# Commercials Currently Annoying You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655 "2016-01-30T16:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/21 "2016-01-31T17:47:45Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I hate the “[Dealdash.com](http://Dealdash.com)” commercial with the heat of a thousand suns. For some reason, they run ads promoting an auction site for morons on channels like BBC America and the Science channel which are, at least in my fond imagining, aimed at a slightly more intelligent audience. And they run the damn advertisement constantly. It’s like the goddamn Zika virus of commercials. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > That’s a pretty bad one. You could pull people off the street and chances are they’d have better acting skills, plus that one woman has one of the worst wigs I’ve ever seen. Now, it’s none of my business if a person wants to wear a wig, but I’d think that in the case of a TV commercial, costuming would put her in a more convincing one. The original [DealDash.com](http://DealDash.com) commercials are pretty damn bad, but the spelling bee ones they’ve been running recently take the cake. In addition to being as dumb as fook (if not more-so) as the previous ones, they’re (seemingly) twice as long!! Awful, awful ads and outfit…why, WHY would anyone want to pay a fee per bid?! ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/22 "2016-01-31T18:44:35Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I’m grossed out by the girl eating the boys Skittle Pox. Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/23 "2016-01-31T19:28:21Z")
“Welcome back…” Deborah Norville begins her pitch for some skin care package this way, as if the ad is actually the program resuming. The reflex to snap to attention takes many, many viewings to conquer. It’s all the more disillusioning given the mad crush I harbored for Ms. Norville in her NBC _Today Show_ days. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/24 "2016-01-31T20:00:41Z")
George Foreman’s endless, eternal “Invennieh” commercial. Doesn’t the company mind that their spokesman can’t even pronounce their name? And Time Warner’s stupid, idiotic “More Family” who gets “more” of everything. Was that made by the same agency as the “finely/finally” commercial of several years ago? So annoying! And one that’s not new, but still running: The CariDee English commercial for Stelara, a skin disease. Her stereotypical modeling poses make my skin crawl. I literally change the channel. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/25 "2016-01-31T21:43:03Z")
Oh, oh oh! Kate Hudson and “Fabletics.” I’d be very happy if I never had to see an ad for that crap again. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/26 "2016-02-03T02:26:18Z")
[MSC Cruises](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PasyjSQXmRw). Absolutely destroys “In The Summertime” because they can’t be bothered to write lyrics that match the music. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/27 "2016-02-03T03:01:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And one that’s not new, but still running: The CariDee English commercial for Stelara, a skin disease. Her stereotypical modeling poses make my skin crawl. I literally change the channel. I could do without Blythe Danner’s ads for whatever osteoporosis pill she’s pushing. I used to like her, but then she had to go and be Gwyneth Paltrow’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/28 "2016-02-03T03:11:02Z")
Lyrica: “And with less pain, I feel better.” Really? Is that how it works?" ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/29 "2016-02-03T03:31:19Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > Lyrica: “And with less pain, I feel better.” > > Really? Is that how it works?" You owe me a laptop. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/30 "2016-02-03T03:42:01Z")
> [@Tinker\_Grey](#): > > Lyrica: “And with less pain, I feel better.” > > Really? Is that how it works?" There was an aspirin commercial a few years back with a passenger who was suffering from a backache(?). The flight attendant offers him aspirin which he refuses because"I’m not having a heart attack". Amazement ensues when he’s informed that aspirin can be used for pain. [Found it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6CcHAUzzlg) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/31 "2016-02-03T03:49:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There was an aspirin commercial a few years back with a passenger who was suffering from a backache(?). The flight attendant offers him aspirin which he refuses because"I’m not having a heart attack". > Amazement ensues when he’s informed that aspirin can be used for pain. > [Found it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6CcHAUzzlg) I find that ad racist because the white guy seems to be implying that the Asian flight attendant (even though she speaks perfectly good English) doesn’t understand what he’s saying and has to make hand signals to make her understand. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/32 "2016-02-03T04:00:16Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And one that’s not new, but still running: The CariDee English commercial for Stelara, a skin disease. Her stereotypical modeling poses make my skin crawl. I literally change the channel. What bothers me the most about this one is her awful outfits. They look like they were created by first-year fashion design students who probably aren’t going to make it to year two. And she keeps changing. Many times. It’s a long and painful commercial. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/33 "2016-02-03T04:50:48Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There was an aspirin commercial a few years back with a passenger who was suffering from a backache(?). The flight attendant offers him aspirin which he refuses because"I’m not having a heart attack". > Amazement ensues when he’s informed that aspirin can be used for pain. > [Found it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6CcHAUzzlg) It was several years ago, but there was an add for fibromyalgia where the woman says something like “I found out there are nervesattached to my muscles that transmit signals from my brain.” (Really, you just found that out?) “My doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia.” (Your doctor diagnosed having nerves as fibromyalgia? I don’t think that’s how it works.) I can’t find it, unfortunately. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/34 "2016-02-03T05:07:16Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > It was several years ago, but there was an add for fibromyalgia where the woman says something like “I found out there are nervesattached to my muscles that transmit signals from my brain.” (Really, you just found that out?) “My doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia.” (Your doctor diagnosed having nerves as fibromyalgia? I don’t think that’s how it works.) > > I can’t find it, unfortunately. I couldn’t find it, either. But it was annoying as hell. ---
**Author:** ![funky\_little\_lee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@funky\_little\_lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funky_little_lee)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/35 "2016-02-03T14:22:10Z")
Weight loss commercials bug me. If it’s not Marie Osmond, Kirstie Alley, or Oprah crowing that they’ve lost 50 pounds (but not mentioning that it’s the seventeenth time they’ve lost 50 pounds because they put it right back on again after their previous commercial), it’s the one that says their pill will make you lose “three times the weight.” Three times what? Sitting on your couch eating 8,000 calories a day? Oh wait, there’s the 2-point type specifying that you have to take the pills AND follow a 1300-calorie a day diet plus exercise. Don’t want to advertise _that_ inconvenient fact. Same thing goes with mascara commercials. “This stuff will give you power-pumped lashes five inches long and as thick as the fringe on your tablecloth!” Really? So why is there that little message explaining that J-Lo is wearing false lashes? Why doesn’t she do an ad for the people who make the false lashes instead? Why don’t they advertise false lashes anyway? In both cases it’s just a molecule away from out-and-out lying. So why would I want to buy their products? ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/36 "2016-02-03T14:31:23Z")
“Get your credit swagger back” - I want to crotch-punch that obnoxious arrogant wife in that commercial. As she walks her smug ass out of the bank pointing and acting all superior, I want the universe to shit right on her head. “Brocabulary” - That creepy-as-frak commercial of the two bros working out in the gym discussing I don’t even know what that has to do with insurance. Bro-stupid, bro-disgusting, bro-DIE-F\*CKERS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/37 "2016-02-03T14:35:00Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I can’t believe so many people are willing to discuss how clean a brand of TP gets their asses and further, they’ll go commando to prove it. Um, ok, whatever. Not that it’s persuaded me to try their product. > > Just in general, I really really hate commercials where men are portrayed as incompetent morons considered disdainfully by their obviously superior wives. To me, those ads are as offensive as the old Geritol ad with the tag line “My wife - I think I’ll keep her.” You’ve just reminded me of an absolutely hysterical SNL skit. It was a commercial parody of Geritol, and at the end of the “commercial” the wife is going down on her husband. As she’s doing this he says “My wife, I think I’ll keep her”. My hated commercial is the one with the car company that uses “Fight Song” as its music. It played during EVERY SINGLE commercial break during the X Files Premier. I used to like that song. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/38 "2016-02-03T14:59:32Z")
DirecTV’s “settlers”. Why don’t you [morons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg) settle for the cable alternative provided by AT&T? ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/39 "2016-02-03T15:41:52Z")
I think the Geico Peter Pan commercial is refreshing because the role is played by a real boy and not an adult woman. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/40 "2016-02-03T16:00:47Z")
There’s one where a family sings the song “Whatever You Like” at the top of their lungs. Fortunately, they stop just before the line that suggests they have “late night sex so wet so tight.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655.md?page=3)