# 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:** 96
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1904 "2020-10-26T19:18:54Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Dixie plate commercial where guy is lamenting how he spent all day working on his grandma’s secret recipe, only to have it ruined by using the wrong paper plates. Hey, if you are having a special date night, why are you using _paper_ plates? He anticipates getting right to the sex after serving this delicious dinner, and he doesn’t want to waste time doing dishes. ---
**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 26, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1905 "2020-10-26T19:23:37Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > He anticipates getting right to the sex after serving this delicious dinner, and he doesn’t want to waste time doing dishes. Sadly, you’re probably right. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1906 "2020-10-26T23:49:41Z")
Whose idea was it to use the theme from “Cheers” in an Applebee’s commercial? Since when is Applebee’s a place “where everyone knows your name”? ---
**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 27, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1907 "2020-10-27T02:42:37Z")
Also, the theme from _Welcome Back, Kotter_. Welcome back. We always could spot a friend. ---
**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 27, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1908 "2020-10-27T03:27:14Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Recently I was watching a movie on Crackle, which I probably won’t do again because they have 7 commercials in a row, and pretty often to boot. > > I was only half paying attention but one of them I swear was about 5 seconds long and just said “Ask your doctor about ” and showed a picture of a bottle. That was it. No context, not explanation of what malady it solves. Was it a bottle of HeadOn? Because if so, that type of commercial would be on-brand in the sense of being memorably stupid (though not in the sense of employing repetition-that-could-induce-ax-murders). ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1909 "2020-10-27T17:29:37Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Was it a bottle of HeadOn? > > Because if so, that type of commercial would be on-brand in the sense of being memorably stupid (though not in the sense of employing repetition-that-could-induce-ax-murders). Haha yeah I forgot about those commercials. No, it showed a bottle of some prescription drug, that’s all I caught, it was so fast. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1910 "2020-10-27T18:09:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Whose idea was it to use the theme from “Cheers” in an Applebee’s commercial? Since when is Applebee’s a place “where everyone knows your name”? Well, I was at this Applebee’s once. Everyone seemed to know everyone else (except us) > **[Applebee's Grill + Bar Restaurant in Hazard, KY, 41701](https://restaurants.applebees.com/en-us/ky/hazard/30-morton-blvd.-96061)** > > Dine at Applebee's HAZARD located at Morton Blvd, Hazard KY. Get directions, view our menu & hours or see specials near you now. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1911 "2020-10-27T23:06:35Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > He anticipates getting right to the sex after serving this delicious dinner, and he doesn’t want to waste time doing dishes. Then his date sees the _paper_ plate, and there goes the sex after dinner. And that’s before the spill. ---
**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 28, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1912 "2020-10-28T15:21:27Z")
As **cochrane** mentions, they were using “Welcome Back” for a little while after places started re-opening after the lockdowns. My suspicion is that some suit heard the line “to that same old place that you laughed about,” couldn’t get on board with the self-deprecating humor, and insisted on the _Cheers_ theme. This theory is based on having known and worked with some suits. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1913 "2020-10-28T17:52:52Z")
In the commercial for Crown Royal an affable young Latin guy visits his mom and they toast with glasses of the stuff. Now, I grew up in a non drinking family but still - I cannot in my wildest imagination picture a son standing in the kitchen drinking shots with his mom. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1914 "2020-10-28T20:16:17Z")
Allstate’s new commercial where the lady wakes up in bed, rolls over onto the floor, wraps up in her blankets and rugs and whatever, and rolls her way across the lawn and down the street. “This is what total protection feels like.” Really, a claustrophobic nightmare about being stuck in layers of cloth so you can’t move, rolling perpetually down a hill getting dizzier and dizzier? _That_’s total protection? I think I’ll pass. ---
**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 28, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1915 "2020-10-28T20:34:54Z")
All she needed was a pack of Rolos. ---
**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, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1916 "2020-10-28T22:29:47Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Allstate’s new commercial where the lady wakes up in bed, rolls over onto the floor, wraps up in her blankets and rugs and whatever, and rolls her way across the lawn and down the street. My wife likes that one. I tell her it’s all fun until she gets her hed chopped off by a light pole. ---
**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 28, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1917 "2020-10-28T23:56:56Z")
Come over to my place on Thanksgiving or Christmas. My daughter will bring something creamy like Tequila Rose and my son will try out a new local borbon. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1918 "2020-10-29T13:10:01Z")
Are they really doing shots, or are they enjoying each others’ company over a glass of whiskey? I’ve done the latter with my mother plenty of times. ---
**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 29, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1919 "2020-10-29T14:57:23Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I was only half paying attention but one of them I swear was about 5 seconds long and just said "Ask your doctor about " and showed a picture of a bottle. That was it. No context, not explanation of what malady it solves. If they go further into that, then they have to include the whole rigmarole of liabilities, disclaimers, warnings, side-effects, contraindications, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1920 "2020-10-29T16:33:00Z")
Hershey’s has a cute commercial with two little girls on the floor eating segments of a Hershey bar. I can’t unsee the girl on the right licking her fingers before handing a piece to the other. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1921 "2020-10-29T17:57:15Z")
Joe Namath has been hawking Medicare insurance. He whines. He begs. He annoys the hell out of me. ---
**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 29, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1922 "2020-10-29T19:18:50Z")
I’ve been noticing how much Namath looks like Shemp Howard. ---
**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 29, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/1923 "2020-10-29T19:52:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Really, a claustrophobic nightmare about being stuck in layers of cloth so you can’t move, rolling perpetually down a hill getting dizzier and dizzier? I’m irrationally irritated by the close-up shots of the lady’s face with the stationary background. Is she rolling, or not? Why does she look so happy, that amount of fabric wrapped around her would be suffocating! (Also, it makes me think about that kid who, for his birthday, wanted to break the world record for the most underpants worn at one time…he could barely hold himself upright.) > [@JRDelirious](#): > > If they go further into that, then they have to include the whole rigmarole of liabilities, disclaimers, warnings, side-effects, contraindications, etc. In that case, “Ask your doctor about [prescription picture]” is a bit better than “Side effects include a flesh-eating disease of the genitals.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=97)