Am I being whooshed? A gecko is a lizard.
Anything shown on screen after the words: “Has this ever happened to you?”
Fruit salad and ginger ale. Tastes substantially the same either direction. Probably the reason that it is one of the first post anaesthetic food options available. Saltines and chicken noodle soup also taste substantially the same either direction.
People who knock on a street door, and there is always someone in, and they answer instantly.
This is my top pick.
Second is people who ignore an exciting event they’re
watching on TV, leaving early to go to a “sale” at the auto dealership.
“Hello, madam. I’m a burglar.”
“I don’t believe you. I think you’re an encyclopedia salesman.”
“You want me to buy a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post”
“No, ma’am. I just want to come in, ransack the flat, steal a few things…”
There’s an ad from 2018 or 2019 featuring Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale) making fun of this.
Only in ads do I ever see a doctor who tells their patient what medicine they’re going to prescribe, and then complete a physical exam.
A guru entering your house through the cat flap and giving you a Canada Dry.
Dating myself with this late-90s complaint:
Commercials of people driving SUVs off suburban pavement.
And tearing up the ground. And, even if they’re shown on rock, driving noisy disrupting damaging vehicles into places they’ve got no business in.
Unfortunately this is not a thing that doesn’t happen in the real world. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t get so ticked off about it. Yes, such vehicles are essential tools in some people’s necessary work. But you just want to tear up the ground because you think it’s fun? Go find a track dedicated to the purpose.
Mona!
Mind you, have you considered the benefits of a set of encyclopedias?
Do radio stations ever call people and offer them money for answering a idquestion?
Maybe in the 1930’s, but still today you can call them and get $ for answering a question.
I believe some stations still have a thing where you send in your #, and if they call it on (e.g.) Tuesday @ 10AM you get a prize.
At the radio station where I worked in the '90s, we did a weeknight quiz show where you could phone in and win a T-shirt. I think the pervasiveness of the Internet would make the whole thing pointless today. How would you know the guy on the other end of the line wasn’t just looking up the answer as soon as you posed the question?
The station gave out other prizes as well, but SFAIK never cash (though we did “offer” it on Halloween and April Fool’s Day 
).
Give them a short time to answer.
Yes; a local radio station does this. They only take 3 callers and they each only have 5 or 10 seconds to answer
How about huge ginormous bathrooms? Those are everywhere on ads.
Doesn’t work if (a) you ask the question before people start calling in, or (b) you ask the first person who calls in on-air and he/she can’t answer it; then every subsequent listener/caller has plenty of time to Google the answer.
You have to at least announce the category before people can start calling in so they have some idea if they’ll know the answer.
Taking the calls during commercials or records eliminates problem (b), but then the quiz can drag on off-air for some time. It’s more interesting for the audience if they can hear other listeners responding. In radio, anything that lasts for more than three minutes is evil!