# 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:** 280
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5586 "2024-06-19T03:30:14Z")
Commercial for some sports drink that advertises that it has “Gatorade electrolytes” and every time I hear it I wonder if it’s what plants crave. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5587 "2024-06-19T04:04:09Z")
I’m sick of Carne Asada Carne Asada, rolling her “Rs” Golden Corral. The leader in authentic Mexican cuisine🤔 ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5588 "2024-06-19T17:58:01Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I’m sick of Carne Asada Carne Asada, rolling her “Rs” > Golden Corral. > > The leader in authentic Mexican cuisine🤔 . Yeah, I’m done with that one, too. It seems wildly pandering, as well as ridiculous (as you point out with respect to what kinds of food GC is known for). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5589 "2024-06-19T18:36:25Z")
I don’t think I know all that many Latinos that roll their r’s in the word carne. I hate that old lady in the Kayak commercial who ends up as a scarecrow. Confusing, stupid, annoying. The trifecta! ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5590 "2024-06-19T19:13:17Z")
Back to the dog food in the fridge. There’s one where two guys are watching a ball game in two Laz-E-Boys in a garage. “Dog food in the fridge?” Dude … fridge in the garage. What difference should make by then? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5591 "2024-06-19T19:28:49Z")
What’s being sold in this commercial? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5592 "2024-06-19T19:39:41Z")
Which one?? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5593 "2024-06-19T19:46:43Z")
The one where two guys are watching a ball game in two Laz-E-Boys in a garage. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5594 "2024-06-19T19:52:05Z")
Yeah, the Golden Corral/Carne Asada one annoys me too. Trying to get the correct Spanish pronunciation reminds me of a long-ago acquaintance who insisted on calling places by their names in the local language: “First, we went to Paree, then we went to Roma before heading to Moonschen, and finally, we went to Moskva.” Jeez, buddy, you’re not impressing anybody. If the English-speaking girl wants to call it “Carney Asada,” let her. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5595 "2024-06-19T20:10:50Z")
Dog food that needs to be refrigerated. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5596 "2024-06-20T00:11:45Z")
And speaking of the Bath Remodelers… They got the balls to put up the graphic “BEFORE & AFTER” and show a bunch of pairs of Ratty V. Ritzy showers. Then in tiny print below “No actual Before and After Depiction”. _But you just said…_ ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5597 "2024-06-20T00:17:20Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I hate that old lady in the Kayak commercial who ends up as a scarecrow. Confusing, stupid, annoying. The trifecta! She stuffs hay into her shirt to act as a scarecrow. But… you stuff hay into a scarecrow’s shirt to fill it out and make it look like a real person. She _is_ a real person. It doesn’t make any sense. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5598 "2024-06-20T00:17:48Z")
Are the minions really so popular that it was worth having an entire commercial of them spewing gibberish? I don’t even know what the heck they’re advertising. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5599 "2024-06-20T03:55:18Z")
Gotta be some kinda kink thing behind this is all I can figure. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5600 "2024-06-20T04:06:47Z")
As I have said before, I like it. It reminds me of those weird early '70s psychological horror movies from Great Britain that would show up on The Million Dollar Movie or maybe Chiller Theater when I was a little kid. I don’t automatically dislike weird. I’m kinda into it, actually. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5601 "2024-06-20T08:06:30Z")
It’s a vehicle with 3rd row seating. The Minions/Despicable me characters are to doubly add movie sales. A two-fer. Stupid, I agree ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5602 "2024-06-20T08:19:14Z")
It’s for a Volkswagen model. It’s a tie-in with _Despicable Me 4_, which hits theatres soon. But I agree that it’s pretty dumb. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5603 "2024-06-20T13:32:57Z")
> [@Deanna\_D](#): > > I just saw a commercial for something called Mighty Mendit. It features the died-years-ago pitchman Billy Mays. > > It just seems very wrong to me that they’re using him to sell their product. I find it disrespectful, somehow. [At least he actually did that commercial back in the day.](https://web.archive.org/web/20090703045103/https://money.cnn.com/2009/06/29/smallbusiness/infomercials_without_billy_mays.smb/?postversion=2009062917) The commercial itself is rather annoying: exactly what are “storm force winds”? ---
**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:** [June 20, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5604 "2024-06-20T14:38:05Z")
I know there have been a lot of posts already about mega-annoying drug commercials, but I just saw one on The Today Show this morning that made me think NOOOO ENOUGH ALREADY It was a prescrip drug for a type of macular degeneration known as GA. It’s an _ **eye injection** _. In addition to being an _ **eye injection** _, It comes with the typical host of side effects that sound as bad or worse than the disease. Did I mention that it’s an _ **eye injection** _? I am sick, sick I tell you, of hearing about awful remedies for horrible maladies I was hardly even aware of before. As someone with semi-latent hypochondria, I do not want to be made aware of all the terrible things that can happen to me, and the awful ways I will need to have those things treated, unless I am formally diagnosed and _ **need** _ to deal with those maladies. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5605 "2024-06-20T15:39:33Z")
Not that I expect an accurate attribution by a SiriusXM ad on POTUS, but the current ZipRecruiter spot bugs me: > _Abe Lincoln said, “Good things come to those who wait…but the what he **really** said was, "only the things left by those who hustle_.” Well, to be honest, Abe **didn’t** say that – the Lincoln Association debunked the meme quote back in 2003. I realize the hosts aren’t inclined to fact check the ad copy they’re paid to read, but they present themselves as being dedicated to honesty in the media. When they repeat a “fake quote” multiple times a day it only ads to the spread of public misinformation they claim to decry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=279) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=281)