# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/101 "2012-05-01T15:40:43Z")
I guess “bother” isn’t the right word but Lincoln has car commercials with John Slattery, obviously playing off his panache as Roger Sterling from Mad Men. Each time I see one, I mentally append “…And with a free copy of _Sterling’s Gold_ in each glove box” which means I don’t take the commercial seriously at all. Not that I’m in the market for a Lincoln anyway. \*_Sterling’s Gold_ being the title of Sterling’s self-published and unsold memoirs. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/102 "2012-05-02T01:11:45Z")
Ooh! Ooh! I just heard the other one that drives me nuts: The Kay Jeweler ads for the Leo Diamond: “The first diamond ever certified to be visibly brighter.” Visibly brighter than what?!?? A dark closet? A lump of coal? A cloudy day? ---
**Author:** ![theotherwatcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@theotherwatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theotherwatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/103 "2013-02-13T05:48:39Z")
I was intrigued as well and did some research. Her name is Lisa Keys. It turns out she works for Spec’s. There is a YouTube where she is talking about their products. She’s really smart. She’s also Spec Jackson’s granddaughter 🙂 Once you know who she is, it makes more sense that she’s the central character. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/104 "2013-02-13T17:49:40Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Yeup, right in the middle of the big red blotch. > > P.S. People in Nevada don’t have lines or don’t talk? Yeah, and what do the “other” people do? . . . I guess they go to [Stamps.com](http://Stamps.com)! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/105 "2013-02-14T01:07:28Z")
Recently a couple of car commercials have really bugged me, both for the typical “do not attempt” warnings. Now, that’s in plenty of car commercials, sure, but in the first, this was incredibly dumb because the car in question wasn’t doing anything. No jumps, no acting like a skateboard, no crashing through walls. It was just driving down a city street. Oooh, it made a right turn, put up the disclaimer again! Don’t want people attempting right turns! Damn thing wasn’t even speeding… The second, has some ludicrous plot about a planet of babies (human and animal) parachuting to earth or something (yeah, makes me want to buy a car!). Who the fuck has the means and desire to attempt to duplicate such a commercial? And if someone did, do you really think your disclaimer will stop such an insane criminal mastermind? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/106 "2013-02-14T04:44:41Z")
Anything having to do with constipation, feminine hygiene products, painful rectal itch, the heartbreak of psoriasis, or beautiful feet. Can’t imagine why… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/107 "2013-02-14T07:16:52Z")
Oh, yeah: anything connected with “the pain … the ITCH … of hemmorhoids.” :mad: ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/108 "2013-02-14T07:58:40Z")
The lady in the Kashi commercial has the wirerdest teeth. It looks like she has fangs. For some reason, I find this really disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/109 "2013-02-14T13:03:36Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Then there’s Ageless Male. This commercial runs a lot on all the science channels late at night, which leads me to believe I have the viewing habits of a 60 year old guy Tune in to the Military Channel. You’ll love the catheter ads. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/110 "2013-02-14T21:55:41Z")
> [@theotherwatcher](#): > > I was intrigued as well and did some research. Her name is Lisa Keys. It turns out she works for Spec’s. There is a YouTube where she is talking about their products. She’s really smart. She’s also Spec Jackson’s granddaughter 🙂 Once you know who she is, it makes more sense that she’s the central character. “What chu talkin’ about, Willis?” ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/111 "2013-02-14T22:44:27Z")
There’s one on locally where this guy is getting a lesson from his sentient iPad on how Cox Communications can help him watch TV from anywhere in his house. At the end he asks his iPad how it knows so much about Cox. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/112 "2013-02-14T22:46:20Z")
I used to do tech support for them. Cox jokes allllllll the time! ---
**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:** [February 14, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/113 "2013-02-14T23:08:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Tune in to the Military Channel. You’ll love the catheter ads. The ones with the smooth holes so they don’t hurt going in-- and less infections too! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/114 "2013-02-15T02:18:06Z")
Heidi Klum is currently featured in a commercial for some hair product. She has over an inch of dark roots in her blonde hair. The roots are so big and dark that they’re all I can look at. How much did they pay this woman to hawk their hair care product,and she couldn’t be bothered to get a roots touch up? This is the commercial that claims they were “working at the wrong end of hair” for decades. So this company sold us faulty products for a long time and now we’re supposed to believe they’ve got it right? Hmmmm . . . if the product is working at the scalp end, maybe it’s causing Heidi’s dark roots. ---
**Author:** ![Butcher\_Cook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Butcher\_Cook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butcher_Cook)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/115 "2013-02-15T02:24:42Z")
I’m not sure if this one has been mentioned, but there is a commercial for some sort of small hand-held vacuum device which sucks out your troublesome ear wax. In the commercial they show some dork going about his business of cleaning his ears with q-tips and the voiceover guy says something like, "Q-tips not only push the wax deeper into the ear, but they can be painful as well. Right on cue, the idiot drives the q-tip into his ear with the force of Thor and he screams in agony, reeling backwards as if a red-hot poker had been driven straight into his brain. I have to turn the channel as the guy is screaming. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/116 "2013-02-15T06:50:42Z")
> [@Butcher\_Cook](#): > > Right on cue, the idiot drives the q-tip into his ear with the force of Thor and he screams in agony, reeling backwards as if a red-hot poker had been driven straight into his brain. Yeah, I can’t stand that one either. I told my husband that a person that stupid and clumsy shouldn’t be in control of his own breathing. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/117 "2013-02-15T07:25:32Z")
I’m sure one is far less likely to injure one’s self with an ear vacuum device bought from a TV commercial :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/118 "2013-02-15T18:24:01Z")
I don’t like the current one for Fish McBites from McDonald’s where the guy has this trophy on his wall with a whole bunch of little talking fish (picture a wooden plaque with a bunch of tiny Big Mouth Billy Bass models on it). Silly reason I don’t like it: because the guy has another trophy down below that with the head of something that looks like a lynx or a bobcat. Not crazy about the implication that the guy killed a cat and mounted its head on his wall. Plus, I think “Fish McBites” is a stupid name for a product. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/119 "2013-02-16T16:42:18Z")
The Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercials where the cereal squares are licking and eating each other in a bowl of milk, I just find really creepy. My husband laughs at me everytime that commerical runs. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024/120 "2013-02-16T17:14:07Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > Heidi Klum is currently featured in a commercial for some hair product. She has over an inch of dark roots in her blonde hair. The roots are so big and dark that they’re all I can look at. How much did they pay this woman to hawk their hair care product,and she couldn’t be bothered to get a roots touch up? [This is a thing.](http://main.stylelist.com/2010/07/14/ombre-hair-color-stars-newest-trick-to-looking-younger/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commericals-that-bother-you-for-silly-reasons/620024.md?page=7)