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fariz
Nov 10, 2009

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Grandpa Pap posted:

Shut the front door? No, I want to shut my TV off every time that stupid family eats some Oreo fudge creme cookies and exclaims a silly phrase that sounds like it could be slightly naughty but really isn't. They can go Franklin Delano themselves. :v:

Yeah. It wasn't funny when the gum commercial ran with that EXACT same idea several years ago, so it'll be HILARIOUS now!

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raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


fariz posted:

Yeah. It wasn't funny when the gum commercial ran with that EXACT same idea several years ago, so it'll be HILARIOUS now!

Don't hate on the Orbit gum commercials, I still use "What the french, toast?" every chance I get.

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

fariz posted:

All of the commercials with this smug rear end in a top hat piss me off
[timg]http://i.imgur.com/b9jz3.jpg[/url][/timg]

Whenever I see those commercials I like to think that Coach McGuirk finally got his poo poo together, lost some weight and changed animation mediums. Agreed that it's an annoying commercial though.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

muscles like this? posted:

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.

I wonder how much they paid to loop a couple of seconds of "For What It's Worth" in the background?

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


I don't know why they don't just get the Russian guy back for more commercials, all the other ones just seem to try to copy them anyway and fail miserably.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Tupping Liberty posted:

Fred Meyer is the Pacific Northwest branch of Kroger,

I thought that was QFC. Of course with my experiences here with the Kansas arm of Kroger, Dillon's, the "Q" stands for something other than "Quality," of course, I'm not sure what yet.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


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.

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

raditts posted:

I don't know why they don't just get the Russian guy back for more commercials, all the other ones just seem to try to copy them anyway and fail miserably.

That's the truth, Truth!

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

muscles like this? posted:

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.

eh, Kroger is for retards, hence why other than Walmart, it's the only option I have for grocery shopping :smith:

Select Meat, for Choice Meat prices, that's all I have to say.

Trazz
Jun 11, 2008
The Smurfs movie is going to suck anyways, so I guess they figured they should make the worst commercial ever to make sure that no one sees it. Ugh.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Alberto Basalm posted:

The new Always Sunny in Philadelphia commercials are really funny. I can't find them on youtube, but if you can find them somewhere, don't skip them. They are really well done.

Talkin bout these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNdA18TJA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kgry-DUupU&NR=1

Because yeah, they're fantastic.

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


I hated from the start and I'll always loving hate that loving travelocity commercial with those lovely parents on the beach with their lovely kids and the parents look high as gently caress and there acting like what you'd expect a really lovely american family to act like in another country on vacation

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
`

TontoCorazon posted:

I hated from the start and I'll always loving hate that loving travelocity commercial with those lovely parents on the beach with their lovely kids and the parents look high as gently caress and there acting like what you'd expect a really lovely american family to act like in another country on vacation

ugh. Are you talking about the one where the dad says "Our son's an architect" and then they gently caress ofscreen after trading stupid false compliments because no other person would ever consider either of them? Because that commercial makes me really happy I'm gay. So does that one where the wife is pissed about her husband working out with her. I hate that the advertising industry thinks that every last straight couple hates each other.

Back to what I originally ranted about...If sunchoked islands often get wrecked for straight men by ginger trollwives and dickspawn as this travel website's commercial suggests, thank the gently caress God for my proclivities.

e: I think I used like nine vocab words.

QuickbreathFinisher fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jul 31, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

That Charter internet commercial where the girl talking to her parents is subtitled with what she really means bugs the hell out of me for some reason. Maybe it's because her expression looks so totally fake and inhuman.

Rousimar Pauladeen
Feb 27, 2007

I hate the mods I hate the mods I hate the mods! I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS! Hey wait a minute why do the mods hate me I'm contributing to the conversation I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HA

Iron Crowned posted:

I thought that was QFC. Of course with my experiences here with the Kansas arm of Kroger, Dillon's, the "Q" stands for something other than "Quality," of course, I'm not sure what yet.

QFC and Fred Meyer are both subsidiaries of Kroger.

Combo
Aug 19, 2003



Moose Bigelow posted:

QFC and Fred Meyer are both subsidiaries of Kroger.

So is Dillons, Bakers, Gerbes, Calabell, Food4Less, etc.

Rousimar Pauladeen
Feb 27, 2007

I hate the mods I hate the mods I hate the mods! I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS! Hey wait a minute why do the mods hate me I'm contributing to the conversation I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HA

Combo posted:

So is Dillons, Bakers, Gerbes, Calabell, Food4Less, etc.

What we are getting at here is Kroger sucks.

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.
Okay, the first time I saw the Coors Light "bar" commercial I thought it was a dumb joke for a beer with a dumb gimmick (our beer is always cold so you can't even tell how lovely it tastes!), but while driving today I heard at least three different versions of that loving commercial on the radio, all with the exact same loving "bar = lawyer test" joke. Apparently some ad exec thinks it's the funniest loving thing ever, and that just shocks me.

Industrial
May 31, 2001

Everyone here wishes I would ragequit my life

GutBomb posted:

Any Papa Gino's commercial with a doorbell in it. It sounds exactly like my doorbell and it sends my dog into loving hysterics every time it comes on. She's fine with most TV doorbells but that's the only one that sounds exactly like the one that means OMG INTRUDERS MUST BARK gently caress gently caress JESUS.

You could train your dog to not be a spaz.

ChipNDip
Sep 6, 2010

How many deaths are prevented by an executive order that prevents big box stores from selling seeds, furniture, and paint?
Does anyone else have local commercials that are not only poorly produced but also EXTREMELY LOUD? Watching the local networks has become almost unbearable because at least once a break :psyboom: some car dealership/insurance company has to tell you about their fabulous deals at the max volume.

muscles like this? posted:

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.
I have no idea why people shop there. Around here, their prices are way higher than any of the other grocery stores, and even with the card discount, they're still about the same.

Industrial posted:

You could train your dog to not be a spaz.
I've never known any dog to not at least start barking whenever they hear a doorbell. It must hurt their ears or something.

Bible Ian Black
Jul 16, 2009

I'M THE GUY
WHO SUCKS

PLUS I GOT
DEPRESSION

SlothfulCobra posted:

That Charter internet commercial where the girl talking to her parents is subtitled with what she really means bugs the hell out of me for some reason. Maybe it's because her expression looks so totally fake and inhuman.

Yeah, none of the charter commercials have ever really been good, but that's a special case because it's on all the time and it keeps playing off the "hahah the dad has no mind of his own" thing that they seem to love. Also the dialogue is really forced and, certainly, inhuman.

GutBomb
Jun 15, 2005

Dude?

Industrial posted:

You could train your dog to not be a spaz.
Aren't spaz dogs the best dogs?

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


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.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


muscles like this? posted:

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.

If they're gonna sanitize the hell out of it and use different lyrics or whatever, why even have the song on the CD at all?

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

DJExile posted:

If they're gonna sanitize the hell out of it and use different lyrics or whatever, why even have the song on the CD at all?
Because it's on the radio. You would not believe the smut my nephews have memorized off of the bus ride to school.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


CapnAndy posted:

Because it's on the radio. You would not believe the smut my nephews have memorized off of the bus ride to school.

Oh, yeah I hadn't figured that'd be the radio edit too :downs:

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


DJExile posted:

Oh, yeah I hadn't figured that'd be the radio edit too :downs:

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.

Jubs
Jul 11, 2006

Boy, I think it's about time I tell you the difference between a man and a woman. A woman isn't a woman unless she's pretty. And a man isn't a man unless he's ugly.
Why would people buy cover songs sung by kids?

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Jubs posted:

Why would people buy cover songs sung by kids?

Kids enjoy it. Seriously. That is why there are so god drat many of them. They are the worst songs you will ever hear in your entire life, covered by kids who can not sing. They are an awful, awful invention, but they are never going away.

Chicken Doodle
May 16, 2007

Jubs posted:

Why would people buy cover songs sung by kids?

I bought one as a kid cause it had Aqua's Barbie Girl on it. Of course it was the most limp-wristed CD ever conceived of, and I quickly tossed it in the trash. Yet I still have my Now! 5 and Now! 6 CDs which are crappy radio edits, something just as bad IMHO.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Chicken Doodle posted:

I bought one as a kid cause it had Aqua's Barbie Girl on it. Of course it was the most limp-wristed CD ever conceived of, and I quickly tossed it in the trash. Yet I still have my Now! 5 and Now! 6 CDs which are crappy radio edits, something just as bad IMHO.

So the Now! series is like the K-Tel records from the 70s?

Tragedienne
Sep 7, 2007

"I need your stage no longer. I dance for myself."

muscles like this? posted:

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.

Yet they left in all the religious references!

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
`

Tragedienne posted:

Yet they left in all the religious references!

"A different viewpoint is not a sin, believe capital H-I-M."

Is an actual lyric.

What.


I guess the song is about bullying now, and it still has a positive message but... whoa. Why.

Clamknuckle
Sep 7, 2006

Groovy
I just saw a commercial for Wendy's that had a guy trapped in a video game? It seemed like they made a commercial for something else and decided to do a voice over for Wendy's instead of what it was originally for.

Sanschel
Aug 9, 2002

There's a new car ad on (actually a couple different ones), where they tell you to think about all the "missed opportunities" you've had in life, like not writing that book, asking out that girl, or becoming a musician, so don't let this car be another one of those! Making people regret major life decisions seems like an odd way to sell a car to me.

Switching to an ad that amuses me, there's one on the radio around here for Washington State Online Schools or something, where they have a male and female voice speaking as if to their child (telling them how proud they are that their 6-12 grade kid is taking online classes at 10pm instead of attending a regular school). At the end of the ad, this happens (paraphrased):

Female voice: I know that with Washington Online Schooling, you're getting a quality education on your own schedule, and that makes me proud.
Male voice: Me proud.

I just love that tacked on male bit at the end. I see what they were going for, the male and female voices are supposed to be making the same point, but by dropping the word "makes" (which would have given the correct impact they wanted), it now sounds like Bizarro has stepped in and touched up the end of the ad.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


We have a local Kia dealer that is currently very proud to tell you how "Kia and its parent company sold more cars than Honda last month!" And that this was a reason to buy Kias.


Is this kind of like saying you should go see a minor-league baseball team because their MLB affiliate is good?


For the curious, Kia's parent company is Hyundai

Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp
It's more like saying you should watch winos play ball with a tree branch and a hippy's stolen hacky sack because the town's little league team is up to 1 and 10 this year.

Forum Hussy
Feb 8, 2005
Here's a local Kia commercial I saw a couple months ago. The guy comes into where I work every so often, and dresses just like he is at the end of the commercial. Also, has a Ferrari that he keeps in a glass box in his garage.

Tragedienne
Sep 7, 2007

"I need your stage no longer. I dance for myself."

Clamknuckle posted:

I just saw a commercial for Wendy's that had a guy trapped in a video game? It seemed like they made a commercial for something else and decided to do a voice over for Wendy's instead of what it was originally for.

It looked like they were trying to cash in on the Scott Pilgrim movie.

A year after it came out.

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Joey Freshwater
Jun 20, 2004

Always playing with my meat
Grimey Drawer

Forum Hussy posted:

Also, has a Ferrari that he keeps in a glass box in his garage.

Wait what? In a glass box? Can you go into a bit more detail on this? Does he ever drive it or does he just park it in the box when he's done? And why? Why would he do that?

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