# 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:** 263
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5246 "2024-03-24T17:29:59Z")
Me too. I thought it was that way for years ( decades! ). I never took the time to actually read the word, I just sort of jumped to conclusions based on the “footprint” of the word and tethered it immediately to the girl’s name. Another one is that for years I did the same thing with “Lehigh”, as in the Lehigh Valley of Pa., or Lehigh Valley RR. I first saw the word and thought was pronounced “LAY” like a girl’s name because I didn’t read it out. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5247 "2024-03-25T04:27:42Z")
Wasn’t there a thread once about town name pronunciations? The Lima in Ohio is pronounced like the bean, for example. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5248 "2024-03-25T05:04:41Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The Lima in Ohio is pronounced like the bean, for example. Hehehe, ok, I’ll bite. How do you pronounce the bean’s name? I’ve heard both variants I can think of. Ok, this is probably a hijack of the commercial thread. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5249 "2024-03-25T05:11:49Z")
In Peru it’s LEE MA, in Ohio it’s LYE Ma. And I won’t go further with the hijack. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5250 "2024-04-02T01:37:12Z")
I’ve hesitated to ask this at the risk of coming across as insensitive, but since the commercial is now running non-stop as tax time approaches… Is the woman with the baby in the TurboTax commercial real? Something about the whole thing looks very computer-generated to me; it’s distracting enough that I had to do a search to even figure out what was being advertised. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5251 "2024-04-04T06:15:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Mom: It’s been three years since we lost your father at the mall. > Why didn’t you tell me he died? > Oh he didn’t die. We just lost him. I assume he’s still there, somewhere. Oh jeez. I guessed I missed this one earlier. My Dad was flying from Toronto to Calgary to visit my sister and her family. Dad was still capable of living on his own, though it was close. It was either dementia or Alzheimer’s that was coming on. Plus, he was going blind from macular degeneration. Sis was at the airport in Calgary to pick up Dad, and his flight landed, and he never appeared. Sis got worried, and tried to tell somebody, but they brushed her off. “He’ll appear eventually.” Three hours later, he still hadn’t appeared. The airline confirmed that he had boarded the flight, and was on it when it touched down, but he hadn’t appeared. Sis got the police involved, and they were able to find him. He was wandering around the terminal the whole time, trying to find an exit, but being unable to see an exit. Dad went into a home shortly after, and went totally blind shortly after that. My latest annoying commercial: one for Ikea, that uses both live action and animation. Some loud upbeat music, people flying through the air, some live-action kung-fu, then anime kung-fu, stuffed toys flying across the room, a woman applying eyeshadow under blinking animation, and through it all, that annoying upbeat music and many quick visual cuts. If this commercial does not perpetrate epilectic seizures in some viewers, I will be very surprised. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5252 "2024-04-04T16:00:08Z")
I just heard a new one ( at least to me) from Colonial Penn. A suggests buying Colonial Penn to B and B replies that she is on a fixed income. A says " Isn’t everyone? " implying that even those on a “fixed income” \* can afford Colonial Penn. This annoys the hell out of me because “fixed” doesn’t mean “small” ( I know people with pensions over $100K ) and there are probably more people with fixed incomes than people who can vary their income from month to month. \* I know what “fixed income” means in terms of investments , but when referring to senior citizens it just means having the same income from month to month. Like SS or a pension. Or wages from a job with no overtime, bonuses or commissions. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5253 "2024-04-04T16:35:22Z")
More in the vein of me being too stupid to understand. A sneaker commercial with a whole lot of smash cuts. Girl at a party-- guy running–girl throws things out the window at guy-- guy catches sneakers. WTF? ---
**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:** [April 4, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5254 "2024-04-04T17:12:03Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Girl at a party-- guy running–girl throws things out the window at guy-- guy catches sneakers. I don’t recall seeing that one (I generally try to tune out commercials), but I’d guess that the guy and the girl hooked up, then had an argument, and the girl starts tossing they guy’s belongings out the window. The only thing he caught was the sneakers, because Advertised Brand Sneakers are _so_ good, they’re the only things that matter. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5255 "2024-04-04T21:56:26Z")
There’s an idiotic commercial for a Muscle car showing a young boy driving it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5256 "2024-04-05T00:27:29Z")
Commercial for Inspire, the implant for sleep apnea. 1. Has a support group meeting - sleep apnea isn’t a mental health issue, it doesn’t use support groups. 2. All the men are sitting around wearing their CPAP masks. You don’t wear a CPAP mask sitting around, only when you lie down, to go to sleep. It’s for _sleep_ apnea, not “sit up in a chair” apnea. 3. Guy got an inspire implant, but still goes to the support meetings. So I guess it doesn’t work, either? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5257 "2024-04-07T22:37:51Z")
Oh look, Lume lady is back. She now says that some people are making women feel ashamed about their body odor _down there._ 😡 Lady, **YOU** referred to a woman’s crotch as a “stinky crevice” in one of your own commercials. Sit down, shut up, and sell your business to a major corporation so we don’t have to hear your crap. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5258 "2024-04-07T22:52:18Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Lady, **YOU** referred to a woman’s crotch as a “stinky crevice” in one of your own commercials. She told me to kiss her where it stinks. So I drove her to Wilmington. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5259 "2024-04-07T23:35:25Z")
Ha! In our neck of the woods, we say Palatka. There’s a paper mill there. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5260 "2024-04-07T23:51:53Z")
Wilmington (Los Angeles, CA) is the home to oil fields and refineries and heavy industries. 😉 (Unless it’s been gentrified in the last 20 years.) ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5261 "2024-04-08T00:15:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > (Unless it’s been gentrified in the last 20 years.) Once you see the view from your fracking tower condo you won’t want to live anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5262 "2024-04-08T11:38:18Z")
I don’t know if I mentioned this already and there are too many posts to check back, but it made me stabby again this weekend. What’s with the cut-and-paste-like “testimonials” where it’s obvious that multiple takes have been spliced together to make what is supposed to sound like a continuous comment? I don’t know how else to describe it and I can’t off the top of my head remember a specific ad to provide a link (sorry!) but it seems it’s often for a prescription medicine. Apart from sounding disjointed, why should I take advice from someone who can’t string together a sentence or two for an ad? Even when the TV is just background noise, this particular background noise always seems to get my attention just to annoy me! ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5263 "2024-04-08T12:38:45Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > What’s with the cut-and-paste-like “testimonials” where it’s obvious that multiple takes have been spliced together to make what is supposed to sound like a continuous comment? I know exactly what you mean, and it annoys the fuck out of me. And I don’t think it is limited to commercials, I think I see it in instructional you tube videos, too. But, IMO, it isn’t that they are stringing together multiple takes, it’s that they cut out half-second clips to MAKE it look like it was edited. It makes no DAMN SENSE! If I’m wrong, and they are stringing together multiple takes, then they are doing THAT deliberately, not out of necessity. It’s a “stylistic choice”, but I never got the memo. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5264 "2024-04-08T13:25:48Z")
That reminds me of something I detest: the narrator is looking at the camera doing his spiel, then they switch to a side view, then back to front view. I don’t know why they do that. It adds nothing. It’s not visually interesting, especially when they do it in trump campaign videos. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5265 "2024-04-08T22:40:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > So I drove her to Wilmington. Little east coast-based me was trying to figure out if you were referring to North Carolina or Delaware. 😅 (I was leaning toward Delaware.) > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But, IMO, it isn’t that they are stringing together multiple takes, it’s that they cut out half-second clips to MAKE it look like it was edited. This may be it…an earlier version of this “technique” that seemed to be really popular in the late '90s to early '00s would splice quick ‘candid’ clips in between the testimonial/conversational takes. So you would have the person saying a line or two - then a quick cut to one or more silent clips of the person grinning, or gesturing - then back to the person saying more lines. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=264)