Garfield by Jim Davis for November 30, 2023

And it sounds something like, “Yadda yadda.”

Advert, 5 seconds of content, Advert …..

More than “a word”I’d say.

I had to quit watching the news, aound here it is the shower installers, the window installers, humana…endless. Bring back the Geico pig!

He must be watching MSNBC.

Good time to go get some lasagna, Gar.

Time to eat or sleep instead.

Very accurate.

Can’t skip ads on TV. YouTube better.

Firefox + uBlock extension. YouTube heaven…….

Sooooo tired of ads. I absolutely NEVER see one for anything I’d actually buy. I mean NEVER.

Always leave the most important guest ‘til last. Make sure there is something nice for them to drink in the green room while they wait. A new celeb will think it’s rude to make them wait, but an old celeb will recognize it as a sign of his/her importance.

Sounds like the next guest is also the sponsor

Too many ads these days it seems.

This is waaaaaay more accurate than it should be

Rule of thumb: the better (funnier, cleverer etc.) the ad, the worse the product.I usually hear an announcement like “And now, the news” which never is now because first there’s a sponsor (i.e. concealed ad), then the ads announced as ads. Or first ad ads, then the sponsor adds ads.

Oh Lord… sponsors. I know, the network channel is paid, and that is a good thing, but please, don’t make it 3 minutes or more, it bores the hell out of most of us.

Ugh, commercials are the worst.

The incessant shower installer commercials are making my brain shrivel! But they must work because they are making enough money to keep putting on more commercials. For the love of all that is sacred – make it stop!!!

Which is worse, the five minute ads for a drug that may kill you or the thirty second ads that can give you a headache?

Sounds like ESPN — 18 minutes of programming and 42 minutes of commercials per hour

The next guest will be Jake from All State

the word: buy!

Same look I have, except my eyes are rolled up inside my forehead! With disbelief!

That’s definitely today’s TV ads in a nutshell.

Just like real life. I’ve counted commercials five minutes long, so long that I had forgot what I was watching.

Yep, that’s Cable TV for you. We now interrupt our fifteen minute commercial block with five minutes of program.

More ads than shows, these days.

One of my fav’ peanuts was Linus watching TV which said “We’ll be right back after a few short words from our sponsor” Linus in the last panel is sitting bolt upright pointing at the TV and declares “YOU LIE!”

And after that sponsor’s word, they’ll be another one coming

Seems to be the state of television today, more commercials than program.

Black Friday sale! $2 a month streaming for each of these services!

The catch: lots of adds. The add-free service has no discount. When you start the adds are bearable, but then they increase their frequency to the point that there is at least 1 minute of adds in every 5 minutes of show. You either abandon the show or switch to the expensive add-free version.

This should be criminal.

(wonders about the “BLAH-DEE BLAH-DEE BLAH-DEE BLAH-DEE DAH” of this cartoon; senses a cartoon with a story worthy of being continued)

It really is that bad now. What little morals networks had, they have sold to the highest bidder and then some. You get 3 minutes of show before another commercial now.

Last weekend, they somehow slipped a football game in between the commercials. I really don’t know how that happened.

“Hey, the bills for this show aren’t going to pay for themselves so we have to get some money somehow…”

This would be funny if it wasn’t actually true.

This is why you ALWAYS record shows – even if you’re home at the time – and play them back later when you can skip through all that crap.

Aw, he remembered Gnorm Gnat. This comes from the 1975-02-20 strip.

Ime wid u Garfy…

Yes that’s the way ABC evening news is the last half. 4 min commercial and 30 secs of news several times. With all that’s going on you’d think they could come with 20-22 mins of news.

I’ve seen that done to pad out a really short movie on SyFy some years ago.

“We’ll be back after a word from our sponsor.” “Sasquatch” “Welcome back.”

Think there are too many commercials anymore, Garfield?

When “pay TV” first started in the 70’s, it was advertised as commercial free…that didn’t last long.

is Garfield watching youtube?