# 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:** 242
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4826 "2023-11-26T23:24:25Z")
It sounds a bit like “Weird Al” Yankovic is singing lead. (BTW, where is this business located?) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4827 "2023-11-26T23:44:09Z")
Minneapolis. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4828 "2023-11-27T10:07:36Z")
That damn Lume lady irritates me so much. Every time that commercial of hers comes on and I can’t get to the remote quickly enough to miss the butt crack, under boob bit, I yell at the TV, “Go get a damn porn channel, you twit.” It makes me feel just a tiny bit better. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4829 "2023-11-27T11:47:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Huh? What the hell is a speaker going to do to save your child from getting hit from a car? If he spent all his time interacting with the speaker, he’d stay away from the road. But how could a non-verbal kid make use of an Alexa? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4830 "2023-11-27T14:28:47Z")
Consumer Cellular and their stupid nonsequiters again. Guy is golfing, Ted Danson voiceover says something about… “Ted swore he would never lose to his brother again. He got Consumer Cellular.” Wait, what? Consumer Cellular makes you a better golfer? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4831 "2023-11-27T15:06:11Z")
Speaking of non-sequiturs. Lily on the airplane where they are charging for water, she just jumps to a whole new paragraph. Passenger " For water?" Lily immediately goes off on her spiel: “Well at ATT when we offer you deals we guarantee it.” That doesn’t follow from the conversation! The world has moved on! We’re talking about water, not honoring deals. That’s so 12 seconds ago! ---
**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:** [November 27, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4832 "2023-11-27T17:18:56Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Lily on the airplane… Yes, this is a very stupid ad. But Lily is cute. She gets a pass. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4833 "2023-11-28T04:20:54Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The > > YOU RULE! > > part is even worse. Over four months later and this stupid campaign is still being used. Make it stop! ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4834 "2023-11-28T14:51:06Z")
I’m posting this on behalf of my husband who, every time one of these comes on, he yells at the TV and would physically assault it if it wasn’t so expensive: The Bounty commercials where something spills and everything goes into slow motion as the liquid rolls toward a white carpet or science project or something you don’t want to get the spill on and they wipe up the spill _towards_ the thing they don’t want to get wet. Boy, this upsets him! One that I don’t get is the 23andMe where the daughter gets the test, finds she has some gene that predisposes her to aneurysms(?) I guess and urges her mom to also get her DNA profile. Then mom is on a plane, gets an aneurysm and 23andMe saves her life! “If it wasn’t for 23andMe, I’m sure I would be dead,” mom says. But. . . how? How did taking the DNA test save her in any way? I’m confused by this commercial. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4835 "2023-11-28T16:37:03Z")
A young woman is talking about how much she loves her new rolling neck massager. “And it’s so tiny I can take it anywhere. It’s only four inches!” Then her husband, who has apparently been sitting there the whole time, speaks up: “Uh, honey, four inches isn’t tiny.” At which the wife gets an uncomfortable look on her face. A dick size joke? Really? What’s that got to do with anything? It’s just needlessly juvenile. Now if this were a _vibrating_ massager, I’d get the implication. But it’s not. It’s just a round piece of plastic. Again, _why_? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4836 "2023-11-28T16:48:20Z")
The one for paper plates where the mom holds her flimsy overloaded paper plate over her daughter’s diorama and spills it. [Stupid!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZXVSQiPAM) ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4837 "2023-11-28T19:04:03Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The Bounty commercials where something spills and everything goes into slow motion as the liquid rolls toward a white carpet or science project or something you don’t want to get the spill on and they wipe up the spill _towards_ the thing they don’t want to get wet. Boy, this upsets him! Me too. I’m getting shivers just thinking about how stupid the actor is. Maybe one day they will slip in a version where the wine shoots ahead of the paper towel and ruins something. Like it would in reality. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4838 "2023-11-28T19:13:41Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Me too. I’m getting shivers just thinking about how stupid the actor is. Maybe one day they will slip in a version where the wine shoots ahead of the paper towel and ruins something. Like it would in reality.- Maybe it’s thick wine. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4839 "2023-11-28T19:24:31Z")
And they always show the whole roll wrapped in the plastic! By the time they get some towels actually ready, and push the wine _toward_ the object - just forget it. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4840 "2023-11-28T20:16:22Z")
They could also just _pick up_ the thing they don’t want to get wet. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4841 "2023-11-28T21:00:39Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > One that I don’t get is the 23andMe where the daughter gets the test, finds she has some gene that predisposes her to aneurysms(?) I guess and urges her mom to also get her DNA profile. I get it (a pathetic attempt to scare people out of their well-founded misgivings about letting some corporation have their genetic data to use Ghu knows how). I don’t _like_ it, but I _get_ it. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4842 "2023-11-28T21:09:22Z")
But how did getting her DNA profile save her life? That’s the part I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4843 "2023-11-28T21:43:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Lily on the airplane where they are charging for water, she just jumps to a whole new paragraph. Passenger " For water?" Lily immediately goes off on her spiel: “Well at ATT when we offer you deals we guarantee it.” That doesn’t follow from the conversation! The world has moved on! We’re talking about water, not honoring deals. That’s so 12 seconds ago! The original had her give a better connection. She followed the line about AT&T with a comment, “It’s not that you don’t honor your word, it’s just that you haven’t.” In other words, the reaction to the cost of water is a hijack from the flow of conversation. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4844 "2023-11-29T02:06:12Z")
I thought that was the one for the breast cancer gene, and because 23 and me told the daughter she had the gene the mother got checked out as well. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4845 "2023-11-29T02:08:43Z")
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