# 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:** 256
**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 2, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5106 "2024-02-02T16:35:03Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > If I happened to be the target market, I would be so insulted by the tone of those ads Not as insulted as those Medicare supplement ads that feature brain damaged old people all with oppositional disorder. ---
**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 2, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5107 "2024-02-02T17:06:05Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Had a kid rear-end my vehicle at a stop sign years ago; he was with Geico, and they called me at least half a dozen times to find out what, exactly, I was doing at that intersection before the wreck GEICO provided my first insurance coverage. Switched companies after they decided we had been making too many insurance claims – only one of which was our fault – and using their roadside service too often. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5108 "2024-02-03T01:18:10Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Not as insulted as those Medicare supplement ads that feature brain damaged old people all with oppositional disorder. Or the life insurance ads with ‘actors’ who wouldn’t even be welcome in a small-town church Christmas play. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5109 "2024-02-03T02:28:25Z")
How about the insurance ad about: “You’ll all be dead one day” and the couple on the couch looking stunned at the camera. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5110 "2024-02-03T04:52:50Z")
Hehe, not really pertinent to the subject of commercials, but my wife and I have matching t-shirts that say “Someday We’ll all be Dead!” in a hippie-dippie design with butterflies and flowers on it. So, that commercial’s probably just as ineffective as you think it is. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5111 "2024-02-03T15:20:27Z")
Well, some commercials do have solid acting. For instance, I can easily believe that the woman in all those Tovala ads is, indeed, too stupid to figure out how to follow the directions on a conventional pre-packaged meal kit. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5112 "2024-02-03T17:29:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Switched companies after they decided we had been making too many insurance claims – only one of which was our fault – and using their roadside service too often. Well of course. You’re supposed to be thrilled to pay for the privilege. Actually using the privilege costs extra. The ad for SpeedyCash is particularly befuddling, not because of the message, but the imagery used. The message is that there are three ways to access them - by phone, internet, or in person. But the phone they show is an old _tabletop rotary dial_ model from the 1970s, the computer they show appears to be from 1993, and the view for going to the store is a cartoon. I think it’s probably a clue to their prospective clientele - old people who think of those images as their default mental image of those items. ---
**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 3, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5113 "2024-02-03T17:36:10Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Well of course. You’re supposed to be thrilled to pay for the privilege. Actually using the privilege costs extra. This is not all that different from GEICO’s reasoning behind trying to double our premium. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5114 "2024-02-03T17:47:19Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Switched companies after they decided we had been making too many insurance claims We once had an insurance company drop _us_ because we _hadn’t_ made a claim in a very long time, and were therefore “due.” The whole industry just sucks. ---
**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, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5115 "2024-02-07T15:48:59Z")
The new Lume ad with the woman sniffing her underarm grosses me out. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5116 "2024-02-07T15:51:34Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > The new Lume ad with the woman sniffing her underarm grosses me out. - Better her underarm than a random stranger’s. ---
**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, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5117 "2024-02-07T16:10:09Z")
True dat. ---
**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, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5118 "2024-02-07T16:46:24Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Better her underarm than a random stranger’s. Better than her smelling her own buttcrack. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5119 "2024-02-07T16:48:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > Better her underarm than a random stranger’s. > > Better than her smelling her own buttcrack. - People pay money to see that. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5120 "2024-02-07T19:21:40Z")
IIRC, it’s one of the inane Charmin commercials that gives a visual demonstration of the tissue’s cleaning properties via the colored liquid as bodily fluid test. In this case, an arm is wiped by “the other brand”, showing the remaining skid mark. Not sure why a smear of pretend feces disgusts me more than a sanitary napkin saturated with pretend menstrual blood, but it does. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5121 "2024-02-08T00:12:21Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > The new Lume ad with the woman sniffing her underarm grosses me out. Better than sniffing a stranger’s bum, I guess. (Oh wait, they’ve already done that one.) ---
**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:** [February 8, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5122 "2024-02-08T04:41:15Z")
I would just like to say that I strongly prefer the original Pepto Bismol “Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea” song: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zu0lqVhnt9U/hqdefault.jpg "PEPTO BISMOL "LINE UP"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu0lqVhnt9U) To the (heh heh) watered down and completely inferior remake. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BLZ6iabFkOA/hqdefault.jpg "Pepto Bismol Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLZ6iabFkOA) Yeah, re-imagine it without the English accent, replace the organ at the end with horns or synths. But you can’t remove that awesome (and entirely appropriately bubbly) bass line. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5123 "2024-02-08T13:47:06Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > But you can’t remove that awesome (and entirely appropriately bubbly) bass line. Isn’t that removal the whole point of Pepto-Bismol? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5124 "2024-02-09T04:42:14Z")
There’s a new video, sung to the tune of (hang onto your seats) “We Built This City” where a woman sings, “I fixed this toilet/on video!” I have no idea what the company name is, nor do I have any big desire to find out, although it did appear to be a plumbing company that made “house calls” via FaceTime. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5125 "2024-02-09T05:00:45Z")
It’s for a home repair app service. They have several ads with other over played songs and dancing [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=257)