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Late but is/was there a thread where people were talking about Lindsay on OWN? Interested.
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zoux posted:Yeah I get Irish Joe on a level none of the worthless philistines in this thread could ever hope to grasp. The Troy to Irish Joe's Abed. Awesome. He'll hate that description. 
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May 3, 2014 02:21
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ashpanash posted:The Troy to Irish Joe's Abed. Does this make Occupation the Britta?
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Rarity posted:Does this make Occupation the Britta? I think he's more like the Chang. I'm the Britta.
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DivisionPost posted:I think he's more like the Chang. I'm the Britta. I went with Occupation because he's the worst 
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May 3, 2014 02:52
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raditts posted:That's cute, you think people buy things for their functionality and not for glamour / as a status symbol. I just wanna pinch your cheeks! I laugh so hard every time my shithead coworker's ugly Audi is a piece of poo poo money hole. So ads are good for something. Ironically that something is schadenfreude at people buying hilariously overpriced German status symbol cars that are garbage and also dirt common.
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May 3, 2014 02:59
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May 3, 2014 03:03
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DivisionPost posted:I'm the Britta. That doesn't make sense on any level! Wait, are we doing self-loathing or circle-jerking? I'm not really a fan of either. That awful Heavy Metal Hurlant show is on in a few minutes. Will trip report.
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May 3, 2014 03:57
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precision posted:That doesn't make sense on any level! I want to watch this show. I'm thinking it's a sci-fi version of Krod Mandoon, but I'm not sure if it takes itself seriously or if it's all just a parody of scifi. The special effects seem worse than in the short-lived 2002 series Galidor. Ravane fucked around with this message at 04:19 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 04:17
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I don't actually know enough about the old Heavy Metal magazine to know if it's deliberate parody, but some of these shots sure look like it.
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May 3, 2014 04:23
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The episode "Second Chances" (the one up at 11:30) was one of the most AMAZINGLY horrible things I've ever seen.
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May 3, 2014 04:28
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PootieTang posted:If that's the show I'm thinking of (set in Ireland?) then be warned before you check it out that it's a fair bit disappointing. It's no-where near garbage, it's well produced, acted and (in certain ways) well written. It just really, really exceeds it's grasp. That and it suffers from a weird problem I see in European shows, where they try too hard it comes off as really self-congratulating and pretentious. I agree about Gillian Anderson being the best part of the show. Except her final speech when she was on the phone to the serial killer. It was so lame to have the payoff to the whole thing be her yelling the show's themes at the bad guy. I do agree about it being pretentious and overreaching too, especially considering a show like Top of the Lake came out right around the same time and did everything this show thought it was doing so well so much better.
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May 3, 2014 05:38
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Maxwell Lord posted:When you fast forward through the ads you still usually see the brands and the imagery and that's 90% of the job right there. Studies have shown this, that ads seen in 2x still make an impression. They don't let us fast forward past these. Someone invent ad block for live tv. 
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May 3, 2014 06:24
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Just think, pop-up video really set a terrible precedent, didn't it? Collectively we ate that poo poo up.
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May 3, 2014 06:42
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/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\I'm just waiting for the day when someone on Big Bang Theory or whatever show says "Hey guys, check out this trailer for the new Marvel movie!" and then they play the whole thing right in the middle of the show. I've been known to purchase new products after seeing an ad for them. I have a box of those Cheese-it ranch psudo cracker things at home (they're pretty good, actually). I've never changed something I buy regularly based on an advertisement, though. Pepsi's ads will never convince me to drink it instead of Coca-Cola. When watching timeshifted content I usually skip through ads (I love the 30 second skip button on my TiVO) but I will sometimes to go back and watch them if something catches my ears/eyes. The Gary Busey Kindle TV ad and the iPad ad where they're playing Gigantic, for instance. I'll never buy an iPad or Kindle TV though, so I can't say that the ads I choose to watch have any effect on me beyond distracting me from my TV show for 30 seconds at a time. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 06:49 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 06:46
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Mu Zeta posted:They don't let us fast forward past these. Someone invent ad block for live tv.
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May 3, 2014 06:53
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The animated ones are my favorite for how utterly desperate they seem. I mean it's literally just those lovely, expanding flash ads but on your TV where you can't avoid/block/close them.  If you love the macabre, brutal violence of Hannibal, you'll love the Today Show's new series about teens taking pictures of themselves! What a perfect match!
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May 3, 2014 08:39
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VDay posted:The animated ones are my favorite for how utterly desperate they seem. I mean it's literally just those lovely, expanding flash ads but on your TV where you can't avoid/block/close them. I thought you were joking, but i just rewatched the part and it's really an advert for something called 'Love your selfie'. Also the ads just ended 30s earlier, why wouldnt they put it in there instead of annoying everyone that watched the show?
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May 3, 2014 09:02
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Because people skip past the ads.
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May 3, 2014 09:04
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VDay posted:
Hannibal, brought to you by JJ Abrams.
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May 3, 2014 11:22
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I haven't seen this show, just caught the clip a while back, but I thought this ad graphic made all the annoying ones worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frla2-tn3U0
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May 3, 2014 11:30
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Has anyone been watching Californication this season. I'm about to start and want to know on a scale of 1-10 how much of a waste of time is it. 10 being the biggest waste of time.
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May 3, 2014 13:55
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I like this parody of these animated ads: American Sword Cooks is totally a show I would watch. Edit: vvvv Coca-Cola has been around since 1886. Advertising then was fine, but it's established its market. And now I get that advertising is purely for controlling it's brand image, but it's not like anyone is just now discovering coca-cola through its commercials. I've seen coca cola in rural africa and tiny villages in India while traveling. It's everywhere because distribution is high and production cost is low. That's why everyone today knows it exists. Not because of advertising. Ravane fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 14:30
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Ravane posted:I don't even know why certain companies bother to advertise. Everyone knows Coca-Cola exists, why do we need to see a coca-cola commercial? I think it's hilarious that you point out that everyone knows Coca-Cola exists, without thinking about why everyone knows it exists.
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May 3, 2014 14:31
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Snipes are the reason why I'm going to eventually go digital distribution. I can buy the shows on Google Play the day after they air and they are free of ads, logos and all other forms of fuckary. I'm not sure how long that will last, but the option is there for now.
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May 3, 2014 14:44
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bull3964 posted:Snipes are the reason why I'm going to eventually go digital distribution. I can buy the shows on Google Play the day after they air and they are free of ads, logos and all other forms of fuckary. This is why I buy a few shows that air on crowded nights on iTunes every year. Usually not Fox or FX shows though since a little while back they decided to start putting 2 minutes of ads at the front and back of all their episodes 
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May 3, 2014 15:18
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CaptainHollywood posted:Has anyone been watching Californication this season. I'm about to start and want to know on a scale of 1-10 how much of a waste of time is it. 10 being the biggest waste of time. I made it half way into the second episode before just giving up. It isn't worth it even for a completion viewing.
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May 3, 2014 17:52
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Ravane posted:Edit: vvvv Coca-Cola has been around since 1886. Advertising then was fine, but it's established its market. And now I get that advertising is purely for controlling it's brand image, but it's not like anyone is just now discovering coca-cola through its commercials. I've seen coca cola in rural africa and tiny villages in India while traveling. It's everywhere because distribution is high and production cost is low. That's why everyone today knows it exists. Not because of advertising. Your point isn't completely clueless. I think it's probably true that a company like Coke could cut their ad budget literally in half by simply advertising on alternate weeks. If that really had a noticeable effect on their sales - enough to offset the massive savings anyway - I'd be surprised.
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precision posted:Your point isn't completely clueless. I think it's probably true that a company like Coke could cut their ad budget literally in half by simply advertising on alternate weeks. If that really had a noticeable effect on their sales - enough to offset the massive savings anyway - I'd be surprised. Yeah, no. Coca-Cola's marketing budget is as big as it because the company is engaged in the advertorial equivalent of trench warfare. Those big flashy national prime time spots are a drop in the bucket next to what they do on the local level every day.
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May 3, 2014 18:44
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 The Review episode Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes is possibly one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. I don't know if I've ever laughed uncontrollably and yet at the same time been completely terrified before.
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May 3, 2014 20:30
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How come the link thread isn't stickied? Trying to find The Idiot Abroad thread and I can't seem to find it.
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May 3, 2014 20:42
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You should make a thread that links to the link thread.
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May 3, 2014 20:44
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You fool, I would have to make a link thread to my link thread to the link thread. Forever. The events foretold in the Necronomicon will finally come to pass.
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May 3, 2014 21:20
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Spatula City posted:
It pains me that so many people haven't seen Sex House. I know Review is on an actual channel, but it's nowhere near as good, also the finale was really disappointing.
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May 3, 2014 21:41
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IRQ posted:It pains me that so many people haven't seen Sex House. I feel like the odd one out because after Going into Space I kind of gave up on Review. The laughs just weren't there for me any more, and it had become too predictable and cartoony to work as dark humor.
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May 3, 2014 23:39
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PriorMarcus posted:I feel like the odd one out because after Going into Space I kind of gave up on Review. The laughs just weren't there for me any more, and it had become too predictable and cartoony to work as dark humor. I felt the same way at some point, not sure if it was that episode, but at some point the formula held it back by starting every episode fresh rather than building (enough) upon what happened before. It didn't compound like Sex House or Porkin' Across the USA did, and the ending was a total fizzle.
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May 4, 2014 00:26
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T minutes 12 minutes until the Mayweather vs. Maidana fight. 
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May 4, 2014 01:48
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I flipped on CNN as they're covering The White House Correspondents Dinner. Don Lemon and the other two guys at the news desk were wearing tuxes and "having their own version of the dinner" by sitting there eating bags of chips on camera. I can't think of a better allegory for CNN's approach to journalism.
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I saw that too. It was hilarious, watching these grown men in tuxedos sitting talking about how much they love Cheetos.
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