# 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:** 51
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1002 "2019-05-19T04:05:01Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I’m perplexed by the new Chantix commercial, the “cold turkey” one. The cold turkey has some blue pills (I assume Chantix), and he takes one. Then he dumps the rest in a soup pot and tastes it and looks blissful. WTF? Is he making Chantix soup? I thought that at first but when you look closer they’re blueberries. > [@](#): > > Obviously, you’ve never seen the ads for Little Baby’s Ice Cream. > Spoliered to give you a second chance Obviously, the drugs I didn’t know I took are kicking in. Is this a real company? That sells food? That they want you to eat? The third one seems tame and uninspired compared to the other two. I guess the writers’ drugs wore off. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1003 "2019-05-19T05:05:07Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > Maybe, but no one wanted a Guarini starring commercial in 2002 let alone 2019. In order to get work he has to play a character. Not a knock on him, as that applies to most actors/entertainers. Justin Guarini has a very decent career in legitimate stage. > **[Justin Guarini – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/justin-guarini-488550)** > > The official database for Broadway theatre information ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1004 "2019-05-19T10:56:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m an old fart and she looks nowhere near 14. I’d say early college, 19-20. Looks even older to me, BUT she’s also very tiny in stature and, to me, she felt pretty childlike sitting next to him at that dinner table. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1005 "2019-05-22T17:18:05Z")
On the cable station ID Channel (Investigation Discovery), commercials and trailers for their own shows are endlessly repeated. That bothers me a little, but I can tune out most of them. However, the one that is currently grating on my last nerve is some woman saying something like, “Serial killers often collect **MO** mentoes.” Ugh. I would be crawling under a rock if I was that woman - when told she was mispronouncing it. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1006 "2019-05-22T17:38:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m an old fart and she looks nowhere near 14. I’d say early college, 19-20. Old fart here. She looks 14-16. [If this is her](https://www.backstage.com/u/chelseacarbaugh/), she plays “16-25”, but it doesn’t say how old she actually is, or was, during that commercial We really need an ICDB! ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1007 "2019-05-22T18:04:17Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Old fart here. She looks 14-16. > > [If this is her](https://www.backstage.com/u/chelseacarbaugh/), she plays “16-25”, but it doesn’t say how old she actually is, or was, during that commercial > > We really need an ICDB! If you can find the ad on [ispot.tv](http://ispot.tv), it occasionally indicates the names of the actors in the ad. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1008 "2019-05-22T19:18:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If you can find the ad on [ispot.tv](http://ispot.tv), it occasionally indicates the names of the actors in the ad. And other commercials that they have been in. [Here](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dFqP/meundies-its-the-little-things#) [she is](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/daE0/meundies-get-your-first-win-of-the-day) looking not 14. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1009 "2019-05-22T19:30:55Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > If you can find the ad on [ispot.tv](http://ispot.tv), it occasionally indicates the names of the actors in the ad. That’s where I got the name. I just wasn’t sure 1) the name matched her and not someone else in the ad, 2) the ad was correctly credited. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1010 "2019-05-22T20:41:25Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Old fart here. She looks 14-16. > > [If this is her](https://www.backstage.com/u/chelseacarbaugh/), she plays “16-25”, but it doesn’t say how old she actually is, or was, during that commercial > > We really need an ICDB! Unless you’re talking about a very different ad, that’s definitely not her, for instance, your link refers to the subject as able to play “racially ambiguous” and the one in the Humira commercial is most definitely not ambiguous, she’s white. (or looks white anyway, I suppose there are people of mixed heritage that “look white” but you’d have to be told to know they “weren’t white”) Anyway, the Humira girl with the poopy problem boyfriend, looks to be college age or slightly older, some where in the early or mid 20’s would be where I’d wager. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1011 "2019-05-23T00:25:36Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Unless you’re talking about a very different ad, that’s definitely not her, for instance, your link refers to the subject as able to play “racially ambiguous” and the one in the Humira commercial is most definitely not ambiguous, she’s white. (or looks white anyway, Well, then, that’s point 2, “2) the ad was correctly credited.” Because the iSpot TV ad (linked above) lists her as the actor. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1012 "2019-05-23T12:54:11Z")
Handsome Terminix man: [“Did you know a cockroach can…”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8CudvW0vY) I leave the room. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1013 "2019-05-24T20:39:30Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [It’s this one.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dtvM/humira-keep-us-apart) It may say it’s her but I don’t think so. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1014 "2019-05-24T20:54:27Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > Looks even older to me, BUT she’s also very tiny in stature and, to me, she felt pretty childlike sitting next to him at that dinner table. She does look like Mandy Moore’s teenage daughter… but I’m rationalizing the pair-up by thinking that she’s just waif-ish. And he could be younger than he’s trying to look. I have a lot of nineteen year old college students who are working SO hard to look middle age (I know, why???); young hipsters with college professor glasses and haircuts, and almost-beards. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1015 "2019-05-26T03:15:36Z")
> [@DeepLiquid](#): > > I don’t have cable and all day it’s either new drugs, lawyers wanting to sue drug manufacturers (a hundred times a day something about Mesothelioma), and old people insurance companies exclaiming “you don’t want to hurt your family by leaving them with your bills”. Oh HELL with the yeah. When I was homebound for many weeks following hip surgery, I spent time watching “Decades”, a free Digital channel. I’m a 57 year-old man and by god, I know more about the use of catheters than I WANT to know. :eek: Also, I have a fairly large t.v. set. The fine print at the bottom of the screen is simply beyond me. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1016 "2019-05-26T16:01:18Z")
New commercial I really hate because of the dumb. Guy sees an attractive girl in the airport drinking bottled water across the terminal. Walks over to shoot his shot but she’s gone, leaving behind the plastic bottle. First time I saw this commercial, I thought it was going to be about how plastic bottles are killing the environment. But no. The girl has written “meet me here” and circled the word Tuscany. End of commercial, right? I mean, isn’t that like leaving behind an empty can of New England clam chowder and circling New England? Again, but no. We see dude transverse many fields and meadows and riversides until he finally finds the girl by a waterfall where they kiss romantically, right? Wrong again! She’s with a large group of other people, she spies him and laughs. This is the actual end of the commercial but in my head it continues. She and her friends laugh and laugh as they beat, strip and rob him of everything in his possession except for that empty water bottle with ‘Tuscany’ circled on it that he’s kept clipped to his backpack all this time. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1017 "2019-05-26T16:54:58Z")
I hate that commercial, too, **Biggirl** , and I love your ending!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1018 "2019-05-26T23:14:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > New commercial I really hate because of the dumb. Guy sees an attractive girl in the airport drinking bottled water across the terminal. Walks over to shoot his shot but she’s gone, leaving behind the plastic bottle. First time I saw this commercial, I thought it was going to be about how plastic bottles are killing the environment. But no. The girl has written “meet me here” and circled the word Tuscany. End of commercial, right? I mean, isn’t that like leaving behind an empty can of New England clam chowder and circling New England? > > Again, but no. We see dude transverse many fields and meadows and riversides until he finally finds the girl by a waterfall where they kiss romantically, right? Wrong again! She’s with a large group of other people, she spies him and laughs. This is the actual end of the commercial but in my head it continues. She and her friends laugh and laugh as they beat, strip and rob him of everything in his possession except for that empty water bottle with ‘Tuscany’ circled on it that he’s kept clipped to his backpack all this time. Yeah, or she just laughs at him for being a moronic douche. I mean, Tuscany? big place. For someone you have never spoken to? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1019 "2019-05-26T23:35:35Z")
ive seen that commercial 20 times this weekend and my unenlightened comment was " shed better be the best ass with a miss America winning personality he’s ever had or he’s gonna be pissed after spending all that money following her" and my more liberal cousin in law actually agreed … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1020 "2019-05-26T23:41:33Z")
oh has anyone seen the “hold my pouch” capri-sun commericals for kids ? the pne ive seen the most is : new kid ar school is trying to find a place to eat and the other kids are being their usual assholes to the new kid selves well this little redhead girl gets pissed and says "hold my pouch ot the other kid sitting beside her … . and moves the whole lunchroom into a circle so everyone’s sitting beside each other like it or not and the tag line is " the adults think we cant handle thing on our own well “hold my pouch” which is cool until you realize its a parody of the "hold my beer " meme… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1021 "2019-05-26T23:48:27Z")
actually, the water one is one of a recent trope I’ve seen one where it’s for some type of booze where this guy follows her on a night of club/party hopping and she leaves clues for the next place until they meet by the ocean at sunrise and begin making out like there long lost lovers… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=52)