# 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:** 207
**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 22, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4126 "2023-01-22T16:58:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Turbo Tax There should be some kind of category for “commercials I hate for products I like and use”. Because those are stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4127 "2023-01-23T19:44:42Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I go to the bathroom before movies. Yes, but do you announce and remind the whole theater they should, too? > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I read books about submarines. That’s the first one that really irked me. There’s nothing wrong with reading books about submarines unless your problem is books. Going around and lecturing people about submarines for no reason? Sure, but the bad part isn’t the submarines, it’s the lecturing part. I’m annoyed by the Take5 oil change commercials where the car owners act as if getting an oil change is the only break they get. Hey Doofus, Take 5 not give you enough time during the oil change trying to fix your door remote doesn’t mean you can’t sit in your car in your driveway instead of the shop. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4128 "2023-01-27T17:52:17Z")
Another Take5, lady doesn’t have time to finish knitting sweaters for the family, so everyone has a cropped sweater showing midriff. First off, how fast a knitter is she of she plans to finish 5 or 6 sweaters during her oil change? Second, if she had time to sit and finish the sweaters, why does it have to be at the oil change place? ---
**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 27, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4129 "2023-01-27T18:04:09Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Another Take5, lady doesn’t have time to finish knitting sweaters for the family, so everyone has a cropped sweater showing midriff. > > First off, how fast a knitter is she of she plans to finish 5 or 6 sweaters during her oil change? Second, if she had time to sit and finish the sweaters, why does it have to be at the oil change place? - Surrealist: Because the drought. ---
**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 28, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4130 "2023-01-28T01:29:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Another Take5, lady doesn’t have time to finish knitting sweaters for the family, so everyone has a cropped sweater showing midriff. They did do a good job with the actors in that one though…the young girl looks thrilled at being allowed to wear a midriff-bearing top in a family photo, the little boy is grumpily tugging his sweater down, the dad is wearing a “this is fine” grin, and the mom looks vaguely pleased that she finally managed to get the family into matching outfits. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4131 "2023-01-28T13:39:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > _really stupid_ ads featuring a “play of the week”, and talking about how the player was able to make such a spectacular play because he wasn’t thinking about his taxes. And I think those ads are hilarious! Each to his own, I guess. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4132 "2023-01-28T14:44:38Z")
Weight Watcher’s Resolution Return Ads. Again, fine concept, can’t complain … except when that one doughy guy steps up and asks if it’s too late to return his resolutions. “Are they unrealistic or soul crushingly awful?” “Does it make a difference?” “No it does not.” Then what the hell did you ask for? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4133 "2023-01-28T15:33:10Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Another Take5, lady doesn’t have time to finish knitting sweaters for the family, so everyone has a cropped sweater showing midriff. Also (though I’m not a knitter so correct me if I’m wrong), why would _all_ the sweaters be unfinished? Wouldn’t one knit an entire sweater and then move on to the next one? ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4134 "2023-02-07T03:29:33Z")
Chap stick. A 10 year old girl smears chapstick all over the inside of the car window looking like a sucker fish under a glass bottom boat. All the people along the way act like that is the brightest kid they have ever seen. Even the voice over seems to say Live Shmear Love, I say creepy ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4135 "2023-02-07T04:57:17Z")
I saw two commercials back to back: the first was that Wendy’s commercial where, “everyday is ‘Fryday’” because the fries are so good; the next was a Spam commercial featuring the product being fried in a pan while a little song runs listing the days of the week: Fryday, Fryday, Fryday, Fryday, Fryday. I smell skullduggery. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4136 "2023-02-07T05:59:54Z")
the latest "forever natural diamonds"thats got some British model/actress shilling for the DeBeers diamond mafia/cartel(which they don’t name directly) I wonder if she realizes that the us government considers them to be about the same as a Colombian drug cartel to the point that they cant legally do direct business in the us since the 60s or so ---
**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, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4137 "2023-02-07T13:51:34Z")
Every commercial with Gronk advertising his SB Kick of Destiny! (or whatever, I try to ignore them)… Not only is it all manufactured hype, and annoying as fuck, but it’s for FanDuel! Lame assed sports betting! Gronk’s “lovable doofus” persona works OK shilling insurance he can never buy, these are just annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4138 "2023-02-07T18:36:34Z")
My wife doesn’t like the Heinz commercial where the woman remembers being a little girl and eating Heinz on spaghetti. My wife had never heard of anyone doing that. I’d never heard of it either, but I guess that’s what you do when you don’t have the resources. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4139 "2023-02-07T19:08:19Z")
> [@Beesnest](#): > > Chap stick. A 10 year old girl smears chapstick all over the inside of the car window looking like a sucker fish under a glass bottom boat. All the people along the way act like that is the brightest kid they have ever seen. Even the voice over seems to say Live Shmear Love, > I say creepy I always wonder, if she is in a moving vehicle, what would happen if the parents of this child get in a minor fender bender (or God Forbid a major smash-up), would the impact cause the 10 year old girl’s teeth and mouth to smash hard enough into the window to cut her lip, knock a tooth out, or cause other damage to her face? And is the inside of that car window so clean that mom & dad don’t mind the girl’s lips making contact? And who is gonna clean that waxy chapstick off the window? I say creepy, disgusting, germy, and possible injurious! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4140 "2023-02-07T19:18:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My wife doesn’t like the Heinz commercial where the woman remembers being a little girl and eating Heinz on spaghetti. My wife had never heard of anyone doing that. I’d never heard of it either, but I guess that’s what you do when you don’t have the resources. When I was younger I knew a woman who would boil pasta, dice an onion, mix it with ketchup, exclaim, “It’s a meal!” and feed it to her children. She exclaimed “It’s a meal!” about a lot of nasty garbage but this one stuck with me. To be fair she was extremely poor and stupid, so there was that. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4141 "2023-02-07T19:39:04Z")
I’ve heard of that and similar substitutions in the pretty distant past, when you might not have been able to get tomato sauce or canned tomatoes if you didn’t live in the right area - but I’d never seen that commercial before today, and the time period I’m talking about would be way before the childhood of anyone singing about how “adulting sucks” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4142 "2023-02-07T19:39:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > My wife doesn’t like the Heinz commercial where the woman remembers being a little girl and eating Heinz on spaghetti. My wife had never heard of anyone doing that. I’d never heard of it either, but I guess that’s what you do when you don’t have the resources. “Army noodles with ketchup”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6aEGl46I99E/maxresdefault.jpg "Band Of Brothers (HBO) - Spaghetti And Currahee - Winters Assigned Kitchen Duty") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEGl46I99E) My dad cooked the Navy version for some 30 years, until (thank Og!) he discovered Prego. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4143 "2023-02-07T19:44:13Z")
What are they singing? ---
**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, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4144 "2023-02-07T20:26:41Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > And is the inside of that car window so clean that mom & dad don’t mind the girl’s lips making contact? Oh come on! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4145 "2023-02-08T02:47:11Z")
> [@Beesnest](#): > > A 10 year old girl smears chapstick all over the inside of the car window looking like a sucker fish under a glass bottom boat. All the people along the way act like that is the brightest kid they have ever seen. I hate kids who do that. Always have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=206) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=208)