# 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:** 30
**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:** [September 27, 2018, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/581 "2018-09-27T23:31:45Z")
How about annoying local commercials? First Citizens Bank has a series running now that features various bank executives talking about various topics, none of which I can remember because I’m so distracted by the extreme close-ups used to focus on the people. The camera is zoomed into each person that their face is only visible from the eyebrows to mid-neck. The commercials are otherwise well-produced, and are in a high enough definition that you can practically make out nose hairs. Food Lion is running one now in which a young male cashier narrates an increasingly alarmed-looking woman’s shopping trip, announcing each item to the store as she places it in her cart. It’s never explained how he knows which items she’s selecting. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/582 "2018-09-28T01:26:20Z")
Any Sprint commercial with those creepy robots that take everything literally. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/583 "2018-09-28T23:14:26Z")
The one that is bugging me lately is the one where the guy is on the top level of an (empty) parking garage then manages to bootstrap an entire car, starting with his earphones or sunglasses or something. The song is catchy though, so I avert my eyes and just listen. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/584 "2018-09-29T01:30:48Z")
Any one of the series about [Jack’s Balls.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGkdLBN7lk). There are about five, and they’re all the same lame assed joke. Woohoo you almost said “balls”. Wow, that might have been funny when I was in high school, but probably not. At least in the 70s you really couldn’t say “balls” (in that context) on TV. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/585 "2018-09-29T02:26:27Z")
the Charmin commercial with the bears arguing who gonna pick up the kid bears ad the kid runs in picks them up and proceeds to do a dance around the room shaking his butt singing about how his heineys clean its Charmin clean ……… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/586 "2018-09-29T02:30:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Any one of the series about [Jack’s Balls.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGkdLBN7lk). There are about five, and they’re all the same lame assed joke. > > Woohoo you almost said “balls”. Wow, that might have been funny when I was in high school, but probably not. At least in the 70s you really couldn’t say “balls” (in that context) on TV. did you read the comments on the vid ? heres a few gems : "Good for Jack having the balls to put this bowls add up. Whole nation is a bunch of snowflake hyper-sensitive pussies. " "Not the whole nation, just a minor group of really vocal hypersensitive snowflakes that literally haven’t a sense of humour and would feel offended by the most benign stuff. The likes to dislikes ratio proves that. " "Hilarious! Any overly-sensitive, handwringing, SJW ninnies that are actually “offended” by this humorous ad need to grow up, get a set of BOWLS yourself, and get a life! " ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/587 "2018-09-29T06:25:56Z")
> [@Just Asking Questions](#): > > Any one of the series about Jack’s Balls… There are about five, and they’re all the same lame assed joke. > > Woohoo you almost said “balls”. Wow, that might have been funny when I was in high school, but probably not. At least in the 70s you really couldn’t say “balls” (in that context) on TV . > [@nightshadea](#): > > did you read the comments on the vid ? > > heres a few gems : > > "Good for Jack having the balls to put this bowls add up. Whole nation is a bunch of snowflake hyper-sensitive pussies. " > > "Not the whole nation, just a minor group of really vocal hypersensitive snowflakes that literally haven’t a sense of humour and would feel offended by the most benign stuff. The likes to dislikes ratio proves that. " > > "Hilarious! Any overly-sensitive, handwringing, SJW ninnies that are actually “offended” by this humorous ad need to grow up, get a set of BOWLS yourself, and get a life! " It could’ve been worse. The ads also could’ve had Jack trumpeting his revolutionary additions to his fast-food menu as a “bowl movement”. (Maybe they’ll do that in the next series of ads.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/588 "2018-09-29T16:10:11Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > the Charmin commercial with the bears arguing who gonna pick up the kid bears ad the kid runs in picks them up and proceeds to do a dance around the room shaking his butt singing about how his heineys clean its Charmin clean ……… I like the ending of the one commercial with the bears sitting on the couch and caressing the Charmin’ and one of the bears says, “OK, this is getting a little weird.” ---
**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:** [September 29, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/589 "2018-09-29T17:01:59Z")
Keegan Michael Key being a dick to everyone while staring at his phone for ESPN+ is getting on my nerves. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/590 "2018-09-30T06:27:18Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > did you read the comments on the vid ? > > heres a few gems : > > "Good for Jack having the balls to put this bowls add up. Whole nation is a bunch of snowflake hyper-sensitive pussies. " > > "Not the whole nation, just a minor group of really vocal hypersensitive snowflakes that literally haven’t a sense of humour and would feel offended by the most benign stuff. The likes to dislikes ratio proves that. " > > "Hilarious! Any overly-sensitive, handwringing, SJW ninnies that are actually “offended” by this humorous ad need to grow up, get a set of BOWLS yourself, and get a life! " Are you simply pointing out the utter uselessness of youtube comments, the coarsening of American culture, or are you calling me a hypersensitive snowflake? Just asking. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/591 "2018-09-30T06:38:58Z")
the first two…….sorry I didn’t specify …. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/592 "2018-09-30T12:59:44Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > As opposed to fake people? Progressive has an ad that pokes fun at those Chevy ads, starting with Jamie and a couple other folks in a small room and the caption “Real actors not people.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/593 "2018-10-01T22:42:22Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Liberty insurance’s ads with people who don’t know how insurance works lecturing us on it Recent installment in the series: “Your insurance company raises your rates over a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen…” :rolleyes::smack::rolleyes::smack::rolleyes: Laaadyyyy, if it’s a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen, FIX IT WITH A PEN, don’t file an insurance claim! Never heard of deductibles? (and as mentioned before, “accident forgiveness” simply means you start off already paying an additional charge) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/594 "2018-10-01T23:27:09Z")
That fucking woman is still sneezing onto her friend’s windshield. God, I hate that commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/595 "2018-10-02T19:23:12Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Recent installment in the series: “Your insurance company raises your rates over a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen…” :rolleyes::smack::rolleyes::smack::rolleyes: Laaadyyyy, if it’s a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen, FIX IT WITH A PEN, don’t file an insurance claim! Never heard of deductibles? > > (and as mentioned before, “accident forgiveness” simply means you start off already paying an additional charge) I hate those Liberty commercials, too, but my take on that one is that the OTHER car has the invisible scratch. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/596 "2018-10-03T00:08:41Z")
Yeah, that Liberty “just a scratch!” commercial always makes me go :dubious:. I’ve been in one of those situations in which the offending party looked at my vehicle and said “Oh, you can’t even tell it was hit, and it was low speed, so it’s just fine!” Total damage, parts and labor: $900 (in 1999 or so). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/597 "2018-10-03T17:57:04Z")
Has anybody been watching those Gorilla Glue commercials with that giant CGI ape? It reminds me of Gorilla Grodd from _The Flash_. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/598 "2018-10-08T07:29:03Z")
I think I know now why I came from a cold, unloving family. We didn’t pop open enough canned dough, sing Kumbaya around the kitchen table, smiles and giggles aplenty as we blew kisses at each other in a golden circle of light. Pillsbury Crescent Rolls are going to transform the place you live into a wonderland of a loving caring home. Who’d a thought?? This unctuous commercial really piles the schmaltz on! ---
**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:** [October 8, 2018, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/599 "2018-10-08T12:39:46Z")
I would love to see a realistic version of that commercial… Whoever is making the biscuits spends several minutes beating the peeled can against the counter in a vain attempt at breaking the seal, then finally resorts to using a knife. Since the can wasn’t opened correctly, the outer dough layers are damaged, and cannot be formed into perfect little crescent shapes. This becomes a problem during baking, as the damaged rolls are just thin enough that they finish baking too soon, and stick to the pan. Once this problem has been discovered, someone has to locate a suitably strong spatula to chisel the offending rolls off the pan; the spatula, apparently being made of something resembling leaf spring material, launches one of the biscuits into the air, which catches the attention of the family dog, who immediately bolts forward and grabs the hot biscuit in midair. Several minutes of shouting and wailing ensue as various family members are concerned that the dog has seriously injured herself on the hot food; the dog (who is just fine) is too focused on the oven to notice the commotion, and will from this point forward associate the appliance with food occasionally soaring into the air for her consumption. Based on a true story. > [@](#): > ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/600 "2018-10-08T13:03:32Z")
The one that is currently driving me nuts is an animated ad for some brand of margarine where the mom comes home and the dad and kids are chowing down on the cookies she made for a bake sale. So she has to hurry up and bake another batch. The margarine in the ad is pre-softened to expedite her cookie baking, because y’know you can’t just put a stick of marg in the microwave for 45 seconds on “soften” setting to soften it up. :rolleyes: But then when she pulls the bake sale cookies out of the oven, dad and the kids yell “cookies!” Like they didn’t already get enough from the first batch they ate, and have completely forgotten about the bake sale, and apparently think she made another batch just for them. Because, I don’t know, they’re brain damaged or something…? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=31)