Commercials - just stop!

I work at a casino and they have radio commercials talking about the fun you can have, all the restaurants, the resort. Then at the end it gives a number for help with gambling addiction. Just seems kinda funny to me.

We have some of those for casinos here. It's like "Gamble all you want, but if you have a problem call this number... But still gamble a LOT here." :lol

Radio ads that have car horns or sirens in them. Dude, I'm in MY CAR.

Exactly! There's been a few times where the siren sounded real enough to make me look around. Why that's legal is beyond me.
 
"Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt"

Umm, it's a soccer mom in a minivan driving a single block between signal lights at 10 miles per hour. How friggin' dangerous do they think that is?
My favorite one was when Sprint lampooned this in their Super Bowl commercial. Dad pushing his car over the cliff to fake his death to escape his bills, and his kid asks "Isn't this illegal?" Dad says no, but the caption on the screen comes up as "Yes, highly illegal, do not attempt."
 
Strangely a favorite thing of mine to do is every now and then get a couple drinks and watch playlists in youtube of commercials from the 80's/90's. Fun to get a nostalgic kick seeing ones I forgot about. They have hours of stuff on there.
 
How about Life cereal's Mikey?
My wife and I met the guy who played Mikey 30-something years ago when he lived on the same street as one of my wife's cousins. He was a teenager at the time and was clearly trying to live the whole "Mikey" thing down. "Hi, I'm John. Yeah, I played Mikey. Yeah, I really like Life cereal." *turns to his mother* "Can I go now?" :lol
 
I always hate it when you are watching a show and the commercial comes on and its like 10 times louder then the show. So your looking around for the remote to hurry and mute it.

IIRC, there is a FCC law against this. But yea, it was devised to keep you entrenched into the commercial while you left the room to take a deuce, pull the TV dinner out of the oven etc. I think modern TVs have a function to fight this........but have yet to find it.

Oh....., I hate the commercials that make the dad look like a chump. Dad buys the family new cell phones and says group hug. Mom and girls hug and push out the dad. Dad then smirks, goes out to the garage, fires up the Harley, picks up a 20 something chick with daddy issues and phones his divorce attorney from a pay phone enroute to Key West (with the new gal riding beyotch).

So I embellished a little
 
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IIRC, there is a FCC law against this. But yea, it was devised to keep you entrenched into the commercial while you left the room to take a deuce, pull the TV dinner out of the oven etc. I think modern TVs have a function to fight this........but have yet to find it.

I don't think people know there's a law because this always happens.

Oh....., I hate the commercials that make the dad look like a chump. Dad buys the family new cell phones and says group hug. Mom and girls hug and push out the dad. Dad then smirks, goes out to the garage, fires up the Harley, picks up a 20 something chick with daddy issues and phones his divorce attorney from a pay phone enroute to Key West (with the new gal riding beyotch).

So I embellished a little

I hate that as well. They either make the dad an idiot or it makes parents idiots and the kids know everything. There's one for an insurance company where the teen is telling his mom he wrecked the car. He says something like "There's an app for that. You know what an app is right?" I'd say "I used computers way before you were born you little jerk, and you aren't driving for the foreseeable future!" :lol
 
Part of the loudness thing is perception because of dynamic range.
If you look at the waveform of a show, the loud parts will be just as loud as the commercial....but they'll be in form of peaks separated by much quieter parts.
The commercials are processed so that they're all one peak, basically.
So they might be within the legally acceptable db level....it's just that they're AS loud sustained for their entirety.
 
Part of the loudness thing is perception because of dynamic range.
If you look at the waveform of a show, the loud parts will be just as loud as the commercial....but they'll be in form of peaks separated by much quieter parts.
The commercials are processed so that they're all one peak, basically.
So they might be within the legally acceptable db level....it's just that they're AS loud sustained for their entirety.

Yup, correct. I looked it up and thats basically the gist.
 
I used to do rants on another now defunct website, here was mine RE commercials...oh and nothing has changed,

In the world of advertising, the married male is the ultimate in stupidity, followed closely by the single male, who needs a females input on how to walk upright. Women are never portrayed as stupid, unless there is a child present, then one or both parents are relegated to the position of brain-dead.

If Stephen Hawking and Marilyn Vos Savant (smartest person in the world) were a married couple in a commercial they would be trying to open a can of Spaghetti-Os by running over it with his Wheelchair, UNTIL the "Smarter-now-at-age-8-than-you-will-ever-be" child shows them the Pop-top while Rolling his/her eyes.
 
I miss toy and video game commercials like we had in the 80s and 90s, they were terrible but the kids were more realistic in them. And let's face it getting paid to play with GI Joe or Transformers wasn't a bad deal. What gets me is there is now almost as much commercial per tv episode as actual episode. History channel literally shows 5 minutes of show then 10 of commercials.
 
I miss toy and video game commercials like we had in the 80s and 90s, they were terrible but the kids were more realistic in them. And let's face it getting paid to play with GI Joe or Transformers wasn't a bad deal. What gets me is there is now almost as much commercial per tv episode as actual episode. History channel literally shows 5 minutes of show then 10 of commercials.

I was watching some older shows on amazon without commercials and was noticing that the ones that played in a hour time slot actually had a little over 50 minutes of actual show. Nowadays if you watch a show on amazon without the commercials you get a tiny bit over 40 minutes of actual show. I also noticed when BBC America shows the original uncut TOS episodes that they run for 1 hours and 10 minutes so that they can do it uncut and still get their full complement of commercials in.
 
All of this spells out why I don't have cable and don't watch tv. When I had "free" cable at my last apartment, I would occasionally scan channels looking for something interesting, would invariably land on SyFy or AMC, and then they'd hit commercials and I'd bail out. Usually just ended up on TCM watching some old movie because they are uncut, and uninterrupted. I miss TCM. Glad to finally have Filmstruck.com.
 
^ ah the classic lighthouse US Navy joke. Having many Navy buddies, this never fails to bring a smile to my face.

The actor portraying Navy Captain has been in a crap load of commercials, but I believe this was the first I noticed him and I have been LMAO at it :lol for years :D

Ze German coast guard :lol :lol :lol
 
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