Pickles by Brian Crane for April 12, 2020

Love,Rosco facial expression.

Some commercials have much better production values than some of the shows they run near. But the shows only repeat if YOU ask them to. I get so freakin’ TIRED  of some of the commercials that were at least moderately cute the first time I saw them. Maybe even the first few times.

Don’t be hasty Earl, you’re gonna give back all that free time you just found.

My father loved to avoid commercials. He spent a lot of time on the old Americn Movie Classics channel. He avoided having to see what was done to it by dying just in time. Commercials only bothered me when a program left you dangling until they came back from the break. Now they are bothering me almost as much as they did my dad. I think we had better commercials back in the day. I hit a trifecta about a week and a half ago. First there was that medicare advantage outfit with Namath, followed by another with some guy named Ditka and the piece de resistance was one for a generic little blue pill for men, featuring a guy sitting with his face in his hand, looking like he was awaiting his execution. I sure miss Mason Adams pushing Smucker’s jellies.

Some commercials are the best part. I’m glad I can get most on Youtube. (Mayhem is good.)

Why???

You don’t need broadcast or cable to get in this situation. Try buying a DVD for some popular movie. After you watched the movie, watch it again with the director’s commentary. Then watch the collection of trailers, the “making of” documentaries, and if you really get bored, watch it with the audio and subtitles in two different languages neither of which you understand.

Streaming’s a pretty sweet solution, too, with things being on demand and commercial free at nominal cost.

My problem, I watch a program, the commercials come on, I lose interest and doze off, and miss the end of the program!

Roscoe you stole the show with that look in the last panel !

Said no-one ever. Happy Easter everyone!

And Roscoe is like, “What the heck?”

Speedy Alkaselzer. . .why do I always remember that commercial? And the little Chinese boy who wouldn’t eat any jello substitutes. . .Tony the tiger. . .

I only watch commercials during the Super Bowl.

This is why I watch Encore western channel. No commercials! No cussing! And they still believe in God.

Almost never watch cable tv anymore. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus. NO MORE commercials!

I fast forward thru the commercials except for the “Claritin” one with “Buddy” and I watch all "Dignity Health commercials.

I have a PVR Its the same as DVR but I am from Canada! They are the best there is!

Poor Roscoe

Commercials are important because we need time to go to the bathroom or to the kitchen for snacks.

Rerun: same lines different format.

Sad

With “smart” built into everything.. why.. can my DVR not be smart enough to have a button that skips all commercials or better.. a setting that doesn’t even record them.

My husband likes to watch MSU Spartan football and basketball. He records them, starts watching after the 2nd period/quarter then fast forwards through all the junk. If he starts a bit earlier, sometimes he finishes at the same time as the real time game.

I don’t have a DVR, but I have Netflix, which I love!

Said nobody ever!

I don’t have a DVR, but I need to get a new universal remote because I’ve worn out the MUTE button on the old one from muting all the commercials!

Douglas Adams once described a VCR (it was the 90’s) as a machine that watched television for you when you were too busy to watch television.

As a man of a certain age I refer to commercials as pee time.

I am with Earl. I can make tv obey my schedule, I can avoid annoying commercials, and I have time for other things. Only thing is, I have more creative uses for the extra 15 minutes that skipping commercials gets me every hour.

Everyone wants stuff for free

Well I kind of like some of the insurance commercials, especially the gecko and the “we covered that” ones. If I see a new one, I even stop fast forwarding for a minute.

There’s a commercial In Texas, that is shown TWICE in the same commercial break. And several times a day. The only difference in the second one, is at the beginning and they say…”We’re back.” They need to add…”with the same thing we just showed you.”

Love the dog’s expression!