# 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:** 152
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3026 "2021-11-08T18:50:17Z")
Yeah, it wont be long before we start seeing the giant red bows on car roofs, fake snow in the driveway, and people buying not one, but two expensive luxury SUVs to celebrate! ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3027 "2021-11-08T19:18:49Z")
Have y’all seen the latest one? I can’t find a video, but instead of a car all wrapped up in bows, it’s the Energizer Bunny for the little girl! Pretty cute spoof. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3028 "2021-11-09T00:49:44Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > There’s also that class-action thing from five years ago: > > [MyPillow Gets a $1 Million Wake-Up Call - Truth in Advertising](https://www.truthinadvertising.org/mypillow-gets-1-million-wake-call/) I’d forgotten about that! > [@mixdenny](#): > > Jack Daniels has a series of commercials where someone does something irrational and costly. One guy gets a free whiskey and then jumps up and buys a round for the busy bar. In another a woman tosses her I-phone into a pond. “Yay, I always wanted to do that!” You go, girl. Even her friends are dumbfounded. Another one has a woman order “one of everything” from a restaurant menu. And it ain’t Denny’s. That’s bizarre. But they surely did their market research—meaning that there must be a substantial number of people who find those actions “freeing” or in some other way attractive and plausible (leading them to associate the product with those actions in a way that leads to sales). Tough to imagine. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3029 "2021-11-09T04:24:51Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > there must be a substantial number of people who find those actions “freeing” or in some other way attractive and plausible (leading them to associate the product with those actions in a way that leads to sales). People that consume large quantities of _that_ product probably do, at that point, think those are good ideas… so maybe the ads are targeted at people who are _already_ on the Jack. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3030 "2021-11-09T04:44:04Z")
Two categories to mention. First, the Macy’s Christmas ads that started in my market on November 1. They beat out Kohl’s by two days. Second, three different pickup truck commercials where the trucks are going off-road and stop just before driving over a cliff. Extra special honors for the two frat bros who then say “I’m good.” No, you’re not. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3031 "2021-11-09T05:20:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > the two frat bros who then say “I’m good.” No way I’d get in that car until it was well away from the cliff. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3032 "2021-11-09T05:38:36Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Oh, and Fox News won’t even run Lindell’s advertisements any more. That’s not true. I saw one on Fox just today. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3033 "2021-11-09T14:15:38Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > I saw one on Fox just today. @cochrane likely meant new advertisements. Fox Business still runs old infomercials. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3034 "2021-11-09T14:44:38Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > > [@mixdenny](#): > > > > Jack Daniels has a series of commercials where someone does something irrational and costly. One guy gets a free whiskey and then jumps up and buys a round for the busy bar. In another a woman tosses her I-phone into a pond. “Yay, I always wanted to do that!” You go, girl. Even her friends are dumbfounded. Another one has a woman order “one of everything” from a restaurant menu. And it ain’t Denny’s. > > That’s bizarre. But they surely did their market research—meaning that there must be a substantial number of people who find those actions “freeing” or in some other way attractive and plausible (leading them to associate the product with those actions in a way that leads to sales). I haven’t seen these commercials, but that is bizarre-- making a series of humorous ads in which people drinking liquor make irrational decisions? What’s next-- someone downing a shot or two and yelling “hey, let’s drag race!”. Or “condoms are for losers!”. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3035 "2021-11-09T15:18:27Z")
If you decide to pour that shit down your throat, then there’s really no limit to your bad decisions. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3036 "2021-11-09T16:37:46Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > If you decide to pour that shit down your throat, then there’s really no limit to your bad decisions The reality of that is one thing; the ad agency for the liquor brand basically admitting “yep, if you drink this you’re going to do some stupid-ass shit” is quite another thing. Maybe it’s a refreshing new trend in truth-in-advertising, and will spread to other products: Prescription drugs: yes, _ **your doctor** _ should really be the one telling _ **you** _ which drugs you need, but we want to move a lot of this drug, and we’re already incentivizing your doctor to prescribe it, so you may as well go with the flow. You probably won’t get _too many_ of the following scary list of possible side effects… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3037 "2021-11-09T16:40:51Z")
> [@solost](#): > > What’s next-- someone downing a shot or two and yelling “hey, let’s drag race!”. Or “condoms are for losers!”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mGfBEnBw01A/maxresdefault.jpg "Bad Idea Jeans - Saturday Night Live") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGfBEnBw01A) ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3038 "2021-11-09T16:53:52Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Prescription drugs: yes, _ **your doctor** _ should really be the one telling _ **you** _ which drugs you need, but we want to move a lot of this drug, and we’re already incentivizing your doctor to prescribe it, so you may as well go with the flow. You probably won’t get _too many_ of the following scary list of possible side effects… Jesus, I hate the ever growing litany of adverse side effects these potions are capable of. Can’t the doctor take 5 minutes out of his day to scan the potential problems, and make decisions based on the ones that apply to the particular patient? The commercial should stop at, “ask your doctor about (insert stupid name)”, and let him figure it out. WTF are people paying their doctors for? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3039 "2021-11-09T17:08:10Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I was put off by the Lumé deodorant commercial at first, but I think I’ve come to appreciate, and dare I say even enjoy, the ‘in your face’ humorous aspect of how it just goes for it and tells it like it is, not bothering to engage in nebulous euphemisms. “For all your stinky crevices!”. Maybe I should be posting in the “Commercials you don’t hate” thread…? > > Here’s a long-form (over 2 minute) version that doubles down on the grossitude in the TV version: Excuse the hijack, but in case anyone is wondering, this stuff smells like ass _before_ it gets anywhere near any smelly crevices. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3040 "2021-11-09T21:35:54Z")
None of those side effects are due to the drug(s). It’s just that they’ve “happened”. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3041 "2021-11-09T21:42:15Z")
The people in these drug commercials are always going to farmer’s markets and nature walks, but in 90% of them they end up in a park with a gaggle of other sufferers doing some kind of yoga(?) moves where they spread their arms and seem to pretend to shoot an imaginary bow and arrow. What exactly are they doing? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3042 "2021-11-09T21:54:25Z")
And doesn’t anyone ever have _mild_ symptoms? ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3043 "2021-11-09T22:12:32Z")
And then there’s that commercial for Rexulti where depression sufferers walk around with their faces covered by cardboard happy faces. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3044 "2021-11-09T22:29:59Z")
All pharmaceutical commercials follow the same script - show happy, diverse, and well-adjusted people doing normal, everyday activities in a clean and utopian environment while the speaker goes thru the myriad of possible dangerous side effects of the drug. Finish-up with the whole “ask your doctor” business. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3045 "2021-11-09T22:34:49Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > All pharmaceutical commercials follow the same script - show happy, diverse, and well-adjusted people doing normal, everyday activities in a clean and utopian environment while the speaker goes thru the myriad of possible dangerous side effects of the drug. Not only that, but the generic “doing activities” parts are completely interchangeable. I’m sure the actors have no idea what product they will be selling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=151) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=153)