# 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:** 16
**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 5, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/301 "2018-01-05T11:59:51Z")
And since I’ve seen only one FarmersOnly commercial that included a person of color, I’m wondering if there’s a more subtle message being sent about that dating site too. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/302 "2018-01-05T12:23:08Z")
I find the commercial where the rec room gradually turns white as the two guys talk about Progressive Insurance to be a little creepy. Yes, buy our insurance and we’ll transform your entire house in our colors! And the guy who is a little taken aback by the sudden whiteness just happens to be black. Eww. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/303 "2018-01-08T16:07:21Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > 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). That one bugs me, too. I keep replacing that with something else to see if people would be so nearly impressed. “originally found in mice”; “originally found in elephants”; “originally found in _e coli_”. Somehow, I don’t think they’d be using those. Why do they think people will be impressed by jellyfish? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/304 "2018-01-08T16:20:32Z")
Who on Earth is that Left Twix/Right Twix campaign supposed to be targeting? Is there a demographic out there that’s saying “Man, this whole left/right Twix schism is really amusing and/or appealing to me”? I mean, maybe one ad using that “joke”, sure but they just keep beating it into the ground with a mallet. “Oh ho! We’ll have two ‘left’ Twix in a pack!” – Shut up, Twix people. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/305 "2018-01-24T00:26:05Z")
Thought I’d revive this thread to bitch about the pooping commercials. The guy beating on his ass with a tambourine for Pepto. I don’t want to “enjoy the go”, and I will go out of my way to avoid the town of Kiester, MN. The latest one is way over the top. It’s an ad for air freshener. A bunch of morons are gathered to watch the Superbowl and eating bowls of greasy food. The large black man suddenly pops a sweat and heads for the bathroom. Good thing you’ve got Glade, by golly. Fucking idiotic and downright offensive. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/306 "2018-01-24T00:45:13Z")
Poop in this box and mail it to us, best way to check for colon cancer! Boy I’d hate to be the mailman when one of those inevitablely gets damaged in the mail ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/307 "2018-01-24T13:16:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > The guy beating on his ass with a tambourine for Pepto. Sometimes I jump up and dance along. “When you’ve got nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea…” What? That’s not what we’re supposed to do? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/308 "2018-01-24T13:27:25Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Poop in this box and mail it to us, best way to check for colon cancer! > > Boy I’d hate to be the mailman when one of those inevitablely gets damaged in the mail They say they look in your DNA from the stool sample. Why not just send a saliva sample? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/309 "2018-01-24T14:43:16Z")
Any Verizon commercial with [this guy](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wrZq/verizon-google-pixel-2-50-percent-off-feat-thomas-middleditch). God, he’s an ass. And they love playing them during football. I didn’t know who he was, or that he is even “somebody”. I just searched for “Verizon dork ass commercials”, and there he was! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/310 "2018-01-24T14:45:38Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > This been done to women for years , now you know how it feel ! Don’t blame us - we’re not the ones who did it to women. And they stopped because they were offensive; moving on to a new target doesn’t make them less offensive. > [@Orwell](#): > > I saw that one recently and thought it was supremely stupid. I’m sure it reasonably reflects the opinion of a lot of Bud Light drinkers… that people who drink craft beers are pretentious and like to overpay. But I don’t see how it attracts new customers. I am not giving up flavorful beers for Bud Light. I guess it’s really the same as other light beers, just about name recognition and brand awareness. But the commercial is annoying with the “dilly dilly”. Not so much a new catchphrase [as an old one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender%27s_Blue). > [@nightshadea](#): > > the somewhat scary drug commericals that go " we treat ailment x but we don’t know exactly how or why it does " we just know it works great The ones that get me are the ones where potential side effects include **the symptoms the medication is supposed to treat**. Try this heart disease medication! Warning: may cause heart disease! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/311 "2018-01-24T14:50:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > They say they look in your DNA from the stool sample. Why not just send a saliva sample? The colon is not in your mouth. At least, I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/312 "2018-01-24T14:56:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > The colon is not in your mouth. At least, I hope not. Granted, but they say they work off the DNA. Why wouldn’t the DNA in the colon be the same as what’s in the saliva? ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/313 "2018-01-24T15:06:23Z")
Oh god, that stupid Dily Dilly. It is so obviously a manufactured phrase, designed not to help the product (such as I can’t believe I ate the whole thing! Or Where’s the Beef?) but just to be picked up and repeated by the youngsters. And what really sucks is I see people on the Social media using it unironically. I’ll say one thing about Bud Light. I’m not much of a beer drinker, but when I do, I prefer Wisconsin beers. But I took the full behind the scenes tour at the Ft Collins brewery, and they tapped me a glass right out of the tanks just before it gets bottled, and boy did that taste nice. Smooth. If it tasted like that all the time, I could see drinking it. But, of course, it doesn’t. ---
**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 24, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/314 "2018-01-24T16:07:36Z")
There is a new commercial for an app where you lean your tablet or cell phone against a wall (or a rock or something) and twirl around with your arms in the air in front of the camera. This is supposed to make measurements of your body 20 percent [DEL]cooler[/DEL] more accurate than a tailor. You then send off the data from that app to have custom shirts made for a hundred bucks each. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/315 "2018-01-24T16:24:53Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Oh god, that stupid Dily Dilly. It is so obviously a manufactured phrase, designed not to help the product (such as I can’t believe I ate the whole thing! Or Where’s the Beef?) but just to be picked up and repeated by the youngsters. And what really sucks is I see people on the Social media using it unironically. . Here’s Burl Ives singing _Lavender’s Blue_, which is where Dilly Dilly came from, IMHO. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pZBq6ZL9Q30/hqdefault.jpg "Lavender Blue from So Dear to My Heart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZBq6ZL9Q30) ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/316 "2018-01-24T17:30:31Z")
[quote=“DrDeth, post:315, topic:790089”] Here’s Burl Ives singing _Lavender’s Blue_, which is where Dilly Dilly came from, IMHO. [/QUOTE] Without even watching, I know Burl Ives is way cooler than anyone using it now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/317 "2018-01-24T17:40:25Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Without even watching, I know Burl Ives is way cooler than anyone using it now. 🙂 So very true. 🆒 ---
**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 25, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/318 "2018-01-25T14:11:22Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The ones that get me are the ones where potential side effects include **the symptoms the medication is supposed to treat**. Try this heart disease medication! Warning: may cause heart disease! Or the ones that caution against taking the medication if you’re allergic to the specific medication. I can certainly understand warnings about medicines in the same family causing similar reactions, but the wording of these commercials – “Don’t take Newmedtab if you’re allergic to Newmedtab” – is really odd. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/319 "2018-01-25T22:36:21Z")
The lady covering herself up to hide her eczema and whenever anyone asks(?) she keeps replying “it’s fine.” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/320 "2018-01-25T22:44:45Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > 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). ive seen this one tons recently on hallmark movies and mysteries , apparently its the chemical that makes the jellyfish regenerate the lost body parts the idea being that it can regenerate brain cells or something like that [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=17)