# 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:** 291
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5806 "2024-08-19T01:15:19Z")
Oops, thought the preview would be just the graphic… **Wisconsin** Home of Cannibal Killers and Happy Days ---
**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:** [August 19, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5807 "2024-08-19T01:39:05Z")
It’s a whole Tree. I have 2. Very beautiful tree. The nut is a favorite of kids to collect. Look nice in a bowl. DOES NOT look like a real eyeball of a dead deer. (They’re usually white/tinge of blue, unless you’re a good shot🤭) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5808 "2024-08-19T02:39:03Z")
**Mrs Magill** and I walk three and a half miles every morning. One mile is not a problem. ---
**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 19, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5809 "2024-08-19T03:09:22Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > On the topic of “Oh my Bob,” how does everyone feel about the little mascot/puppet guy? I wonder why cartoon Bob has brown hair. This is Bob from three years ago: [![](https://blog.mybobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Bob-1024x576.jpg) ](https://blog.mybobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Bob-1024x576.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5810 "2024-08-19T03:15:45Z")
Here’s a younger Bob Kaufman. The second one is with his father, from 1998. [![](https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5683/1843/1600/my_bob.jpg) ](https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5683/1843/1600/my_bob.jpg) [![](https://blog.mybobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BobKaufmanDadKaufman_DC1-1024x768.jpg) ](https://blog.mybobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/BobKaufmanDadKaufman_DC1-1024x768.jpg) ---
**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 19, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5811 "2024-08-19T03:20:26Z")
Still doesn’t have cartoon Bob’s thick, brown hair. It’s like they designed him to be compensating for something… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5812 "2024-08-19T03:22:37Z")
And here’s a thirty-year-old commercial. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fc4CuHQhZ5U/hqdefault.jpg "1994 Bob's Discount") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4CuHQhZ5U) ---
**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 19, 2024, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5813 "2024-08-19T03:24:33Z")
Here’s a Claymation version. Now this looks more like the real Bob! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1dtszaZRgYw/hqdefault.jpg "Claymation commercial from Bob's Discount Furniture showing Bobopedic vs Tempurpedic Mattress") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dtszaZRgYw&t=0) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5814 "2024-08-19T04:16:55Z")
As long as we’re talking about old commercials featuring local hucksters, here’s Ed Barbara for Furniture USA: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qGyeLV1AYSM/hqdefault.jpg "1980 Furniture USA Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyeLV1AYSM) Barbara ended up being charged with fraud in a gold mine investment scheme. He was arrested and tried, but skipped bail before sentencing. He was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in absentia. The TV show Unsolved Mysteries did a segment on him. He supposedly died of cancer in Florida while he was still on the run. [Here’s a story](https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterdays-crimes-the-wolfman-of-el-camino/article_2f919c1f-4547-5246-9530-b512b1915199.html) about him. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5815 "2024-08-21T23:58:45Z")
If I see the commercial about “laughing is contagious” one more time, I’ll go nuts. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5816 "2024-08-22T18:12:47Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Typical Indian casino ad: > > - All attractive, young people. > - Triple 7s on the slot machine. > - Fine dining with massive steak, or lobster, or crab legs, and gold leaf on the dessert. > - Winning hand at the tables, surrounded by cheering crowd. > - Sexy couple in plush room in bathrobes. > - Concert venue with female entertainer. > - Floating in the pool (always a woman). > - Getting a massage or hot stones (also always a woman, showing a little skin). > - Hitting golf ball from tee shot. > - Coins flowing from video poker machine. > > Every one is the same. Just change-up the order. They dont, however, show the nasty cigarette smoke smell for some reason. You can remove the word “Indian” - not because it’s offensive or even stereotypical (you have just described the typical commercials for the two tribal casinos that advertise in San Francisco), but I’m pretty sure Nevada casinos do the same thing. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5817 "2024-08-22T20:28:16Z")
The new Fontainebleau hotel/casino opened in Vegas last year. Their commercials consisted of attractive, stylishly dressed young people smiling and laughing _in front of a plain white background_. They didn’t show the hotel, the casino, the restaurants, nothing. It was weird. They could have been advertising anything. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5818 "2024-08-22T21:06:48Z")
Same for Atlantic city casinos except for the golf and coins. No more coins in AC or Nevada. Just tickets ---
**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:** [August 22, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5819 "2024-08-22T21:23:14Z")
No doubt the casinos near me are no longer using coins, but on their commercials it “looks cool”, and is what the rubes are expecting to see. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5820 "2024-08-23T04:43:28Z")
The Instacart commercial with the theme from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdA3uCLwrHQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdA3uCLwrHQ) Fuck them. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5821 "2024-08-23T05:03:25Z")
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**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5822 "2024-08-23T13:25:53Z")
What’s so bad?? Beethoven is sacred? You’ve never set any thought in your head to music? “Got to get the charcoal here - dooh dah, dooh dah!” … “Got to pick up Dan’s prescription pills by Friday night, His Truth Goes Marching Onnnnnnnn” ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5823 "2024-08-23T13:31:35Z")
Does anyone else remember the McDonald’s commercial that did something like this with Fur Elise? In the 1980s? That’s 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:** [August 23, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5824 "2024-08-23T15:05:36Z")
I don’t know what it is that @rowrrbazzle hates about it, but I find it extremely irritating due to the “singer’s” voice. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5825 "2024-08-23T16:00:33Z")
A young girl playing it. She sang along whit the tune making up lyrics that were McD’s adjacent. I remember “whoops, and also fries.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=292)