# 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:** 65
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1284 "2019-10-20T00:00:46Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > 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? By astutely identifying this ad campaign’s rather spectacularly illogical premise, I think you may have inadvertently revealed that GMC believes that their target market is stupid people. (I’ve long believed the same thing about Liberty Mutual. They have to be going for the low-IQ customer. Nothing else explains their commercials.) ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1285 "2019-10-20T04:01:25Z")
[This anachronistic Autotrader customer is even annoying to those _in the commercial_.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/om6t/autotrader-french-bourgeois-finally-its-easy) I wish these would go away. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1286 "2019-10-20T21:11:39Z")
This [Can Am](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IiQZ/can-am-work-to-be-done) commercial probably doesn’t convey the message it was intended to. \*2000 fence posts, 900 acres, 48 bales, all before lunch (which we caught last Saturday). … We work until the work’s done. When it is, we get a few hours of shut eye to rest up for tomorrow, the day we’ll finally get something done.\* What it’s intended to make me think: “Gosh, if a Can Am is good enough for those all-American hard-working cowboys, I should get one for my suburban 4 1/2 acres.” What it actually makes me think: “Dang, I’m glad I graduated from high school!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2019, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1287 "2019-10-20T21:30:28Z")
That reminds me of the pickup truck commercials, all of which show the truck being used for some macho hauling chore, like carrying 2500 pounds of gravel in the truck bed, or towing a load of drilling pipe. Sure, some small percentage of pickup owners use their trucks for that sort of stuff but in my experience, the most they ever haul is a few bags of groceries from the supermarket. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1288 "2019-10-20T22:36:13Z")
Or SUV commercials which show the product being used for all sorts of things without getting dirty. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1289 "2019-10-21T02:19:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > That reminds me of the pickup truck commercials, all of which show the truck being used for some macho hauling chore, like carrying 2500 pounds of gravel in the truck bed, or towing a load of drilling pipe. Sure, some small percentage of pickup owners use their trucks for that sort of stuff but in my experience, the most they ever haul is a few bags of groceries from the supermarket. Agree. And they always show the top-of-the-line model with every extra feature, which costs $80K. No working-class grunt can afford that. And if you are spending that sort of dough on wheels, you sure aren’t going to pour 2500 pounds of gravel into the naked truck bed. :smack: ---
**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:** [October 22, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1290 "2019-10-22T18:11:06Z")
One that I absolutely hated last Halloween is back. The one for some kind of toothpaste with one kid screaming POOPY PINATA and another one throwing up. Bratty kids aren’t cute or funny. Don’t show people in commercials throwing up. It’s disgusting. And the message is even worse. “Eat all the sugary crap you want, just brush your teeth with our toothpaste.” I’m glad it wasn’t on when my kids were that age. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1291 "2019-10-27T18:46:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > There’s this one for a car with a back up warning feature. (You can see what a good commercial it is, because I can’t remember what brand of car it is for!) If I could remember what car I might be able to find it on line. > > Anyway, it has a cute young dad playing with his cute preschool daughter, and she’s “driving” around the kitchen, and almost backs into the garbage can. Fortunately, mom’s back up warning feature (her hand) prevents this horrible fiery collision from happening and then mom gives dad this “I am killing you with my eyes!” look. What the hell is she all het up about? She really pisses me off. I guess I’ve known too many people like her. > > To make it a bit redeemed, the father gives this hilarious reaction look back. > > But then, later the (object of the commercial) family car’s back up warning feature prevents dad from backing into the outside garbage can. What a doofus! We are saved again! Happy day. Everybody laugh! Found it! They are playing it during Cardinals football today. [Nissan Rogue](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oU92/2019-nissan-rogue-all-around-protection-t2) opinion? ---
**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 27, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1292 "2019-10-27T22:57:50Z")
[The Mazda “dream bigger” promos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzAR0Q-e-mc) featuring this tortured, breathy ethereal cover of a Cranberries song makes me want to break stuff. It sounds so self-important and melodramatic. And the actress looks like she’s barely holding it together under a dense fog of depression. It doesn’t help they play it a billion times a day during sports broadcasts. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1293 "2019-10-27T23:04:39Z")
> [@Just Asking Questions](#): > > But then, later the (object of the commercial) family car’s back up warning feature prevents dad from backing into the outside garbage can. What a doofus! We are saved again! Happy day. Everybody laugh! Well, so what if he backs into it? It’s _plastic_. It’s not going to damage his vehicle or be damaged itself at that speed. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1294 "2019-10-27T23:48:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Found it! They are playing it during Cardinals football today. > > [Nissan Rogue](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oU92/2019-nissan-rogue-all-around-protection-t2) > > opinion? The woman is all like “goddamn it, honey, do you know how much extra I’m going to have to pay the Merry Maid to clean up the spilled spoiled paleo macrobiotic cauliflower kale kombucha hummus if little Bry-leigh dha’Kotagh knocks the garbage over?” ---
**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:** [October 27, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1295 "2019-10-27T23:49:30Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Well, so what if he backs into it? It’s _plastic_. It’s not going to damage his vehicle or be damaged itself at that speed. But the neighbors might see and start thinking they’re not perfect! Not to mention it would get GARBAGE all over their spotless and sterile sidewalks! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1296 "2019-10-28T03:00:04Z")
Ok, new hated commercial. The entire series of State Farm with Aaron Rodgers and his “agents”. The concept was never that good, and it’s being pushed way past any cleverness or goodness. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1297 "2019-10-28T12:42:21Z")
_“Turn around, look at me”_ - I guess the driver can’t be counted on to make sure it’s safe to back out of the driveway, so the car has to slam on the brakes to keep from slamming into the oblivious pedestrian… These vehicles full of warning features just piss me off - if you can’t manage to drive without backing into anything or straying into the adjacent lane or any other stoopit thing, you shouldn’t have a license! :mad: I feel like these ads turn potentially fatal inattention into \*no-big-deal \* - it terrifies me! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1298 "2019-10-28T14:08:03Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > By astutely identifying this ad campaign’s rather spectacularly illogical premise, I think you may have inadvertently revealed that GMC believes that their target market is stupid people. > (I’ve long believed the same thing about Liberty Mutual. They have to be going for the low-IQ customer. Nothing else explains their commercials.) The Liberty Mutual LiMu Emu. I have not only never seen such stupid commercials, I have never seen so MANY of them. Crass, brainless, stupid! I hate that bird. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1299 "2019-10-28T14:27:08Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > _“Turn around, look at me”_ - I guess the driver can’t be counted on to make sure it’s safe to back out of the driveway, so the car has to slam on the brakes to keep from slamming into the oblivious pedestrian… > > These vehicles full of warning features just piss me off - if you can’t manage to drive without backing into anything or straying into the adjacent lane or any other stoopit thing, you shouldn’t have a license! :mad: I feel like these ads turn potentially fatal inattention into \*no-big-deal \* - it terrifies me! That commercial just makes me hate the douchebag who is wandering around paying so much attention to his phone he can’t be bothered to watch out for cars, gangs of marathon runners, and whatever else winds up just going around him. It would serve him right to get knocked on his ass. I know I can change channels during commercials but what fun is that? ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1300 "2019-10-28T17:33:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Ok, new hated commercial. The entire series of State Farm with Aaron Rodgers and his “agents”. The concept was never that good, and it’s being pushed way past any cleverness or goodness. Yeah, that ad campaign has gone completely out of control. It started out with a mildly humorous concept (Aaron Rodgers’ football agent is a bombastic fool compared to his State Farm agent), then plunged into repetitive and stupider imitations of itself. Also, Rodgers is so wooden that he brings nothing to the table. They should have gotten Tony Romo. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1301 "2019-10-28T18:10:57Z")
There’s a Toyota commercial that features a couple scrambling out of a house in slow motion while godawful electronic music plays in the background. One is gripping a waffle in his teeth and a terrified-looking child in his arms; the other is grappling with a sloshing drink and assorted work things (and a shoe). How is this supposed to sell cars? Do people really live this way? ---
**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 28, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1302 "2019-10-28T18:27:06Z")
There is a [Florida Lottery commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC78iV5fSb0) with two people in the woods calling, “Luck luck luck luck luck luck _LUCK_!” that causes my husband to lunge for the remote. I see from the comments that everybody else hates it too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1303 "2019-10-28T20:03:59Z")
A couple of complaints: First, I actually like Enya’s music, in small, occasional doses. I like Kraft macaroni and cheese as well. Also in small, occasional doses. I have NO IDEA what the two have to do with each other, or why blissful New Age music should be the theme song to bratty toddlers getting their way regarding food choices. Next, I’ve recently seen a couple of commercials that have me despairing for the fate of humanity. In one, a woman comes home with a bunch of bags and says “Alexa, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.” In another, random people ask their faucet to fill various containers to precise levels. If there are any appliances at all that I don’t want connected to the internet of things, it’s probably water and oven. Because I don’t know what the failure mode is for those things, but I’d really rather not come home from vacation and find the oven has been preheating for days, or that the faucet has been measuring out a couple of acre-feet of water. But also, on the list of chores that I find irksome, you are not going to find “turning on the stove” or “getting a measuring cup out of the cabinet”. By it’s very nature, turning on the faucet means that you’re going to be right there anyway. It’s not like a voice-operated light which is at least sort of understandable. When you get a voice-operated faucet or stove, you’re adding unreasonable levels of complexity in exchange for almost microscopic levels of convenience. Also, Alexa, get those kids off my lawn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=66)