# 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:** 35
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/681 "2018-12-01T05:53:40Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Sorry, but I see 9 Mercedes travelling at high speed on a snow covered road that slam on the brakes and all stop in a perfectly straight line. > > And dogs do not normally need to have their butts wiped. Never heard of dingleberries? “a particle of fecal matter attached to the anal hair of an animal.” I’ve seen some on our maltese that made me think for a second, did he grow a third bal… oh no! Then you chase after them and they sit down to wait for you! Yep…time to break out the scissors and do some hair trimming. :smack: Oh…it get’s better. The other dogs wonder what’s going on and try to get their noses reallll close to the action! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/682 "2018-12-01T13:18:42Z")
This [Progressive commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/w_bN/progressive-motorcycle-insurance-motormouth) with Jamie chasing the motorcycle through the desert. Why doesn’t Jamie just get on the motorcycle and ride it? And I agree with **mixdenny**. Those commercials with Peyton Manning and Brad Paisley are annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/683 "2018-12-01T17:13:12Z")
[This Babbel commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wKeF/babbel-interactive-technology) certainly hits the ground running with teh stoopid by opening with the line “Ever wonder why Europeans seem to speak so many languages?” This question is about as unchallenging as the related question “Ever wonder if this dumbass would recognize a map of Europe?” (That would be “no”.) ---
**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:** [December 2, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/684 "2018-12-02T03:58:55Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > It’s not just stupid, it’s GEICO [stupid](https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server1700/cx0g56/product_images/uploaded_images/dumdum1.png).Manning wore out his welcome with that “chicken parmy” crap. That single commercial turned me off to chicken Parmesan forever. “Chicken Parm you taste so good…” Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/685 "2018-12-02T14:27:47Z")
Why y’all hatin’ so much on Peyton? At least he’s funny unlike his brother, who is making all New York very sad. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/686 "2018-12-02T17:56:38Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Why y’all hatin’ so much on Peyton? At least he’s funny unlike his brother, who is making all New York very sad. Yea! Peyton had like one bad commercial ever. It was an early one where he came across more arrogant than clever. Fortunately, they fixed that. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/687 "2018-12-02T23:34:37Z")
Like many people I’ve always disliked the begging commercials that show you kids or animals in dire condition and ask you to hand over cash to “save” them. But the ASPCA’s latest commercials are even worse than the usual examples of the genre. In normal ‘help the animals’ commercials you see mistreated animals and assume (or at least I do) that a crime has been committed and now the animals are with people who will give them good medical care, so long as you send money to pay for it. But the ‘holiday’ ASPCA commercials focus on animals shivering in the cold. Which raises the question WHY DON’T YOU TOSS THAT POOR DOG A BLANKET, YOU FREAKING SADIST OF A PHOTOGRAPHER!!?!? It’s not suffering in the past, committed by some horrible person–it’s suffering right now, that the photographer could alleviate, but chooses not to. (I wonder if their contributions will go down as people, consciously or not, realize the difference between the two types of commercials?) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/688 "2018-12-03T21:27:31Z")
peyton manning isn’t funny in those commericals just sounds like a socially unaware hick that knows big words that shits all over special moments to sell pretty much useless (by the time they add in all the small print) insurance ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/689 "2018-12-05T05:06:14Z")
They’ve been running this [Skittles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8I6d2Axu7c&app=desktop) commercial lately. A giraffe is eating a rainbow while a man is milking it. (at least I hope that’s what he’s doing), and Skittles pour into a bucket underneath the giraffe. ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/690 "2018-12-05T11:54:31Z")
I hit mute every time the Subway commercial comes on with the annoying song about “what you want”, with the singer pronouncing “want” like " wwwwaunt". I can’t stand it. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/691 "2018-12-05T14:10:36Z")
Not so much annoying as it is odd… A local charity runs an ad every year featuring its spokesman discussing the need to provide fuel sources to those in need. This year, he’s delivering this message while wandering around a solar farm with an an axe. I half expected him to start smashing panels the first time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/692 "2018-12-05T22:42:22Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > They’ve been running this [Skittles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8I6d2Axu7c&app=desktop) commercial lately. A giraffe is eating a rainbow while a man is milking it. (at least I hope that’s what he’s doing), and Skittles pour into a bucket underneath the giraffe. Every time I see this commercial I wonder what the hell is wrong with Skittles. I see the West Indian (why?) guy eat an expressed milk (we hope!) Skittle and it makes me hork. Just as bad as the girl eating the boy’s Skittle pustules in the other vomit-worthy Skittle commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/693 "2018-12-08T00:27:09Z")
Here’s one that’s been irritating me recently. Best Buy commercial. Woman comes up to a Best Buy salesguy/concierge looking for Christmas gifts. “I’ve got a long list”, she says gaily. Woman: “My daughter is getting into gaming” Best Buy Dude: “Nintendo Switch” Woman: “My brother”. Best Buy Dude: “Mavic Drone. Guys love drones.” Da fuq? The woman has a long list and your first two suggestions total at least $900? I think I must have missed the part where she says “I’m a dot-com millionaire and I have a long list.”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/694 "2018-12-08T01:21:07Z")
At the risk of being repetitive, I really, really cannot stand that walking anorexia poster that hawks Toyotas. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/695 "2018-12-19T19:07:57Z")
I hate that [stupid French Dove commercial.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQOVZw9XJU) Since I don’t speak French it’s bad enough, but the song is so…IMPORTANT!..that it seems to be trying to hard. It insists upon itself, as they say. I don’t know the song, but it sounds incomplete. Like they took two lines in the beginning and jumped to the end. Which they did, I looked up the translation: Lines one and two No, absolutely nothing No, I regret nothing Jumping ahead one verse I don’t care about the past! I still like Dove, but they make me not want to buy them again. What does the past have to do with eating Dove now? Je ne sais pas! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/696 "2018-12-19T20:10:24Z")
New toothpaste ad where a woman is trying the “tissue test” on her teeth. Fols, your teeth are not supposed to be white. They are actually supposed to be more ivory. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/697 "2018-12-19T20:21:09Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I hate that [stupid French Dove commercial.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQOVZw9XJU) > > Since I don’t speak French it’s bad enough, but the song is so…IMPORTANT!..that it seems to be trying to hard. It insists upon itself, as they say. > > I don’t know the song, but it sounds incomplete. Like they took two lines in the beginning and jumped to the end. Which they did, I looked up the translation: > > Lines one and two > No, absolutely nothing > No, I regret nothing > > Jumping ahead one verse > I don’t care about the past! > > I still like Dove, but they make me not want to buy them again. What does the past have to do with eating Dove now? Je ne sais pas! That’s “Non, Je ne regrette rien”, by the incomparable Edith Piaf. The commercial just plays three lines. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/t6wjCcWC2aE/maxresdefault.jpg "Non, je ne regrette rien") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6wjCcWC2aE) ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/698 "2018-12-19T20:43:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > New toothpaste ad where a woman is trying the “tissue test” on her teeth. Fols, your teeth are not supposed to be white. They are actually supposed to be more ivory. Not to mention that if you have to do some bogus test to find out if your teeth are yellow, they’re not. Just don’t let other people compare your teeth to a tissue and you’ll be fine! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/699 "2018-12-19T20:49:57Z")
My solution to that issue? I specially buy yellow tissues. ---
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/700 "2018-12-19T21:18:33Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I hate that [stupid French Dove commercial.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQOVZw9XJU) > > Since I don’t speak French it’s bad enough, but the song is so…IMPORTANT!..that it seems to be trying to hard. It insists upon itself, as they say. > > I don’t know the song, but it sounds incomplete. Like they took two lines in the beginning and jumped to the end. Which they did, I looked up the translation: > > Lines one and two > No, absolutely nothing > No, I regret nothing > > Jumping ahead one verse > I don’t care about the past! > > I still like Dove, but they make me not want to buy them again. What does the past have to do with eating Dove now? Je ne sais pas! To me, the last line sounds like “I’m a booty pate!” And I can’t unhear it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=36)