# 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:** 347
**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:** [October 23, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6927 "2025-10-23T14:48:15Z")
There’s a commercial for some type of womens’ body deodorant spray (not Lume) that’s been getting a lot of play on The Today Show, that shows women spraying various body parts while a song goes “…all my ladies feel so confident” and then they all start dancing at the chorus “my neck, my back-- I smell so good…” So I got curious and googled “my neck my back lyrics”. Aye Caramba, the actual lyrics are _ **spicy** _! I mean like, triple X rated. I have to believe it’s the most questionable choice of a highly sexualized song to hawk a product since a cruise ship line chose Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’ to sell family cruise vacation packages. I do _ **not** _ think the execs at the the company selling the deodorant did what I did and looked into the actual song lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6928 "2025-10-24T02:12:05Z")
I beg to differ. I’m quite certain they know _exactly_ what that song is about. That’s why the ladies in the commercial want all their parts to smell nice! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6929 "2025-10-24T23:18:39Z")
The (m)ad men who sold the pitch to the client likely knew what the song was about, but I wonder if the execs on the deodorant client side who signed off on it were fully (or at all) aware of just how filthy the actual song lyrics are. It’s reminiscent of the infamous McDonalds “I’d hit it” online ad campaign. As the below article says: > It’s hard to imagine the marketing meeting where this idea got approved It was likely an instance of young ad execs thinking they were being edgy and cool, and stodgy McDonalds execs not fully realizing what “I’d hit it” actually meant. Or possibly, the ad execs themselves were out of the early 2000s hipness loop at the time. > **[McDonald’s “I’d Hit It” Campaign: The Double Cheeseburger Disaster](https://marketingmadeclear.com/mcdonalds-id-hit-it-campaign/)** > > McDonald's "I'd Hit It" Campaign > The Double Cheeseburger Disaster > In 2005, McDonald's decided to roll out a new ad for their Double Cheeseburger, thinking they had something sizzling. The ad featured a young man ogling the cheeseburger with a simple,... ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6930 "2025-11-01T18:14:57Z")
Wow, those lyrics are quite, ahem, _edgy_. Where “edgy” means downright explicitly nasty! I cuss like a sailor and I’m not embarassed easily, but I can’t believe the execs knew those lyrics. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6931 "2025-11-02T17:17:10Z")
nevermind ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6932 "2025-11-03T03:28:39Z")
Liberty and the seagulls ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6933 "2025-11-07T16:04:13Z")
Again, the Lay’s potato chip commercial, with the little kid tossing her home-grown tater into the back of the truck with the million others off to the potato chip factory. It’s being shown on tv a million times a day and I don’t hate it. But that dumb strumming guitar song! It sounds like something a 12 year old homeschooler would be playing in the church basement Homeschool Talent Show: “let’s welcome Jeremy with his original composition, ‘The Mr. Potatohead Blues!’ (yes, I know it’s got a different name , ‘All I Want Is You’.) ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6934 "2025-11-07T16:28:14Z")
Not a commercial itself, but an increasingly ubiquitous interactive feature on streaming channel subscriptions with commercials: an interface saying something like “choose your ad experience” with a few different versions of an ad. If you don’t choose, a default ad will be chosen for you, but only after a 15 second countdown timer. Here’s the thing-- this happens on Hulu a lot now. We used to pay for the commercial-free version, but when they jacked up their prices we reluctantly decided to go with the cheaper commercial version. I would just actively ignore commercials when they came on. I’d fire up my iPad and play an online game or check out the SDMB until the show started back up. But now, if I don’t pay attention and 3 commercials in a row have the ‘choose’ feature, it would add 45 seconds to the entire commercial segment. So I am forced to pay at least some degree of attention. It’s evil genius on the part of the advertiser, I admit, but it royally pisses me off. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6935 "2025-11-07T17:30:37Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > But that dumb strumming guitar song! When you look up “twee” in the dictionary, that song is the example. Was that written for the commercial, or did someone think it was actually a good idea to release it to the public? ---
**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 7, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6936 "2025-11-07T17:34:32Z")
The same thing happens when watching the free version of YouTube; an ad will appear and partway through, there will be a skip button. So I need to pay partial attention. ---
**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 7, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6937 "2025-11-07T17:41:23Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > the Lay’s potato chip commercial, with the little kid tossing her home-grown tater into the back of the truck with the million others off to the potato chip factory I like it enough that last night I grabbed a spud off the bag on the table and held it up next to hers. Never noticed the music. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6938 "2025-11-07T19:21:48Z")
I am hating the Liberty commercials so much it’s hard to get to the mute on the remote fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6939 "2025-11-07T21:04:08Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > Again, the Lay’s potato chip commercial, with the little kid tossing her home-grown tater into the back of the truck with the million others off to the potato chip factory. What gets me about this one is the implication that Frito-Lay is perfectly fine with making chips out of whatever random stuff people may toss into one of their trucks. That’s some fine quality control. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6940 "2025-11-07T21:14:06Z")
New Cold medicine drug commercial- woman is shown sniffling but “tonight is date night”, so she takes something that suppresses symptoms, but allows her to spread her disease around dozens if not more. If you are sick with the flu- **stay home**. If everyone did this, we could cut down the numbers of deaths from flu by a LOT. - last season was 24,000 people dead. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6941 "2025-11-08T16:08:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > What gets me about this one is the implication that Frito-Lay is perfectly fine with making chips out of whatever random stuff people may toss into one of their trucks. That’s some fine quality control. Usually (I hope) they would sort the incoming material at the processing plant, no? ---
**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:** [November 8, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6942 "2025-11-08T16:56:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > New Cold medicine drug commercial Isn’t this, from January, about the same commercial? > [@DrDeth](#): > > Alka selter has a new one. Young woman has date nite coming up, but had a cold or flu. So, she takes the stuff, and goes out on the date- spreading her nasty germs. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6943 "2025-11-08T20:17:08Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Isn’t this, from January, about the same commercial? Maybe, but still annoying! Good spot. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6944 "2025-11-28T01:19:13Z")
My latest… United Healthcare, an insurance company, trying to hawk Medicare Supplement plans with a Beach Boys song. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older, Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long.” That’s right, a song about horny teenagers wanting to have sex. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6945 "2025-11-28T02:39:26Z")
Pink gym shorts, while running on a treadmill, IN HER OLD ROOM, while listening to this. > **[Collective Soul - Shine (Official HD Music Video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0bI82Rz_k%2F)** > > Now in HD! The official video for "Shine" by Collective Soul, originally from the album "Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid" (1993). Stream the full al... ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6946 "2025-11-28T02:40:49Z")
I kind of like the one where Limu Emu is running around on a soccer field, with its unclothed rear end pixellated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=346) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=348)