# Commericals that bother you for silly reasons. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024 "2012-04-26T15:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/81 "2012-04-27T20:43:31Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Ah, those are FTC rules. They only apply in, you guessed it, the USA, and I suspect that for ads recorded abroad there may not be someone from the FTC checking that the ice cream is indeed ice cream. Any idea how many ads for U.S. markets are filmed abroad? > [@](#): > > Also, your own cite says that the cone has to be real but the ice cream can be fake. IOW, if the product would end up being a horrible goop within minutes of being under the lights, you can fake it. The only reason the ice cream can be fake in that example is because the advertisement is for the cone. If it was an ad for the ice cream the advertisers would have to use the ice cream being sold. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/82 "2012-04-27T20:57:23Z")
> [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](#): > > I think what really gets me is the “Great job, Mom!” and the fact that this conversation has apparently happened many times before. Those two brain donors have apparently called their mother with “emergencies” like this often enough that the idea that her children are in actual danger no longer enters her mind as she matter-of-factly tells them they’re hungry. I just imagine all the previous calls: > > “Mom, the house is underwater!” > “No, it’s just raining.” > > “Mom, there’s a burglar downstairs!” > “No, your father just got home from work.” > > “Mom, the house is on fire!” > “No, you’re just standing over the heat duct.” > > “Mom, I’ve gone blind!” > “No, you have your eyes closed.” > > The only “great job” the mom’s done is resisting the urge to smother her idiot sons with a pillow to put them out of her misery. Especially since she wouldn’t actually have to press a pillow over their faces – just flipping them face down in bed and ignoring their muffled cries of “Mm! I cnf breef!” would do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/83 "2012-04-27T21:25:39Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > For that matter, the cartoon bee used in some of the Honey Nut Cheerios commercials looks downright psychotic, or at the very least hopped up on some sort of stimulant drug. [Hit him again, Frank!](http://breakfastofthegods.com/category/breakfast-of-the-gods-book-1/) ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/84 "2012-04-27T22:25:30Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > There was a commercial with women in it talking about how good something was. One woman said it was “dating a masseuse good”. Funny, she didn’t look lesbian- Probably entirely coincidental, but that actress (Leisha Hailey) is a lesbian. During that commercial’s run, she had a role in the Showtime series about lesbians _The L Word_. She had done other Yoplait commercials before getting the role. ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/85 "2012-04-27T22:40:37Z")
[quote=“Chanteuse, post:58, topic:620024”] 1. Adults should never use the word “yummy” when speaking to anyone except a very young child. \ THANK YOU!!! I become irrationally aggravated every time I hear that word in a food commercial. My other silly reason for hating a commercial is when credit card users swipe their cards with the magnetic strip on the outside. I know it’s to show off the card but it bugs me. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/86 "2012-04-27T22:54:17Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > > [@california\_jobcase](#): > > > > There was a commercial with women in it talking about how good something was. One woman said it was “dating a masseuse good”. Funny, she didn’t look lesbian- There’s one on now where a male is giving a massage and is called a masseuse. > > > > Masseuses are women, massaging men are masseurs. > > Probably entirely coincidental, but that actress (Leisha Hailey) is a lesbian. During that commercial’s run, she had a role in the Showtime series about lesbians _The L Word_. She had done other Yoplait commercials before getting the role. All I ever hear for someone who gives a massage is masseuse. So it’s probably a widespread error that will eventually become common usage. At least in America. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/87 "2012-04-27T23:10:49Z")
[I don’t understand what audience Maxwell House was aiming at.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpC39-yITdA) The whole commercial just shrieks 1990s at me. When I see it on actual TV, a part of me is shocked when whatever modern show I’m watching comes back on and not Mad About You or Full House. And what’s his deal with plungers? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/88 "2012-04-27T23:27:57Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > And what’s his deal with plungers? He’s alluding to toilet plungers. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/89 "2012-04-27T23:47:05Z")
Yeah, but it’s a stupid allusion. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/90 "2012-04-27T23:48:56Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > [I don’t understand what audience Maxwell House was aiming at.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpC39-yITdA) > > The whole commercial just shrieks 1990s at me. When I see it on actual TV, a part of me is shocked when whatever modern show I’m watching comes back on and not Mad About You or Full House. > > And what’s his deal with plungers? I believe the French press type coffee makers use a plunger. I have never used a French press coffee maker so I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/91 "2012-04-27T23:52:11Z")
I know how french press coffee is made. What confuses me is why Maxwell House thinks a guy who doesn’t understand the difference between a coffee press plunger and a toilet plunger is an appropriate spokesman for their coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/92 "2012-04-28T03:10:42Z")
Ellen DeGeneres bemoaning .99 prices (for JCPenney) by journeying back to Merry Olde England, where a Victorian sales clerk insists that a hat is five pounds, ninety-nine cents. No it wasn’t; before 1971 it was five-nineteen-and-eleven! ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/93 "2012-04-28T05:45:00Z")
I guess I just can’t get behind the notion that the guy making minimum wage delivering pizzas is really that pissed off that someone had the audacity to buy microwaveable pepperoni bread sticks. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/94 "2012-04-28T05:59:29Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > Ellen DeGeneres bemoaning .99 prices (for JCPenney) by journeying back to Merry Olde England, where a Victorian sales clerk insists that a hat is five pounds, ninety-nine cents. No it wasn’t; before 1971 it was five-nineteen-and-eleven! That’s not common American knowledge and it’s an American commercial. ---
**Author:** ![CindyH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CindyH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CindyH)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/95 "2012-04-28T21:26:32Z")
I absolutely hate that Honda Pilot roadtrip commercial. A huge family of white folks with a token black kid all humming, banging, etc. to an Ozzy song? It annoys me every time to the point I never want to even SEE a Honda pilot. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/96 "2012-04-28T21:33:04Z")
I don’t hate the Directv “slippery slope” commericals universally, but some are just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/97 "2012-04-28T21:35:44Z")
> [@CindyH](#): > > I absolutely hate that Honda Pilot roadtrip commercial. A huge family of white folks with a token black kid all humming, banging, etc. to an Ozzy song? It annoys me every time to the point I never want to even SEE a Honda pilot. I hate those ads too, but I don’t think it’s silly to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/98 "2012-04-28T22:26:15Z")
Lord, I’m so glad they’re not showing that one anymore! It made me wanna find the guy who wrote/directed and slap him silly. Now I think the same guy’s shilling for Sears, still with the same attitude. Q ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/99 "2012-04-28T22:27:53Z")
Don’t know how “silly” this reason is, but - I keep getting this Crest ad before Youtube videos. It annoys me because it depicts something I hate and that’s illegal here - someone using a cell phone while driving. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/100 "2012-04-28T22:33:44Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I don’t hate the Directv “slippery slope” commericals universally, but some are just dumb. Can you _really_ sell your hair to a wig shop in Vegas? Holy Shit! Talk about hitting the bottom of the barrel!:eek: Q [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024.md?page=6)