# 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:** 74
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1464 "2019-12-07T19:12:06Z")
And I’m wondering how long until Sleep Number stops running their Dak Prescott ads. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1465 "2019-12-07T19:37:44Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > So the new “I got you something” commercial - guy whistles, over the hill comes a big fluffy puppy. Girl whistles, over the hill comes a big fluffy pickup. "I WIN! " Linky? ---
**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:** [December 7, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1466 "2019-12-07T23:27:42Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Linky? [GMC Puppy commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Zqwm/gmc-sierra-puppy-t1#). ---
**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:** [December 8, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1467 "2019-12-08T00:54:19Z")
“I am an Instagram boyfriend” has to be the most asinine opening line of a TV commercial in history. Also, Taco Bell sells crappy food. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1468 "2019-12-08T02:03:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Also, Taco Bell sells crappy food. Wonderful, Delicious, Horrible, Tasty Crappy Food! ---
**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:** [December 8, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1469 "2019-12-08T03:33:36Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > [GMC Puppy commercial](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Zqwm/gmc-sierra-puppy-t1#). All of the other auto manufacturers should leave the dog commercials to Subaru. They’re the only ones who get it right. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1470 "2019-12-08T15:08:03Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Oh my god, I can’t believe how the media is running with this story. Like you said, no one is really “offended” or “angry” about it. My reaction was more of a roll-eyes, thinking about how they advertisers were really buying into their own hype, and the desperation of trying to make their product some kind of luxury yuppie fad. If Peloton was really serious about doing that they have some catching up to do. I remember ads in _Scientific American_ some fifteen years back for an exerciser – ski or elliptical, I forget which – that swore ten minutes a day was all you needed for getting fit, and had the ripped models to prove it. The price? $14,000, and you didn’t even get a flat screen mounted on it, probably because they hadn’t gotten popular yet. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1471 "2019-12-08T17:35:33Z")
My new “favorite” is Ameritrade with their new play on the old TV show, \*Get Smart \*, called “Get Smarter”. It shows their dude copying the TV show opening, walking into a building and going through a series of automated doors. Except the whole point of the show was that Maxwell Smart was a dumbass. Everything was stupid, like his shoe phone, or the cone of silence. Is that really the association they want? ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1472 "2019-12-08T20:43:54Z")
Did I miss a mention of [this KFC chicken and waffles commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhAiDv62Qw)? I get that they were trying for a humorous parody, but I just find it really creepy and not at all an association I want to make with food they presumably want me to eat. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1473 "2019-12-08T21:45:47Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > My new “favorite” is Ameritrade with their new play on the old TV show, \*Get Smart \*, called “Get Smarter”. It shows their dude copying the TV show opening, walking into a building and going through a series of automated doors. Except the whole point of the show was that Maxwell Smart was a dumbass. Everything was stupid, like his shoe phone, or the cone of silence. Is that really the association they want? Didya notice that their “seriously smart” person parked in a red zone? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1474 "2019-12-09T03:45:51Z")
[Johnny Depp in the Dior Sausage commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTkwZ1p0DI). The stupid way he slings sand over his shoulder; burying his gaudy and overmuch jewelry for no reason (but marking the “grave”); his teary-eyed guy-liner… This looks like cologne that smells like “out all night” and “Denny’s.” ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1475 "2019-12-09T04:46:09Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > [Johnny Depp in the Dior Sausage commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTkwZ1p0DI). > > The stupid way he slings sand over his shoulder; burying his gaudy and overmuch jewelry for no reason (but marking the “grave”); his teary-eyed guy-liner… > > This looks like cologne that smells like “out all night” and “Denny’s.” Hee hee. Was that an intentional “typo”? For a minute I thought Dior was marketing a step up from the Jimmy Dean crowd. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1476 "2019-12-09T05:02:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Hee hee. Was that an intentional “typo”? For a minute I thought Dior was marketing a step up from the Jimmy Dean crowd. ‘Ah’m Jimmy Dean’ - his voice dredged up from the grave, extolling the wonders of Jimmy Dean sausages and breakfast bowls… Using a dead guy’s voice? a poorly done commercial, can’t think of anything better, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1477 "2019-12-09T06:13:41Z")
I hate the Apple commercial with the grandpa in it …not only was it manipulative it worked and I had to wipe my eyes since all mine are gone now … ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1478 "2019-12-09T13:07:11Z")
I feel like a terrible person but I don’t like the kids in the St Judes Hospital commercials. The one where they have to come up with ideas for the ad campaign was as poorly scripted and poorly acted as a middle school play. I feel for them and the things they have overcome, but I think Marlo Thomas is a better spokesperson for their cause than they are. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1479 "2019-12-09T14:33:20Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > [Johnny Depp in the Dior Sausage commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTkwZ1p0DI). > > The stupid way he slings sand over his shoulder; burying his gaudy and overmuch jewelry for no reason (but marking the “grave”); his teary-eyed guy-liner… > > This looks like cologne that smells like “out all night” and “Denny’s.” And yet, that commercial is better than any movie he made in, oh, the last 15 years. hee hee “sausage”. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1480 "2019-12-09T15:45:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > The one where they have to come up with ideas for the ad campaign was as poorly scripted and poorly acted as a middle school play. Isn’t that the Shriners? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1481 "2019-12-09T15:52:53Z")
I hate [this](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Iqrd/frito-lay-classic-mix-soccer-mom) child with perhaps unwarranted fervor. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1482 "2019-12-09T17:33:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Isn’t that the Shriners? Oh crap, you’re right. OK, leave Marlo out of the equation. But dammit, these commercials suck ass. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1483 "2019-12-09T17:50:16Z")
[I hate this Cox ad](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/owIj/cox-communications-contour-tv-prime-video-caught-up). I feel like I’m watching a real-life Simpsons episode. It’s making binge TV watching out to be a good thing. Kid ignores everyone including his dog just to catch up, so the whole family can spend quality time on their asses in front of the TV. “Boy, don’t you ever let me hear you saying anything bad about TV,” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=75)