# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/641 "2018-11-23T22:22:24Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > All of the ancestry (and similar) commercials are awful. > But the one with Kelly Ripa saying “I found out that I’m 75% Italian!” is stupid in its own way - because that means that 3 of her 4 grandparents were Italian, which I cannot imagine that she did not know - but it’s presented as a Brand! New! Discovery! > > Also, she’s really annoying. Yeah, she is pretty annoying. But it’s not necessarily the case that 3 of her 4 grandparents had to be Italian, for her to be 75% Italian. There _are_ scenarios in which this information could have been a genuine surprise to Ripa. For example, it could be the case that all of her 16 great-great grandparents were 75% Italian, but none of them knew that. (Maybe each of them had an Italian mother and a half-Italian father whose last name wasn’t Italian, and no one ever talked about the Italian heritage.) As the decades went by, no one in any succeeding generation was aware of the family history. Unlikely, maybe. But possible. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/642 "2018-11-24T02:32:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > New Ford ad where they drive out into the forest, despoil the environment and steal a tree from all Americans. Impressive hatchet skills though, butt end looked perfectly sawn when she was done :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/643 "2018-11-24T02:40:16Z")
all the car commericals where they give and get cars for xmas …… ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/644 "2018-11-24T13:00:02Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > all the car commericals where they give and get cars for xmas …… However, the woman who picks “his” black truck over “her” red SUV is a real cutie. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/645 "2018-11-24T13:02:39Z")
And the smarmy people in the Peloton commercials piss me off. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/646 "2018-11-24T17:38:18Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > And the smarmy people in the Peloton commercials piss me off. I guess if you can afford to live in an apartment with a breathtaking glass box window overlooking the city below, you can afford a Peloton. And if you live in that apartment, you dam well better be peddling on it day and night to keep your svelte figure. No workaday fatsos allowed in the glamorous Peloton world. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/647 "2018-11-24T20:31:52Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > However, the woman who picks “his” black truck over “her” red SUV is a real cutie. Linky? ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/648 "2018-11-24T20:41:59Z")
[Here you go](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d09Z/gmc-black-friday-event-one-for-you-one-for-me-t2). ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/649 "2018-11-24T20:52:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I await the day when the first ad shows us an emerging turd. That’s when I go full-time cable streaming. Coincidentally, so do they. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/650 "2018-11-24T21:44:28Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > all the car commericals where they give and get cars for xmas …… This. While we’re at it, all holiday oriented commercials too. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/651 "2018-11-24T22:10:11Z")
I wonder if that’s really leslie mann’s daughter in the Jürgen’s commercials …. because she sells the "yes I know my moms a nut bucket " really well ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/652 "2018-11-24T22:26:03Z")
Yes, it’s her daughter. The cast for [this commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dGjo/jergens-wet-skin-moisturizer-locked-featuring-leslie-mann) is Leslie Mann and Maude Apatow (Leslie Mann is married to Judd Apatow). ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/653 "2018-11-25T01:58:58Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > This. While we’re at it, all holiday oriented commercials too. The Hershey Kisses commercial (the one with the Kisses acting as bells) is cute though. One holiday-themed ad I missed this year: the Allstate turkey fryer fire commerical. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/654 "2018-11-25T02:53:51Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The Hershey Kisses commercial (the one with the Kisses acting as bells) is cute though. It’s not Christmas season 'til I see the Hershey kisses one. 🙂 Another I like, that unfortunately hasn’t been used for years: Santa dancing with his reindeers: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NB_QqcKGk-I/hqdefault.jpg "WGBH-2 Boston - 12/15/87 - Ads + Sign-off (Christmas Collection Vol. 8)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_QqcKGk-I) ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/655 "2018-11-25T05:23:32Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > And the smarmy people in the Peloton commercials piss me off. Especially the one where the woman finishes her workout and has an almost orgasmic look on her face. Then it cuts to the 4 year old daughter who is mimicking the look. Dennis ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/656 "2018-11-25T05:47:54Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > all the car commericals where they give and get cars for xmas …… Mercedes has one where Santa has to stop to let a puppy drop a deuce. However, they show the car skidding to a stop in the snow to allow the dog out. What kind of shit Anti-lock Brake system do these expensive imports have? 😕 And secondary, dogs can’t wipe their ass, so as soon as that dog jumps back into the car, those nice leather seats become de-fact dog ass-wipe. Just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/657 "2018-11-25T05:53:23Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Mercedes has one where Santa has to stop to let a puppy drop a deuce. However, they show the car skidding to a stop in the snow to allow the dog out. > > What kind of shit Anti-lock Brake system do these expensive imports have? 😕 > > And secondary, dogs can’t wipe their ass, so as soon as that dog jumps back into the car, those nice leather seats become de-fact dog ass-wipe. Just sayin’… I’ve never owned a dog, but I always assumed that a healthy dog defecates cleanly; otherwise, every dog-owning household would have that same problem. I have never heard of any dog owner wiping their dog’s ass. If I am wrong, may I never visit a dog-owning household again. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2018, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/658 "2018-11-26T03:45:51Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > If I am wrong, may I never visit a dog-owning household again. Trust me. You really don’t want to. Filthy people. I know times four. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/659 "2018-11-26T03:53:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’ve never owned a dog, but I always assumed that a healthy dog defecates cleanly; otherwise, every dog-owning household would have that same problem. I have never heard of any dog owner wiping their dog’s ass. If I am wrong, may I never visit a dog-owning household again. Some long haired dogs get feces stuck. But it’s not common. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/660 "2018-11-26T04:31:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Mercedes has one where Santa has to stop to let a puppy drop a deuce. However, they show the car skidding to a stop in the snow to allow the dog out. > > What kind of shit Anti-lock Brake system do these expensive imports have? 😕 > > And secondary, dogs can’t wipe their ass, so as soon as that dog jumps back into the car, those nice leather seats become de-fact dog ass-wipe. Just sayin’… I’m willing to assume that puppies left by Santa Claus are able to wipe their own asses and are able to use the toilet (and not as a drinking bowl). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=34)