Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for July 20, 2021

You get the opening, and then at least 5 more minutes of commercials. Which is why I DVR shows so I can skip all that.

They still have detergent ads? Some days I long for one to break up all the pills, lawyers, medicare advantage plans and computer services. I miss Madge, the manicurist who soaked her customers’ fingers in dish detergent.

They forgot to mention an annoying prescription commercial.

Don’t forget the people having a wonderful, active life on the Xesgjagkz commercial. Ask your doctor if he knows what the hell Xesgjagkz is for!

A one-hour show is now about 41 minutes. That means one third of the run time is ads. No wonder people are switching to streaming services or pirating content. The industry brought this on themselves.

30+ years and running with never a TV commercial to annoy us. We went from just muting them to using the DVR to just watching streaming TV. Still have to change the station when the radio goes to commercials.

Got that right

You forgot the PSA.

What are these commercial everybody here speaks about? I vaguely remember them from pre-DVR days.

Damn! You must be watching TV in MY neighborhood cuz I think you’ve even got the sequence right! ;-)

When cable TV first became available, the big selling point was it was commercial free AND as more people got it, and the cables were in place (hold onto your hats) it would become CHEAPER.

Can’t stand the woke commercials they show now. Everybody jumped on the bandwagon. Got a feeling they are much less effective now days. (We now return you to humorous comments)

Gotta pay for it some way. Advertising, cable fees, pay-per-view, streaming fees, whatever. For the last two years of its run the main 6 actors on Friends were pulling down $1 Million per episode and you don’t get that selling apples on the street corner. (That comes to about $50 Million over 2 years to all of them) Cool fact: The higher rated shows charge more for commercials, example: the Superb Owl, and the makers of the product charge you more to pay for those commercials. The shows have to generate income to pay for the sets, make-up, actor salaries, and all that stuff needed. Advertising, cable fees, license fees, whatever, even your local cable access, like Wayne and Garth, needs to pay fees. Streaming services do have some advantages, they can show programmes that would be considered “R” rated for violence and language, have better sets, props and costumes. They should also have better actors and writers, but that is not always the case. One of the nice things has been an explosion of choice. Somewhere there is a show you will like. To paraphrase Bruce Springsteen “There’s 257 channels but there’s nothing on.”

Sounds about right. That’s why we have the other services…..

Liberty, liberty, liberty

Add in the Geico, Progressive and Liberty Mutual ads. Ugh.

Dangerous weather radar warning after the commercials teaser.

Don’t forget all the Medicare supplement ads. Yuck.

don’t forget shark week

The questionable extended auto warranty ads are now taking to the airwaves as the telemarketing scams are getting harder to run.

Sounds like the evening news.

He left out the “3 dopey car ads”.