# 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:** 326
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6506 "2025-05-21T13:52:16Z")
Ah, I hate that. I even think about it during the Subaru ad with the golden retriever family, when the little pup in the back seat insists on seeing his music video. Some of the best times me and my kids ever had were singing together in the car, or listening to an audiobook together. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6507 "2025-05-21T13:54:26Z")
Yebbut - you can only listen to The Wiggles so many times. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6508 "2025-05-21T14:00:59Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > Outback Steakhouse: A voice yelps ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ and the three knuckleheads eating their Outback cuisine yelp back in unison ‘Oy Oy Oy’. 😡 Not that one expects a genteel dining experience at Outback. A moot point since ours went out of business. Me from last March 😆: “Commercial for Outback Stikehouse. For some reason a table of morans yell in unison: “Oy oy oy!”. Now, I don’t know if Australians do this for real, but we don’t need it in America. We already have plenty of annoying traits. Thanks!” ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6509 "2025-05-21T14:52:16Z")
> [@digs](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > I didn’t have to watch it to know I hated Ferris Bueller. > > But the movie’s really about Cameron… Are you in the ‘Ferris Bueller was actually Cameron’s Tyler Durden’ camp? 😁 ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6510 "2025-05-21T14:58:11Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Are you in the ‘Ferris Bueller was actually Cameron’s Tyler Durden’ camp? I recognize all of these words individually. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6511 "2025-05-21T15:01:43Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > > > I didn’t have to watch it to know I hated Ferris Bueller. > > > > But the movie’s really about Cameron… > > Are you in the ‘Ferris Bueller was actually Cameron’s Tyler Durden’ camp? 😁 I am now. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6512 "2025-05-21T15:47:51Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > Are you in the ‘Ferris Bueller was actually Cameron’s Tyler Durden’ camp? > > I recognize all of these words individually. There’s a school of thought or fan theory that Cameron actually imagined Ferris Bueller, who acted as his Id personified, just like Tyler Durden in the movie Fight Club. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6513 "2025-05-21T16:05:42Z")
Must be too much Fosters beer consumed…🤣 ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6514 "2025-05-21T16:37:14Z")
Fosters is to authentic Aussie beer as Outback is to authentic Aussie restaurants. I’ve heard that Australians refer to Fosters as 'kangaroo piss" 😆 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6515 "2025-05-21T16:44:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Ah, I hate that. I even think about it during the Subaru ad with the golden retriever family, when the little pup in the back seat insists on seeing his music video. Some of the best times me and my kids ever had were singing together in the car, or listening to an audiobook together. Sure on long car trips with small kid(s) you might need to plug them into a game. But my ad had older kids and even Mom plugged in. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6516 "2025-05-21T17:16:49Z")
Every time I see that toilet paper commercial with the bears - the one where the boy bear comes home from school and the mom bear says, “hold it right there mister!”, and then she goes on about clean bottoms - the only thing I can think about is what kind of twisted woman is this who immediately checks her children’s assholes for cleanliness when they come in from the world. That boy bear is going to grow up to be a serial killer, mark my words. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6517 "2025-05-21T22:58:38Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > is what kind of twisted woman is this who immediately checks her children’s assholes for cleanliness when they come in from the world. > > That boy bear is going to grow up to be a serial killer, mark my words. Yep. It started out with the old Jokes- “Do bears shit in the woods?”- then they went way too far. Same with the progressive ads- from cute to creepy. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6518 "2025-05-22T06:56:53Z")
Oh good. Now I’ll be sure to not hang Charmin paper on the tree trunks, in my woods, since obviously the Bears poop in their house. (When did Families of Bears get houses, anyway?) ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6519 "2025-05-22T13:26:26Z")
I wish commercials would stop ruining great old tunes! There’s a commercial for a drug to treat an eye disease called ‘Wet AMD’ that plays ‘Dancin’ in the Moonlight’ throughout. Hearing the list of awful possible side effects with the song playing in the background is like using the Ludovico Technique on me 😡 ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6520 "2025-05-22T13:36:02Z")
They always glom onto the earwormiest of songs. Just a lazy shortcut for the commercial makers. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6521 "2025-05-22T16:11:26Z")
Paging Goldielocks. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6522 "2025-05-22T16:31:43Z")
The Brand Power commercials for Cascade dishwasher detergent have me yelling at the TV. The problem is the premise and the target audience. The commercial has a very educational tone and is based on the premise that there are a significant number of people that don’t know what their dishwasher is or how it’s supposed to work. WTF……..is the US really populated by people that load their dishwasher AFTER they’ve washed their dishes because they really think that large object in their kitchen is a storage cabinet or a drying rack? The blond lady seems to think so, no matter how much I yell at her about no one being that stupid. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7qfwnB9MHv0/maxresdefault.jpg "Cascade Complete featured by Brand Power USA") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qfwnB9MHv0) ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6523 "2025-05-22T16:45:03Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The Brand Power commercials I’ve seen these recent “brand power” ads, but they are advertising something within an ad, usually some major company’s product. It doesn’t make sense. Cascade is it’s own brand, how is it not an ad by Cascade, or Advil, or whatever? What is “brand power” and why are they advertising for other companies? ---
**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:** [May 22, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6524 "2025-05-22T17:53:16Z")
Brand Power actually has a [website](https://www.brandpower.com/us/en/), calling itself “the world’s most trusted source of third-party shopper intel.” (I guess if you’ve never heard of Consumer Reports, UL, Good Housekeeping, _et al_.) The site is essentially a series of links to product ads. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6525 "2025-05-22T18:00:27Z")
I hate the commercials for MattressFirm. Holding up double dippers, bad drivers, and awful people on planes as advertising icons is nasty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=325) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=327)