# 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:** 308
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6146 "2024-12-03T04:39:58Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > I assume they’re trying to attract a new type of customer. They’ve been running the “beautiful people” ads for at least 8 years. If that is their plan, it ain’t working. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6147 "2024-12-03T09:40:41Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I Consulted at a couple casinos, and yep- the clientele is not the beautiful people. Heh. My local race book (I like to play the horses) has about three dozen slot machines in addition to horse race wagering. The clientele on the slots is definitely not the beautiful people. I’m in my sixties, and excepting bar and restaurant staff, I’m probably one of the youngest in there. Half of the rest need a walker or cane. They’re fine people, and we all get along, but I can’t help but feel that every push of a slot machine’s button is just a way to kill time until the inevitable. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6148 "2024-12-03T13:00:07Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I Consulted at a couple casinos, and yep- the clientele is not the beautiful people. Retirees, bored, wearing shorts and t-shirts, etc, spending their Social Security on the slots, etc, Mostly smokers- addictive behaviors go hand in hand. Wait. So you’re telling me the Indian Casino commercials here in California are all just false advertising?! ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6149 "2024-12-03T13:39:58Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Wait. So you’re telling me the Indian Casino commercials here in California are all just false advertising?! Yes, and that woman in the commercial, that looks right at you?\* She’s not really into you. 🙂 \*this was actually a different Gila River commercial. They had the woman being held by her fella, but looking right into the camera. You KNEW she wanted YOU. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6150 "2024-12-03T15:47:42Z")
The Rose Gaming Resort in Dumfries, VA also has an ad thick with young, happy, winning patrons, and not a cigarette in sight. I’m pretty sure there were similar ads for casinos in MD. I’m not a gambler, but I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of beautiful people in either place. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6151 "2024-12-03T16:07:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This is not at all incorrect. I Consulted at a couple casinos, and yep- the clientele is not the beautiful people. Retirees, bored, wearing shorts and t-shirts, etc, spending their Social Security on the slots, etc, Mostly smokers- addictive behaviors go hand in hand. I’ve seen other casino commercials, even for some of the big Las Vegas ones that feature beautiful, well-dressed people, and yes, I very much doubt that’s what I would see if I actually went to one. I think some like to imagine men in tuxedos and women in cocktail dresses, like in a James Bond movie. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6152 "2024-12-03T16:23:57Z")
I went to a casino in Tahoe last winter as part of a ski trip. Ugh: dingy, smoky, stinky, and a lot of drunks. Food at the restaurant was decent but over-priced. I always have to remember that “casinos weren’t build on _winners_.” But to be fair, I have not seen any ads for that casino suggesting it was loaded with young, clean, well dressed people having a great time. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6153 "2024-12-03T17:27:01Z")
I imagine the ‘beautiful people’ at upscale casinos are trophy wives, ‘good luck charms’, and expensive paid escorts. Hooked up with sugar daddies, mob men, and faded celebrities with whom they hope to nail down with a way-late-in-life-baby (“yes, I’m 80, but my darling fourth wife Tiffany and I hope to be parents - and this time, Imma gonna do it right!”). lol. a little flight of fancy there. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6154 "2024-12-03T21:08:46Z")
Most of the gambling commercials around here nowadays are for online. I doubt the people are any better looking than those in person, but at least no one else will ever have to see them. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6155 "2024-12-03T21:30:32Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Wait. So you’re telling me the Indian Casino commercials here in California are all just false advertising?! Well, more like puffery. But no, the clientele in the commercials are not representative of the overage. Not even close. At lease the indian casinos tend to show more mature clients. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6156 "2024-12-04T13:51:00Z")
I think it’s an Amazon commercial and I think it’s supposed to be heartwarming but the message I get is Bezos thinks his worker drones should be happy with their manual labor lot in life. A janitor sings to himself as he cleans an empty theater and an usher hears him. She goes on Amazon and orders him a blazer. He puts the blazer on and sings on stage to a mostly dark, mostly empty theater. The blazer buyer watches with tears in her eyes. The end and wtf. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6157 "2024-12-04T14:15:29Z")
Yeah, I hate that one too! One that’s gotten on my nerves lately: A commercial for some kind of SUV. A man pulls over in a field and picks up a big red ball. Then he drives through huge manicured gardens and across the corner of a life-size chess set. A beautiful woman on the steps of a mansion watches his approach through a telescope. The man arrives at the mansion and drives up a flight of steps to where the woman waits. He delivers the ball to her dog, who doesn’t seem to really care. What are they even trying to say here? All I see is rich douchebags treating their possessions carelessly. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6158 "2024-12-04T14:37:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > A janitor sings to himself as he cleans an empty theater and an usher hears him. She goes on Amazon and orders him a blazer. He puts the blazer on and sings on stage to a mostly dark, mostly empty theater. The blazer buyer watches with tears in her eyes. The end and wtf. It’s so condescending! They give the poor janitor a moment in the spotlight (with no one in the audience!) and then, back to scrubbing toilets. I admit, the first time I saw it, when I wasn’t really paying attention, I thought he was “discovered” and got his own show. Instead we get Flowers For Algernon. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6159 "2024-12-04T14:45:04Z")
I thought I was the only one thinking they were just jagging him off. Say, here’s a coat and now you can pretend to sing to a fake audience … like you’ve been doing the whole time so what’s the big deal now? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6160 "2024-12-04T16:57:33Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > What are they even trying to say here? All I see is rich douchebags treating their possessions carelessly. You are totally missing the point! If you have that SUV, of course there is no need to worry about fuel being burned on frivolous things like fetching dog toys from your estate. And heck, you can climb a flight of stairs in it! Which is a thing amongst the muckety-mucks! That’s sure to make the hoi polloi envious - major selling point! /s Since it’s now the season of useless gift-giving, there is the annual emergence of the perfume/cologne commercials. I guess last year’s crop has either been used by now (!!) or thrown away last January. But, what the heck is going on with those commercials? WTF is Johnny Depp doing, and for that matter Julia Roberts? What does that imagery have to do with the effing product? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6161 "2024-12-04T17:07:46Z")
don’t get me started on that dior commercial with johnny depp! the wolves are good looking and very good actors. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6162 "2024-12-04T17:43:21Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > don’t get me started on that dior f with johnny depp! the wolves are good looking and very good actors. Ack. I’m still a JD fan but that is so cringy I have to look away. Sadly that doesn’t help me avoid him saying “Sauvage” with a French accent. I understand he lives, or lived, in France for many years, so he may in fact be pronouncing it perfectly but it embarrasses 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:** [December 4, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6163 "2024-12-04T18:00:22Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > so what’s the big deal now? The world needs love, sweet love? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6164 "2024-12-04T18:13:43Z")
sauvage eau forte! it is a very cringe commercial. the one with natalie portman is a bit less cringy; not by much. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6165 "2024-12-04T18:31:06Z")
Perfume commercials are all so cringy I actually enjoy them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=307) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=309)