# 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:** 164
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3266 "2022-02-06T22:52:07Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > [@Jackmannii](#): > > > > Fifth Third Bank > > Idiotic name for a bank. Is Fifth Third Bank a less idiotic name for a bank than Ruth’s Chris Steak House is for a restaurant chain? ---
**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:** [February 6, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3267 "2022-02-06T23:00:48Z")
Fifth Third Bank offers special rates on loans so you can pay for a meal at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3268 "2022-02-06T23:43:01Z")
OK, I’m sure the Limu Emu(and Doug) commercials have been mentioned. But as someone else upthread said they have improved my reflexes. I can’t switch away fast enough. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3269 "2022-02-07T00:53:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > OK, I’m sure the Limu Emu(and Doug) commercials have been mentioned. Worse, they’ve been showing up in YouTube so often that it’s sometimes taken a dozen or more refreshes to get something sufficiently tolerable that I can put up with it for five seconds before watching the video I was looking for in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3270 "2022-02-07T01:06:28Z")
I can’t stand the Allstate insurance ads featuring Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, both star NFL quarterbacks, which has run repeatedly throughout the NFL season. The concept is that both players think that they are getting an exclusive low rate (the “Rodgers Rate” and the “Patrick Price”) and they are angry when they discover that other people are getting the same discount. I realize that it’s being exaggerated for supposedly comedic effect, but just the concept that they’d be mad that their agent offered a good rate to other people besides them is obnoxious. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3271 "2022-02-07T13:34:39Z")
Agree. The whole scheme has run it’s course and it is not cute any more. Sorry, Jake. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3272 "2022-02-07T13:43:57Z")
Why would a multimillionaire go out of his way to thank someone for saving him a couple bucks? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3273 "2022-02-07T13:53:13Z")
Wait… so, Peppa Pig is indoctrinating our kids to be Commies? Side note: somebody in one of the various political Pit threads posted a link to the Tuttle Twins website and I clicked on it, thinking it was a news story about them instead of the actual website. Apparently by doing that Android/Google decided I was interested in those books and I was regularly getting ads for them on my phone for about a month afterwards. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3274 "2022-02-07T16:13:46Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > By my calculation, that means a 6.7% improvement in their services. > > Hardly worth boasting about. Eh, as long as banking has been around I’d be amazed if someone could improve a process/service that much. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3275 "2022-02-07T16:52:29Z")
**Man in car** _(driving)_:How about sushi? **Woman in car** : I had sushi for lunch yesterday. Indian? **Man** : Eh, maybe. What about seafood? **Woman** _(condescending voice, giving Man a “You’re a dumbass look”)_: You know I don’t like seafood. **Man** _(intentionally attempting to drive into back on taco truck before their stupid car prevents it)_: Die, woman! What do you mean you don’t like seafood? What do you think 95% of sushi is??? [https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qeyc/2022-chevrolet-equinox-tacos-t1](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qeyc/2022-chevrolet-equinox-tacos-t1) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3276 "2022-02-07T17:09:05Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Is Fifth Third Bank a less idiotic name for a bank than Ruth’s Chris Steak House is for a restaurant chain? It actually is. The name Ruth’s Chris makes my teeth grind. (As does its seemingly sister restaurant, PF Chang’s). Fifth Third makes me chuckle with wry humor. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3277 "2022-02-07T17:13:00Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > I realize that it’s being exaggerated for supposedly comedic effect, but just the concept that they’d be mad that their agent offered a good rate to other people besides them is obnoxious. This is like the conservative conundrum, “I will give you $50, but if you take it, I will also give $50 to a stranger. Will you take it?” And as we found (it was a thread here, I think) many won’t take free money if there is a chance someone “not worthy” will also get free money. And we know Kaaron is one of those people. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3278 "2022-02-07T17:13:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@NDP](#): > > > > Is Fifth Third Bank a less idiotic name for a bank than Ruth’s Chris Steak House is for a restaurant chain? > > It actually is. > > The name Ruth’s Chris makes my teeth grind. (As does its seemingly sister restaurant, PF Chang’s). Fifth Third makes me chuckle with wry humor. - From Wiki. > #### Name change to _Ruth’s Chris Steak House_ , 1976 > > In early 1976, shortly after Fertel signed a new ten-year lease on the restaurant, a fire destroyed the building. Fertel had recently acquired a second property nearby to rent out as a party space. Within seven days, she had relocated the restaurant to its new location a few blocks away at 711 North Broad Street and re-opened it, expanding to 160 seats in the process.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%27s_Chris_Steak_House#cite_note-Her_Life_Is_The_Stuff_Of_Legend-11) The sales agreement with Matulich prevented her from using the original name at any other address, so she named the new restaurant _Ruth’s Chris Steak House_ in order to keep some continuity with the previous location.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%27s_Chris_Steak_House#cite_note-12) She admitted later to _Fortune Magazine_ that “I’ve always hated the name, but we’ve always managed to work around it.”[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%27s_Chris_Steak_House#cite_note-13) ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3279 "2022-02-07T18:14:27Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > What do you mean you don’t like seafood? What do you think 95% of sushi is??? I’ve been to a _real bad_ sushi bar (out of business now) where the answer to that would be ‘Rice’. But yeah, that commercial is fucking stoopid. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3280 "2022-02-07T18:48:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The name Ruth’s Chris makes my teeth grind. (As does its seemingly sister restaurant, PF Chang’s). Fifth Third makes me chuckle with wry humor. What is similar between an Asian restaurant with $15 entrees and a $50-70 steakhouse? I haven’t been to either one. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3281 "2022-02-07T19:00:14Z")
I have been to Ruths and Mortons, and was not impressed. Very good steak, but I was glad i wasn’t picking up the check, since I could get a steak almost as good at Outback for a third the price, and less snotty service. For Mortons, I was given a Gift Cert to try it and review it\*. I went alone, and boy going alone was a mistake- no “show”, terrible and snotty service. The review was not so good. Ruths- I was taken to dinner, and there the service wasn’t quite “snotty” but it was a little condescending. I had not complaints about the steaks mind you. - for a while I guess I might have been considered an “influencer” since I wrote a lot of reviews. So I was sent a gift cert for their new SJ restaurant. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3282 "2022-02-07T19:37:08Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > What is similar between an Asian restaurant with $15 entrees and a $50-70 steakhouse? I haven’t been to either one. Probably nothing, but…the local stations used to run ads for RCSH, PFCCB and one other restaurant with another twee name that I forget, and since they were in the same commercial and they all had stupidish names I just assumed they were all owned by the same parent, probably a big eastern syndicate, you know. In my head, they are still filed together. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3283 "2022-02-08T03:44:44Z")
Better than the constant degrading of services that most banks have. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3284 "2022-02-10T14:15:46Z")
Help an old man here. Is this _thing_ they are doing in this commercial a real _thing_, or is this thing a thing that the commercial created to pretend it’s a thing, so you get TikTok? Am I making sense? I’m not _down_ with the Tiking and the Toking and the whatevers. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7FH2oK4iZCs/hqdefault.jpg "Allen Iverson and Tyronn Lue with the Khaby Lame’s Impression - TikTok Ad (2021)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FH2oK4iZCs) ---
**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:** [February 10, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3285 "2022-02-10T14:27:52Z")
The hell is Martha Stewart doing to her cat in the Pretty Litter commercials? She looks like a witch making a meat loaf. And why is fluffy sitting on a pagan altar? This clip is longer than the one I regularly see. The one on tv really shows her molding that cat. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9JvTnfkwusk/maxresdefault.jpg "PrettyLitter Review by Martha Stewart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JvTnfkwusk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=163) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=165)