Updated thread - What TV commercial gets on your nerves?

What in the world is Giamatti in the Verizon ads?
Commercials are so repetitive and unoriginal now it’s ludicrous.

 

Better hurry up! That special Planet Fitness rate (that has been the going rate for the last decade AT LEAST) expires next Wednesday! (At which point, you’d better hurry because it’ll expire the following Wednesday!)

 

You’re saying you don’t miss Wes Welker shouting football cliches in a phone commercial?

 

I don't miss that Cecily Strong in those commercials.

 

Can’t stand the Spectrum Mobile commercial where the idiot spokesman screams multiple times about the second line being free.

I mute the TV or change the channel when it comes on because it’s so obnoxious.

 

Whoever at Progressive decided it would be funny to have a Cliff Huxtable type (complete with the colorful sweaters) star in a line of “TV Dads” spots must be catapulted into the sun.

 

Do you not recognize who that is?

 

This is not a complaint about these commercials, which are all for worthy causes, but any number of charities have block booked commercial time across the higher number cable channels that show old TV shows and they all have the same financial pitch. "Donate $19 a month." That's a weird number, so weird I wonder if there's some aspect of charitable solicitation law involved. Does anyone here know why this number is so featured. Watch an old Perry Mason, or a Western, and these ads are well more than half the commercial time. Medicare supplement, life insurance for old folks and Navage nasal instrument ads make up the rest.

 

I think I read somewhere that’s it’s psychological. Studies were done and $20 seemed like too high of a price point.
It’s probably the same reason a lot of department store price end with 99. Hey, 19.99 isn’t 20 bucks.

Edit: Found this. Backs my theory and also says it means charities don’t have to send receipts.

The Reason So Many Charities Ask for $19 Per Month

 

No, who?

 

Reginald VelJohnson. He played the dad on Family Matters back in the day.

He was also Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard, and has been in a billion other things over the past 40 years.