# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/541 "2018-07-26T17:56:28Z")
[The new Parkingson’s commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wC8L/more-to-parkinsons-secret-visitors) is pretty creepy. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/542 "2018-07-26T18:00:58Z")
[quote=“Dolores\_Reborn, post:540, topic:790089”] I was waiting for a youtube video to come on, and this commercial got my attention. [/QUOTE] Why did you post this here? This is brilliant! Edited to add-- The Parkinson’s one is also very effective. It’s supposed to be creepy. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/543 "2018-07-26T18:04:00Z")
In the Chicago area, there are both radio and tv commercials for a company called ABC Plumbing. Two problems: They say plumeing instead of plumbing. Their tag line, which they repeat over and over in the same commercial, is “So it’s done!” Just by making a phone call to the company. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [July 26, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/544 "2018-07-26T18:06:34Z")
[quote=“Dolores\_Reborn, post:540, topic:790089”] I was waiting for a youtube video to come on, and this commercial got my attention. [/QUOTE] That…was…AWESOME!!! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/545 "2018-07-27T02:21:22Z")
Nothing like a [cable provider ad (Rogers)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRPytmnuAU)that comes across like some creepy abduction scene. Bad enough our pulse rates are gratuitously jolted by the roaring fly-by rig\*, but even _that_ is out-creeped by the truly _skeeeeevy_ shot, at exactly [0:12](https://youtu.be/mLRPytmnuAU?t=12), when he delivers the quite worrisome line “hey, don’t worry”. It’s not until she _finally_ says “thanks, **DAD** ” (my emphasis, not hers) that I finally realise, ok, cool, fine, nothing grim is going to happen to her. Why more cable ads don’t melodramatically exploit us with near-grisly-deaths-by-semis (and creepy dudes giving reassurances in the dark) is beyond me. \*And of course dad calmly delivers, just in the nick of time, (isn’t it always like that?) his life-saving advice to stay in the car. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/546 "2018-07-29T02:05:52Z")
Farmers Only dot com has trotted out a new series of ads featuring interviews with supposed users of the site. In one ad, the woman claims to be “from the city,” saying that people have a misconception that the website is only for country folk. Gee, maybe someone should have contemplated that back when their ads were disparaging non-country folk under that tagline “City folk just don’t get it.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/547 "2018-07-29T02:57:21Z")
all these back to school commercials that have kids walking down red carpets in clothes that most school districts wouldn’t allow them to wear with parents applauding like its the academy awards ………. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/548 "2018-08-04T02:59:34Z")
What is it about DirecTV and asshole football fans? [Get DirectTV & NFL Sunday Ticket and be assholes to your kids!](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dfLu/directv-nfl-sunday-ticket-lemonade) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/549 "2018-08-05T22:39:32Z")
Cadillac has their new ads with the cars sitting inside looking out windows, before they race off to go driving. WTF? And then they show people inside them, so it’s not like the cars are alive, no, people are driving their cars around inside their apartments. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/550 "2018-08-09T03:21:07Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks the kid in [this commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/w6p7/eucrisa-steroid-free) who announces, “And it’s steroid free” is _really_ annoying? Yeah, it’s steroid free, and it also costs about $2,000 per ounce. :eek: That is not a typo. How about Pilot’s “It’s Magic” being co-opted for a diabetes drug commercial? “Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic…” Have I ever mentioned that I despise prescription drug advertising? 😃 ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/551 "2018-08-09T12:02:36Z")
Dear Cottonelle, I am going to press charges if I catch you asking my little kid how her butthole feels. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/552 "2018-08-09T19:00:45Z")
Approximated transcript: [See? I made a metaphor! I’m very clever. It’s a simile, douchebag. Well played.]([Verizon Unlimited Plans TV Spot, 'Big Scoop' Featuring Thomas Middleditch - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d2Ac/verizon-unlimited-plans-big-scoop-featuring-thomas-middleditch)) I’m really beginning to hate that phrase as much as I hate that toolbag. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/553 "2018-08-09T19:08:49Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Approximated transcript: > [See? I made a metaphor! I’m very clever. > > It’s a simile, douchebag. > > Well played.]([Verizon Unlimited Plans TV Spot, 'Big Scoop' Featuring Thomas Middleditch - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d2Ac/verizon-unlimited-plans-big-scoop-featuring-thomas-middleditch)) > > I’m really beginning to hate that phrase as much as I hate that toolbag. What teenager is obsessed with European cinema? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/554 "2018-08-09T19:14:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > What teenager is obsessed with European cinema? The ones with boobies. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/555 "2018-08-09T19:18:43Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > What is it about DirecTV and asshole football fans? > > [Get DirectTV & NFL Sunday Ticket and be assholes to your kids!](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dfLu/directv-nfl-sunday-ticket-lemonade) This one is even worse, for me: It’s a black man who starts out as if he is going to have “the talk” with his son. Instead, he mouths platitudes for about 15 seconds, so he can rush off and watch football. Something about it being a black man and his son just makes it multi times worse than it would have been otherwise. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/556 "2018-08-09T19:24:08Z")
Is it just me or is Go Your Own Way a slightly inappropriate song for COPD medication? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/557 "2018-08-09T22:53:11Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Dear Cottonelle, I am going to press charges if I catch you asking my little kid how her butthole feels. Yes, they’re skating pretty close to the edge, there. (By the way, your avatar is very nice–there was some anxiety about what it might turn out to be, in the “I turned on avatars today” thread in About This Message Board. 🆒[https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21136167#post21136167](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21136167#post21136167) ) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/558 "2018-08-10T14:00:48Z")
Ha! Thanks for pointing that out. They weren’t wrong to be concerned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/559 "2018-08-10T21:44:07Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This one is even worse, for me: > > [DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket TV Spot, 'Life Lessons' - iSpot.tv](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dBVc/directv-nfl-sunday-ticket-life-lessons) > > It’s a black man who starts out as if he is going to have “the talk” with his son. Instead, he mouths platitudes for about 15 seconds, so he can rush off and watch football. Something about it being a black man and his son just makes it multi times worse than it would have been otherwise. There’s a variation with a woman who looks to be Hispanic or maybe Indian-from-India and her daughter, and they run to the living room and watch a movie. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/560 "2018-08-13T12:38:49Z")
Snuggle Fabric Softener, love doesn’t stink unless you use the song from the J. Geils Band. You can’t just bastardize a Nazareth song. Well, apparently you can, because you did, but I want you to know that I strenuously disapprove. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=29)