# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1264 "2019-10-09T21:01:07Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Complete with a red bow tied onto it! I saw a commercial the other day that looked like it was going to be one of those, and just as I was about to scream at the TV that it’s too f\*ing early for XMas commercials it turned out to be an ad for Taco Bell multi-packs. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1265 "2019-10-11T01:21:10Z")
[The Arby’s sandwich guy is singing again!](https://youtu.be/sqQXpqf5EGI) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1266 "2019-10-11T19:54:47Z")
The Slinging commercial with Maya Rudolph annoys extra because I like Maya and hate that she’s an idiot in the commercial. Would you rather stay at home and sling it or go to a party. . . for a dog? Well Maya, I’d rather stay at home and watch TV, so why didn’t you? Did your dog insist on being taken to the party? Couldn’t you have just, I don’t know, LEFT the party instead of ruining it for all the people and dogs who wanted to be there? Why are you such a jerk? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1267 "2019-10-11T21:56:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Okay, I finally broke down and looked to see who this apparently famous person is, from [the Old Navy jeans commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oG9f/old-navy-high-rise-slim-straight-jeans-reunion-featuring-busy-philipps). Busy Phillips? Never heard of her. But [this face](https://images.app.goo.gl/9tNstWZg2owNLVqs7) gives me violent urges. > Y’know, it seems a lot of commercials do that… You’d probably recognize her [prior to her facial renovation](https://www.google.com/search?q=busy+philipps+freaks+and+geeks&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSm6KXmZXlAhVBI6wKHT_RDMIQ_AUIESgB&biw=889&bih=487#spf=1570830921481). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1268 "2019-10-14T03:39:09Z")
The Supercuts ads with the bald Rando unsolicitedly addressing some young full-haired hipster type about how he should go to Supercuts while he still \*has \*hair. Though I’m a guy who still has most of his hair in his late 50s, it anyway still strikes me as cringey. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1269 "2019-10-14T04:12:03Z")
This Mint Mobile commercial with chunky-style milk is so likely to induce vomiting, I’m going to spoiler it. [https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IMqP/mint-mobile-chunky-style-milk-15](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IMqP/mint-mobile-chunky-style-milk-15) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1270 "2019-10-14T04:46:51Z")
New Flu medicine ad, showing a teacher spreading the flu to a whole school full of kids. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1271 "2019-10-14T05:02:55Z")
“You’re a person”, followed by a pause so long I always wonder why they have purchased air time to tell me that important fact. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1272 "2019-10-14T06:23:26Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [The Arby’s sandwich guy is singing again!](https://youtu.be/sqQXpqf5EGI) oh dear god, i just saw this … did Ving Rhames want too much for a commercial? they need him back ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1273 "2019-10-14T15:36:23Z")
“I still have this car so you _can_ afford to go” (after the end of the commercial, the girl probably points out the cost per semester to the mother: “Wait…it costs _how much_ to go to college now?”) ---
**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:** [October 14, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1274 "2019-10-14T16:00:18Z")
The first time my husband saw that commercial, he didn’t understand what the mom meant by, “I still have this car so you can afford to go.” He thought mom was saying she would drive the kid to the college. “Hop in, sweetie, I’ll get you there!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1275 "2019-10-15T13:56:05Z")
Charmin toilet paper with the bears. Let me get this straight: Mama Bear walks around naked. Papa Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear twirls his clean underwear around as proof of how well Charmin cleans his butt. Call me crazy, but I think his underwear stays clean because he walks around naked all the time just like his parents. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1276 "2019-10-15T15:00:00Z")
Exactly! It is THE premiere stupid commercial. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1277 "2019-10-15T15:38:13Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > john phillips of mammas&pappas fame daughter and mckenzies phillips half sister …shes an actress and recently had a talk show on E! Busy Phillips is not related to either John or Mackenzie Phillips. She is perhaps best known for _Freaks & Geeks_, and was also on _Cougar Town_. You may be thinking of Bijou Phillips, who is in fact John Phillips’s daughter and Mackenzie’s half-sister. She is also an actress, but is not the woman in the Old Navy commercial. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1278 "2019-10-15T18:52:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Charmin toilet paper with the bears. Let me get this straight: Mama Bear walks around naked. Papa Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear twirls his clean underwear around as proof of how well Charmin cleans his butt. Call me crazy, but I think his underwear stays clean because he walks around naked all the time just like his parents. We’ve really come a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong way from the original semi-clever concept of making a t.p. commercial based on the old joke, haven’t we? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1279 "2019-10-15T20:25:56Z")
Yeah, those bears don’t even live outdoors. They live in a house. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1280 "2019-10-19T02:52:06Z")
I don’t find [this Halloween-themed GEICO advert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZGXss02yo) annoying, exactly, just super creepy. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1281 "2019-10-19T02:55:11Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I don’t find [this Halloween-themed GEICO advert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZGXss02yo) annoying, exactly, just super creepy. Kitty!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1282 "2019-10-19T21:57:00Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Charmin toilet paper with the bears. Let me get this straight: Mama Bear walks around naked. Papa Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear walks around naked. Baby Bear twirls his clean underwear around as proof of how well Charmin cleans his butt. Call me crazy, but I think his underwear stays clean because he walks around naked all the time just like his parents. But the underwear seems to imply they have some sense of shame, and have coverings for their genitals and anus. Which makes it that much more WTF to me. Just a child-bear presenting his clean hiny in a universe where he also wears underwear. How did that marketing meeting go? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1283 "2019-10-19T22:03:13Z")
By far one of the worst commercials of late is the “[GMC Rule of Threes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY23zi1u_3U).” “The rule of three states that things that come in threes are inherently better than those that don’t”. First of all, that sentence is so bad it gave me cancer. Second of all, no it does not. I don’t even understand the concept–that each of their SUVs are individually more appealing simply because there are 3 in total? I’m not buying 3 SUVs. Why would I like my SUV more simply because of the existence of two others? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=65)