# 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:** 61
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1202 "2019-08-28T16:02:51Z")
> [@tricoteuse](#): > > Hit by lightning? Please, the house and tall trees in the background aren’t even touched. The guy obviously isn’t even trying to put the fire out, and that little drizzle of water from the hose wouldn’t do any good anyway. And he’s horrified when the wife finds out she can get a new chi-chi-er she-shed. Huh. And I thought the word was “she-she-er”. Had to look that up. Now why would she want an “overelaborately pretentious” she shed? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1203 "2019-08-28T16:35:29Z")
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAZpu2iPyT4) Foster Farms chicken commercial. They’re dancing around, all happy to be free range. I’m definnitely a carnivore, but all the same I’m not super wild about watching anthropomorphized animals that are going to get killed so I can eat them. I expected the end tag line to be “Simply Raised. Simply Slaughtered.” ---
**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:** [August 28, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1204 "2019-08-28T16:40:44Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAZpu2iPyT4) Foster Farms chicken commercial. They’re dancing around, all happy to be free range. > > I’m definnitely a carnivore, but all the same I’m not super wild about watching anthropomorphized animals that are going to get killed so I can eat them. I expected the end tag line to be “Simply Raised. Simply Slaughtered.” Nobody complained about Charlie the tuna campaigning to be caught in a net and canned. The happy, dancing chickens are just the latest yummy animals proud of how tasty they are. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1205 "2019-08-28T16:45:08Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Nobody complained about Charlie the tuna campaigning to be caught in a net and canned. The happy, dancing chickens are just the latest yummy animals proud of how tasty they are. I dunno, a cartoon tuna is one thing, but high resolution f/x dancing chickens are another. YMMV. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1206 "2019-08-28T19:36:48Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > I dunno, a cartoon tuna is one thing, but high resolution f/x dancing chickens are another. YMMV. Well, MY mileage doesn’t vary! Extremely creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1207 "2019-08-29T15:32:03Z")
Well, I’m not particularly a fan of food begging to be eaten, but I think it’s funny. Good editing to look like boy band moves. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1208 "2019-09-01T13:41:25Z")
I’m getting annoyed by the GrubHub commercials. What profligate waste. I mean, the first one the guy is apparently having a couple friends over, so he orders a couple thousand dollars worth of take out from everywhere at once. The second one is worse - they’re working at the office on some architectural project, decide to order lunch as a group, and suddenly the architectural project is trash to be dumped on the floor so some guy can standing-jump to the table top and prance around. _sigh_ And I don’t get the hate for BrandPower commercials. They’re straight up information about the products. Sure, they’re the advertiser’s words, not writ from on high or findings in technical journals, but they’re straightforward descriptions of the products. Isn’t that what we long for, instead of stupid nonsense marketing to our fears and desires and cravings? ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1209 "2019-09-01T19:18:16Z")
I listen to radio far more than I watch TV. Other than the insane ravings of the used car dealer–I can’t believe that genre of commercial is still around–the most annoying are the commercials that pretend to disguise themselves as news reports. Here’s the trusted news reporter who is interviewing a person about how wonderful their service is. Except the reporter is not one of the radio personalities on this station, and the “news report” and accompanying music is nothing like the station’s. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1210 "2019-09-03T13:14:35Z")
“Let’s choke on Haribo gummy bears!” “Let’s jump off a skyscraper onto a pile of Haribo gummy bears!” “Let’s set ourselves on fire and roll around in Haribo gummy bears!” “Let’s shove poisoned Haribo gummy bears up each other’s bottoms!” …just some thoughts of mine… ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1211 "2019-09-03T13:18:35Z")
The commercial could be greatly improved with “Let’s talk about Haribo Sugar-free Gummy Bears!”, followed by a reading of the top Amazon reviews for the product. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1212 "2019-09-03T14:31:57Z")
I saw a bad one last night. A little girl wouldn’t eat her dinner so Daddy holds up a handful of French fries. So she takes a tiny little bite of broccolli and Daddy hands over the fries and the whole family is happy and smiling. The whole point of the commercial was “bribe your children to eat healthy food with greasy starchy fries!” I know how my kids would have acted if we were dumb enough to try that. They would have refused to eat anything on their plates unless they were promised French fries and would have found a way to eat dinner one molecule at a time so that they’d get 99.9% fries and .1% actual food. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1213 "2019-09-03T14:40:01Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The commercial could be greatly improved with “Let’s talk about Haribo Sugar-free Gummy Bears!”, followed by a reading of the top Amazon reviews for the product. > > 🙂 Then the commercial cuts to the bathroom where the squeaky noises are NOT overdubbed baby voices! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1214 "2019-09-03T14:57:33Z")
> [@tricoteuse](#): > > I saw a bad one last night. A little girl wouldn’t eat her dinner so Daddy holds up a handful of French fries. So she takes a tiny little bite of broccolli and Daddy hands over the fries and the whole family is happy and smiling. The whole point of the commercial was “bribe your children to eat healthy food with greasy starchy fries!” > > I know how my kids would have acted if we were dumb enough to try that. They would have refused to eat anything on their plates unless they were promised French fries and would have found a way to eat dinner one molecule at a time so that they’d get 99.9% fries and .1% actual food. In addition, every time parents do this, they are further cementing the idea in their kids’ heads that “healthy = unpleasant” and “unhealthy = delicious” ---
**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:** [September 3, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1215 "2019-09-03T15:28:22Z")
Very good point! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1216 "2019-09-03T15:29:08Z")
Red Robin. Bunch of diners BLISSFULLY shoving fries into their maws, eyes closed in ecstasy. Like some rare and delicious treat. Oily voice boasting ‘non-stop fries, plate after plate’. Well, I suppose there are a lot of big empty stomaches out there that need a lot of filling up. I imagine it draws them in while costing Red Robin next to nothing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1217 "2019-09-03T17:15:02Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Red Robin. Bunch of diners BLISSFULLY shoving fries into their maws, eyes closed in ecstasy. Like some rare and delicious treat. Oily voice boasting ‘non-stop fries, plate after plate’. Well, I suppose there are a lot of big empty stomaches out there that need a lot of filling up. I imagine it draws them in while costing Red Robin next to nothing. And RR fries are not very good, IMHO. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1218 "2019-09-04T00:20:41Z")
As if you need another reason to skip the fries, [they can make you go blind](https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/health/poor-diet-blindness-scli-intl/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1219 "2019-09-06T03:00:26Z")
One of the Buick commercials that has been running for some time in a vain effort to convince us that people under the age of 75 actually desire such vehicles, has been edited to close with the suggestion to “kick off football season by buying a new Buick”. Why? I can watch football at home, no problemo. A new TV maybe. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1220 "2019-09-06T10:33:45Z")
A truck commercial that claims that truck drivers are a special breed who know how to work. Pick-up truck drivers work and work and work and work some more. The last two lines of the commercial are “We work until the work is DONE, sleep a few hours, wake up and _maybe_ get a little work done.” Look pick up truck drivers, either you work until the work is done or you maybe get a little work done. I can’t see how you can do both. This commercial annoys the heck out of me. Firstly-- no. Truck drivers are not special people who alone understand the value of hard work and secondly-- didn’t the writers see that what they wrote made little sense? Especially since that last line is spoken like it’s supposed to be some kind of stinger. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1221 "2019-09-06T12:42:36Z")
The pickup truck ad that gets at me is the one that brags about having the most cargo _volume_. Since the traditional method of comparing truck’s cargo hauling capabilities has been _weight_, that seems a baldfaced attempt to gloss over a deficiency but still have something to claim to be the best at. It’s like taking home a test you got an F on, but pointing out to your mom how how good your handwriting was on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=62)