I'm totally with you on the commercials thing. The sad truth is, they must work, otherwise they wouldn't exist. I'm sure the marketing teams have plenty of numbers from the sales teams to justify the ungodly amounts they spend on commercials. If they didn't work, there'd be no funding to make them.

It comes down to this: there are enough gullible or easily-influenced people (fodder) to keep the plague that is commercials afflicting all of us.