# 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:** 230
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4586 "2023-09-19T02:32:04Z")
What’s the one where they drive their big pickup through a cave so they can view a waterfall from the backside? ---
**Author:** ![chrisjourney](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chrisjourney/32/14861_2.png) [@chrisjourney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisjourney)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4587 "2023-09-19T09:26:44Z")
Anyone see the commercial with Bruce Willis for Die Hard car batteries. He was in the movie Die Hard and does a commercial for Die Hard batteries. About a few years ago, actors weren’t doing commercials, but now you see them in many commercials. I didn’t really like seeing Bruce do commercials, because I like to imagine him as the action, adventure, hero star in movies, plus I don’t think these famous stars need anymore money doing commercials. I wonder if Harrison Ford is going to do Ford car commercials in the future. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4588 "2023-09-19T10:31:24Z")
> [@chrisjourney](#): > > I wonder if Harrison Ford is going to do Ford car commercials in the future. - That’s better than Clint Eastwood endorsing Magnum condoms. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4589 "2023-09-19T14:07:46Z")
now she is on a blue bus, and there is produce. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4590 "2023-09-19T19:52:53Z")
> [@chrisjourney](#): > > About a few years ago, actors weren’t doing commercials, but now you see them in many commercials. Orson Wells was touting wine in 1979. He is certainly a big star, ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4591 "2023-09-19T20:56:46Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Huggies has a new commercial that features a narrator with a _cutesey-wootsey-widdle-baybee_ voice reciting a list of the types of butts one might associate with babies. Yup, including _stinky butts_. It finally made it out to the Left Coast, and we’ve been seeing it for a few weeks. I hate it. Another Huggies commercial has a close-up of a very large, naked, pregnant belly on a woman; complete with the protruding belly button. I just don’t need to see that. ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4592 "2023-09-19T21:00:53Z")
> [@chrisjourney](#): > > I didn’t really like seeing Bruce do commercials, I figure it’s because of his health issues, and he’s getting all the money he can for his family. Doesn’t make it right, but I can understand. ---
**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 19, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4593 "2023-09-19T21:09:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It finally made it out to the Left Coast, and we’ve been seeing it for a few weeks. I hate it. It’s been playing so much here that I’m becoming hyper-aware that the narrator seems to be saying “bot” instead of “butt”. 😣 ---
**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:** [September 19, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4594 "2023-09-19T21:42:04Z")
> [@chrisjourney](#): > > I wonder if Harrison Ford is going to do Ford car commercials in the future. Cadillacs drive Subaru. Honda drives Subaru. Dodge drives Subaru. William Edsel isn’t sure about Subaru, but he’s been wrong before. Ford drives Subaru. [Subaru Car Commercial - Year 1978-79 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKd-Ta2zNM) ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4595 "2023-09-20T15:09:49Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Orson Wells was touting wine in 1979. He is certainly a big star, Wow, what a memory jog. Was that the one where the man says at the end of the ad “We will open no wine… ( pause, with a slightly up-ticked eyebrow ) …Before its time”? If it is, my teenaged self then didn’t even realize it was Orson Welles, since I didn’t even know who he was, but I still thought it was such cool commercial because of his “delivery”. He came across so profound, so gently authoritative. ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4596 "2023-09-20T15:39:10Z")
mmm Rosebud! They are full of green pea-ness! > **[Rosebud Frozen Peas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA%2F)** > > This is a clip from the animated series 'The Critic' featuring Orson Welles (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) advertising Rosebud Frozen Peas. The title of this ... ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4597 "2023-09-20T18:21:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@chrisjourney](#): > > > > I wonder if Harrison Ford is going to do Ford car commercials in the future. > > Cadillacs drive Subaru. > Honda drives Subaru. > Dodge drives Subaru. > William Edsel isn’t sure about Subaru, but he’s been wrong before. > Ford drives Subaru. Reminds me of an episode of the old I’ve Got a Secret TV series where someone’s secret was that their Chevrolet was “stolen” by Henry Ford - what had happened was, a valet had given Ford this man’s car by mistake. The point was, Ford really did drive a Chevrolet there; he made it a point to drive competitors’ cars to see what theirs had that Fords did not, or could improve on. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4598 "2023-09-20T19:16:38Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > mmm Rosebud! They are full of green pea-ness! For anyone who doesn’t know, that animated segment is based on a real-life pea commercial in which [Welles ranted and generally made a royal pain in the ass of himself in the outtakes](https://youtu.be/V14PfDDwxlE/). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4599 "2023-09-20T19:30:32Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Wow, what a memory jog. Was that the one where the man says at the end of the ad “We will open no wine… ( pause, with a slightly up-ticked eyebrow ) …Before its time”? As I remember, the tagline was, “We will sell no wine before its time.” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4600 "2023-09-20T23:49:44Z")
I get annoyed by a whole category of commercials that claim their product will actually save you money, or water, or whatever. But their claim is based on a comparison to some very specific alternative, which probably doesn’t apply to most people. I already mentioned the Cascade commercials in this thread a long time ago, but they’re a good example of this type of marketing, so they’re worth mentioning again. Cascade is claiming that it’s totally fine to run your dishwasher with just a few things in it, and you’re actually conserving water by doing so, because running the dishwasher uses less water than hand washing dishes. Except that claim is based on an assumption that you would have hand washed those dishes if you didn’t run the dishwasher. But that’s not what I do. I load the dishes into the dishwasher, and don’t hand wash anything, and wait until the dishwasher is full before I run it. And by doing that I save even more water than I would by doing what Cascade wants me to do. And now Downey is claiming claiming that using their fabric softer will actually save you money. Up to $200 pear year! How will it do that? By keeping your clothes looking new longer. I don’t know about you, but I don’t throw my clothes out simply because they no longer look new, which is probably what they’re basing that claim on. ---
**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 21, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4601 "2023-09-21T00:02:44Z")
Isn’t it convenient how in Cascade’s paradigm you’ll use less water but a shit ton more Cascade soap. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4602 "2023-09-21T00:17:50Z")
Yeah I picked-up on the Cascade thing right away - they are not comparing apples to apples with their wording, but found a way to say it’s okay to use their product every day (use more of it, run out quicker, go buy more, sooner), and also suggest you will use less water. If anyone thought about it for a couple of seconds, they would see that their argument is that the more dishes you have in your dishwasher, the less water you will use when you run it, compared to hand-washing everything you put in there. But, that statement doesn’t sell as much of their product as quickly as suggesting you run the dishwasher with their product daily. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4603 "2023-09-21T02:54:32Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > As I remember, the tagline was, “We will sell no wine before its time.” And we used to parody by holding up a bottle of wine and Intoning, “We will sell no wine before…uh… Thursday”. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4604 "2023-09-21T13:03:33Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I don’t know about you, but I don’t throw my clothes out simply because they no longer look new After going on 4 years working from home, I don’t throw out clothes until they are so old and tattered they are practically unwearable. I’ve continued to wear holey old t-shirts until Mrs. solost says, um, time to retire that, sweetie. Or, sometimes my old t-shirts mysteriously just disappear. ---
**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 21, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4605 "2023-09-21T13:06:07Z")
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