# 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:** 85
**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:** [May 8, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1684 "2020-05-08T13:03:56Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > He’s the President of the United States of America and we need to drive faster because WE’RE RUNNING OUT IF TIME!!! How did I let someone beat _me_ to this joke? ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1685 "2020-05-09T09:05:32Z")
Sonic just keeps trying to outdo themselves…now we have a kid sitting in the backseat barking “You’d have to buy the bread! You’d have to buy the burger! You’d have to buy the queso! You’d have to buy the grill!” Shut up and eat your food, kid. (And no, I’m not buying an earlier commercial’s claim that this is your first encounter with a pickle on a burger. Seriously, who writes this crap?) ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1686 "2020-05-09T13:03:56Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Sonic just keeps trying to outdo themselves…now we have a kid sitting in the backseat barking “You’d have to buy the bread! You’d have to buy the burger! You’d have to buy the queso! You’d have to buy the grill!” Shut up and eat your food, kid. (And no, I’m not buying an earlier commercial’s claim that this is your first encounter with a pickle on a burger. Seriously, who writes this crap?) What the hell IS that kid saying in the first commercial? I cannot understand his yelling. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1687 "2020-05-09T13:15:01Z")
There’s a technique I’ve seen in far too many commercials and I don’t know if it’s been addressed here yet. Spliced comments. The one I’ve seen most recently (tho not a new ad) is the Bayer commercial where the man is saying that his doctor told him to take an aspirin and he didn’t and he almost died. It sounds like it’s been knitted together from a series of questions and answers or multiple takes. Why? Nothing this guy says is particularly tongue-twisting. Surely it’s not that hard to get him to say a coherent sentence about taking aspirin?? Instead, it reminds me of various YouTube videos where multiple statements by someone are spliced and put together to say funny things. For me at least, it doesn’t add to Bayer aspirin’s appeal - it just annoys me. And this isn’t the only commercial that uses that technique - just the one that triggered this post. It’s a stupid technique. Stop! ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1688 "2020-05-09T13:23:35Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Nothing this guy says is particularly tongue-twisting. **Surely it’s not that hard to get him to say a coherent sentence about taking aspirin**?? Instead, it reminds me of various YouTube videos where multiple statements by someone are spliced and put together to say funny things. For me at least, it doesn’t add to Bayer aspirin’s appeal - it just annoys me. > > And this isn’t the only commercial that uses that technique - just the one that triggered this post. It’s a stupid technique. Stop! How about [this guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRREDL59u_o)? 😃 ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1689 "2020-05-09T14:21:42Z")
I love Liberty Bibbity! The Bayer guy should be so clever… ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1690 "2020-05-09T15:34:14Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > There’s a technique I’ve seen in far too many commercials and I don’t know if it’s been addressed here yet. > > Spliced comments. The one I’ve seen most recently (tho not a new ad) is the Bayer commercial where the man is saying that his doctor told him to take an aspirin and he didn’t and he almost died. It sounds like it’s been knitted together from a series of questions and answers or multiple takes. There was a similar technique that seemed to be really popular in the late '90s, and still pops up from time to time. It uses the same technique of splicing statements from multiple takes, but between each take there’s a little snippet spliced in quickly – often in a noticeably different lighting or contrast – of the speaker smiling, or shifting, or otherwise doing something that looks like footage that was captured before or after the actual commercial was shot. It’s off-putting and distracting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1691 "2020-05-09T15:45:34Z")
This has probably been mentioned before, but I’m not going back through 34 pages to find out. Lately we’ve started watching the Game Show Network while we eat lunch, and almost every day we have to change the channel and miss when the show comes back on because of those #$%^ing ASPCA commercials that show the adorable puppies destined to be bait dogs, and the cats and dogs locked in tiny cages, and… No. You guys are doing NOTHING to support your cause by upsetting me every day. It’s especially annoying when I’m away from the TV remote and either have to move away from making my lunch or endure it until I can get back out there. Those commercials are not only highly upsetting, but they’re LONG. And even if I donate to the ASPCA (which that commercial won’t make me do–I hate emotional manipulation to that degree) I don’t get a free pass from ever seeing the damn things again. That would be a great sales tactic, if it were technically possible: “Donate to us and we’ll block our commercials so you don’t have to see them anymore.” Honestly, I’d probably do it just to shut them up. I support their cause, just not their tactics. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1692 "2020-05-09T15:47:08Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > There was a similar technique that seemed to be really popular in the late '90s, and still pops up from time to time. It uses the same technique of splicing statements from multiple takes, but between each take there’s a little snippet spliced in quickly – often in a noticeably different lighting or contrast – of the speaker smiling, or shifting, or otherwise doing something that looks like footage that was captured before or after the actual commercial was shot. It’s off-putting and distracting to me. Oh, ugh! I don’t remember seeing that in commercials, but there was at least one director of the CSI Vegas show who _loved_ that technique. It was creepy! ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1693 "2020-05-09T15:49:45Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > This has probably been mentioned before, but I’m not going back through 34 pages to find out. Lately we’ve started watching the Game Show Network while we eat lunch, and almost every day we have to change the channel and miss when the show comes back on because of those #$%^ing ASPCA commercials that show the adorable puppies destined to be bait dogs, and the cats and dogs locked in tiny cages, and… > > No. _I will remember you. . . ._ This has been mentioned before but it continues and continues to be annoying: “We’re in this together, so buy or shit.” “In these trying times, buy our shit.” “We are here for you, so buy our shit.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1694 "2020-05-09T16:00:10Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Besides, that’s the voodoo-practicing Pedro Cerrano. 😃 Hats for bats. Keep bats warm. Gracias. I came here to make sure nobody is mentioning Progressive Insurance, which are absolute gems. They don’t even try to sell insurance anymore…they’re just beautiful comedic vignettes. Progressive On Ice…Zoom conference calls…Progressive Theme Park…all great. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1695 "2020-05-09T16:00:50Z")
Infovore, I’m totally with you on those animal abuse ads. I’ll change the channel or just shut off the TV rather than be subjected to that. One of our dogs was obviously abused before he came to us; I go lavish some love on him if I need an antidote to the guilt trip. The commercial I came to complain about is the Ziploc one with all the kids covered in glitter and blue slime. It absolutely makes my stomach lurch, and they play the crap out of it too! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1696 "2020-05-09T16:08:16Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > There’s a local real estate company, it advertises using testimonials. One of them says, “He took the time to ask what was important about the house to us, to us.” > > That unnecessary repitition grates. And shortly after posting this, they have reedited the commercial to remove that double “to us”. Yay, win! Wait, does that mean someone there is here? > [@cmkeller](#): > > I just saw an ad, last night, for a drug called “Entresto.” Don’t confuse it with seresto. [https://www.amazon.com/Seresto-flea-collar-8-month-prevention/dp/B00B8CG602](https://www.amazon.com/Seresto-flea-collar-8-month-prevention/dp/B00B8CG602) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1697 "2020-05-09T16:14:49Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The commercial I came to complain about is the Ziploc one with all the kids covered in glitter and blue slime. It absolutely makes my stomach lurch, and they play the crap out of it too! Yes! I have the same feeling. I don’t have kids, but I can’t imagine any mom with half a brain allowing her little darlings to spread slime and glitter all over the living room. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1698 "2020-05-09T16:16:56Z")
We mute all ASPCA crap now, after my SO donated to them for a couple of months. She told them to fuck off when they started double-dipping into her bank account each month. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1699 "2020-05-09T16:51:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > _I will remember you. . . ._ > > This has been mentioned before but it continues and continues to be annoying: > > “We’re in this together, so buy or shit.” > “In these trying times, buy our shit.” > “We are here for you, so buy our shit.” Yes out here there is a Electrician with that, complete with a Mother kissing her sleeping bay. What that has to do with a electrician, no one knows. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1700 "2020-05-09T18:14:24Z")
There’s another local one I thought I already whined about for a law firm, Ben Abbott and Associates. First they were juggling tag lines. Now they keep trying to shoehorn it in to music. “Ben Abbott and Associates - don’t let an accident wreck your life.” Okay, they found something that sort of works. But now they have different music groups trying to make up songs about how good he is, and they have to try to work that in as some kind of rhyme or wrap up to the song. One is rock, the other country, and neither works. ---
**Author:** ![Ynnad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4491bb/32.png) [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1701 "2020-05-09T18:25:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yes out here there is a Electrician with that, complete with a Mother kissing her sleeping bay. What that has to do with a electrician, no one knows. Who is that baby’s real daddy? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1702 "2020-05-09T20:11:09Z")
> [@Ynnad](#): > > Who is that baby’s real daddy? snort.:D:D:)😛 ---
**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:** [May 9, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1703 "2020-05-09T22:07:58Z")
All the recent commercials that seem to start with “In these trying times…” and such lead me to call out “[Schooner Tuna](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4MlI2I17o)!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=86)