# 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:** 336
**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:** [July 16, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6707 "2025-07-16T23:52:57Z")
There’s an ad for some small dog food brand. The dog lets out 2 yaps. It’s not a Chihuahua. But, to the little outlaws(chihuahuas) that live here, they think its their long lost brother or something. It causes a barking yapping funtime for them. I can’t begrudge them their joy. I’m just happy the ad doesn’t play all that much. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6708 "2025-07-17T00:42:40Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’m a welder, and I don’t even want to “Explore the Weld”. [joke about liquid penetrant inspection goes here] And I had forgotten the one about the FOR PATRIOTS! generator\* that won’t _kill your wife and kids like that damned gas generator_. \* It’s apparently a solar-powered battery. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6709 "2025-07-17T06:14:24Z")
Yeah, I immediately figured anything named 4Patriots was a useless scam. They also sell shelf stable food supplies apparently. Damn, those guys are persistent. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6710 "2025-07-17T06:32:44Z")
But its ok to drive your wife and kids around in that over-sized, over-priced gas guzzler, with crappy mufflers and a giant MAGA flag? 🤔 Yeah, 4patriot, carry on with your bad self. What a shameful joke. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6711 "2025-07-18T17:56:54Z")
Speaking of commercials that use naked appeals to patriotism to shill their wares, there’s a Ram truck commercial that’s basically “AMERICA, F\*\*K YEAH!!!” I mean, I think it’s kind of meant to be so over the top it’s tongue-in-cheek, but it’s a little hard to swallow, even allowing for some degree of irony. But here, you be the judge-- this is the long form version that has twice as much “CAN’T NOT NEVER STOP BEING AN AMERICAN RAH RAH GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH!” than what I’ve seen on TV: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/u1KC9ssyNUk/maxresdefault.jpg "Ram | Never Stop Being American | Nothing Stops Ram") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KC9ssyNUk) ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6712 "2025-07-18T20:24:31Z")
Dodge – and, by extension, Ram – commercials have been targeting those wanting to appear “macho” for a long time. To the extent of apparently giving the Dodge Brothers testosterone injections. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6713 "2025-07-19T00:30:31Z")
They’ve sure come a long way from those “Dodge, DIF-DIF-DIF-DIF-DIF-DIF-DIFFERENT” commercials from decades(?) ago. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6714 "2025-07-21T22:18:19Z")
I’ve been seeing a commercial for Aldi with the slogan “Lowest prices of amy national grocery chain.” That’s fine but thinking about it, are there many national grocery chains? Most are regional or cover only part of the country. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6715 "2025-07-21T23:01:52Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “AMERICA, F\*\*K YEAH!!!” That’s so ridiculous it makes me want to never buy a Dodge. Now this one makes me proud to be an American. But it’s so … woke! A woman battling corporate spies. And she wins! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6YIPRNRfULA/hqdefault.jpg "1969 Dodge Coronet Commercial with Joan Parker & Stu Gilliam") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YIPRNRfULA) (note for the young: that’s supposed to be reminiscent of the TV show I, Spy. And her outfit? Well, it was the 60s there, ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6716 "2025-07-21T23:12:36Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Speaking of commercials that use naked appeals to patriotism to shill their wares, there’s a Ram truck commercial that’s basically “AMERICA, F\*\*K YEAH!!!” Back when Trump was making a lot of noise about Canada becoming the 51st state, companies doing business in Canada were falling over themselves to remind Canadians that no matter where they started, or where their head offices were, they were as Canadian as maple syrup. So while Dodge is pushing American patriotism to Americans, Chrysler is reminding Canadians that it has been building cars is Canada for over a hundred years, and it’s not going anywhere. Ultimately, the same company, but two very different marketing approaches. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6717 "2025-07-24T02:57:11Z")
[Here’s an embarrassing one from AT&T](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nK4i7uX9FMc?feature=share). Oscar caliber acting, to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6718 "2025-07-24T21:07:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That’s fine but thinking about it, are there many national grocery chains? Most are regional or cover only part of the country. Walmart, Kroger, and Albertsons. The last two do use other names, like Ralphs for Kroger. There is also Costco. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6719 "2025-07-24T22:02:15Z")
Regarding Kroger, Wikipedia says, “Kroger operates 2,719 grocery retail stores under its various banners and divisions in 35 states (mostly in the South, Midwest and West) and the District of Columbia.” So not truly national. I’ll grant that Walmart, Costco and perhaps Target Stores are truly nationwide, but I don’t _primarily_ think of them as supermarkets. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6720 "2025-07-24T22:42:32Z")
Raise the Jar. Damn, I’m starting to hate Bradley Cooper _and_ his voice. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6721 "2025-07-24T22:56:37Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > [Here’s an embarrassing one from AT&T](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nK4i7uX9FMc?feature=share). Oscar caliber acting, to be sure. It’s bad, but the product seems worse! Why do we want AI everywhere? I can barely get customer service from people, AI is going to be totally useless. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6722 "2025-07-25T01:38:55Z")
Almased. In one of the testimonials, a woman identifies herself as Stephanie Phillips-Solar. The displayed name is ‘Stephanie S.’ Um… I thought you were supposed to be quasi-anonymous? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6723 "2025-07-25T06:43:40Z")
Exoticca. It’s a travel company that sells package tours. Its TV commercials are actually pretty slick. An announcer intones, “He became the director of his life,” and you think you’re watching a movie trailer, with beautiful scenery and faraway cityscapes where Our Hero finds himself. “And Exoticca made it happen. We’re a travel crafter.” Something like that. Then the company name, a website, and an 800-number. Sounds normal (and rather intriguing) so far, but what comes next is weird, and somewhat creepy. Our Hero is speaking into his smartphone. He’s obviously British, because of his accent, and what he’s saying is “Hello, Mummy … No, Mummy, it’s Exoticca … Yes, Mummy …” Dahell? You’re the “director of your own life,” but you have to keep in close touch with your Mummy while you’re doing that? I think I’ll give it a pass. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6724 "2025-07-25T12:18:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > > > [Here’s an embarrassing one from AT&T](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nK4i7uX9FMc?feature=share). Oscar caliber acting, to be sure. > > It’s bad, but the product seems worse! Why do we want AI everywhere? I can barely get customer service from people, AI is going to be totally useless. Yeah, I think it’s not so much bad acting, but a questionable product and a commercial script that’s not funny or clever. The _Office_ alumni seem a little embarrassed to be participating. In general, they’re all fine comedic actors, IMHO. But them Cali beach house mortgage payments ain’t cheap. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6725 "2025-07-25T12:36:25Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Oscar caliber acting, to be sure. (Missed edit window) Don’t know if it was intentional, but just caught this-- ‘Oscar’ caliber, heh 😆 (Oscar from _The Office_ is one of the characters in the commercial) ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6726 "2025-07-25T16:34:38Z")
In Montreal, we get the annoying “Call Dr. Kim in Saratoga” (stem cell therapy). Of course - Saratoga is 200 miles away. Four times during a half-hour news program. I haven’t seen any of his commercials on the Plattsburg NY or Burlington VT channels which would be somewhat closer to Saratoga. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=335) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=337)