# 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:** 262
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5226 "2024-03-17T20:09:31Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > The ‘turning into your parents’ company (Progressive?). I generally like (or at least tolerate) these, but sometimes (likely because I’m old) they piss me off. I generally hate them, but the one when he goes all nutso over a celebrity is right. Celebrities are people, out doing people stuff. Wave, maybe say “thanks” or “big fan”, but don’t bother them. > [@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. Right. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > But you have to admit, ‘Oh, I was only paying for myself’ at the salad bar was pretty funny. I ate at a similar salad bar place in SF- great salads, but very pricy. They had a 1$ coupon and a card where if you had 6 punches you got the 7th free. Once they got rid of both those, raised the prices and switched to an app (where the deals were nowhere as good), I stopped eating there. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2024, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5227 "2024-03-18T23:23:01Z")
Actually _saw_ a Consumer Cellular commercial that’s been airing for quite some time, and…it makes no sense. It’s the one where the lady is inside chatting on speakerphone with the CC rep while hubby is outside frantically trying to get her to pay attention to his ‘diving’ skills…then suddenly the audio cuts out. CC rep is concerned, but no worries! The lady explains that she has been muted. Except that the camera is on her when the audio cuts out, and her hands are nowhere near the area of the phone’s screen where one typically finds a mute button. 🤨 It seems to me like whoever wrote the commercial has no idea of how muting works. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > “We all see it…we all see it…” **BLUE** ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5228 "2024-03-19T03:54:44Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > It’s the one where the lady is inside chatting on speakerphone with the CC rep while hubby is outside frantically trying to get her to pay attention to his ‘diving’ skills…then suddenly the audio cuts out. This is one where I only half paid attention, and was puzzled by the repeated yelling in the background. Pro tip - before complaining about a commercial, make sure you actually pay attention first. (That’s a note to myself.) Besides, he has no one to blame but himself that he wore himself out without her paying attention to him. Pro tip - get their attention _before_ you show off. (This one is to the idiot in the commercial.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5229 "2024-03-19T05:26:52Z")
I had a cyst removed from my scalp just as Dr. Lee’s channel was really taking off. I asked the doctor, in this case a plastic surgeon, if I could get it for free if he would put it on YouTube, and he didn’t know what I was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5230 "2024-03-19T05:30:11Z")
I haven’t seen, for a while, the one where they’re asked how to pronounce a word that is written on an easel. The word is “QUINOA” and they’re saying, “Quin-oh-ah?” “Joaquin?” (FTR, it’s keen-wah.) I found that one amusing. ---
**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 19, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5231 "2024-03-19T05:55:11Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Consumer Cellular Speaking of which: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/B2pgA4kcr4Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Destimonial | Consumer Cellular") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pgA4kcr4Y) Your customers are too busy to sit on a couch to record a commerical? Funny, they didn’t have that problem a couple of years ago. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rkWiEgqCL8A/maxresdefault.jpg "Keeping It Real | Consumer Cellular") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWiEgqCL8A) ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5232 "2024-03-19T17:31:41Z")
The M&Ms mime ad can fuck off. It was mildly amusing the first time, but now I am sick of it after seeing it before every movie I go to. ---
**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 19, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5233 "2024-03-19T17:46:19Z")
Brand new truly annoying commercial-- a guy is about to delete some photos off his phone, when all the people in the images start singing some song about not deleting them, in a _super-annoying high-pitched ultra auto-tuned chorus of robot voices_. It is nails on a chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5234 "2024-03-19T18:52:26Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > The M&Ms mime ad can fuck off. It was mildly amusing the first time, but now I am sick of it after seeing it before every movie I go to. I agree with the Patrician- Mimes should be hung upside down in the scorpion pit with a sign that says “learn the words”. 🤪 ---
**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 19, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5235 "2024-03-19T18:58:55Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > The M&Ms mime ad can fuck off. All commercials which portray mimes as being in character 24/7 can fuck off. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5236 "2024-03-20T04:18:52Z")
Non ! ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5237 "2024-03-20T14:47:43Z")
> [@digs](#): > > And my dad read submarine books. I have read submarine books since I was in my teens. > [@Irishman](#): > > They mock harmless quirks as if they are a scourge to be eliminated. Taking your own food on a airplane is SMART not old people ish. (says JAQ, 62) > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The word is “QUINOA” and they’re saying, “Quin-oh-ah?” “Joaquin?” (FTR, it’s keen-wah.) If they wanted it pronounced keenwa they should spell it that way. “Keen oh a” is a perfectly good Spanish pronunciation of that spelling, and at least in Arizona, Spanish is the go-to alternate language. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5238 "2024-03-20T16:15:13Z")
Okay, okay. I’ll stay off your lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5239 "2024-03-20T19:22:12Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > “Keen oh a” is a perfectly good Spanish pronunciation of that spelling Yeah, but “kwin oh uh” and “kwin owah” are not. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5240 "2024-03-20T20:32:29Z")
Says the Irishman, known for pronouncing things as they are spelled. Sorry, had a run in yesterday trying to post that, looking at my son, you can tell he’s from the broth of his father’s stubby shillelagh. Actually looked up the spelling and everything but STILL spelt it wrong. And also, it is very hard to check the spelling of a word that doesn’t sound like it’s spelled. You triggered me, Irishman! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5241 "2024-03-21T01:51:09Z")
😁 He he ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5242 "2024-03-21T02:21:51Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I haven’t seen, for a while, the one where they’re asked how to pronounce a word that is written on an easel. The word is “QUINOA” and they’re saying, “Quin-oh-ah?” “Joaquin?” (FTR, it’s keen-wah.) I found that one amusing. Hey, I resent that! It’s too true! There’s a street in Houston, signs from the interstate announce it. Not knowing it was Spanish, I wasn’t sure how to pronounce “Fuh qua” (Fuqua). Keen wah is a newly hip food showing up in America, so old fogeys don’t know what it is. And we can be relied upon to mispronounce words from non-English language sources. And of course, there are words we hear spoken and ones we see written, and sometimes don’t realize they are the same word. Witness homage. Wait, that’s “o maj”? I always said “hom udj”. ---
**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 21, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5243 "2024-03-21T19:28:16Z")
Commercials with an idiotic premise annoy me. Remember the people camping out at the car dealership for some reason? [Here’s a local one with an idiotic premise.](https://youtu.be/J-hEMnomQrU) They take the extraordinary step of giving you a salesman. For some reason I’m reminded of a Lexus campaign a few years back wherein they tried to make “haggle-free” pricing seem like a desirable thing in a negotiation. ---
**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 24, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5244 "2024-03-24T14:32:28Z")
I finally bought us a water flosser last week. Today, scrolling through Yahoo, I saw a ‘Yahoo Lifestyle Shopping’ link advertising… a water flosser! **Bot:** Hey, this guy just bought a water flosser! Let’s put up an ad. Maybe he’ll buy one! ---
**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:** [March 24, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5245 "2024-03-24T17:19:51Z")
There is a river in western PA that I used to drive by called the Juniata. For years I thought it was the woman’s name, Juanita. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=261) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=263)