# 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:** 365
**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:** [March 26, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7287 "2026-03-26T18:00:54Z")
indeed! You can buy more, dude! But now the beans will never leave his behind. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7288 "2026-03-26T19:24:26Z")
i am not fond of martha stewart and her “dirt” commercial is very annoying. anyone who is serious about horticulture would call it soil. not dirt, never dirt. my high school horticulture teacher would grade harshly if you dared to call it anything other than soil, or any other proper name, ie loam, peat, clay. the word dirt was forbidden. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7289 "2026-03-26T19:33:13Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > the word dirt was forbidden. I happen to have a Martha Steward cat littler scoop. She can dish out the dirt. ---
**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:** [March 27, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7290 "2026-03-27T01:41:54Z")
I’m nominating any online ad that steals my focus when I’m trying to do a crossword puzzle or the like. Type in answer, right arrow to get over to the next box, wait, why’s the whole page scrolling!? And half of my letters didn’t show up. OK, click in the grid again, and what, the same ad just loaded again, twice in a row? Or three times? Right this moment, it mostly seems to be some marijuana dispensary, but it’s happened with others, too. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7291 "2026-03-27T12:59:20Z")
It looks to me as if “70% OFF” is a requirement for online ads, from doormats to bras to women’s elastic waist pants. The pants in particular have been “70% off for a limited time!!!” for at least a year. Maybe this isn’t so much annoying as entertaining? ---
**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:** [March 27, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7292 "2026-03-27T15:42:13Z")
I mean, if your pants are already 70% off, you might as well just take them all the way off. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7293 "2026-03-27T15:45:11Z")
That’s what she said. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7294 "2026-03-28T00:33:34Z")
I have no idea what Junior Senior thought when they released “Move Your Feet” into the world. Were they hoping for a song that would truly touch people? Did they just want a chance for a money-making pop hit? Or did they recognize that it would have a flash of popularity, and then fade away from the airwaves? Well apparently they sold the rights at some point, because it seems like everybody and their brother’s cousin’s used car dealership is using that song in their ads. Rooms to Go and Hamrick’s seem to be the big ones right now. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7295 "2026-04-01T00:31:49Z")
Okay, Jamie is getting too [Flanderized](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization) and needs to shut up. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/87VbBXlxIYo/hqdefault.jpg "Nature's Metaphor | Progressive Insurance Commerical") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VbBXlxIYo&t=0) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-QzrC-vYUiU/maxresdefault.jpg "Sleepover | Progressive Insurance Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QzrC-vYUiU&t=0) ---
**Author:** ![Cachalot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Cachalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cachalot)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7296 "2026-04-12T22:37:44Z")
I’ve been seeing an ad for Thriftbooks which is really annoying. It shows two people supposedly camping out under the stars. Instead, they are clearly indoors, lying in their sleeping bags on a carpeted surface, dressed as if they are enduring the Arctic cold. The guy asks the woman a question and she has to consult her “app in chest-pilot”. She is so cutesie she makes me want to barf. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7297 "2026-04-13T00:20:32Z")
A credit card or bank ad, with two people taking their first baby to the beach. They brought everything! Except, mom says, “sunhat”. Hero Dad runs to the nearest store and returns with a sunhat. Mom says, “umbrella.” At this point I’m screaming, “Take the fucking kid home!” I would settle for Mom making the umbrella run. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7298 "2026-04-13T00:45:26Z")
I keep seeing ads for a company that sells toys designed to make baby’s brain grow. One devise they are apparently proud of, since it’s in multiple ads, is a big blocky looking toy lady bug. Once this toy is placed on a small ramp, it rocks back and forth, slowly descending the ramp. Watching these things is better for baby than watching any other random movements, I guess. I don’t know why I’m being targeted with these ads. I don’t have a link. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7299 "2026-04-14T02:01:34Z")
Then there’s the one where the boyfriend is disturbingly attracted to her father because he loves Cheez-It crackers… 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7300 "2026-04-14T02:06:58Z")
Maybe I’m dense, but I see absolutely no connection between the old Petula Clark song “Downtown” (one of my favorites, BTW) and one’s Internet/Cell Phone provider. Can someone please explain what I’m missing? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7301 "2026-04-14T14:12:14Z")
Maybe I’m being petty, but there is something annoying in every single Spectrum commercial I’ve seen this year. The “I’m embarrassed I got Spectrum first so I can watch my shows”… The “WE’RE pregnant”… There’s a small sleeping dog draped across the top of a couch (that’s something a CAT does)… Now, some woman saying she has a “giant child” she has to feed. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7302 "2026-04-14T14:42:01Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > … The “WE’RE pregnant”… Is it a guy that says this, because the guy saying “_we’re_ pregnant” always seems a bit strange, no matter how correct. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7303 "2026-04-14T14:57:26Z")
Yes. The proud father. It’s been a maddening thing to hear all my life. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2026, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7304 "2026-04-14T15:00:40Z")
We do the ‘commercial’ versions of several streaming channels to save a few bucks. On one of the streamers we’ve been constantly seeing an ad for what appears to be a high-end cruise line called ‘Explora’. The ad shows _highly_ art-directed shots of various well-off looking cruisers by themselves in various parts of the ship-- like a woman sitting by herself on a deck chair by the railing looking out at the water. It’s a somewhat pulled-back shot and it’s clear she’s the only one on deck. Another shows a guy reading a newspaper sitting in an infinity pool- by himself. Another pool shot shows a guy floating in the center of a pool that, again, is completely empty except for himself. Now. I’m sure there are cruise lines that do cater to a more exclusive clientele, with ships that are not packed like sardines in a tin like your typical Carnival cruise for the proletariats. But the sheer false advertising in making it appear that one will have practically the entire ship to oneself is laughable. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7305 "2026-04-14T15:07:20Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Is it a guy that says this, because the guy saying “_we’re_ pregnant” always seems a bit strange, no matter how correct. On particular promo for “Unexpected” has been running here. Daddy-to-be says “we” and is quickly corrected by mommy (paraphrased):“_I’m_ the one pushing out the baby!” ---
**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:** [April 14, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7306 "2026-04-14T15:20:36Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Okay, Jamie is getting too [Flanderized](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization) and needs to shut up. Perfect description. I liked him when he heard voices calling him in the cornfield. Not anymore. Shivver me timbers! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=364) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=366)