# 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:** 319
**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, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6366 "2025-03-20T16:11:55Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Calling a rabbit a “smeerp”](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallARabbitASmeerp) does not mean that rabbit has actually become a smeerp It’s an Albany expression. ---
**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, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6367 "2025-03-20T16:47:13Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > That reminds me of [the “Skittles pox” commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW03n1Osz5I). I apologize for more Skittles foolishness, but since I went looking for the ‘acid barrel’ commercial (that turned out to actually be a Starburst commercial), I just saw this commercial for Chocolate Skittles show up in my YT feed, which I’ve never seen before, and it gave me a chuckle: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3yPaLq1EpQw/hqdefault.jpg "Skittles -- Piñata") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yPaLq1EpQw) _ **I’m just like everyone else!** _ ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6368 "2025-03-20T17:53:18Z")
> [@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. This was a commercial that actually horrified me. And that aint easy to do. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6369 "2025-03-20T19:34:51Z")
> [@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. I dunno if I _hate, hate, hate_, but I am with you- mild scents only- or none.. Maybe they think the stench of Downey will cover up their BO? > [@dirtball](#): > > Okay, yeah, I like that one. Yeah- _no._ > [@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. I like that actor and the ad, but yeah it _is dog food_. You feed it to your dog, right? Now if the complaint was “spoiling your dog by keeping the food in the fridge!!!” I could buy it. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6370 "2025-03-21T00:44:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Now if the complaint was “spoiling your dog by keeping the food in the fridge!!!” I could buy it. Heh? How is refrigerating your dog’s food spoiling them? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6371 "2025-03-21T00:49:13Z")
Well, not keeping it in the refrigerator _will_ spoil the food ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6372 "2025-03-21T00:50:39Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > Now if the complaint was “spoiling your dog by keeping the food in the fridge!!!” I could buy it. > > Heh? How is refrigerating your dog’s food spoiling them? I think the premise is that dog food that needs to be refrigerated, as opposed to just kept in a cabinet at room temperature, is “premium” and thus considered upscale. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6373 "2025-03-21T00:52:13Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Well, not keeping it in the refrigerator _will_ spoil the food I almost made that joke too. I don’t remember my old dog’s thoughts on the matter but I know my cats won’t eat anything straight out of the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6374 "2025-03-21T01:01:31Z")
My cat gets half a can of food in the morning and another half can in the evening. The morning leftovers go into the refrigerator with a plastic lid on the can, and are taken out with enough time to return to room temp before his evening meal. Occasionally I’ll forget to take the can out, and when I put the bowl of cold food on the floor he sniffs at it and glares at me before walking away. He hasn’t yet clutched his throat and made gagging noises. Yet. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6375 "2025-03-21T02:21:18Z")
Commercials for canned cat food always have the owner neatly breaking up the contents into the bowl as if a creature designed to rip flesh from bones needs help with the gelatinous canned crap. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6376 "2025-03-21T04:55:08Z")
I hate the Paypal commercial with Will Farrell at the lemonade stand. He’s not funny to begin with and in this commercial he comes off as a real butthole. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6377 "2025-03-21T06:31:13Z")
I can’t find the commercial online, probably for very good reason, but many years ago, probably ca. 2000, there was some kind of product that had a commercial that was VERY briefly in pretty heavy rotation. It showed what happened to people who didn’t use it; one man was about to be lowered headfirst into a boiling cauldron, and another person was being dragged by a horse over rocks. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6378 "2025-03-21T12:49:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > He’s not funny to begin with and in this commercial he comes off as a real butthole. The jingle annoys me the most. At least they quit running the longer version with more scenarios and the same jingle after each. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6379 "2025-03-21T12:55:42Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > > > Now if the complaint was “spoiling your dog by keeping the food in the fridge!!!” I could buy it. > > > > Heh? How is refrigerating your dog’s food spoiling them? > > I think the premise is that dog food that needs to be refrigerated, as opposed to just kept in a cabinet at room temperature, is “premium” and thus considered upscale. Freshpet isn’t even all that premium. [The Farmer’s Dog](https://www.thefarmersdog.com/digest/how-the-farmers-dog-works/) is on a higher tier – being shipped frozen direct to the human(s) – and they don’t insist on not calling their product “dog food”. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6380 "2025-03-21T14:05:22Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Will Farrell at the lemonade stand. He’s not funny to begin with and in this commercial he comes off as a real butthole. I don’t mind him as much, but whoever wrote that one wasn’t paying attention. First he calls the stand “shady”, and the kid calls him “mister”, and then he calls the kid by name, like he’s a neighbor and knows him. Continuity, people! > [@Skywatcher](#): > > The jingle annoys me the most. It’s not “a jingle”, it’s a Fleetwood Mac song with one word changed. ---
**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 21, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6381 "2025-03-21T14:48:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Skywatcher](#): > > > > The jingle annoys me the most. > > It’s not “a jingle”, it’s a Fleetwood Mac song with one word changed. Can’t it be both? > **[Jingle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle)** > > A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses. Jingles are a form of sound branding. A jingle contains one or more hooks and meanings that explicitly promote the product or service being advertised, usually through the use of one or more advertising slogans. Ad buyers use jingles in radio and television commercials; they can also be used in non-advertising contexts to establish or maintain a brand image. Many jingles are also created using snippets of popul... ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6382 "2025-03-21T15:21:26Z")
I suppose it can - but in my experience, people don’t flat out call it “a jingle” when it’s a preexisting song with possibly a couple of words changed. They are usually referred to as “used as a jingle” - even in the Wikipedia article for “Jingle” this appears > In August 2016, _[The Atlantic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic)_ reported that in the United States, the once popular jingle was now being replaced by advertisers with a mixture of older and recent [pop music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music) to make their [commercials](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement) memorable. In 1998, there were 153 jingles in a sample of 1,279 national commercials; by 2011, the number of jingles had dropped to eight jingles out of 306 commercials.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle#cite_note-4) which makes a distinction between “jingles” and the popular music that replaced them. > **[Category:Songs used as jingles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_used_as_jingles)** > > Preexisting songs used as jingles in advertising campaigns. > The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6383 "2025-03-21T15:26:21Z")
Jardiance has a jingle. Ozempic does not. ---
**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 21, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6384 "2025-03-21T15:43:51Z")
Disagree. The annoying “Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic” tune is definitely a jingle. The fact that it’s based on an old pop song is immaterial. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6385 "2025-03-21T17:40:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It’s not “a jingle”, it’s a Fleetwood Mac song with one word changed. A nit: the song was by Pilot, not Fleetwood Magic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=318) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=320)