# 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:** 340
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6787 "2025-08-08T17:30:23Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It pushes the cup of mushroom-infused coffee towards her, I have not seen that ad yte, but mushroom coffee is only a maybe, > **[Mushroom coffee: Worth a taste? - Harvard Health](https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/mushroom-coffee-worth-a-taste)** > > What is mushroom coffee and what are its potential health benefits? Does it have any downsides? And is it worth the extra cost?... _Maybe. There are many health benefits associated with mushrooms. According to a [recent review](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10384337/) published in the journal Molecules, medicinal mushrooms popular in many fungi-infused coffee blends do have immune-boosting properties and may help regulate metabolism. And, thanks to high antioxidant activity, medicinal mushrooms may also help slow down the aging process._ _But again, well-designed clinical trials on humans are lacking. And none of that research was conducted on mushroom coffee, so there’s no guarantee that any health benefits will be retained after the mushrooms are processed and blended into coffee drinks._ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6788 "2025-08-08T18:23:52Z")
You see strange creatures if you take these mushrooms. Got it. Far too many commercials boil down to “Our spokescritter is an idiot. You are an idiot. Get the connection. Buy our product.” ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6789 "2025-08-08T18:35:21Z")
I’d continue to drink coffee, and that thing would go straight into a desktop terrarium where it could entertain me with its frantic attempts to escape. ---
**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 8, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6790 "2025-08-08T18:38:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ryze Mushroom Coffee. I could have sworn I posted about this commercial; but, now that I think about it, it was probably in the ‘commercials you don’t hate’ thread. We don’t hate it. We think it’s cute. I find it amusing because the little Mushroom Girl is brewing the corpses of her own kind for the woman to consume. I really need to pull _Matango_ (1963) off the shelf and watch it again. ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6791 "2025-08-08T19:35:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I really need to pull _Matango_ (1963) off the shelf and watch it again. One of Ishiro Honda’s (_Gojira, Rodan, Mothra_, etc.) lesser-known films. Because I had a persistent fungal infection, my IM sports jersey bore the name “Matango”. Nobody got the joke. Some thought I’d misspelled “Mandingo” ---
**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 8, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6792 "2025-08-08T19:42:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > One of Ishiro Honda’s (_Gojira, Rodan, Mothra_, etc.) lesser-known films. I’ve loved it (under the name _Attack Of The Mushroom People_) since I saw it on TV when I was a kid. ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6793 "2025-08-12T02:46:09Z")
Just saw one for Cheez It Snap’d snacks. From their website: > Made with 100% real cheese. Sounds good, only… > Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin B1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin B2 [riboflavin], folic acid), soybean oil (with TBHQ for freshness), modified corn starch, dried potatoes, white cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes). Contains 2% or less of salt, oat fiber, sugar, cheddar cheese (milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), monosodium glutamate, whey, onion powder, sour cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), lactic acid, citric acid, buttermilk, dextrose, paprika extract color, annatto extract color, soy lecithin, garlic powder, cultured nonfat milk, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, natural flavor, turmeric extract color. Yeah… No thanks. [I’ll stick with these](https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/oven-baked-cheese-bites-057243). > - SEMI AGED CHEESE (MILK, SALT, VEGETABLE RENNET) > - GRANA PADANO CHEESE (MILK, SALT, EGG LYSOZYME, ANIMAL RENNET) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6794 "2025-08-12T04:43:54Z")
Crack. They never list crack. That is the only thing that can explain the addictive nature of Cheez-it.Snap’d white cheddar. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6795 "2025-08-21T03:25:24Z")
My YouTube ads always seem to include a PSA about adopting teenagers. Not a decision to be made lightly, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6796 "2025-08-21T16:36:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Sounds good, only… _white cheddar cheese, cheddar cheese_ ---
**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 21, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6797 "2025-08-21T17:10:15Z")
Made _with_; not ‘of’. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6798 "2025-08-21T17:37:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@CalMeacham](#): > > > > One of Ishiro Honda’s (_Gojira, Rodan, Mothra_, etc.) lesser-known films. > > I’ve loved it (under the name _Attack Of The Mushroom People_) since I saw it on TV when I was a kid. Yes. I was wondering it this Matango was the movie I was thinking about. A real hoot. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6799 "2025-08-23T16:30:26Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Yeah, I immediately figured anything named 4Patriots was a useless scam. They also sell shelf stable food supplies apparently. Jeez. Now they’re promoting their food supplies with AI Noah’s Ark. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pGEK6FXGcCk/maxresdefault.jpg "4Patriots - Noah's Ark - 4WK BOGO") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGEK6FXGcCk) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6800 "2025-08-23T16:53:00Z")
Just how many jingles and mascots does New Jersey Mutual need to tell me that they don’t have jingles or mascots? And past couple of days, I’m getting something with an apparently-naked woman (she’s covered in suds) in a bathtub in the middle of a football stadium, something about a Game-Day Guarantee. I think it’s for a sports betting scam? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6801 "2025-08-28T18:40:11Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/g_ASIy7ctm8/maxresdefault.jpg "HomeServe - "American Dream 2"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_ASIy7ctm8) What, you can see the broken water main from your bathroom? Do you have X-ray vision? Are you from Krypton? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6802 "2025-08-28T21:48:33Z")
Well, being aliens does explain the non-human behavior seen in many commercials.😀 ---
**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:** [August 28, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6803 "2025-08-28T23:09:41Z")
The current series of Hyundai commercials (example [here](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/TM9C/hyundai-getaway-sales-event-lay-low-t2)), featuring people who think they need to hide out because of the supposedly great price they got on their car, are _really_ annoying. ---
**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 29, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6804 "2025-08-29T11:36:03Z")
Is it just me, or does anyone else get creepy Oedipal vibes from this Nature Made vitamin commercial? It’s strongly reminding me of the infamous [Folgers brother-sister commercial](https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yudYdnCWuZg/maxresdefault.jpg "Nature Made takes care of you, so you can focus on what matters most") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yudYdnCWuZg) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6805 "2025-08-29T17:15:01Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Is it just me, or does anyone else get creepy Oedipal vibes from this Nature Made vitamin commercial? It’s not just you. It’s the first thing I thought of when I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6806 "2025-08-29T17:20:21Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Is it just me, or does anyone else get creepy Oedipal vibes from this Nature Made vitamin commercial? Yeah I posted this one upthread at some point. Agree on the creepiness, and the whole vibe of “welcome home, son! Let’s do some vitamins!” is just as weird. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=339) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=341)