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ElectricSheep posted:You're not far off. The imagery is intentionally evocative of everything you think of when you think of the word "Magnum" (condom not gun). You're a loon. A woman is on the screen, so that's a condom reference? "Magnum" is Latin, meaning "great". It's a good generic brand name and a fair few things use it as such.
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If you think there's no consciously arranged sexual subtext to that commercial, you've lost the media analysis game. Also, I feel like I was just complaining about this, but there are even more pony banners now.
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Jun 26, 2011 15:30
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Doc Hawkins posted:If you think there's no consciously arranged sexual subtext to that commercial, you've lost the media analysis game. Doy. It has nothing to do with condoms, however. It's just the old standby of "women have a sexual attraction to chocolate". Saying that it's meant to make you think about condoms is insane.
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Jun 26, 2011 16:05
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Superrodan posted:These are both fantastic. It's been tried a couple times and died pretty fast
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Android Blues posted:Doy. It has nothing to do with condoms, however. It's just the old standby of "women have a sexual attraction to chocolate". Saying that it's meant to make you think about condoms is insane. Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. But Magnum also means large or big, condoms are one of the cases where that usage is common (can't think of a common modern case where it means "grand" or "impressive, actually), and the lady puts a big chocolate cock in her mouth, so it seems like a reasonable leap to me.
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Jun 26, 2011 16:45
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Yeah, I suppose I should've clarifiedElectricSheep posted:You're not far off. The imagery is intentionally evocative of everything you think of when you think of the word "Magnum" (condom not gun). that I didn't mean condoms specifically a little better, but the fact of the matter is that the commercial's about as subtle with its sexual imagery as an Axe ad.
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Jun 26, 2011 18:10
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUxU4aRdhWE This one annoys me because it is trying to annoy me with the waitress.
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Jun 26, 2011 19:09
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gently caress those hipsters, that waitress rules. Wait...hot pockets is going for the cool crowd?!
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Jun 26, 2011 22:54
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DJExile posted:It's been tried a couple times and died pretty fast Not due to a lack of applicable content, but mainly due to people ignoring it and posting the good ads here anyway.
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Jun 26, 2011 23:17
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Doc Hawkins posted:gently caress those hipsters, that waitress rules. Have you seen the new Miracle Whip packaging? Its just a big rear end MW and made to look like it was hand written.
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Jun 27, 2011 00:22
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Doc Hawkins posted:gently caress those hipsters, that waitress rules. Worked for PBR.
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Jun 27, 2011 00:33
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Evek posted:Have you seen the new Miracle Whip packaging? Its just a big rear end MW and made to look like it was hand written. I hate the attempt to make MW extreme. "Mayonnaise? That poo poo is for pussies. Miracle whip is EXTREME and WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!"
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Jun 27, 2011 00:44
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Extreme or hipster: you be the judge. e: to be fair, the too-cool-for-school demographic has been targeted by advertisements for worse things than mayonnaise-replacements. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jun 27, 2011 |
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Jun 27, 2011 04:52
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Doc Hawkins posted:Extreme or hipster: you be the judge. loving awful. If your ad needs to show us some scruffy fatass chewing with his mouth open, mayo (or whatever MW is) all over his lips and beard, something has gone horribly wrong. E: Holy poo poo they have one with James Carville 
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Jun 27, 2011 05:11
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I've always hated luxury car commercials even more than I hate most commercials, but this new one I've been seeing between breaks on Into the Wormhole sets a new standard. Some guy describes the car as "aggression, in its most elegant form". It's like they put a thousand douchebags at a thousand typewriters and picked out the worst line any of them came up with. The fact that it's being read by luxury-car-voiceover-guy just makes it worse. I just want to watch Freckles talk about space, don't subject me to this, science channel. The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Jun 27, 2011 |
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Jun 27, 2011 05:12
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My favorite ads are for Mercedes or BMW, especially the ones that talk about financing. I like to imagine that if you call either one for a financing deal, all you get is a recorded message in a terse German-accented voice saying that if you need to finance one of these cars, you clearly cannot afford to have one. Thank you, and good day.
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Jun 27, 2011 05:20
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This is the stuff of nightmares. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ysBe2iaOo&feature=related
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Jun 27, 2011 05:26
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It's not on youtube yet I don't think, but there is a commercial for the Family Guy Star Wars Episode 3 DVDs and Blu-Ray and it has this noise in it and I don't know why but the noise frightens me. It's really unsettling. Like my heart rate genuinely goes up and I get all tense until the commercial goes away.
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skaboomizzy posted:My favorite ads are for Mercedes or BMW, especially the ones that talk about financing. I like to imagine that if you call either one for a financing deal, all you get is a recorded message in a terse German-accented voice saying that if you need to finance one of these cars, you clearly cannot afford to have one. Thank you, and good day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tq2-yFU9_M I dunno, this BMW commercial had me really, REALLY wanting one by the end there...
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The Moon Monster posted:I've always hated luxury car commercials even more than I hate most commercials, but this new one I've been seeing between breaks on Into the Wormhole sets a new standard. Some guy describes the car as "aggression, in its most elegant form". It's like they put a thousand douchebags at a thousand typewriters and picked out the worst line any of them came up with. The fact that it's being read by luxury-car-voiceover-guy just makes it worse. There's one for, I think Infiniti, where the guy goes on about "have you seen blah blah blah in a luxury car before? Of course you haven't, because its in our car  " Makes me want to punch the TV.
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eggsovereasy posted:I kind of want to punch this kid: Tell me this kid is not like, 28.
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Palmtree Panic posted:This is the stuff of nightmares.
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Jun 27, 2011 16:54
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Joker: Year One "Do you want to know how I got this smile? My father was... a homemaker, and one night he goes and stirs up a bowl of pudding, laughing while he does it, and he turns to me with the wooden spoon and says "Why so serious?""
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Jun 27, 2011 17:44
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I haven't decided what side of the question this falls under, but Rob Zombie directed a Woolite commercial. http://www.movieline.com/2011/06/video-rob-zombie-directed-a-commercial-for-woolite-obviously.php
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bull3964 posted:I haven't decided what side of the question this falls under, but Rob Zombie directed a Woolite commercial. hahahahaha that's great
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bull3964 posted:I haven't decided what side of the question this falls under, but Rob Zombie directed a Woolite commercial. Is that ever going to air on TV, or is it an online-only thing? Woolite doesn't seem like the kind of company to actually air that, and most of people who buy Woolite aren't the kind of people to enjoy that, either.
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Highlander kid, the one he grew up into, pudding face and his friend, fat MW guy and a bunch of others all are making me think that one long ongoing failure in marketing/advertising might have led to their existence. And that failure being that, the fucksticks that do marketing for supercuts and wahl clippers didn't try hard enough and led us to this. gently caress you guys. Give us a commercial that works, highlander kid would be perfect for the part. Marine corps dad with his knee in highlander kid's back holding him to the ground while he wahl-buzzes that poo poo off his head. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jun 27, 2011 |
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Jun 27, 2011 19:51
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It's really sad to me that Joe Pesci is doing Snickers commercials now, rather than doing some real acting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0cmMiW6bI
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Jun 27, 2011 23:00
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's really sad to me that Joe Pesci is doing Snickers commercials now, rather than doing some real acting. It's funnier than hell though. Also can anyone confirm or deny the supposed law we hear about in radio ads for work-from-home places where they say things like "I made more money than I'm allowed to mention here!"
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DJExile posted:Also can anyone confirm or deny the supposed law we hear about in radio ads for work-from-home places where they say things like "I made more money than I'm allowed to mention here!" I can't imagine it's for any other reason than avoiding a "results not typical" disclaimer
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Something occurs to me about that Trojan vibrator ad. They're having a bridal show and giving her the vibrators as gifts. They say, "it'll really blow your hair back." The three women gifting the vibrators have their hair blown back. Are they giving her used vibrators?
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I'd like to think they were actually using their vibrators as they were giving the gifts. In my mind that makes the commercial a little interesting
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's really sad to me that Joe Pesci is doing Snickers commercials now, rather than doing some real acting. Don Rickles and Joe Pesci in the commercial? That's in the wrong thread.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawMRO8Uouk Just saw this, it makes me inexplicably angry. "You know what else I'm god of? Awesome."
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Athenry posted:There's one for, I think Infiniti, where the guy goes on about "have you seen blah blah blah in a luxury car before? Of course you haven't, because its in our car There's one that really bugs me lately, "The inspiration for its shape, was an archer drawing his bow" because I can't help but wonder how the gently caress you can build a car around a guy using a weapon from antiquity, and even then the whole thing is so incidental to the car itself that I really can't see the point.
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DJExile posted:It's funnier than hell though. IANAL but I'm willing to bet that there isn't even a law behind it, and they just want you to assume that the deals are SO GOOD that the government won't let them advertise them! I mean, I hear a mattress store say things like "DISCOUNTS SO DEEP WE CAN'T ADVERTISE THEM!!!", so it can't be... true... can it?
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Mo0 posted:I mean, I hear a mattress store say things like "DISCOUNTS SO DEEP WE CAN'T ADVERTISE THEM!!!", so it can't be... true... can it? There's no law against any of that but some companies forbid retailers from advertising prices below a certain level, under penalty of getting their sales agreement yanked. So if Mattress Riot wants to keep selling Serta or whatever, they'll play along.
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Mo0 posted:IANAL but I'm willing to bet that there isn't even a law behind it, and they just want you to assume that the deals are SO GOOD that the government won't let them advertise them! The company I work for does online ads, mostly for grocery stores but we have a few other customers. Menards is a hardware store. A lot of their stuff says "priced too low to advertise!" in their ad because right now we only do one general version for them. They're adding on a bunch of services with us, which means we will get specific versions for specific regions now, which means there will actually be prices and they'll be different everywhere. So in their case they don't want to mention a price in the general ad because they want to sell a drill for $100 at one location and $150 at another, or whatever. The price differences from region to region amaze me, really. I've seen up to a $1200 gap between one area and another on a furniture room group with another one of our customers.
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MailboxFullOfBombs posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawMRO8Uouk If that was really Zeus he would've made a king gently caress the car, just for laughs. The car then gives birth to a Sciotaur, and the king has to building an elaborate parking garage under his castle to house it. And he feeds people to the Sciotaur. Look, Greek myth is weird, okay?
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Not sure if people will agree with me on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKe2YGz42pU I just hate adverts that do the "this product will bring the world/community together!". T-mobile ads did this a lot too, but somehow its even more annoying when they're making kids hawk it as well. I can't tell if Shane Meadows directing it makes it even worse.
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