# 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:** 15
**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:** [December 12, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/281 "2017-12-12T22:55:12Z")
> [@Clawdio](#): > > or B.) at quite a young age she’s already become a pedantic hipster asshole… “oh you mean my _IPAD_?” I vote for smug hipster. The look of disdain she has in the line just confirms it. I hate her face. Irrational, I know, but yet, I do. And the twee things she’s doing on her not-computer. They’re just so “cute”. And so useless. And I think she shouldn’t climb trees without a helmet. This is the problem with live sports. You can’t skip commercials, and so you see them far too many times, and develop irrational hatreds for innocent actors. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/282 "2017-12-14T00:40:15Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > And is anyone else tired of being subjected to the Rooms to Go “My stuff! My stuff my stuff my stuff!” commercial? What jumps out at me is they have kids singing a song that sounds suspiciously similar to “lovely lady lump”. Ew. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The girl replies, “What’s a computer?” (Jump to 0:50 if you want to see the annoying bit.) Obviously, the message is, “It’s an iPad. It’s not a computer.” Except that response makes the kid sound like some sort of asshole. Agreed - annoying as shit. She has to know what a computer _is_ - she’s grown up in a world of laptops and computer commercials, if nothing else. I’m sure her school actually has some of those, and not just tablets and iPads. So she’s a dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/283 "2017-12-14T17:44:27Z")
> [@Clawdio](#): > > Agreed, I actually like the commercial until that last line. > > What’s a computer? > > So either A.) She’s a moron that thinks the thing she’s typing on is a magic device created by a wizard and never gave it a second thought. or B.) at quite a young age she’s already become a pedantic hipster asshole… “oh you mean my _IPAD_?” It’s definitely a dorky line but I see where Apple is going with it, at least. It’s part of their obsessive fascination with computers as appliance – something so easy to use that you don’t actually think of it as the traditional “hard to use” computer. In that sense, I think they’ve nailed the way that Millennials take ridiculously sophisticated technology for granted. In particular, look at the _whining_ when phones approach the $1K mark. Which is, admittedly expensive, but from the standpoint of we oldsters who grew up with '386 computers with 14" CRTs, the idea of a super computer that can fit in your pocket, take pictures, talk with your appliances, navigate based on a built-in GPS, store and play your _entire_ music library, stream movies, recognize your face, and, oh yeah, act as a phone as well for less than the cost of a 1995 PC is pretty remarkable. On the other hand, a commercial that celebrates taking all that amazing technological tour de force as commonplace might not be the best idea (re: whining). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/284 "2017-12-14T18:25:40Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > It’s definitely a dorky line but I see where Apple is going with it, at least. It’s part of their obsessive fascination with computers as appliance – something so easy to use that you don’t actually think of it as the traditional “hard to use” computer. In that sense, I think they’ve nailed the way that Millennials take ridiculously sophisticated technology for granted. In particular, look at the _whining_ when phones approach the $1K mark. Which is, admittedly expensive, but from the standpoint of we oldsters who grew up with '386 computers with 14" CRTs, the idea of a super computer that can fit in your pocket, take pictures, talk with your appliances, navigate based on a built-in GPS, store and play your _entire_ music library, stream movies, recognize your face, and, oh yeah, act as a phone as well for less than the cost of a 1995 PC is pretty remarkable. > > On the other hand, a commercial that celebrates taking all that amazing technological tour de force as commonplace might not be the best idea (re: whining). Well, sure. But her question is “what’s a computer”" which makes her either a idiot or really rude and snarky to the nice neighbor black woman. Maybe her device isnt techically a computer but if she doesnt know what one\* is…\*… Now, if she had said “This isnt really a computer” then fine. Still a little snarky, but… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/285 "2017-12-14T18:53:40Z")
And remember that the kid is using a keyboard attached to the iPad, which is at an angle vertically. From the neighbor’s perspective, it looks like the kid is typing away on a notebook computer. So the kid’s response is rude and/or assholic. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/286 "2017-12-16T03:55:54Z")
I just caught the tail end of this one - guy is in bed with a woman, looks away with a concerned look. Voice over: “Gucci Guilty cologne for men.” So this dude’s cheating on his partner? That’s _totally_ an attribute I want to smell like! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/287 "2017-12-16T04:12:20Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I just caught the tail end of this one - guy is in bed with a woman, looks away with a concerned look. Voice over: “Gucci Guilty cologne for men.” > > So this dude’s cheating on his partner? That’s _totally_ an attribute I want to smell like! Is that the one with Jared Leto? As far as I know, he’s just falling asleep after he and the girl did … whatever … in the bathtub. The one that annoys me is the HORRIBLE singing of the Honda ad using Lindsey Buckingham’s legendary “Holiday Road”. The singing is off key, the new lyrics are annoying, and they play the ad all the freaking time. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/288 "2017-12-16T20:57:37Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The one that annoys me is the HORRIBLE singing of the Honda ad using Lindsey Buckingham’s legendary “Holiday Road”. The singing is off key, the new lyrics are annoying, and they play the ad all the freaking time. > > [Happy Honda Days TV Spot, 'Holiday Road Trip: 2018 Fit' [T2] - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wsxA/happy-honda-days-holiday-road-trip) OH GOD yes. Why did they release so poor a version? Even the orchestration is lousy. If the idea was to make the people singing “relate-able” by having them sing off-key, at least have a crackerjack orchestration and make it dominate. At least they’ll stop playing it after New Year’s–one hopes. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/289 "2017-12-18T15:02:04Z")
I’m really annoyed by “It Stopped For You!”, in a tone as if it’s the most amazing thing, rather than “You idiot, pay attention to what you’re doing!” “It stopped for you” means you should have stopped, but didn’t. And the reason you didn’t is because you were too busy fantasizing that your car was a space vehicle cruising along, and you were sightseeing in the sky instead of watching the space road in front of you. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/290 "2017-12-18T15:21:11Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > OH GOD yes. Why did they release so poor a version? Even the orchestration is lousy. If the idea was to make the people singing “relate-able” by having them sing off-key, at least have a crackerjack orchestration and make it dominate. > > At least they’ll stop playing it after New Year’s–one hopes. To me it sounds like autotune, but off key. So either the autotune didn’t work, or they used it in exactly the opposite way it was originally intended. Either way… I hate it too. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/291 "2017-12-18T16:17:10Z")
Given the choice, I would rather listen to the offkey autotune than the soulless rendition of “Up on the Housetop” forced upon us by some car company a few years ago. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/292 "2017-12-18T16:21:27Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The one that annoys me is the HORRIBLE singing of the Honda ad using Lindsey Buckingham’s legendary “Holiday Road”. The singing is off key, the new lyrics are annoying, and they play the ad all the freaking time. Oh, how I hate those ads!! And the inevitable earworms - dammit, just reading this has it stuck in my head!! DIE DIE DIE!!! I guess I don’t run with the demographic most car ads are targeting - I don’t know anyone who got or gave a car as a gift, with or without the big bow. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/293 "2017-12-18T17:31:54Z")
I hate the land Rover commercial where the parents drive the daughter to some cabin so she can have snow. I hate that it's obviously filmed in California, yet she has a saguaro in her yard. I hate that the family is so rich that they own a beautiful cabin, and a house in LA, and a Land Rover. And that they're probably republicans. :) I hate the smug smile on that spoiled brat's face. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/294 "2017-12-18T20:05:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I hate the land Rover commercial where the parents drive the daughter to some cabin so she can have snow. > > I hate that it's obviously filmed in California, yet she has a saguaro in her yard. I hate that the family is so rich that they own a beautiful cabin, and a house in LA, and a Land Rover. And that they're probably republicans. :) I hate the smug smile on that spoiled brat's face. There are a few saguaroes in CA- very very few in the wild. > **[The Hunt for the Westernmost Saguaro](https://www.pbssocal.org/redefine/the-hunt-for-the-westernmost-saguaro)** > > The California desert is a botanical frontier, and there are discoveries to be made around every bend of the wash. Of course rich spoiled people have been known to have some stolen from Arizona and planted in their yards. > **[Busting Cactus Smugglers in the American West](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/cactus-thieves/470070/)** > > How undercover agents infiltrated the global black market for cacti So add “criminal” to your list. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/295 "2018-01-03T04:07:01Z")
The stupidest one I’ve seen lately is the Prevagen commercial suggesting (while carefully avoiding making any actual claims subject to false-advertising laws) that their product will improve your brain function. Apparently, we’re supposed to be impressed by the fact that the active ingredient is “a chemical found in jellyfish” (notwithstanding the fact that jellyfish don’t have any brains). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/296 "2018-01-03T07:04:57Z")
Just saw a jaw-dropper for ‘Red Fortera’ boner pills, and if there has ever been a bigger, snarmier, more flamboyant DOUCHEBAG in the history of advertising, I shudder to think. Makes me yearn for Enzyte and Smiling Bob, who was at least funny! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/297 "2018-01-03T11:09:42Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Apparently, we’re supposed to be impressed by the fact that the active ingredient is “a chemical found in jellyfish” (notwithstanding the fact that jellyfish don’t have any brains). Was it discovered by a school teacher? Because that would give it more credibility… ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/298 "2018-01-03T14:51:35Z")
GMC trots these commercials out every winter: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ehTqwH-lMbs/hqdefault.jpg "GMC Season to Upgrade TV Commercial, 'Let It Pro 2017 Sierra Denali 1500'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTqwH-lMbs) The basic message is that if you buy a huge GMC truck you’ll make your fellow suburbanites feel bad about thenselves, because the person with the most possessions is obviously the best. Just once, I’d like to see snowman guy say, “Well my dick is still bigger than yours, and your wife knows it too” Probably won’t happen though. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/299 "2018-01-04T02:33:00Z")
How is Pediasure getting away with the commerical that essentially says your child will be a stunted, underweight runt unless they chug this gunk twice a day? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/300 "2018-01-05T04:17:21Z")
[FarmersOnly.com](http://FarmersOnly.com) is getting a bit annoying, portraying simple salt of the earth country folk who are assailed by thoughtless, stuck up rude city C-words. I mean, I’m glad for them, but no need to be so smug, as if you are all cult members who recognize each other in a land of nasty sluts and coke dealers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=16)