# 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:** 244
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4866 "2023-12-09T15:02:53Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > It’s kind of like the JG Wentworth commericals. You can say their phone number I bet. But I’m NEVER going to call it. So it’s a fail. “Any advertising is good advertising” isn’t true. It’s just what ad agencies tell their clients to get more money. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4867 "2023-12-09T15:41:10Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I wanna do _Jennys_ number tho’ 867-5309 Back when we got our first cell phones, I kept waiting for my wife to wonder why, out of the six numbers in my phone, I had one for “Jenny”… but she’s not that curious. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4868 "2023-12-09T16:37:21Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > You don’t remember the number that they sing in every commercial? Well, now that it’s morning and I’m sober…kinda. I can’t say I remember the actual 8\*\* prefix, but I can remember the rest of 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:** [December 9, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4869 "2023-12-09T18:30:32Z")
I tried to remember Wentworth’s number and couldn’t until I realized the number I know is mostly not numbers. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4870 "2023-12-09T18:50:39Z")
Now that I have enough caffeine in me, I can remember the whole thing, and it keeps popping up in the jukebox in my head now. 😑 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4871 "2023-12-10T01:38:36Z")
My bad. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4872 "2023-12-10T17:33:08Z")
The singing buffalo in the Wild Wings commercial (buffalo with wings, buffalo wings - get it, get it?). Not only is it huge, ugly, and scary, but ‘BOURBON BARBEQUE WIIIIIINGS’ screamed out off-key sends me scrambling for the mute button. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4873 "2023-12-10T17:46:09Z")
I have an all-encompassing hatred for commercials where a Christmas carol is given funny new lyrics to sell product. There’s a new one out where the carolers are standing on brownstone-type steps singing at somebody that’s just infuriating. Don’t know the product. Thank you, inventor of the mute button. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4874 "2023-12-10T21:17:49Z")
The Vaseline Lotion commercial where the woman brags about her skin tone. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4875 "2023-12-10T23:57:41Z")
I think the buffalo has a lovely voice and if he wasn’t a buffalo, I would not have kicked him off the cruise. The singing glasses of Guinness, however. . … ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4876 "2023-12-12T01:27:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The problem with the Lume commercials is that they have done what they want to do, get their product in our heads. It’s true, the butt-sniffing ad will never leave my head. But I still buy Secret instead of Lume. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4877 "2023-12-12T22:43:22Z")
May not be your cup of tea, but they’re just being body-positive for a segment of the population who have long been ignored, marginalized, or made to feel less worthy - anyone with a skin tone darker than mayonnaise. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4878 "2023-12-12T23:11:07Z")
My skin ain’t no Mayo color. TYVM. I’m flesh toned. Light flesh toned, but still. I like to be moisturized. I like Vaseline products. I won’t buy that product because the ad makes me feel like it’s not for me. Lotion should not be divisive. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4879 "2023-12-13T01:34:18Z")
I’m sure Vaseline had some lotion product you can feel is for you. Too many women have felt that way about pretty much all beauty products, but didn’t have options. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4880 "2023-12-13T01:37:43Z")
Well, that put me in my place. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4881 "2023-12-13T02:06:45Z")
I hate the one where a woman trying to sound like a reporter “interviews” this guy from Andersen windows, tossing up softball questions that he will give his scripted answers to. So obviously scripted it made me glad I went with Pella. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2023, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4882 "2023-12-13T02:11:01Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I hate the one where a woman trying to sound like a reporter “interviews” this guy from Andersen windows … Ann Rohmer? She actually was a reporter, at a Toronto TV station, back in the 1980s or so. But I agree that the commercial is a little annoying. Rohmer makes it sound easy, but the window guy sounds too stilted to be speaking naturally. (“We do. Ann.”) If that’s the best take they could get, I’d hate to hear the others. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4883 "2023-12-13T02:49:59Z")
Ok. The Weather-tech Ad. The Dad unloads the Christmas tree. The back of the SUV is full of dirt, needles and bark. Dad exclaims “Oh, Fudge!” Toddler exclaims “Oh, Fudge!” Mom gives Dad a dirty look. Yada yada, buy Weather-tech products. Sure. Fudge is a dirty word.🤔 If you can’t use the real dirty word maybe you should rethink this ad campaign. It’s just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4884 "2023-12-13T04:03:08Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Sure. Fudge is a dirty word.🤔 > If you can’t use the real dirty word… …the big one, the queen mother of dirty words. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/4885 "2023-12-13T14:48:02Z")
Yeah, they should have used a bleep. I do love the look the mother gives, though. I’ve been on the receiving end of That Look many, many times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=243) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=245)