# 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:** 376
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7509 "2026-07-19T15:51:05Z")
Aw, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7510 "2026-07-19T15:55:41Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > There’s an advert for Walkers crisps where a bunch of famous footballers are having a World Cup watch party in Miami, but oh noez they’ve forgotten the Walkers crisps, so instead of going into the supermarket and buying some they ask shoppers if they’ve bought any and invite those who have along, Fair enough advert logic, except **you can’t buy Walkers in America**. What the hell is that rando shopper buying with the Walkers label? Is that ad actually running in the U.S.? If it’s not, what difference does it make to viewers in the UK, or wherever, that Walkers isn’t sold in the U.S., despite what is shown in the ad? (Unless you insist that the ad must be a documentary, and not falsely suggest to you that you can buy Walkers when you visit the U.S.?) ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7511 "2026-07-19T16:15:14Z")
I guess I treated it like a fantasy TV show. I can easily accept the underlying absurdity of the main premise but disregard for the secondary mechanics just bugged me. But I posted about it on June 22, and haven’t given it a second thought until I received the notification I’d been replied to. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7512 "2026-07-19T16:18:20Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > I can easily accept the underlying absurdity of the main premise but disregard for the secondary mechanics just bugged me. I can see that. As it appears that you know that Walkers aren’t sold in the U.S., that took you out of the moment. I might suspect that most viewers don’t know that, or don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7513 "2026-07-19T18:38:00Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > Walker’s with an apostrophe is a completely different company than the Walkers owned by Frito-Lay But I posted above that yes- you can sometimes buy Walkers in America. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > As it appears that you know that Walkers aren’t sold in the U.S., that took you out of the moment. I might suspect that most viewers don’t know that, or don’t care. > [@DrDeth](#): > > You can in specialty British shops here in CA. And Walmart sez they have them. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7514 "2026-07-19T19:09:01Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > But I posted above that yes- you can sometimes buy Walkers in America. Which bears absolutely no relevance to carrps’s question about **Walker’s** (note the apostrophe. I know you have trouble with them) and did not need to be repeated. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7515 "2026-07-19T19:13:40Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > Which bears absolutely no relevance to carrps’s question about **Walker’s** (note the apostrophe. I know you have trouble with them) and did not need to be repeated. But it does to kenobi\_65 post. Anyway, you _can_ get Walkers crisps in America. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7516 "2026-07-19T23:50:32Z")
My, lady, what hairy arms you have! Commercials for generic Viagra now have AI actors rather than just voices. https://embed.reddit.com/r/CommercialsIHate/comments/1okut1q/friday_plans_the_latest_horrible_commercial_now/?embed=true&ref_source=embed&ref=share ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7517 "2026-07-21T00:31:57Z")
Holy crap, that’s a new level of awful. I finally saw one this weekend that had been annoying me in the background. For the last few weekends, there’s been some kind of asthma PSA running on The Science Channel; a small child is mumbling something about _fish attah watuh_, then an adult voice says something about how critical it is that you take your child’s asthma seriously. I happened to glance up in time to see the whole thing; the first part of the ad features a goldfish being plopped onto a flat surface, where it flops around pathetically. 😬 I’m surprised PETA hasn’t been having press conferences over this one (unless I missed some disclaimer about the fish being AI-generated). ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7518 "2026-07-21T01:37:59Z")
That one’s been around a while, and it is fucking horrifying. I haven’t seen it in years, but I can still see that goldfish on the floor gasping. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7519 "2026-07-21T02:33:55Z")
I don’t know if this fits here, but it doesn’t deserve it’s own thread and it is advertisement. My car is equipped with Sirius XM. I do not suscribe and don’t wish to. More often than I think is realistic my car doesn’t recognize the name of a contact in my phone that I call frequently. When this happens it says: Some sirius channel then Oh, I cannot play that channel at this time. And it switches my sound system to looping Sirius XM adds. It’s damn annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7520 "2026-07-21T03:26:28Z")
Liberty Biberty now is an entity. A being. Ok, ok a thing. I leave it, to see for yourself. Gah!! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7521 "2026-07-21T19:08:51Z")
People ruin everything! I never even liked the original Liberty ad, and now it sucks _more_. I used to love the original Jake from State Farm ads, with the shrewish wife catching her husband on the phone in the middle of the night. But they had to reboot it. I don’t see why we couldn’t still use the old one. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7522 "2026-07-21T22:02:34Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I used to love the original Jake from State Farm ads, with the shrewish wife catching her husband on the phone in the middle of the night. But they had to reboot it. I don’t see why we couldn’t still use the old one. Disclosure: I used to have State Farm as a client, though that was before the “Jake” era. They did still run the original “Jake from State Farm” ad for a while, after they launched the ads with the “handsome Jake.” I suspect that, despite the fact that the original ad was brilliant, they decided that it was worn out, and/or it diluted the “handsome Jake” character. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7523 "2026-07-21T22:40:44Z")
I’ll never forget you, real Jake! ---
**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:** [July 22, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7524 "2026-07-22T16:09:37Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Holy crap, that’s a new level of awful. There’s at least one other AI actor – a guy seated at a table. They don’t bother to vary his hand movements, either. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7525 "2026-07-22T17:05:14Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’ll never forget you, real Jake! You probably already know this, but the first Jake was indeed real-- his actual name was Jake Stone and he was a real State Farm employee. But when they decided to make it a recurring character, they figured there was too much at stake, so they said let’s make a fake Jake, piece of cake (hard to take, but those ad guys are snakes). But the Jake shake-up was was half-baked, which left a lot of heart ache in the wake of the changing Jake. the moral: don’t fix what didn’t break. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7526 "2026-07-22T17:23:19Z")
But don’t tell my Jake, my achy breaky Jake I just don’t think it’s something he can take And if you give my Jake, a piece of chocolate cake Just make sure it isn’t half baked ---
**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:** [July 22, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7527 "2026-07-22T18:55:19Z")
I read an interview with the real Jake. He didn’t really want to do any commercials but he went to the audition to see if he could make some extra cash. He was offered a contract to do a series of commercials but absolutely did not want to. He did the passing it on commercial, quit his job and started his dream job-- opening up a bar in NY. At least I think I remember reading that. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2026, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/7528 "2026-07-22T19:00:34Z")
Nope, he doesn’t own a bar in NY, he’s a bartender in a popular bar in IL where his famous khakis hang on the wall. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=375) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=377)