# 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:** 322
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6426 "2025-04-26T13:14:32Z")
I haven’t read this whole long thread, so apologies if it has already been mentioned. Nothing makes me change the channel faster than people spraying or rubbing deodorant in their pits or buttcrack or down the front of their pants. In the case of pits, they’re sticking their underarms right up close to the camera, and it makes me want to heave. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6427 "2025-04-26T13:23:29Z")
It makes no sense because deodorant on privates is useless after nature takes its course. Armpits are one thing, but after you poop or pee, applying spring-time-fresh deodorant on beforehand renders it useless. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6428 "2025-04-26T13:25:40Z")
The interwebs know that I’ve reached my dotage, so my YouTube videos are usually preceded by various tour ads with pudgy old white women trudging down cobblestone streets, or watching exotic locals twirl around or trying their hand at making pottery. One company claims you can “make lifelong connections” 🙄 ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6429 "2025-04-26T16:02:04Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Nothing makes me change the channel faster than people spraying or rubbing deodorant in their pits or buttcrack or down the front of their pants. As much hate as the Lume commercials get here, there’s one where she talks about applying it to the butt. When she says, “I will demonstrate; just kidding, I won’t,” it always makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6430 "2025-04-26T17:10:45Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _In west Philadelphia born and raised_ > _On the playground was where I spent most of my days…_ > > But still- not everyone saw that Sitcom. I’ve never seen a single episode, but I could recite most of the theme. In fact, there are a lot of shows like that. Someone said, in a meeting, “That might solve a mystery.” I immediately whispered _“Or rewrite history…”_ (“Duck Tales. whoo-hoo…”) Again, never watched the show, just heard the song a couple times and it stuck in my head. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6431 "2025-04-26T17:40:00Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > It makes no sense because deodorant on privates is useless after nature takes its course. Armpits are one thing, but after you poop or pee, applying spring-time-fresh deodorant on beforehand renders it useless. You do know one doesn’t apply it internally, right? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6432 "2025-04-26T17:48:23Z")
May modern science prevail where Benjamin Franklin came a cropper? “To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix’d with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes.” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6433 "2025-04-26T18:09:09Z")
Of course not! Why would I think that?? .. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6434 "2025-04-26T18:33:58Z")
That came out snarky, sorry. I guess I don’t understand what peeing or pooping has to do with it, smell wise(now there’s a sentence!). I don’t want to get into TMI, but it’s supposed to be applied on the outside, away from any orifices. It’s not clear how bodily functions would cancel out its effects. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6435 "2025-04-26T18:34:54Z")
I hate the BaJit ads for so many reasons: 1. Smarmy Fuck and his entitled brat are “going to miss the big game” (what? Don’t own a Goddamn TV?) because their private jet is broken. Boo-Fuckin’-Hoo. 2. ShitHook John Elway shows up and says they can ride with him! 3. He then proceeds to leave them on some deserted runway instead of take the limo waiting for him. I mean, you’re obviously going to the same game. What? Plane ride okay, but no limo for you! Makes no sense. 4. “Call for a complementary flight”. Right. My Dying Ass! Ain’t never gonna happen. Who the fuck is this ad targeting? What percentage of people are hiring private jets to bop around? And are they really watching Discovery Channel on a Friday night? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6436 "2025-04-26T19:55:59Z")
Yeah, but…it depends on where you apply it. Come out of the shower, apply to your armpits or underboobs. Now, you are not suppose to put it inside any orifices, but it is suggested around the general area., Some might be in a hurry and just rub it around their sphincter or labia, to be more specific. This is a bad idea! but it can happen… When they pee or poop and wipe, the area is compromised. Whatever deodorant was applied won’t keep working if now besmirched with traces of bodily waste. See what I mean? So why apply it there at all? It seems wasteful and useless…Yikes, I think I’m done here! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6437 "2025-04-26T20:27:23Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix’d with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes.” If you take chlorophyll your Bowel Movements and gas wont smell as bad. But not like perfume. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6438 "2025-04-26T20:35:00Z")
Is that common knowledge, or the result of weird studies? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6439 "2025-04-26T20:40:05Z")
> **[Chlorophyllin: Is it Effective Odor Control? - IFFGD](https://iffgd.org/manage-your-health/diet-and-treatments/chlorophyllin-for-odor-control/)** > > Odor is what informs those around you that you have a problem with your bowel or bladder control. It is what forces the incontinent person to become isolated and avoid others. _In the absence of such needed scientific proof, it can at least be said that chlorophyllin, taken as a tablet, has been extensively used in the past to treat fecal and urinary odor. I_ ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6440 "2025-04-26T21:44:31Z")
I just saw Ty Burrell on a credit card commercial, and man, does he look awful. Clearly it’s not just women who overdo it with the plastic surgery. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6441 "2025-04-26T22:02:43Z")
Is he wanting to appear less Frankensteinian? ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6442 "2025-04-29T00:25:45Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > Nothing makes me change the channel faster than people spraying or rubbing deodorant in their pits or buttcrack or down the front of their pants. And the FEET!!! Look, I’m not here to kink-shame, but it’s clear that the people behind some of these commercials have a fondness for feet, given the number of times they’re thrust into the camera. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6443 "2025-04-29T00:59:03Z")
It’s not meant to eliminate odor from poop/pee. This may or may not apply to you but people often sweat wherever they have skin touching skin . Could be underboob , could be a hanging belly or in the groin between the legs and genitals or the buttcrack.And that sweat can smell. As bad as armpits. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6444 "2025-04-29T06:09:40Z")
So you’re saying these commercials were directed by my favorite cat? It kind of makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6445 "2025-04-29T06:23:29Z")
I read more research is needed as to whether this is effective in most folks. I don’t wanna be swallowing loads of tablets when I can buy effective topicals. Prefer a pink tongue. I don’t like stinky things anymore that the next person. Constantly trying mitigate it myself…but we smell. Certain times there will be odors. The world is stinko. It just is. Get a baby, human or animal. Won’t matter. You’ll smell things you won’t believe. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=323)