# 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:** 342
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6827 "2025-09-07T19:01:31Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > Skinny Pop. I don’t have anything against Jennifer Anniston, but Skinny Pop is nasty. I tried it- it is okay. not great mind you, but tolerable. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6828 "2025-09-07T20:45:06Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > I went to high school in Sussex County. There’s a reason why I don’t want to live there now. I suspect Comcast lost it’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) when it ended last year. I don’t think it likely that it will be restarted under the current regime. Xfinity (Comcast) does have a [low-cost service](https://www.xfinity.com/learn/internet-service/acp), but how long are rural communities going to benefit from Xfinity’s largess? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6829 "2025-09-07T20:51:10Z")
I see her stupid ‘derp face’ everywhere. Why is she shilling popcorn and some kind of water, she can’t need the money. She’s worth over $300 million. I get a teeny kick out of the people asking for a taste of popcorn (or admiring it) and don’t know who she is. (which probably explains why she’s doing this stuff). ---
**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:** [September 9, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6830 "2025-09-09T01:28:50Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > There’s a stupid commercial for some stupid product (sorry I’m no help, I FF through it whenever I can) where some trump-administration-blonde woman, sitting in her car like she’s a modern influencer, goes on about her product. It came on finally. Home title protection. There are two commercials. I get the “in my car” one on TV here, but she’s even worse in the other one. I found the link in a Reddit post, and they were harder on her fake accent than I was. I swear they flipped her part, because she’s sitting on the other side of the car when I see the commercial. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MQgmLY7xBYQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Your Home Can Be Stolen?! | Protect Your Most Valuable Asset with Home Title Lock") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgmLY7xBYQ) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6831 "2025-09-09T14:41:26Z")
The Wild Wings singing buffalo. I can’t grab the remote control fast enough. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6832 "2025-09-09T15:51:23Z")
I notice this trend (both on TV and online ads) where someone is sitting in their car and talking. What is this style, some sort of “influencer” thing for Ticky-Tocky? Annoying. Yeah, yeah, get off my lawn. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6833 "2025-09-09T15:57:03Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What is this style, I don’t know, but I wish it would stop. They style seems as if it is copying something that…may never have existed? Why would anyone make a video in their car? It’s like they’re afraid their mommy will catch them. Still, I see facebook accounts where the primary photo was taken in the owner’s car as a selfie. What, you couldn’t step outside? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6834 "2025-09-09T16:02:27Z")
I’ve seen a couple like that, where the guys are wearing baseball caps and, apparently they think that the wider they grin at the camera the more persuasive they are. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6835 "2025-09-10T00:22:13Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What is this style, some sort of “influencer” thing for Ticky-Tocky? I’m just glad the advertisers seem to have _finally_ gotten away from that stupid forward motion-reverse motion-forward motion-reverse motion gimick. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6836 "2025-09-10T13:27:07Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It came on finally. Home title protection. There are two commercials. I get the “in my car” one on TV here, but she’s even worse in the other one. A couple of days ago, I think I noticed something. Does the woman sound like a Brit who’s trying to do an American accent? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6837 "2025-09-10T13:56:17Z")
The problem I have is that she’s pretending to be a 20-something “influencer”… the last person someone would ask for advice on mortgages/titles. And the last person that the demographic they’re targeting (Seniors paranoid about the title on their home) would take seriously. I swear, I could spend 40 hrs a week just compiling clips of “Advertisers not understanding their audience”. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6838 "2025-09-10T13:56:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There’s some sort of fraud-protection commercial that claims that it is easy to figure out your SSN. The first three digits are based on your state of birth. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > Also, the first three digits of your SSN are not based on your state of birth, but on the location where you applied for your SSN. Or at least that was the original policy; I believe in later years that changed, particularly when they started assigning SSNs at birth. [And the geographical significance of the first three digits is no longer an issue as of 25 June 2011.](https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html) They’ve been randomized. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6839 "2025-09-10T15:27:01Z")
I used to work for SSA, and before I retired they had been talking about randomizing the number assignments. I remember getting a case where an immigrant family was assigned SSNs and while the first five numbers were all the same, the last four digits were random to avoid possible future confusion. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6840 "2025-09-10T15:38:18Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I remember getting a case where an immigrant family was assigned SSNs and while the first five numbers were all the same, That was a plot point in an older cop show. A family of different ages all had sequential SSNs. It was a clue they had been given new IDs, possibly by witness relocation program. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6841 "2025-09-12T03:50:41Z")
Plexaderm calls itself ‘Confidence in a Bottle’. I thought ‘Confidence in a Bottle’ was tequila. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6842 "2025-09-18T15:00:24Z")
An I missing something with the Mint Mobile commercial where everyone is pretending to text from empty phone cases? ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6843 "2025-09-18T17:09:09Z")
There’s a series of Mazda commercials with a similar theme: a young woman visits a relative in her new Mazda suv. The relative always asks skeptically, “Mazda?” At this point the woman answers: “Mazda”, but always in a weird, apologetic way. Usually IRL, people are enthused about their new vehicles. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6844 "2025-09-18T19:04:33Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The middle two, they say, are derived by adding 44 to your birth year. Um… no. The middle numbers are the “group number” and are issued following a somewhat complex scheme that uses several odd numbers, then several even numbers, etc, in a specified order. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6845 "2025-09-18T19:08:05Z")
One interesting commercial uses a big, green “sunflower man” that looks like Groot’s cousin. The actress sits down next to him and shyly reaches around and puts her hand on his butt. Or whatever a 7 foot tall sunflower man has back there. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6846 "2025-09-19T06:55:49Z")
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