# 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:** 348
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6947 "2025-11-28T03:12:08Z")
There’s a series of Youtube commercials that all start with “This \_\_\_\_\_\_ is going to be banned by the government next month!” The problems with that are: This commercial has been running for more than a month. Last month they were going to ban it this month. If the “government” is banning this next month, it’s probably for a very good reason. ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6948 "2025-11-28T04:21:54Z")
There’s a You Tube commercial featuring an old white haired guy who says that, even if I poop every day, I could still have 15 pounds of shit in me. I was a bit skeptical until I noticed that he had a stethoscope around his neck. ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6949 "2025-11-28T04:57:00Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > a soccer field Soccer? American football. > [@Irishman](#): > > “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. Repurposed into a song about old people waiting for death? 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6950 "2025-11-28T05:08:49Z")
I tend to blank out most commercials, but there’s a particularly annoying one doe ‘whole body deodorant’. I don’t know how long it took me to realise the singer was singing ‘a **deo** like this’ instead of ‘a **deal** like this’. Initially, I wondered what the ‘deal’ was; but I didn’t wonder too hard because I didn’t care. I hadn’t noticed that ‘deodorant’ is now too difficult for people to say, and that they were shortening it. Anyway, this commercial annoys me every time it comes on. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6951 "2025-11-28T08:07:41Z")
There’s a commercial for an eczema drug that is grossing me out. The main character is a chef and is shown scratching her itchy neck while cooking a pot of something. I imagine skin flakes floating into the mix. Then she is plating food with her bare hand. Ewww. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6952 "2025-11-28T14:37:42Z")
No, she’s obviously using a Latin loanword, and is referring to a god. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6953 "2025-11-28T14:51:37Z")
Local commercials are the absolute worst. These are both years (decades) old, but they still grind my gears just for the fact that they ever existed. Springfield, Illinois, c. 1986. Tiskos Furniture apparently thought that hiring one of the family’s young granddaughters, whose speech hadn’t fully developed, would be cute and would resonate with the good people of Spiffled. So for a few months we were all treated to commercial breaks that featured a four-year-old shouting: “Thith ith Megan Tithkith fwom Tithkith Fuwnituw!!!” Another one is of more recent vintage, also a local commercial from Springfield, Illinois. The premise is that the radio host is having a conversation with the jeweler, and they’re talking about what makes one diamond better from the other. The jeweler says that what really separates one of his diamonds from an ordinary diamond is “the _ **Fiyuh** _ (fire).” He says “fire,” and mispronounces the last syllable, with such earnestness and eagerness, like the "fiyuh” of the diamond is so spectacular that he can’t pronounce the word “fire” correctly. First of all, I find my intelligence insulted when radio commercials expect me to believe that I’m hearing an organic conversation between two people when it’s obviously an ad. Second, the way that guy pronounces “fire” is just wrong on every level. This is the Midwest; we pronounce the “-er” sound so strongly that it makes heads explode. ---
**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 28, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6954 "2025-11-28T16:30:24Z")
The Walmart Grinch commercial- is the hairdo the woman is wearing just for this commercial, or is this something I’m going to start seeing in the wild? If you haven’t seen it, she has her hair done up in two giant balls on the top of her head, similar to Mickey Mouse ears. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6955 "2025-11-28T16:41:41Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > is the hairdo the woman is wearing just for this commercial, or is this something I’m going to start seeing in the wild? The hair is supposed to invoke the hairstyles of Whoville. I’d have to pull out the book to see if that particular one is in it; but it’s definitely Who hair for the commercial. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6956 "2025-11-28T16:42:39Z")
An ad that frequently interrupts my solitaire game displays the banner headline “Hey Kids, this is advertising” WTF? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6957 "2025-11-28T16:46:53Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > If you haven’t seen it, she has her hair done up in two giant balls on the top of her head, similar to Mickey Mouse ears. I’ve seen that in the wild, mostly on African-American teenage girls. Then again, teenagers will do most any stylistic thing, so who knows if it’ll show up on anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6958 "2025-11-28T16:57:27Z")
Some local spots can be pretty good. Seattle’s Nordstrom, famous for going above and beyond, offered the service of exactly measuring for correct brassiere size. The ad was a cover of the Crickets’ “I Fought the Bra (and the Bra Won),” with the female vocalist and band from the local music scene genuinely committing to the material. ---
**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 28, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6959 "2025-11-28T17:40:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Then again, teenagers will do most any stylistic thing, so who knows if it’ll show up on anyone else. Whoever tries it will only try it once when they realize it precludes hat or hoody wearing. ---
**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 28, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6960 "2025-11-28T17:47:11Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > There’s a You Tube commercial featuring an old white haired guy who says that, even if I poop every day, I could still have 15 pounds of shit in me. I was a bit skeptical until I noticed that he had a stethoscope around his neck. I wonder if that’s the same doctor in the internet banner ads who is _begging_ the public to stop eating blueberries before it’s too late. > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > There’s a commercial for an eczema drug that is grossing me out. The main character is a chef and is shown scratching her itchy neck while cooking a pot of something. I imagine skin flakes floating into the mix. Then she is plating food with her bare hand. Ewww. “Oh, look, the entree already comes sprinkled with a generous helping of Parmesan cheese— nice presentation!” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6961 "2025-11-28T20:53:11Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Pink gym shorts, while running on a treadmill, IN HER OLD ROOM, while listening to this. In his own house. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The hair is supposed to invoke the hairstyles of Whoville. I’d have to pull out the book to see if that particular one is in it; but it’s definitely Who hair for the commercial. That film- while entertaining, is by no means great. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6962 "2025-11-28T21:04:37Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > That film- while entertaining, is by no means great. Oh, come on! How can you resist Boris Karloff? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6963 "2025-11-28T21:06:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Oh, come on! How can you resist Boris Karloff? Ah the 1966 animated version, that one was pretty damn good and a classic. But the ads are channeling the 2000 one with Jim Carey- not anywhere near as good and NOT a classic. ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6964 "2025-11-29T03:47:08Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “Oh, look, the entree already comes sprinkled with a generous helping of Parmesan cheese— nice presentation!” I just puked. ---
**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 29, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6965 "2025-11-29T19:55:47Z")
At least it wasn’t [Fromunda cheese](https://youtu.be/oEXKArTx5sw?si=B8JywV9Sh3S0TKw2&t=106) 🤮 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/6966 "2025-11-29T23:50:17Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > So for a few months we were all treated to commercial breaks that featured a four-year-old shouting: “Thith ith Megan Tithkith fwom Tithkith Fuwnituw!!!” What… no link? But come to think of it, that’s ok. Whenever we did a commercial for a local client, we stipulated up front: we will not put the owner in the ad! People mock those, or just turn them off… …and that goes double for the owner’s grandchildren! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=349)