# 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:** 261
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5206 "2024-03-13T18:17:32Z")
Some commercial starts out with a guy saying, “I’m Emmitt Smith.” (Presumably, Emmitt Smith). I always hear, “I’m innocent.” ---
**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:** [March 13, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5207 "2024-03-13T18:49:38Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > As I have mentioned earlier, my crotch did rot and I spent a week in the hospital getting pumped full of antibiotics. My insurance won’t pay for Tradjenta and so I have been without diabetes meds for about a year. My A1C is indicating it’s insulin time. > > Sorry. It makes me feel better to bitch. Back to your regularly scheduled annoying commercial thread. I’m supposed to be on Trulicity but there’s a nationwide shortage for that and Ozempic, possibly others as well, because too many idiots are using those drugs for weight management rather than blood sugar management. 😡 ---
**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:** [March 13, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5208 "2024-03-13T20:24:27Z")
“The puppies are loose!” Uh-oh, better drive like an absolute maniac to get home and cage them up again! This one wouldn’t be quite so annoying if the local news didn’t run it _twice_ during every commercial break. I’ve grown to despise that lady’s smug half-smile. And the shot of her pushing the “Sport Mode” button is weirdly unnatural. Pretty sure it’s AI-generated. But why? ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5209 "2024-03-14T19:45:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Pedia Sure commercial: A kid says his mom is worried about his growth. I always here it as ‘worried about my _girls_.’ I always (mis)hear it as “grill”. For me, watching it doesn’t change the sound but at least it clarifies that his mom isn’t concerned about his gold plated mouth hardware. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5210 "2024-03-15T03:20:24Z")
The commercial saga I hate even more than Limu Emu and Doug are the ones where turning into your parents is presented as a bad thing. I’d be honored to be thought as good a person as my parents were. If I could have them back I would give up everything I have. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5211 "2024-03-15T03:29:58Z")
But you have to admit, ‘Oh, I was only paying for myself’ at the salad bar was pretty funny. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5212 "2024-03-15T11:51:13Z")
I just saw a second Uber Eats commercial with Jennifer Aniston. In the first one, debuted during the Superbowl, Jen says 'in order to remember something, you have to forget something else". Then David Schwimmer comes up to her on set, goes in for a hug, but she stops him-- she has no idea who her former costar of 10 years even is. Ha…ha? Now, in this latest commercial, after she says the tagline about forgetting and remembering in a dressing room, she sees a woman in a makeup chair and says “I love your hair! Never seen that style. Kind of a shag”. The woman says “but it’s your famous haircut-- ‘The Rachel’”. “Who’s she? My name’s Jen”. Jen is just totally confused. I didn’t think the shtick was funny the first time; now I’m just getting uncomfortable “Jennifer Aniston has early-onset Alzheimer’s” vibes. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5213 "2024-03-15T13:40:00Z")
And you can, too, if you use Uber Eats! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5214 "2024-03-15T13:43:42Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Then David Schwimmer comes up to her on set, goes in for a hug, but she stops him– I don’t blame her, that guy was terrible. I first noticed him in some telephone commercial where he was in some lavish futuristic house, and he was so pathetic he was hitting on the telephone operator, back when there were such things. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5215 "2024-03-15T16:29:45Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I didn’t think the shtick was funny the first time; now I’m just getting uncomfortable “Jennifer Aniston has early-onset Alzheimer’s” vibes. I haven’t seen it but just reading about it gives me uncomfortable “Jennifer Aniston has become a real jerk” vibes. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5216 "2024-03-15T17:14:38Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The commercial saga I hate even more than Limu Emu and Doug are the ones where turning into your parents is presented as a bad thing. I’d be honored to be thought as good a person as my parents were. If I could have them back I would give up everything I have. Ummm, it’s a joke. A humorous take on a serious issue. Even if you revere your parents, isn’t there one little way you’ve caught yourself doing something silly and thought “Oh my gosh, my folks used to do that… I guess I’m getting old!” In my case, it’s my mom’s old-timey sayings that she never knew the meaning of: “I guess I could use a little tide-me-over” or “Well, that’s a horse apiece.” And my dad read submarine books. Oh, and he would get flummoxed with the choices at a salad bar, then ask one of us kids to “just make me one with whatever on it, I came here to relax, not to make decisions.” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5217 "2024-03-15T17:38:54Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Even if you revere your parents, isn’t there one little way you’ve caught yourself doing something silly and thought “Oh my gosh, my folks used to do that… I guess I’m getting old!” Sure, there are quirks and oddities of my parents, and finding myself duplicating them is a cross between amusing and flabbergasting. But those commercials suck. They suggest that you will suddenly lose all knowledge of basic social interaction or technical ability you currently have. They mock harmless quirks as if they are a scourge to be eliminated. Say my mom never learned to drive. Even though I’ve been driving for over 30 years, this commercial would likely show me forgetting how to drive, simply because “I’m turning into my parents”. People aren’t picking up of habits like the junk drawer, they are forgetting how social media works. And the guy giving advise about not becoming your parents is a crusty old dude in a sweatervest. Physician, Heal Thyself! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5218 "2024-03-15T18:07:10Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > And the guy giving advise about not becoming your parents is a crusty old dude in a sweatervest. Physician, Heal Thyself! Who better to help them than one of their own? I think it’s possible to be missing the whole satirical premise of those commercials. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5219 "2024-03-15T18:12:48Z")
They do have that one ( although I’m not sure they are actually suggesting that you will forget how to use social media rather than just suggesting that older people are not so good at it - and I still haven’t figured out what sliding into someone’s DMs means ) but there’s also the one about being shocked by the salad price and the person who keeps all the margarine tubs and the guy going a little nuts cleaning the trash cans. Which are not things I normally see 20 year olds doing. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5220 "2024-03-15T21:26:55Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > although I’m not sure they are actually suggesting that you will forget how to use social media rather than just suggesting that older people are not so good at it Either these folks are turning into their parents by suddenly not knowing things they knew, or they were already clueless so not turning into their parents. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5221 "2024-03-16T15:25:45Z")
Burger King: It’s not a ‘hack’ if it’s standard operating procedure. Eating when you’re hungry isn’t a ‘hunger hack’. It’s just what you do. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5222 "2024-03-16T16:38:03Z")
I listen to Radio Classics on SXM, lots of neat radio serials, I prefer the crime dramas and spooky mysteries. But the commercials drive me nuts. Not the vintage ones for they play some of those but two stand out that chap my hide mightily. 1) Reveree for pain free intimacy, basically sounds like a vaginal suppository, ladies isn’t time you were back in the sack? 2) the Timeshare cancellation guy ok interesting the first time, not the sixth hundred! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5223 "2024-03-16T17:19:29Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > But those commercials suck. They suggest that you will suddenly lose all knowledge of basic social interaction or technical ability you currently have. They mock harmless quirks as if they are a scourge to be eliminated. I would say they have varied widely in quality. One of my favorites was the field trip to the big-box hardware store, where several of them can’t help giving unsolicited advice to strangers on paint brushes, or waving people out of parking spaces. Stuff like that is funny because it has the ring of truth to it. When you become a parent you do often get stuck in ‘overly helpful mode’ when it’s not really wanted or needed. My least favorites are the ones where they have forgotten how to use any basic modern technology, like texting. Those of our parents who are technophobic are that way because they’re of a certain generation, not simply as a result of becoming parents or homeowners. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5224 "2024-03-16T17:26:55Z")
> [@solost](#): > > One of my favorites was the field trip to the big-box hardware store “We all see it…we all see it…” 😆 we quote that line all the time! ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5225 "2024-03-16T17:32:38Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > “We all see it…we all see it…” 😆 we quote that line all the time! Ha, yeah. Another good example of how your outlook does change when you become a parent. See someone with blue hair when you’re young, it’s cool. As a parent, it’s a dumb life choice. How the hell are you gonna get a respectable job with blue hair?!? Another favorite of mine was the one where the woman was having trouble giving up her kitschy signs with funny or inspirational sayings, since I have several in-laws who just eat that stuff up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=260) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=262)