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Hasters: Jun 9, 2010; Look to the past and remember no fempire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Doc Hawkins posted:

gently caress those hipsters, that waitress rules.

Wait...hot pockets is going for the cool crowd?!

Worked for PBR.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2011 23:33

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# ¿ May 22, 2013 08:53

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Electric Phantasm posted:

What are they even trying to advertising? I would google it, but I'm not even sure I want to know.

Enzymatic pet stain cleaner, which is a product I purchase regularly and I try different brands most every time. I won't be trying this though so if that was their intention, good job.

Hasters fucked around with this message at Jul 14, 2011 around 20:48

# ¿ Jul 14, 2011 20:46

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skaboomizzy posted:

The Five-Hour Energy ad with the chick who is all pissed off that her husband/bf/screw-toy now gets up in the morning to exercise with her mystifies me. Why is she so pissed off that he now wants to work out with her?

The same reason that the previously posted Klondike ad is supposed to be funny, apparently straight couples hate each other and want to spend as little time together as possible.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 07:09

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DJExile posted:

Seriously this took over "antioxidants" as the magical buzzword in food ads.

Eh it's on the wane, now it's all about greek yogurt.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2011 20:02

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Professor X posted:

There's a commercial for Boursin cheese on now that irritates the poo poo out of me--the woman is a complete snotty bitch to her boyfriend/husband. Apparently he was too stupid to resist a beautiful woman at the grocery store trying to sell him cheese so he brought some home. She remarks "You did good......THIS TIME." Why are these people even together?

Dude get with the times. Ever since the gays ruined marriage, all straight couples everywhere hate each other all the time since they realize they could be in a much more compatible relationship.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 22:36

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DrBouvenstein posted:

Eh, it's pretty clear they're referring to the fact that with cable, you'll only get the (usually) 4 broadcast games for your market on Sunday. If you live in the market for the Patriots or Jets, and they play each other in the early game, that's what you see, not the Saints playing Green Bay if it's on at the same time on the same channel.

With DirectTV, you get (almost) all games. I think they're still subject to the NFL's asinine blackout rules.

I had it last year and can confirm the blackout rules do apply, which meant, for me anyway, missing 6 or 7 games. This year though I'm going with NFL Gamepass instead, it's cheaper and there are no blackouts.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 07:55

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Rirse posted:

Hate the Coke Zero ad with the person getting all these extra benefits for saying the word "And" because the can said that word on the side. Ads like this and the AT&T one last year (the guy becoming president because his father took him to a football game) are just annoying to watch.

You're mixing two different commercials in your mind, the kid became president because his dad changed his train ticket; the kid at the football game became a Super Bowl winning quarterback.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2011 06:22

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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:

I always thought those were neat concepts. Yes, it's a bit "our product is of vital importance to your life and your children's lives," but it's an advertisement.

Me too, as a huge fan of James Burke and the whole Connection series, I appreciate the whole concept of a seemingly insignificant moment having potentially world changing consequences in the future.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2011 22:11

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The Moon Monster posted:

I don't like these commercials where some company makes a big deal about their secret recipe. Protip: the common man does not care about your secret recipe. Even if I knew the recipe for coke, the stuff is still so cheap and plentiful there's no way it would be worth my while to make it myself. And when I buy fried chicken from a drive through, baked beans in a can or any other pre-packaged food item it's not because it's better than a version of that dish I could make myself (it's almost certainly worse), it's because it's more convenient than making it myself.

Also that AT&T ad is worse than poop there it is. At least poop tried to be clever and funny on some level, the AT&T commercial was just spiteful and depressing.

Not only that but the "secret recipe" died the day the first GCMS came online.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2011 18:48

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Palleon posted:

A lot of people also just don't want to spend the time or money on what is involved. We're hosting our first Thanksgiving and it is loving expensive and will take forever to cook, I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to/can't go through all that.

I don't either, hell I've got stuff to do the next three nights and all day Thursday.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 23:14

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Parachute posted:

Yeah I definitely have to change the channel every time the SPCA commercials come on, yet the commercials with starving kids in Africa don't really phase me as much.

That's the agency fallacy

, it's also why you probably wouldn't give money to a homeless person but would pick up an injured cat on the side of the road.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2011 20:12

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SpazmasterX posted:

It's hilarious that they think we honestly care even a tenth as much about starving african children than we do about abused animals. They've been trying to get us to give them money for years, and then the ASPCA rolls up and depresses the poo poo out of everyone.

Fallacy of agency

# ¿ Dec 17, 2011 20:05

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TheHan posted:

So is he riding that zipline all the way home? I don't get it.

Pure adrenaline

# ¿ Jan 3, 2012 17:54

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Vicas posted:

I've never seen a three-fer, but those doubles of pretty much every combination are still over. There's a KFC/Taco Bell in Penn Station, NYC, even.

The only three franchise store I'm aware of is the one down the street from Yum's HQ in Dallas, used to work right down the street from it and it was awesome.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2012 00:19

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The Steak Justice posted:

I can't decide what's funnier about the ads for "The Journey 2: The Mysterious Island"

1. That the title sounds like "The Journey to the Mysterious Island" and I thought there was just an awkward pause the first time I heard it
e: 2. It's a sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth starring Brendan Frasier, but with apparently no relation to it outside of the name
3. The song they used to open the ad is about teenage suicide
4. The irony of the title of that song being "Make it Stop"
5. Another "The Rock" adventure movie

I don't know about the rest but #1 is intentional and #2 is because Fraser didn't want to work with the new director.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2012 18:30

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Luigi Thirty posted:

Yeah, they literally enacted that so they could go "look! The Post Office is unprofitable! We should get rid of it and privatize the mail!"

Wasn't that a push by the same people who wanted to get rid of the NWS and make AccuWeather a sanctioned monopoly?

# ¿ Jan 25, 2012 20:23

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muscles like this? posted:

It also didn't help that Krispy Kreme really overextended themselves a couple of years ago.

And the corporation was managed like someone's personal side gig.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2012 21:43

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Mister Kingdom posted:

I'll admit I liked the first one, but the rest? Nah.

It's the newest, "This character is popular, let's divorce him from the original concept and just make commercials based about him.", see the CarFox and the Kia Hamsters.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2012 23:04

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Nonbaka posted:

It makes me sad to see people hating on this commercial. Every time I see it, it never fails to make me laugh. At the very least, it's leagues better than the other AT&T commercials with the obnoxious "that's so __ seconds ago" assholes.

I love it too, my husband doesn't really care for football, but he does know enough not to schedule a dinner on Sunday/Monday night.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2012 19:55

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Grandpa Pap posted:

I know I've mentioned it before, but the horrible, horrible butt-rock band that plays in the airport during that one Free Credit Report (or Score, or whatever) commercial needs to hurry the gently caress up and go die in a fire. Like yesterday.

All those "band singing about credit reports" commercials are dumb to begin with, the airport one just particularly grinds my gears. Are there seriously people out there who hear some terrible frat-boy rap-rock about credit scores and identity theft, and proceed to say to themselves "Why yes, I do need to check my credit report. Thanks brah"?

What I don't get is how that guy is both a hobo nomad who travels around the world and has to worry about his credit score?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2012 17:24

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SpazmasterX posted:

Who cares? It's awesome.

Hey have you heard of the site Reddit? They have some awesome sub-forums you'd like.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2012 02:22

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cp91886 posted:

The worst commercial on television is for Lunesta. A green glowing butterfly floats across the screen and back, a lady says "follow the wings" and the website address pops up. That's it.

Why the hell are prescription sleeping pills being advertised like a goddamn teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises or something?

As long as they don't mention the drug by name, in either VO or in text they don't have to list side effects and/or interaction warnings.

EDIT: drat that was fast son

# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 20:42

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404GoonNotFound posted:

Not hate, but something I have to point out: That's Garrus/Brandon Keener in the new AT&T ad (the speed dating one), right? I'm not crazy? Because goddamn I'd recognize that voice anywhere.

No, it's him; I wish he would get a regular announcing gig so I could hear him weekly/daily.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2012 04:16

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muscles like this? posted:

Favorite pick up line: "Calibrating"

I watch that ad every time it comes on, just in case someone's keeping track and it gets him more work.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2012 19:03

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Sash! posted:

Actually, they used to own the name Aspirin.

They had to give it up because of the Treaty of Versailles.

Really.

Heroin too

# ¿ Apr 10, 2012 05:59

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CapnAndy posted:

It's fantastic and everyone should see it. Those ads are annoying, but the movie itself is brilliant.

Seconded, go see it now; the forums will be here when you get back.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2012 03:55

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Sash! posted:

You'd be surprised!

When I was making less than $10, half my subordinates that made less than me were walking around with iphones and I had a broken EnV Touch. It was maddening.

Life� finds a way.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2012 18:45

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ohthatdan posted:

Who the hell runs Friendly's marketing team? All you have to do to get me in there is show me a static image of that ice cream with the Reese's pieces face and a cone on its head. Instead, we get whatever this is. The look on the sons face clearly speaks for all of us.

At least those comments are a riot.

Edit for some content: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Q0...be_gdata_player

The people who approved this are the same people who piss themselves when the flight crew goes off script on a Southwest flight.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2012 06:28

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Grin and Tonic posted:

Goddamit, Miracle Whip, I HAVE tried your lovely mayo blend and it still tastes like cat piss.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2012 20:12

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Vicas posted:

I think the weirdest thing about that commercial is that they push the quirky thing so far it's almost become a parody of itself by this point. But she was kind of the first one to really rock this whole quirky personality as her whole thing, so I guess she's making fun of herself here?

She appeared on SNL in a skit explicitly making fun of her, I think she's just taking a piss at this point.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2012 18:41

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ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Have you guys never heard of the poo poo they pull on TBS? Literally pausing a show to have a commercial pop up so your pesky DVR can't skip it.

I could see in show advertising becoming standard for all shows, it's the only way to keep DVRs, internet pirates and other from stripping them our or skipping them.

# ¿ May 29, 2012 21:58

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CapnAndy posted:

Yeah, I've seen it and it's exactly as tedious as you make it sound. They've got a tv ad too where a guy gets asked to take the picture of a group of tourists... and then another one, and then another one, see, because they've all got different cameras! Meanwhile, another guy takes a picture of another group of tourists and only has to do one, because they all bump phones.

The feature itself is so loving -inducing, too. There are ways to send pictures to other phones already! They're easy! It takes five seconds! You're not going to convince anyone this is a problem, Samsung, because I guarantee you that everyone's already had a moment where they went "gosh I wish I could just send this picture to my friend's phone", and then realized that oh yeah, they could. So they did it. Plus, unless you and all your friends all have that same goddamned phone, it doesn't even work! You're deluding yourself if you think that any group of three or more people is going to own the exact same of phone, unless maybe they all have an iPhone. That's possible. Everyone buying Samsung is not.

Yeah but the point of that commercial is that you can do it with strangers you've never met and never have the intention of seeing again! Just like everyone doesn't!

# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 20:30

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Young Freud posted:

I wonder why? If I had to guess, it could be something like the Taco Bell chihuahua where those commercials overshadowed the brand name.

More than likely it's the same reason for the "Sports Illustrated curse". To get a Clio your ad needs to be an outlier on the high end of the quality curve; and it's rare, and difficult, for an agency to do that year after year.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2012 19:08

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Rirse posted:

Can't be worst then the rear end Spider-Man ad.

Are baseball players this out of shape nowadays? Maybe it's something I've missed because I don't watch baseball but I've never seen one so fat.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2012 22:53

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Peanut President posted:

Fat Baseball Players are an American Tradition . From Babe Ruth to Kirby "So Fat He Could Roll Around The Bases" Puckett.

Ok then, I guess since I didn't have a home team growing up I never really got into it.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2012 00:39

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Schubalts posted:

I just saw an ad for Liquid Plumber Dual Action. It was set up like a DP porno. One woman, two plumbers, cheesy dialogue, the works. It ended with her basically cumming in the cleaning aisle, and one of the plumbers was a deli guy suggestively moving the slicer.

And the other guy is a produce worker holding melons.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2012 18:47

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Alouicious posted:

So do diners just not exist in most parts of the United States, because I honestly have no idea why you would go to Denny's when actual diners are universally better.

In a word, unreliability. Does the cook at that family owned diner used expired ingredients? Is the kitchen even cleaned with soap? Who knows? At least with a chain there are a certain standards that need to be met.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2012 23:03

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Vicas posted:

The one thing I think is funny about the iPhone 5 commercials is how they're really only showcasing features that were missing from older iPhone models, not the numerous other smartphones on the market these days.

"It's so obvious, it only took us 5 phones to come up with it."

Doing something right is more important than doing it first.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2012 02:41

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Toffile posted:

Which explains Maps.

Well when your supplier pulls the rug out from under you, what can you do?

# ¿ Oct 8, 2012 04:56

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# ¿ May 22, 2013 08:53

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DivisionPost posted:

FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU STOP RUNNING ON MY GOD DAMNED ADULT SWIM.

Since when has cougar meant 25-35? Aren't those just women of average age? I've always though of cougars as being 45+.

# ¿ Nov 27, 2012 21:18

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