# 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:** 329
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6566 "2025-05-30T13:43:20Z")
I would have done anything to have magical Kit Kat thugs show up to clean my son’s room when he was young. ---
**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 30, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6567 "2025-05-30T13:51:52Z")
I would have liked to have magical Kit Kat thugs make my kids _do their own chores_. I wonder if it works in the other direction? The dad breaks out his own Kit Kat and says “two can play this game”. His own magical Kit Kat thugs appear and say “yo, break time’s _ **over** _!” ---
**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:** [May 31, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6568 "2025-05-31T20:40:19Z")
Is it just me or is the guy filling up his car acting like he’s taking a leak? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V-6gknKhqy4/maxresdefault.jpg "Let's Ride | Progressive Insurance Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6gknKhqy4&t=21) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6569 "2025-05-31T23:49:03Z")
Kinda. Sure. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6570 "2025-06-01T00:52:09Z")
2 things. The _Dudewipes_ ad..where the men are running around dropping their trousers. Ugh. And, a bulbhead ad about the _Giddy-up_ grill scrubber thing.. it’s irritating all on its own, but this one ad they’ve jumped on the “hurry before the tariffs hit” train. Better hurry, same ad has been playing for a couple years, now it costs more, but you better hurry. Tariffs raising prices? Maybe, but you’ve beat the horse to the finish line and already raised prices. I’ve noted this product because I’ve watched it. I was thinking it would make a good tool for artificially aging some wooden items.(think shabby chic style, yeah, yeah, yeah 🤨…there was a time…). I don’t know if other bulbhead or As seen on TV stuff ads are doing this. (I’m watching you Sink Mermaid!) ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6571 "2025-06-01T03:03:12Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Is your wife my husband? ETA-- He also believes he cleans the dishes much better than any machine can. Do not disabuse him of this notion 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6572 "2025-06-01T04:55:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > (When did Families of Bears get houses, anyway?) Uh, before Goldilocks. > [@DaveUnknown](#): > > 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? Brand Power is an advertising hub. They get paid by the companies to make “informative” advertising. That is actually the kind of advertising people request, something that explains the virtues of a product, not selling hype. I put informative in quotes, because ads like the cited one sounds like they don’t know shit. I _think_ they are trying to target people who wash/rinse by hand, then load in the dishwasher until they have a full load, but they don’t say it that way. They come off as dumber than the people they are trying to sell to. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6573 "2025-06-01T05:50:28Z")
I play solitaire with a deck of cards. Then the only ads I get are from the TV. I used to keep a running tally how many times I beat the deck. But it seemed pointless. So I’m not keeping score and if I wanna cheat?, I resist, I tell you what!! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6574 "2025-06-01T14:02:00Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Do not disabuse him of this notion Why not? He CANNOT clean the dishes better than the dishwasher and wastes water and Dawn washing them before putting them in the dishwasher to be washed again. I think he does it so he doesn’t have to do the dishes at all. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6575 "2025-06-01T23:21:44Z")
Hey, at least he’s doing them, that’s the way I see it 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6576 "2025-06-03T22:52:20Z")
There’s a new one we started seeing today. It’s for an anti-chafe stick called Megababe. It features very overweight women in short skirts applying it to their upper thighs. Yeah, just hoist that leg up and start rubbin’ away! The ass deoderant commercials are bad enough. This one is worse. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6577 "2025-06-04T13:04:14Z")
There are lots of AI ads between levels of my Google Play games. The latest ads are pushing chair yoga, with “women” who apparently love the program. When you watch them with the sound off, you notice things like unnatural and repeated head movement, expressions that don’t change, and in one case, a woman without a navel. There are some others where the woman speaking doesn’t seem to breathe - you see no movement of her chest as she speaks - or the one who appears to inhale deeply, continues to speak, then exhales everything she inhaled - creepy. And there are the ads that begin “I’m a neurologist..” followed by a lecture on why playing a certain mah johgg game or word game will help you sleep better and cure your impending dementia - those are definitely AI. So, will people who aspire to act in commercials be put out of work?? Oh, the humanity!!! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6578 "2025-06-04T17:04:54Z")
I’ve been seeing massive numbers of ads that seem to imply that a tablespoon of cinnamon a night will melt off the pounds. (I play with sound off, and never click on the ad, so I don’t know the details.) Seemingly, cardiologists say this - why I’d listen to a cardiologist about diet advice is beyond 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:** [June 4, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6579 "2025-06-04T17:18:56Z")
I’ve been seeing massive numbers of ads that seem to imply that they can offer sound financial advice in a world that the orange asshole has turned upside down. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6580 "2025-06-04T17:24:29Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Seemingly, cardiologists say this - why I’d listen to a cardiologist about diet advice is beyond me. My cardiologist gives me diet/nutrition advice. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6581 "2025-06-04T17:49:23Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > My cardiologist gives me diet/nutrition advice. Does it involve cinnamon? And mine does not. Anyhow, this stuff is about toning up your body. Not the standard nutrition advice which I’m sure cardiologists transmit but don’t develop. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6582 "2025-06-04T17:52:47Z")
Is that what they’re saying? That eating a little cinnamon will _tone_ your body? How stupid. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6583 "2025-06-04T18:02:50Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I’ve been seeing massive numbers of ads that seem to imply that a tablespoon of cinnamon a night will melt off the pounds. (I play with sound off, and never click on the ad, so I don’t know the details.) Oh, that’s so yesterday. As I said earlier, the ads I get now on YT say I should be consuming a big ol’ bowl of pink salt, apple cider vinegar and ice. At least that’s how they’re preparing it at the beginning of the commercial. I haven’t seen the end of it, so I have no idea how they plan to make money off of this advertisement. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6584 "2025-06-04T18:17:47Z")
That’s the best I can guess with the sound off - one had cinnamon in the text. Anyhow, if I was making up advice from doctors, I’d probably make the unnamed doctors nutritionists. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6585 "2025-06-04T20:24:02Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I’ve been seeing massive numbers of ads that seem to imply that a tablespoon of cinnamon a night will melt off the pounds. It does help with inflammation. But there are side effects if one (as many Americans do) decides that if a teaspoon is good, then two tablespoons are better!??? 🙄 No more than half a teaspoon, more can lead to liver damage, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=328) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=330)