This is the trend I’ve been noticing lately, wondering if it’s a local thing:
An annoying commercial is shown, followed by another random annoying commercial. Next, they go back and repeat the exact same commercial that aired a minute ago.
I thought it was a glitch the first few times I’ve noticed it, but it is happening way to frequently to be accidental.
mmm
Fanduel ad about how every moment is filled with bets, like picking up some hitchhiker with a bowling ball bag. Erm, what?
No, life is not full of bets, it’s full of choices and decisions.
Care to put money on that?
Heck, last night I saw the exact same commercial back-to-back! Of course it was one of those Medicare enrollment commercials that we are inundated with this time of year.
(I asked my wife “Was that a glitch in the Matrix?”)
I think that your provider gets to use some commercial slots, particularly on the smaller channels. My assumption is that they have a hard time selling the ads for unpopular channels and odd time slots, so the ones they do sell can run multiple times.
I get what you’re saying, but these are neither unpopular channels nor odd time slots.
Prime time, local (major) channels.
mmm
Every Discovery Network channel does the repeat commercial thing. Not even putting a buffer in between them, just the same commercial twice. Also, on other networks not necessarily Discover, every Disney streaming cartoon ad (not on the Disney Channel-- or maybe so, I don’t watch Disney) is a the same short ad twice. This week’s is VIIIIVOOOOOO!!!
So, there’s this company called Back Market, and they have this ad playing:
What’s annoying me about it is the fact that the monster looks like the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It completely dominates my train of thought every time I see it. I can’t unsee it, or convince myself that it’s a coincidental resemblance.
Medicare Season is worse than Pledge week on NPR. It’s worse than Election Season. It may even be worse than Flu Season.
I’ve been watching Midsomer Murders and if it weren’t for the ability to fast forward through those Medicare ad’s, it would be unwatchable.
What’s he got in the bowling ball bag? Now taking bets! Actual bowling ball pays off at 50 to 1 odds. Custom cornhole bags, 10 to 1. Human head is even money.
The current Old Navy ad is grating to me. I don’t know who the obnoxious woman is. I think I’m supposed to, and that she’s supposed to be endearing and funny. She’s not.
Also, anytime I hear someone pull out “Sorry, not sorry,” I have an overwhelming urge to beat them with a stick.
There’s one I’ve been hearing (commercial time is the time to go do something else so I’ve never “seen” it) a lot lately, for ketchup maybe (?). It features some dopey song about children only eating spaghetti or something and then the voice says “adulting sucks”. Adulting . Hulk smash 
Jennifer Coolidge, who IMHO is a plastic surgery trainwreck. (Unless that’s her real face, but jeez I sure hope not.)
I’m looking forward to December 7, which is the end of the enrollment period and should, I hope, mean the end of these commercials.
Give 'em a month.
Old Navy ads have been consistently obnoxious for years. Apparently, the demographic they’re aiming at is dominated by annoying people.
I’ll still shop there. Where else will I get $20 jeans that my son will outgrow in six months? That should be their ad campaign. Shop at Old Navy so your kids don’t have to run around naked.
That happens all the damn time with one of those Tovala commercials. Granted, their target audience of people who can’t figure out how to cook like a normal person probably needs all the repetition it can get.
It’s better than Joe Namath, who whines.
A few weeks ago I saw an ad for the “Angel Mirror” a clip-on, rear view car mirror with a very wide angle view. As part of the commercial they included a “warning” that “due to supply chain issues,” when the current supply was sold out they may not re-stock.
Turns out that this is an ad from a company called BullbHead. And in the recent weeks, every single product commercial by BulbHead has been modified to include the same dire warning about how stock is limited to what’s on hand and it will never be made again.
I could only hope that they’re telling the truth and we’ll never have to see these commercials again, but the idea that any of these As Seen On TV gadgets will go away is preposterous.