This commercial annoys the hell out of me.
PenFed Power Cash Card TV Spot, ‘My Treat’ - iSpot.tv
Why does the waiter give a fuck if they take a photograph of their dessert? This is a restaurant, not a motherfucking art museum, you pretentious bastard.
I hate this one, mostly for the term “side hustle”. What a stupid term.
I suspect it’s become trendy as a way for people to avoid thinking about how the US economy, over the past several decades, has become more and more stratified: the people at the very top are doing wonderfully, while the masses have to scramble to earn a basic living.
“Side hustle” sounds kind of cool, whereas “desperately selling stuff so as to be able to afford to pay the utilities bills” does not.
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I hate this one, mostly for the term “side hustle”. What a stupid term.
Oh, gawd. Me, too. I hate it more than I should, probably. But the smug way the stupid woman says “side hustle” makes me lose my sh*t.
She seems to be doing well enough for herself that she doesn’t actually have to do this. That’s the problem.
And the commercials almost always feature paid actors instead of actual sufferers of the particular malady.
Though the one exception is the woman “Cyndi” who suffered from psoriasis and they never made it clear it was actually Cyndi Lauper, if you didn’t recognize her. (Which you should, I mean, she IS so unusual! 
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Isn’t the bald guy in Cyndi’s commercial somebody famous? He looks very familiar.
Don’t federal regulations require that if show something and say, “This is our product,” it has to actually be the product, or if you say, “These are real customers/users/patients,” they have to actually be real customers/users/patients?
That would be why you rarely see the foods being eaten on commercials. Who wants botulism from eating food that’s been under studio lights for eight hours? Also the poor acting on some drug commercials.
I’ve wondered, too. He looks like someone that’s been on L&O or something, but iSpot doesn’t list him. He also looks like Vin Diesel, or at least his pudgy brother, but I suspect he isn’t either.
Are you talking about “sexy elbows” man? The cosentyx website says his name is Gary and he was compensated for his time.
It’s funny that Cyndi Lauper is very heavily filtered in these commercials, but none of the other patient/actors are. We see you, Cyndi!
It’s my understanding that food in ads isn’t necessarily food. Like instead of cereal in milk, it’s cereal in white glue. Or maybe that was just for print ads. Or maybe I am completely misremembering.
I’ve heard it both ways. I think the deciding factor is that over the air ads are regulated by the FCC.
All those commercials cross-promoting the latest movie. I’m looking at you, Minions and Jurassic Park.
I remember years ago when, for a couple of months, SO many products (Happy Meals, Slurpees, Target, Amazon, even a Power Boat chain) were promoting Disney’s “Treasure Planet”.
Which no one went to see. I wonder if everyone was as confused as I was by seeing this failed movie writ huge upon the city…
"Treasure Planet bombed so exponentially that the pre-planned sequel was almost immediately scrapped."
Are Minions (in the movie Despicable Me) funny? I haven’t seen the movie, just Minions every-damn-where for the last decade, and they bore me.
I get a chuckle out of them in the movies, but as advertising/Facebook memes a little Minion goes a long, long, loooooong way.
In the movies, the girls (especially Edith) are funnier.
“Ooh, my pancake looks like a dead guy!”
As a kid, I would have been all over the Jurassic Park commercials. Now, the over saturation convinced me that I didn’t need to see the movie long before the negative reviews started rolling in.