# 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:** 339
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6767 "2025-08-06T15:22:25Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > There’s a several-minute commercial they run a lot on my L&O rerun channels, and it’s made to look like a segment of some daytime TV. The “hostess” says “You know those products, that are they say make you look younger? Well Jane here is going to tell us why…(dramatic pause) this one’s for real.” > [@Biggirl](#): > > “Look at my ugly dad! He’s not a model– well he is modeling this crap– I for real am a newscaster/scientist!” I’ve seen different versions and length cuts of this commercial since I watch the on-air rerun channels too. I’ve seen one version where the one ‘hostess’ claims the guy doing the eye-bag shrink test is her father, and another version where the _same_ woman says the _same_ guy testing the product is ‘a model’. I mean, he could be her father _and_ a model, but it seems weird she claims him as her father in one version, but describes him as just some random model in another. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6768 "2025-08-06T15:30:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The “hostess” says “You know those products, that are they say make you look younger? Well Jane here is going to tell us why…(dramatic pause) this one’s for real.” > > And we cut to Jane whose first words are [tone of incredulity] “This one’s for real!” Actually I was going to bring up this commercial also! The version I see says “Annette Figueroa” is going to tell us why this one’s for real. Who TF is Annette Figueroa? I just looked her up and I still don’t know. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6769 "2025-08-06T15:38:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Who TF is Annette Figueroa? Well, with a name like that, she’s got to be…somebody! I believe her! And her dad/model. It’s for real! (Much more believable than my “Jane”) ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6770 "2025-08-06T15:43:43Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’ve read about this brouhaha and am still not at all clear what it’s all about. She says she has good jeans, which considering she is blond with natural Aryan looks, sounds like she is saying “good genes”, and this is a white supremacist code commercial. And trump loves her (probably _that_ way, too, if he had a chance), so it’s all more dog whistle from the right. I’ve never seen the comercial, and I hope I never do. If the white pride contingent thinks this validates them, what can I say? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6771 "2025-08-06T15:55:43Z")
The only thing I like about the Limu Emu commercials is the bird-brain bird, acting like a bird-brain. Pecking at mirrors in the background, for example, while his owner natters away to someone about insurance. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6772 "2025-08-06T17:14:16Z")
In our market, those “younger skin” commercials alternate with tooth whitening commercials, which are just as annoying. Notice how they say the effects last for hours, so obviously you need a stockpile a lot to last going out for an entire day. It must be addictive to see yourself without bags under your eyes, that you can’t live without the cream. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6773 "2025-08-06T17:36:21Z")
It’s a play on a Gen X meme/theme that’s going around about how back in the day, no matter what happened, that was Mom’s solution to everything, and you just kept going on with life ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6774 "2025-08-06T18:54:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I know there’s brewhaha over American Eagle commercial with Sydney Sweeney. Setting aside the controversy, I think it’s a dumb ad. It involves a pun on the word “jeans”/”genes” by saying she has “great jeans.” I know what they’re trying to say, but I think it just reminds people that Sydney Sweeney looks the way she does because of her genetics, not because of the brand of clothing she wears. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6775 "2025-08-06T19:18:07Z")
The IPhone photo edit bothers me. They draw a circle around a traffic cone or cat. One click and it’s replaced with the background. Nice feature but the commercial only shows a brief, wide shot. They don’t zoom in and show how well it edited the photo. How well will that photo print at 8x10? I know from manually editing that the complexity of the background can make deleting items easy or hard. How’s the lighting and shadows? Is there another object behind that traffic cone or cat? Li no [https://youtu.be/a6RX9kJ01Kw?si=uwnx-sHkOgi9TTGT](https://youtu.be/a6RX9kJ01Kw?si=uwnx-sHkOgi9TTGT) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6776 "2025-08-06T20:24:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I think it’s repurposed hemorrhoid cream. I am not joking. Witch Hazel ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6777 "2025-08-06T20:54:49Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The IPhone photo edit bothers me. I have three questions about the cat one: Is the cat stuffed, or alive? What kind of weird relationship do they have? Why does it look like a Wes Anderson film? ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6778 "2025-08-06T21:05:03Z")
I like most of the limu commercials, but I _love_ the one where the guy yells,” You’re just a flightless bird!” I yell it with him. OK, so I’m easily amused. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6779 "2025-08-06T21:14:13Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > In our market, those “younger skin” commercials alternate with tooth whitening commercials, which are just as annoying. Notice how they say the effects last for hours, so obviously you need a stockpile a lot to last going out for an entire day. It must be addictive to see yourself without bags under your eyes, that you can’t live without the cream. I guess I’m just an old fogey who isn’t that obsessed with my appearance. I don’t care if I have bags under my eyes, or how white my teeth are. Even if you told me that it would have 20-something women lusting after me; I don’t have the energy to keep up with them. I’d rather have something that would guarantee me the energy and lack of pain that I had in my thirties (or even forties). ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6780 "2025-08-06T21:35:29Z")
You’re not their target. They target you with Omega 3 ads. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6781 "2025-08-06T21:39:21Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > if you told me that it would have 20-something women lusting after me; I don’t have the energy to keep up with them. They have product for that, too (bluechew). And it is a horrible commercial in its own right. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6782 "2025-08-06T22:09:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > They have product for that, too (bluechew). And it is a horrible commercial in its own right. Another set of commercials that drive me up the wall. The first few ones I saw, I couldn’t figure out what the product was for. Women telling other women to buy something for their man which would make them (the women) happy. Then the ball dropped. Obviously, the only way women can be happy is if their men can “perform”. I kept wondering if “Enzyte Bob” was going to show up. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6783 "2025-08-07T00:07:59Z")
Oh, now 4Patriots has pivoted from “this gas generator will KILL YOUR FAMILY” to “this gas generator will ATTRACT THIEVES.” But no worries! They’re offering a completely silent, tactical (or was that practical? wasn’t really paying attention) solar generator cleverly stashed in a suitcase. And of course you need to hurry, because they only have 2,000 of the things. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6784 "2025-08-07T00:16:27Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > They have product for that, too (bluechew). And it is a horrible commercial in its own right. > > The first few ones I saw, I couldn’t figure out what the product was for. There was one on last night, and at first I thought it was a dog treat commercial. Blue Buffalo that’s chewy = Blue Chew. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6785 "2025-08-07T00:22:59Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Is the cat stuffed, or alive? Alive, I found the ad on YouTube. As to the rest, sorry. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > I guess I’m just an old fogey who isn’t that obsessed with my appearance. I don’t care if I have bags under my eyes, or how white my teeth are. Even if you told me that it would have 20-something women lusting after me; I don’t have the energy to keep up with them. > > I’d rather have something that would guarantee me the energy and lack of pain that I had in my thirties (or even forties). I am with you. I might possibly have enough energy for one night, but I am happily married. Knee pain, back bain, etc. And human teeth are not supposed to be white, more of a light ivory. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6786 "2025-08-08T13:59:43Z")
I’m not about to read through this thread (and ac quick “find” search found nothing), but I wanted to post about this. **Ryze Mushroom Coffee.** An unbearably cute little mushroom creature (I think Baby Groot is moonlighting under a mushroom costume) breaks into a woman’s house and starts preparing her coffee. Talk about Invasive Species! She sees this homunculus working in her kitchen and almost has a heart attack, but then the Grootlike thing falls awkwardly off the rim of the coffee cup, which makes it adorable. It pushes the cup of mushroom-infused coffee towards her, and the people who have seen this horror movie before are shouting _Don’t drink it!_, butt, of course, she does anyway. As we expected, the Mushrooms take over her mind and she starts working out in her garage and sewing compulsively and dancing with the kid next door (the little mushroom sprite follows her moves, adorably). The woman looks at her neighbor putting out his garbage, an the mushroom goes over to his house, slipping under the garage door before it closes, signaling to the woman by turning its head sideways (an action she duplicates). _We’re going to infect another one_ is the implication, and the invasion of suburbia continues. It’s like all those versions of _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_, but this time the invaders have learned their lesson– you can get away with it, and even get the people to participate in their own destruction if you’re Cute Enough. Of course, I’m immune. I hate coffee. And I’m only kinda fond of mushrooms. I thin when everyone else gets converted they’ll make the possessed humans come after me. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKuoQst174](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKuoQst174) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=338) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=340)