# 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:** 318
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6346 "2025-03-19T04:18:59Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > “We Quilt This City” gets my vote for the worst abuse of lyrics in a commercial. Abuse? That’s a pretty low bar considering the source song. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6347 "2025-03-19T05:26:01Z")
I hate the Hyundai commercial with the guy in the confessional booth. It’s a mockery of religious practice. And I’m Lutheran! ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6348 "2025-03-19T05:56:42Z")
In a similar crossing of the lines of decency, Fresh Pet is trying to induce me to buy their dog food with insinuated Mob Violence/Murder. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6349 "2025-03-19T15:58:26Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Abuse? That’s a pretty low bar considering the source song. Yeah, there’s really nothing anybody could do to make that song worse. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6350 "2025-03-19T16:09:38Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > “We Quilt This City” gets my vote for the worst abuse of lyrics in a commercial. Maybe so, but then again, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it turn up one time as the name of the ever-changing next-door business in the _Bob’s Burgers_ show open. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6351 "2025-03-19T16:37:54Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > In a similar crossing of the lines of decency, Fresh Pet is trying to induce me to buy their dog food with insinuated Mob Violence/Murder. Yeah, I thought that commercial was pretty WTF as well. Kicking out a potential life partner you had invited over for dinner, or forcing permanent estrangement from a sibling, just because they questioned the sanctity of your pet’s food is one thing; but a played-for-laughs implied mob murder in response? “If anybody asks, we wuz just visiting Grandma”-- being a cover story for “burying the body”, I guess. Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6352 "2025-03-19T18:03:58Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I hate the Hyundai commercial with the guy in the confessional booth. It’s a mockery of religious practice. And I’m Lutheran! I’m a Catholic and I think it’s pretty funny. The look on the priest’s face when he hears how much the car cost was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6353 "2025-03-19T19:21:49Z")
There is a nice ad for some non-profit about getting out in the forests. Nice idea- I am for it. But then the girl and the family start seeing flowers and butterflies and such that arent really there- and the girl even draws them like she really sees them. That kinda pings my “weird” meter. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6354 "2025-03-20T00:14:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I mean, if your going to skip the creative part and just use an old song, why not just use one with the “wolf” already baked in, a la _Hungry Like the Wolf_ ? I’m guessing someone in their marketing department is either a big NC State (Wolfpack) fan and would absolutely _never_ do such a thing, or they’re a [true crime aficionado](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09x7nxg) and don’t want that song associated with a family-friendly resort. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6355 "2025-03-20T12:59:05Z")
I get way too many repetitions of various Downy Unstoppables ads between levels on the freebie games I play on my tablet. They all involve people smelling their clothing, including the one where a young woman pulls a hoodie out of the dirty clothes hamper and takes a big sniff. There’s another one where a woman is singing - I keep the sound off, so I don’t know what she’s singing, but I assume it’s also annoying. Then there’s the woman on the crowded train having a big sniff of her blouse while hanging on the the support pole while the train trundles on. As someone who _hates hates hates_ artificially scented products, these commercials make me want to lay a curse upon whoever came up with them. And why not have a sniff _before_ tossing the hoodie in the hamper? Or am I overreacting just a tad? No, I think not. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6356 "2025-03-20T13:43:26Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > As someone who _hates hates hates_ artificially scented products, these commercials make me want to lay a curse upon whoever came up with them. And why not have a sniff _before_ tossing the hoodie in the hamper? > > Or am I overreacting just a tad? No, I think not. Reminds me of a commercial for some ‘fresh clothing’ product the name of which I forget. A woman complains that the shirt of her flight attendant outfit didn’t get in the wash, and her husband says “don’t worry, it was last washed with [product x], so it will stay fresh through a second wearing”. She puts the shirt on, and her astonishment over the continued freshness of the shirt, for some reason, causes her shoulders to start shaking back and forth. She goes on to work, and when on board the plane her shoulders are _still shaking back and forth_, like she’s doing some sort of weird shimmy dance, or has a serious neurological condition. A couple in their seats, both with shoulders also shaking back and forth, say to each other “she uses [product x], too!” Personally, I would worry that the product should not have gotten past the testing stage, because clearly it causes some sort of serious damage to the nervous system or motor control centers of the brain. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6357 "2025-03-20T14:28:33Z")
That reminds me of [the “Skittles pox” commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW03n1Osz5I). I’d see it and couldn’t help but wonder why someone would want to cast their candy product as a contagious skin disease. Ewww. But it ran long enough that I guess they must have considered it effective. But me? Ewww. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6358 "2025-03-20T14:33:46Z")
> [@solost](#): > > causes her shoulders to start shaking back and forth. OMG - I hate that one also! I had no idea what the conversation was since, again, I keep sound off, but it’s _stooooooopit_ beyond words! ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6359 "2025-03-20T14:48:20Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > That reminds me of [the “Skittles pox” commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW03n1Osz5I). I’d see it and couldn’t help but wonder why someone would want to cast their candy product as a contagious skin disease. Ewww. But it ran long enough that I guess they must have considered it effective. But me? Ewww. I actually like that series of Skittles commercials! I read somewhere that they were part of an ad effort to get through to a jaded young audience who’s seen it all when it comes to advertising; by making commercials so surreally absurd that they couldn’t be ignored. Another in that series of surreal Skittles commercials that I found amusing was one in which a guy working in a warehouse drops his Skittles into an open 55 gallon drum of acid. He reaches one arm way down into the barrel to try to retreive them, and when he brings his arm out, he sees that it’s been completely dissolved to almost the shoulder. He shrugs, then sticks his other arm in… ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6360 "2025-03-20T14:52:04Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Another in that series of surreal Skittles commercials that I found amusing was one in which a guy working in a warehouse drops his Skittles into an open 55 gallon drum of acid. He reaches one arm way down into the barrel to try to retreive them, and when he brings his arm out, he sees that it’s been completely dissolved to almost the shoulder. He shrugs, then sticks his other arm in… I don’t remember that one, but I like the concept. Especially considering that we can assume the Skittles were dissolved as well, so there’s nothing left to reach for. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6361 "2025-03-20T14:52:36Z")
Basically saying the product induces suicidal stupidity, then. Dude, they’re GONE. Get another pack. They’re hardly ultra-rare or super-expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6362 "2025-03-20T15:12:57Z")
Re Wolf Out: I ‘watch’ a lot of TV with my face buried in a tablet so I hear a lot more than I see, and sometimes you mishear things not seeing the video that goes with the words. For weeks I thought they were singing “…Balls Out…” until I actually watched the commercial and saw the wolf at the same time. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6363 "2025-03-20T15:38:22Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > That reminds me of [the “Skittles pox” commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW03n1Osz5I). I just rewatched that. Still holds up! I love the little touches, like the audible ‘pop’ sound when she pulls a Skittle off the guy’s face. > [@dirtball](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Another in that series of surreal Skittles commercials that I found amusing was one in which a guy working in a warehouse drops his Skittles into an open 55 gallon drum of acid. > > I don’t remember that one, but I like the concept. I just found the [acid barrel commercial](https://youtu.be/2q_o1fIBzhQ). Except I misremembered- it’s not Skittles, it’s a _Starburst_ commercial, and it’s even sillier than I remember-- after the one guy gets both his arms dissolved, his buddy rolls up his sleeve and sticks his arm in. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6364 "2025-03-20T15:51:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I just found the [acid barrel commercial](https://youtu.be/2q_o1fIBzhQ). Okay, yeah, I like that one. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6365 "2025-03-20T15:57:45Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Gatopescado](#): > > > > In a similar crossing of the lines of decency, Fresh Pet is trying to induce me to buy their dog food with insinuated Mob Violence/Murder. > > Yeah, I thought that commercial was pretty WTF as well. The whole series is pretty WTF. [Calling a rabbit a “smeerp”](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallARabbitASmeerp) does not mean that rabbit has actually become a smeerp and dog food does not magically become something else by insisting on a particular name for it. It’s still food for a dog, or “dog food”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=317) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=319)