# 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:** 309
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6166 "2024-12-04T20:19:00Z")
Remember “…and they call it Charlie!”? That fucking tune is stuck in my head. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6167 "2024-12-04T20:36:36Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > 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. Just as an FYI, there’s a Netflix show called ‘The Gentlemen’ in which the son of a British Lord (played by the same guy who’s in the commercial) inherits an estate with a huge mansion when his father dies and finds out his father had rented out the estate to a cannabis growing operation to keep the bills paid. Hijinks ensue. I assume the commercial is a riff on the show premise, minus the cannabis and criminal element. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6168 "2024-12-04T20:54:11Z")
I still love the Charlize Theron perfume commercial. I’ve no idea what brand of perfume it is, though! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6169 "2024-12-04T22:03:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Perfume commercials are all so cringy I actually enjoy them. A guilty please for sure- what are they selling? How does that relate? But they are often beautiful, anyway. ---
**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 4, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6170 "2024-12-04T22:20:46Z")
I am sympathetic to the ad people trying to create commercials to sell perfume or cologne. It’s gotta be tough to convey what the stuff smells like. ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6171 "2024-12-04T22:32:36Z")
Johnny Depp is all sweaty and hanging around wolves, then digs a hole in the desert. Is that the smell they wish to convey? The Julia Roberts stuff in Paris I get a little better. Looking out on the city skyline and the Eiffel Tower, the smell of baguettes and Roquefort in the air. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6172 "2024-12-04T22:40:20Z")
Does she do the horse laugh, because that’s her trademark? ---
**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, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6173 "2024-12-04T23:16:18Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Remember “…and they call it Charlie!”? That fucking tune is stuck in my head. Kind of hip, kind of now (Charlie!) Kind of free, kind of wow (Charlie) side B is the song for Love’s Baby Soft ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6174 "2024-12-05T05:01:57Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Remember “…and they call it Charlie!”? That fucking tune is stuck in my head. Bobby Short was the singer, which helped make it memorable. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6175 "2024-12-05T05:03:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I am sympathetic to the ad people trying to create commercials to sell perfume or cologne. It’s gotta be tough to convey what the stuff smells like. Perfume commercials are designed to create an image, not tell you what the perfume smells like. ---
**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 5, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6176 "2024-12-05T05:05:23Z")
I realize that but presumably the image has to hint at what the perfume is like. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6177 "2024-12-05T05:12:02Z")
Someone should run a perfume commercial with a line from Henry Miller, (from memory, I think it’s close), “she was wearing the kind of perfume that gave you a hard-on whether you wanted to fuck or not” 🙂 ---
**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 5, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6178 "2024-12-05T05:12:46Z")
I suppose that’s the kind of image the perfume ads are suggesting. ---
**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 5, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6179 "2024-12-05T05:22:25Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Kind of hip, kind of now (Charlie!) > Kind of free, kind of wow (Charlie) _The kind of fragrance that makes your day,_ _And they call it … Charlie!_ I have no idea how I remembered that, but it came back immediately once I read the first two lines. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6180 "2024-12-05T13:32:02Z")
Shelly Hack was the Charlie girl! I’d forgotten that. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t1WX9znN7CE/hqdefault.jpg "Revlon Charlie Commercial (April 2, 1979)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WX9znN7CE) ---
**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:** [December 5, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6181 "2024-12-05T14:25:40Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Shelly Hack was the Charlie girl! I’d forgotten that > > [https://youtu.be/t1WX9znN7CE?si=Fa-DWpU3uyinJiB6&1](https://youtu.be/t1WX9znN7CE?si=Fa-DWpU3uyinJiB6&1) First thought watching that video-- brings back memories. I remember when the commercial first ran. Second thought-- those two big spritzes of perfume she gave herself to the side of the face just before walking into the ship’s ballroom must have made her absolutely _ **reek** _ of fragrance, to an almost toxic level 🤮 ---
**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 5, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6182 "2024-12-05T14:43:12Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Shelly Hack was the Charlie girl! You mean…Shelly wasn’t just an Angel, she was actually…Charlie? It fits! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6183 "2024-12-05T16:37:09Z")
My forever favorite perfume commercial was for Chanel No. 5 in 1979 made by Ridley Scott. Woman in a black swimsuit sitting by an azure swimming pool. An airplane flies overhead. Share the fantasy! Beautiful and classic, commercial and perfume. (As opposed to Bath & Body Works cheap stink juice.). (There’s another one with “I Don’t Want To Set the World On Fire” playing. And the shadow of the airplane.) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6184 "2024-12-25T02:55:25Z")
T-mobile commercial, Snoop Dog. “That’s like peanut butter on jelly on gold.” That sounds incredibly stupid. You can’t eat it. What does the PB&J do besides make a mess? Are you licking off the gold? ---
**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 25, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6185 "2024-12-25T03:07:25Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > That sounds incredibly stupid. You can’t eat it. What does the PB&J do besides make a mess? Are you licking off the gold? Apparently you know nothing about Snoop Dogg, fo shizzle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=308) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=310)