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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:I hate the way this kid looks. Also, pay attention to the dad at the very end, he can't fake hitting that thing for poo poo.
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I saw one of those late night "date line" commercials where they just straight up said yo, nobody is calling these things for "dates." Call if you want to bang a chick.
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Jun 20, 2011 03:13
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God drat, do I hate the Geico "That's Amazing!" commercials. They wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have the person actually say the line.
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Jun 30, 2011 02:14
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Crackpipe posted:Memphis-area stations used to (still?) run PSAs about the dangers of homemade bug killer. Constantly. The rifftrax guys did a short telling people to stop washing their drat clothes with gasoline. So you can't really discount how stupid people are.
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Jul 4, 2011 22:37
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aquatic sideshow posted:Adult Swim is messing with my mind by playing this really soothing classical song while showing a film clip of some anime. The cat ear thing is just an odd affectation as that character doesn't actually have a head under there. Yeah, I don't know either.
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Jul 5, 2011 12:25
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Its a modern day headless horseman kind of pastiche.
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Jul 5, 2011 12:42
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After midnight Eastern time CC's ads get all pervy and weird.
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Jul 14, 2011 13:22
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Alberto Basalm posted:I really did not like Direct TV's That's The TRUTH TRUTH commercials, and nothing will ever top the russian guy, but I don't mind the current one with the football loving businessman and his 50 yard line wall. And his silver football. And a gold football too! Their new one with the "Whale" is also god-awful. It seems like it was written for Ken Jeong but since he's too popular now its just some other short Asian man talking with a high pitched voice.
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Jul 28, 2011 20:08
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From my experience Kroger customers are loving retarded. The company I work for does some rebate processing for various companies and one of the subsets for a rebate is specifically from Kroger. Now the rebate form lists specifically what they're supposed to buy but I want to say that 90% of the ones we've gotten from them have the wrong purchase.
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Jul 31, 2011 01:23
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I was watching TV last night and saw a commercial for the latest "Kids Bop" and noticed that they were prominently saying that one of the songs is Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Sensing that something might be a little off by this I looked online and surprise surprise they use a sanitized version of the song that removes any reference to sexual orientation, race, wealth or nationality. It kind of misses the whole point of the song.
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Aug 2, 2011 19:58
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DJExile posted:Oh, yeah I hadn't figured that'd be the radio edit too Nah, Kids Bop songs are completely re-recorded as they are sung by "kids." Also the version they used is cleaned up beyond any but the strictest radio stations would do.
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Aug 2, 2011 20:47
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Here's an interesting bit of advertising history I learned recently, in 1970 Sid and Marty Krofft (HR Pufnstuf, Lidsville and many other weird and trippy kids shows) were able to successfully sue McDonalds for their "McDonaldland" (you know, Mayor McCheese, Grimace, the Fry Kids and such) campaign. Turns out the Kroffts were approached by an ad company that told them they were working to join up with McDonalds to create a campaign based on Pufnstuf characters. Later the company told them that the deal fell through. So imagine Sid & Marty's surprise when they find out that whoops, McDonalds went ahead anyway and just altered the designs slightly to make them fast food themed.
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Aug 12, 2011 23:09
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I have an odd commercial question, I've noticed that a couple of different companies have started using Youtube footage. Are they paying people for these?
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Aug 15, 2011 02:08
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piratepilates posted:Who is that guy anyway, it really seems like I should know who he is but I don't. He's been in a bunch of Adam Sandler/"Happy Madison" movies.
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Sep 3, 2011 22:41
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SlothfulCobra posted:I remember the coin that was supposedly made out of gold and silver recovered from ground zero, as if the company was sifting through the wreckage to find people's valuables to melt down. Its not that, there was a vault under the WTC that had a bunch of silver in it. Although that's besides the point as the company got in trouble for the fact that no, they weren't using that either.
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Sep 11, 2011 18:59
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Hey, Battlefield 3, maybe if you want to use a song for your commercials you might want to use one where you don't have to bleep out the last line of the refrain.
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Oct 2, 2011 05:56
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Maxwell Lord posted:The thing with the McRib is, it's not economical to have on the menu full time, but it does well if they bring it out for a limited time. Yeah, I worked at a McDonalds back when I was a teenager and they had the McRib when I was there and it was kind of a hassle to make. Not that it was hard but it just took a while. Rhyno posted:Well, just talking about it made me crave it. What's with the onion? Any time that I've had it they used the thicker pieces.
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Nov 1, 2011 23:09
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The Grimace posted:I'm not going crazy, right? Tim Allen really has been shilling out commercials left and right for companies like Campbell's Soup and Chevy, right? I can't turn on the friggin' TV without hearing his voice these days. Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Piven, Michael C Hall and Laurence Fishburne all do regular voice over work for car commercials.
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Nov 3, 2011 12:06
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Ugh, gently caress the Sonata "battery" commercial. Mostly for the near constant annoying smoke alarm beep.
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Nov 4, 2011 03:07
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vyst posted:That loopy blond bitch on the Wendy's commercials giving her boyfriend poo poo about chicken sandwiches needs a dropkick to the throat The thing that kind of bothers me about that commercial is that the woman is really attractive while the guy is just some schlub.
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Nov 13, 2011 19:13
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I really hate the AT&T 4GLTE commercials where they talk about stuff being "such and such seconds ago." They're pretty drat terrible.
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Nov 18, 2011 04:57
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Thwomp posted:You'd be really surprised at just how many people go to Golden Corral/Old Country Buffet/All-You-Can-Eat places on Thanksgiving. It's crazy. Yeah, my dad co-owns/manages a buffet restaurant and they're always fairly busy on Thanksgiving. Although a lot of their business on holidays comes from selling pies.
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Nov 22, 2011 04:29
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DrBouvenstein posted:Awesome. The funny thing about it is that it seems that in most of these the actors in the commercial had no clue it was going to happen.
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Nov 27, 2011 19:48
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I'm not sure how big of an area they're showing these in but I just love these Will Ferrell Old Milwaukee commercials that he filmed in Davenport, Iowa. Mostly because I live just across the river from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Ps-9L0-NOus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcpXPlkF2k There's a third one that I can't find on Youtube yet.
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Dec 4, 2011 04:44
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SamBishop posted:Arrrrgh, Pizza Hut is back with their ANY* pizza for $10 bullshit. I also don't like how they act like its such a great deal. No, $10 for a pizza is a pretty loving bad deal.
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Jan 10, 2012 13:53
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I know a lot of people like to talk up small local shops but seriously some of the worst pizza I've ever had as been from non-chain places.
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Jan 10, 2012 20:21
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Polaron posted:There's an A&W/Long John Silvers near where I used to live in Southern Indiana. It was actually a pretty sweet combination. Yeah, they have one of those in my area too and its nice to get a good frosty mug of root beer with my chicken.
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Jan 18, 2012 01:37
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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" It shares one actor in Josh Hutcherson and apparently according to IMDB its the same character. Although he's kind of getting out of his "child actor" mold.
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Jan 18, 2012 20:30
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Toffile posted:This cartoon came up when I was getting some stuff for the Policomics thread. I saw a new commercial for this and it was pretty weird as one of the "manly men" examples is a Moss from The IT Crowd lookalike.
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Jan 19, 2012 04:13
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SteveVizsla posted:Oh come on, you're going to bring it up and not mention it's called the JUSTICE COIN? As scummy as these are at least they're not selling "legal tender*" coins/bills at "face value**." *in the country of Liberia **$20 in Liberian currency is actually $.273 in USD
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Jan 19, 2012 13:12
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This isn't so much a "bad commercial" post so much as a "what the gently caress?" commercial post. I just saw a commercial for mail. Regular rear end mail, by the USPS.
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Jan 25, 2012 04:55
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angerbeet posted:How exactly is the USPS meant to turn a profit if they don't advertise in these, our futurist times? The strangest part was that it wasn't targeted towards regular people, instead it was towards companies telling them to send people their statements and such through the mail because mail doesn't get hacked.
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Jan 25, 2012 05:04
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Also they do actually turn a profit from mailings and such, its just that Congress hosed them over with the mandate that they have to fully fund pensions well in advance. Or something like that.
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Jan 25, 2012 13:16
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Another super scammy set of commercials are anything that involves getting a computer without a credit check/using your checking account. Apparently the government investigated one of those companies and despite thousands of people signing up and paying them money they hadn't sent out a single computer. Of course after they discovered that all of a sudden a bunch of people got their computers!
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Feb 2, 2012 05:07
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Will Farrell's run of extremely targeted Old Milwaukee ads continued last night. Previously the ads have aired only in Davenport, Iowa and Terre Haute, Indiana. Last night's Superbowl ad went even smaller to North Platte, Nebraska. I've got to say, this is getting weird. Edit: The other day I saw a new Geico ad that I thought was really funny. Its a couple trying to save money on home security so they get a panther. It cuts to their bedroom at night with the panther sitting up on a dresser while they lie in bed eyes wide open. muscles like this! fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 6, 2012 |
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Feb 6, 2012 21:16
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Meltathon posted:That movie doesn't come out for like two or three more weeks too. It's not a good sign when you can tell the acting is going to be bad from the trailer. Not totally sure those ACTIVE DUTY NAVY SEALS are acting material. The weird thing about it is since they actually are active duty Navy Seals they won't be credited in the movie.
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Feb 8, 2012 21:01
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ElwoodCuse posted:Dunkin Donuts has been selling more coffee than donuts for a while now. It's why they slaughtered Krispy Kreme in the northeast. It also didn't help that Krispy Kreme really overextended themselves a couple of years ago.
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Feb 9, 2012 21:30
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Valentine's Day ads are getting kind of crass this year, I've seen at least two separate ads (one for the new Twilight movie on DVD and the other for some flower thing) that tell guys to buy these for their girlfriend because, while the guy himself might not like it, if he does he'll be getting sex later.
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Feb 10, 2012 13:25
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The best commercials right now are the new Old Spice ones where it starts out as a commercial for a different (real) product and then Terry Crews busts through the wall shouting about Old Spice.
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Nerdfest X posted:There is this shaver ad that has Adrian Brody, Andre 3000, and some random eurotrash. My issue with this ad is that Andre's straw hat looks like it got ran over by a lawnmower. Why is he wearing a straw hat with holes in it? Gael Garcia Bernal is not "some random eurotrash."
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