# 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:** 66
**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:** [October 28, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1304 "2019-10-28T20:16:55Z")
I really detest the Kraft macaroni and cheese ads where the parents give in to their bratty kids and let them have mac and cheese instead of what the rest of the family is eating. Does the Mom throw away that beautiful salmon just because the kids does dramatic gagging? The next scene shows the entire family eating mac and cheese. Why don’t the parents have the salmon, even if they are giving in to the little brat and giving him mac and cheese? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1305 "2019-11-04T15:51:36Z")
I saw a commercial yesterday that was annoying/stupid for two major reasons. It was for a big nationwide outfit (Lowe’s?\*) that does carpet installation. The ad shows a large gallumphing dog (Bernese or somesuch) tracking gobs of mud across the carpet, and the dog’s accomplice (a young boy) carrying gloppy froot loops cereal up the stairs and spilling a bunch of it on the carpet. The next scene shows workers removing the stained, bad-looking light brown carpet, rolling it up and taking it away - then replacing it with (you guessed it!) a lovely off-white carpet. Genius! In a household with those two stain-mongers, the new carpet should look like crap in no time, and new carpet can be ordered, this time in pristine gleaming white. \*a commercial where you’re so struck by its idiocy that you can’t remember the name of the sponsor, is by definition bad. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1306 "2019-11-07T01:57:15Z")
The Iphone commercial with Gordon Ramsey drives me insane. It’s so obvious that Ramsey and the couple were filmed separately and put together in post and it looks so shitty because of it. Plus, everyone is annoying in it ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1307 "2019-11-07T02:04:17Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I saw a commercial yesterday that was annoying/stupid for two major reasons. > > It was for a big nationwide outfit (Lowe’s?\*) that does carpet installation. The ad shows a large gallumphing dog (Bernese or somesuch) tracking gobs of mud across the carpet, and the dog’s accomplice (a young boy) carrying gloppy froot loops cereal up the stairs and spilling a bunch of it on the carpet. > > The next scene shows workers removing the stained, bad-looking light brown carpet, rolling it up and taking it away - then replacing it with (you guessed it!) a lovely off-white carpet. > > Genius! In a household with those two stain-mongers, the new carpet should look like crap in no time, and new carpet can be ordered, this time in pristine gleaming white. > > \*a commercial where you’re so struck by its idiocy that you can’t remember the name of the sponsor, is by definition bad. They sold the dog and kid in order to buy the carpet. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1308 "2019-11-07T02:30:08Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > They sold the dog and kid in order to buy the carpet. Best Gift of the Magi update ever. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1309 "2019-11-07T03:42:09Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > The Iphone commercial with Gordon Ramsey drives me insane. It’s so obvious that Ramsey and the couple were filmed separately and put together in post and it looks so shitty because of it. > > Plus, everyone is annoying in it “Use a cocktail stick” has become a meme. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1310 "2019-11-07T16:30:55Z")
It’s too damn early for Christmas commercials! Seven more weeks of that insipid Jared trio! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1311 "2019-11-07T16:32:05Z")
Oh, and GEICO? Baseball season’s over! Save that commercial for Memorial Day! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1312 "2019-11-07T16:47:45Z")
[Jared - “Dare to Find the One”](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ZLXo/jared-dare-to-find-the-one) ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1313 "2019-11-07T16:52:28Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Oh, and GEICO? Baseball season’s over! Save that commercial for Memorial Day! Or never. I’d be good with never. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1314 "2019-11-07T17:08:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Oh, and GEICO? Baseball season’s over! Save that commercial for Memorial Day! It came on during the World Series. And Halloween was last week. It was still appropriate. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1315 "2019-11-07T17:30:39Z")
The cell phone service ad with the guy who used to say, “Can you hear me now?” but jumped ship to a different carrier has a sidekick now. Looks to me as if she’s trying for a mix of the adorable AT&T girl and the quirky Progressive Flo. She has an air horn and yells, “Do you love it?! Do you love it?!” I fucking hate her. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1316 "2019-11-07T17:54:06Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > It came on during the World Series. And Halloween was last week. It was still appropriate. They’re still running it. If they wanted something for Veterans Day, they should have gone with football. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1317 "2019-11-07T18:03:54Z")
FTR: “it” is the baseball stadium flyover, not trick-or-treating. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1318 "2019-11-07T18:07:27Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > the adorable AT&T girl God, I miss Lily. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1319 "2019-11-07T18:07:52Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > FTR: “it” is the baseball stadium flyover, not trick-or-treating. Then, a link would be appreciated. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1320 "2019-11-07T18:18:54Z")
[Found it.](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/o9LA/geico-perfect) Nice commercial but, as I was saying, wrong season! ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1321 "2019-11-07T18:46:48Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The cell phone service ad with the guy who used to say, “Can you hear me now?” but jumped ship to a different carrier has a sidekick now. Looks to me as if she’s trying for a mix of the adorable AT&T girl and the quirky Progressive Flo. > > She has an air horn and yells, “Do you love it?! Do you love it?!” I fucking hate her. He didn’t jump ship, they let him go. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1322 "2019-11-07T19:08:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > He didn’t jump ship, they let him go. Perhaps this cellphone company will ‘let go’ of annoying air horn girl. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1323 "2019-11-08T02:12:04Z")
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