggles commercial where the lady walks into a room with a lot of flowers in it and asks where they came from. Snuggles The Creepy-Ass Bear says something in his creepy-ass language that I do not speak. Whatever he says makes the WTF These Flowers Come From Lady have a weird conniption. Creepy-Ass Bear talks right over her seizure again in his incomprehensible tongue. I’m sure whatever it is he’s saying has to do with fabric softener but I for real cannot understand a word he says. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2837 "2021-09-11T21:47:17Z")
Yeah, that fabric softener has to be full of toxins to induce involuntary physical jerks like that. It should be open season year-round on the Snuggles bear and those revolting toilet paper bears. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2838 "2021-09-12T00:27:23Z")
Seen about 3 new AT&T commercials. Lily is always standing behind something and only visible from the waist up. What’s up with that??? ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2839 "2021-09-12T00:32:49Z")
AT&T actually allows her to show a bit of a profile which they previously did not. I don’t know why they hired a busty woman and then tried to minimize it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2840 "2021-09-12T01:58:25Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I just saw this and liked it. By the time October 1st roles around it will be annoying me. Nice concept however. Since when does Thing have an eye? ---
**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:** [September 12, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2841 "2021-09-12T02:38:44Z")
Those characters are just so repulsive. Won’t watch the commercials, certainly won’t watch the movie. My dog’s ass is better looking than all that mess. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2842 "2021-09-12T03:21:58Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@madsircool](#): > > > > I just saw this and liked it. By the time October 1st roles around it will be annoying me. Nice concept however. > > Since when does Thing have an eye? It looks like Thing is wearing a wristwatch. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2843 "2021-09-12T03:57:06Z")
That’s either an eye or an analog watch with no hands or numerals. [![](https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the-addams-family-2-thing-character-poster.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=1080&dpr=1.5) ](https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/the-addams-family-2-thing-character-poster.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=1080&dpr=1.5) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2844 "2021-09-12T04:37:04Z")
Yeah, according to [this](https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Thing), it’s an eye. > [@](#): > > This version of Thing wears a wristwatch with a functional eye in it, allowing him to see and show some emotion. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/2845 "2021-09-12T14:26:50Z")
I’ve probably mentioned this already, but I’m not going to search to be sure. I HATE the commercials where parents bribe their kids to eat. Between OreIda’s “potato pay 'em” and Kraft’s “cover everything with cheese and they’ll eat it” ads, I want to punch someone in the throat. One would hope parents wouldn’t take child-rearing advice from ads, but one would probably be disappointed. Is “take it of leave it” that bad? Your spawn won’t starve to death. 😠 _grrrrr_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=141) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=143)