# 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:** 188
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3746 "2022-09-26T21:57:21Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > Way back in the 70s, I heard a theologian (Francis Schaeffer) speak, and he made a great comment (paraphrased): > > So theologians in a ministry degree program teach advertising? Naaah, he wasn’t teaching, this was at his home and he was just mini-ranting. He sounded like a Doper curmudgeon, actually (he mentioned his neighbor who’d come over every week and measure the shrubbery, and if it was one cm over the Swiss suggested standard, he’d throw a fit). ---
**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:** [September 26, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3747 "2022-09-26T23:47:21Z")
I’m almost to the point where I’m going to start recording the morning and evening news so I don’t have to deal with the stupid political ads. One of them is actually comically bad…it’s attacking a man running for a seat in a new Congressional district because of his background as a _criminal defence attorney!!!_ It uses a hokey rhyming scheme to attack this guy for having the _nerve_ to defend various “bad” people in court, including one bit that indicates he helped someone with their hash in exchange for cash. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3748 "2022-09-27T21:14:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Whatever you may think of sports gambling, these tactics are dishonest and disingenuous. Which is why I’m voting _for_ the proposition. They also claim that every kid with a tablet and cell phone will be turned into a gambling addict. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3749 "2022-09-27T23:53:30Z")
When you need a taco, you need a taco. Why do these people need tacos? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3750 "2022-09-28T13:54:09Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > The big talking point for the anti-Prop 27 folks is “90% of the profits will go to out-of-state corporations!!!” Maybe they are trying to suggest that the measure should only allow local companies to run sports books? “Keep the corruption local!” ---
**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:** [September 28, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3751 "2022-09-28T14:17:44Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Maybe they are trying to suggest that the measure should only allow local companies to run sports books? “Keep the corruption local!”. I don’t want to lose my money locally, to Indian Casinos; I want to give it to the Italian mob, as god intended. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3752 "2022-09-28T14:43:03Z")
This Coca Cola Ad is really annoying me right now. Not because of the people or anything, but the soda itself looks like it’s watered down. It’s really light and see-through when real cola is dark black. It’s all I can think about when it comes on. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GF9y1jDCKP0/hqdefault.jpg "Coca-Cola TV AD SPOT 0:30 September 2022") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9y1jDCKP0) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3753 "2022-09-28T15:01:04Z")
Wow, some of those are almost a light as Coors. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3754 "2022-09-29T01:16:06Z")
The travel service (Expedia? Travelocity?) with the woman checking out of the hotel and happy at getting charged $125 or whatever, and then going ballistic because another woman comes up beside her and gets charged $99. “Wait…what?” Lady, how do you know what kind of room this other woman had? Maybe she had a single with no breakfast. MYOB. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3755 "2022-09-29T03:30:23Z")
Saw an ad for something with a Zombie who was losing parts of his body. Sorry, not gonna think about using your whatever after watching an eyeball plop on the table. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3756 "2022-09-29T05:01:50Z")
Honey we won the lottery and I got so excited that I spilled my drink and now it’s perilously close to ruining the lottery ticket. Oh no, we don’t have adequate paper towels. Pick up the goddamn ticket, ya idiot! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3757 "2022-09-29T05:21:31Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > The travel service (Expedia? Travelocity?) with the woman checking out of the hotel and happy at getting charged $125 or whatever, and then going ballistic because another woman comes up beside her and gets charged $99. “Wait…what?” It’s for Trivago. The same commercial plays on the Canadian channels that I get, just as it does on the American channels that I get. Same hotel guests, same names, same hotel desk clerks. However. While on American channels, the prices are as you describe ($129/$99), they are curiously more expensive on Canadian channels ($200/$159). I have no idea why. Having done a lot of road-tripping through the US and Canada, I haven’t noticed that there is much difference in the cost of a night at a Comfort Inn, a Best Western, a Hampton Inn, or other similar “just off the highway, made for one-night travellers” places in both countries. If I can get a Comfort Inn room for one night in Regina, Saskatchewan for CA$129, I’d suggest that I can get the same room in Des Moines, Iowa for US$129 a night. Or at least within $10 of each other, anyway–it’s been a while since I’ve driven through Des Moines. Still, I have no idea why the difference in pricing in the Canadian and American Trivago commercials. Like I said, it’s curious. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3758 "2022-09-29T11:46:56Z")
That one bugs me for a different reason. They spin the monitor around and show the guest the total, which is creepy in itself. But the numbers are very strange! Where’s the tax? Why are they announcing it like that? The guests shouldn’t see other people’s totals. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. ---
**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 29, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3759 "2022-09-29T12:15:26Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Honey we won the lottery and I got so excited that I spilled my drink and now it’s perilously close to ruining the lottery ticket. Oh no, we don’t have adequate paper towels. > > Pick up the goddamn ticket, ya idiot! Are you spying on me as I watch TV?? ---
**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:** [September 29, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3760 "2022-09-29T13:12:18Z")
Progressive commercial: woman proves man forgot to bring life jackets. Literally, the entirety of this commercial is “the man is an idiot and the woman is right”. It has NOTHING to do with insurance other than the logo. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xBC-UiK-NmI/maxresdefault.jpg "Replay | Life Jackets | Progressive Insurance Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBC-UiK-NmI) ---
**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:** [September 29, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3761 "2022-09-29T17:38:41Z")
But I totally want Marriage Instant Replay… are they selling that? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3762 "2022-09-29T22:32:56Z")
I think complained about these Bounty commercials earlier in this thread. Not only do they not move the endangered object out of the way of the liquid stream, but when they wipe up the liquid they push it _toward_ the endangered object. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3763 "2022-10-01T12:14:48Z")
There’s a dubious hair-growth supplement being marketed on TV which potential users are urged to take as they go on their hair restoration “journey”. A prescription thalidomide derivative is supposed to be just the thing as you travel on your multiple myeloma “journey”. Who wants to book passage on the S.S. Pharma? Get me there now or don’t bother. \*there’s only one drug that deserves to be mentioned in the context of taking a trip, and yet I never see ads for it. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3764 "2022-10-01T23:10:26Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > There’s a dubious hair-growth supplement being marketed on TV which potential users are urged to take as they go on their hair restoration “journey”. > > A prescription thalidomide derivative is supposed to be just the thing as you travel on your multiple myeloma “journey”. I was just thinking this afternoon how annoying the “journey” trend is. It comes across as patronizing. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/3765 "2022-10-02T19:47:04Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I think complained about these Bounty commercials earlier in this thread. Not only do they not move the endangered object out of the way of the liquid stream, but when they wipe up the liquid they push it _toward_ the endangered object. I do want a sequel to the one with the dating app where grandma goes on a date with the hot guy. 😊 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=187) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=189)