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DJExile posted:Yeah he's like the white version of that Asian guy that pops up everywhere. There's a black guy that pops up everywhere now too, although not as ubiquitous as asian guy.
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raditts posted:There's a black guy that pops up everywhere now too, although not as ubiquitous as asian guy. When Ubiquitous Black, White and Asian Guys end up in the same commercial, the universe will collapse in on itself and we will be born anew in fire. Or it'll cause this thread to explode with like 50 simultaneous posts. Aw, who am I kidding, there's like six of us that actually rage here constantly. But we'd probably make up like 99% of those 50 posts.
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This is more a nitpick than anything else: The Subaru ad where the guy goes to the junkyard where his crashed car sits. He reaches in and takes off the gear shift knob and puts it in his pocket. At the end, you see it on the front seat of his new car.
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There is a new commercial for the Dodge Journey. It talks about how important it is to get out and have real adventures and says "no one talks about the web sites they want to visit when they die, or fills a photo album with pictures from an image search." At the end of the commercial they mention that somewhere in the world are 3 hidden Dodge Journeys that you get to keep if you find them. How do you find them you might ask? The clues are on YouTube....
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I gotta wonder about the effectiveness of car commercials. Does anybody really get the urge to run out and buy a new car after seeing one of these?
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Sep 10, 2011 17:49
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SlothfulCobra posted:I gotta wonder about the effectiveness of car commercials. Does anybody really get the urge to run out and buy a new car after seeing one of these? No, but it creates brand awareness, which, when you DO decide to go buy a new car, absolutely helps
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Sep 10, 2011 20:26
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Mister Kingdom posted:This is more a nitpick than anything else: This ad gets me because that's all he had in the car? His shifter knob and I think some papers in the glovebox? When I was in my only car collision to date (not my fault; guy blew through a red light and I couldn't miss), I went to the place that my totaled car was at and made sure to look in every nook and cranny before I left that thing. I removed the stereo, the speakers, all my paperwork, my tools and jumper cables in the back, the flashlight and shop rags I kept under the seats, the change in the ashtray, and so much more little poo poo here and there. Hell, I even took the battery I'd just bought two weeks prior. This guy in the ad rolls up, takes his shifter knob and some paperwork, and after having a moment of silence for his wreck says, "Welp, see ya' later, car! VROOOM!" But I guess it's better to see that than to watch some guy look under the dash, under the seats, in every little cubbyhole, etc.
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Sep 10, 2011 21:07
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fariz posted:No, but it creates brand awareness, which, when you DO decide to go buy a new car, absolutely helps I dunno, if I were to buy a new car I'd probably grab a Consumer Reports and see what they had to say. Just because I'm aware that there's something called "Infiniti" or whatever doesn't mean I'll just drive up to my local Infiniti joint.
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You Are A Elf posted:This ad gets me because that's all he had in the car? His shifter knob and I think some papers in the glovebox? When I was in my only car collision to date (not my fault; guy blew through a red light and I couldn't miss), I went to the place that my totaled car was at and made sure to look in every nook and cranny before I left that thing. I removed the stereo, the speakers, all my paperwork, my tools and jumper cables in the back, the flashlight and shop rags I kept under the seats, the change in the ashtray, and so much more little poo poo here and there. Hell, I even took the battery I'd just bought two weeks prior. This guy in the ad rolls up, takes his shifter knob and some paperwork, and after having a moment of silence for his wreck says, "Welp, see ya' later, car! VROOOM!" I haven't seen the ad but from the description it just sounds like the shifter knob had sentimental value so the guy went and got it, and now it's on the front seat of his new car so he can have a piece of his old car in his new one.
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GutBomb posted:I haven't seen the ad but from the description it just sounds like the shifter knob had sentimental value so the guy went and got it, and now it's on the front seat of his new car so he can have a piece of his old car in his new one. So, he put the knob in his pocket, got in the car, and then removed the knob and put it on the seat. That's the odd part.
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Mister Kingdom posted:So, he put the knob in his pocket, got in the car, and then removed the knob and put it on the seat. That's the odd part. Depending on how tight his pants were driving around with a shifter knob in your pocket could be very distracting. I don't think he would want to total his car again.
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You Are A Elf posted:This ad gets me because that's all he had in the car? His shifter knob and I think some papers in the glovebox? When I was in my only car collision to date (not my fault; guy blew through a red light and I couldn't miss), I went to the place that my totaled car was at and made sure to look in every nook and cranny before I left that thing. I removed the stereo, the speakers, all my paperwork, my tools and jumper cables in the back, the flashlight and shop rags I kept under the seats, the change in the ashtray, and so much more little poo poo here and there. Hell, I even took the battery I'd just bought two weeks prior. This guy in the ad rolls up, takes his shifter knob and some paperwork, and after having a moment of silence for his wreck says, "Welp, see ya' later, car! VROOOM!" lovely car commercial etiquette dictates that you should have glanced wistfully at an old picture you had in the glovebox, then taken it to a repair shop, written them a blank check, and said "fix it." Mozi posted:I dunno, if I were to buy a new car I'd probably grab a Consumer Reports and see what they had to say. Just because I'm aware that there's something called "Infiniti" or whatever doesn't mean I'll just drive up to my local Infiniti joint. There are people that will go to the movie theater and just pick something that's playing with no prior thought into their decision. It comes as absolutely no surprise to me that there would be people that put the same amount of thought into buying an automobile. I mean, you never see the actual amount that a car costs on the commercial, just how much it costs to lease one, despite the fact that there are very, very few reasons to pay for a car you will not own. I'm willing to bet that they get a reasonable amount of suckers to do it anyway, though. edit: Like this comedy classic right here raditts fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Sep 11, 2011 |
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Or if your car is like my Caviler and you have to pull up a little collar bellow the shifter to put it into reverse you can not even replace them. I have the old knob my uncle gave me from his first mustang and I really wanted to put it on there.
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This poo poo has been on like every other commercial break in cable channels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGNEuu4PJRU Do people actually buy this tacky crap? It is one of those gold plated brass coins things with "9/11" on it. There is like 3 of these things now.
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Sep 11, 2011 16:05
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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.
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Sep 11, 2011 16:34
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I don't know if anyone else has seen this ad. It's for a car and it involves some old guy picking up an old lady at her house, and then when they get in the car they turn back into their 20 year old selves and drive away. There is something about the son in the commercial that is unsettling. He's like 40-50 years old but he acts like a little kid and he's dressed like a college intern. I feel like it would be a good commercial if you got rid of the creepy son. has anyone else seen this commercial?
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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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Notgothic posted:So, this Cheerios commercial. I guess I don't hate it as much as I hate its overuse, but my brain kind of seizes up every time because it can't tell if it's seeing a three year old or an obnoxious midget hipster. Is this just an old commercial or did they reuse the "that's for babies" but with a different kid? I swear this commercial was in heavy rotation awhile (like 4 years) ago, but I remember the kid being different.
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The Collector posted:I don't know if anyone else has seen this ad. It's for a car and it involves some old guy picking up an old lady at her house, and then when they get in the car they turn back into their 20 year old selves and drive away. There is something about the son in the commercial that is unsettling. He's like 40-50 years old but he acts like a little kid and he's dressed like a college intern. I feel like it would be a good commercial if you got rid of the creepy son. Yeah, Chevy has been doing a few of these now. I think that was for the Camero. E: Holy poo poo Nissan you couldn't make this new Leaf commercial more pretentious if you loving tried. If you want to make fun of the Volt, just show their sales figures being laughed at. DJExile fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Sep 12, 2011 |
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I want both the girls in the Kellogs Fiber One commercial to get raped to death. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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On apparently every station around here there are two sets of double State Farm ads with the stupid jingle played by some guy with a guitar in various ways, with various lyrics. Since each individual one lasts 15 seconds and SF buys 30 seconds of airtime, they are played BACK TO BACK whenever they come on. Constantly. So after the first two come on (back to back), I know I'm going to hear the second two in the next commercial break. Without fail.
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Cup of Hemlock posted:On apparently every station around here there are two sets of double State Farm ads with the stupid jingle played by some guy with a guitar in various ways, with various lyrics. Since each individual one lasts 15 seconds and SF buys 30 seconds of airtime, they are played BACK TO BACK whenever they come on. Constantly. So after the first two come on (back to back), I know I'm going to hear the second two in the next commercial break. Without fail. That one drives me nuts, They play it a few times an hour on the AM station I listen to here in Seattle (1090). Also, the Heritage For The Blind jingle- "Call 1-800 DONATE CARS, 1-800 DONATE CARS today!" It's like a worm eating my brain.
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To go in the opposite direction, I must say that I loving love Lenny Clark's Weight Watchers commercial. "Stay alive just for REVENGE!"
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This might just seem kinda rude, but personally the specially made 9/11 commercials Verizon and Budweiser made kinda piss me off. Both piss me off in a "OOH LOOK STATUE OF LIBERTY WE'LL NEVER FORGET TEARJERKER CRY NOW." way. The Verizon one irritates me due to its sheer length and just being pictures of a few kids (With token black kid but no asian kid, nice diversity guys.) and the statue of liberty in 5 or 6 different camera angles. Hell if it weren't for the message at the end I could've sworn it was a Visit New York type advert. The Budweiser one because they clearly just slapped a picture of the Statue of Liberty (Which apparently is the symbol of Remember 9/11 now.) at the end and filmed the horses laying down trying to say "OH LOOK THESE HORSES REMEMBERED 9/11 SEE THEY'RE SAD CRY TOO" I mean, other than the final bit its just a normal Bud Commercial, real loving classy. They'll never forget but they'll try and get you to forget by buying their lovely beer. Now let me straighten this out, I have no problem with remembering 9/11, it was a tragedy, but this bullshit where big companies pander to this crowd with their TearJerker ads is loving horseshit. A moment of silence is all anybody really needs, we don't need specially made adverts to loving reiterate the point over and over during the course of the day.
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Does anyone else find the Puffs Plus ads annoying as hell? I don't want to think about some kid blowing through his snotty tissue; they've been using the same campaign for years now; the stupid rhyming stories they use are awkwardly written and they keep jamming more and more adjectives into their name. It used to just be "Puffs Plus", but now its "Puffs Plus with Moisturizer and Shea Lotion" or some crap. Cyril Sneer fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Sep 12, 2011 |
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RMZXAnarchy posted:
The Budweiser one is actually the one they shot in response to the attacks back in 2001, but this time they've added the under-construction Freedom Tower to the skyline whereas in the original there was just, well, a big empty spot.
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The Budweiser one was also only aired once prior to yesterday. That one time was during the Superbowl in 2002. (I didn't see it yesterday but am assuming from the conversation that it re-aired)
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I hate the Truvia ads that were carpetbombed on Food Network for a while. Also, I think it's kind of weird to be this anxious about splitting a tiny dessert.
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Just saw that Kia Soul commercial. Whatever drugs these people are on, I want some.  That's some potent poo poo.
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For the Swedish goons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSeajBgBtvY
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Just saw that Kia Soul commercial. Whatever drugs these people are on, I want some. The funniest part is that they're trying to meme it up with the hamsters, but if you haven't seen the first ad (with the 'normal' hamsters in their wheels etc), the joke kind of disappears and with that out of the equation, it's indisinguishable from a Jamster commercial. Yep, got me some breakdancing hamsters here. Let's put a song that didn't even chart until four weeks ago as the music! That'll attract the kids.
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RMZXAnarchy posted:This might just seem kinda rude, but personally the specially made 9/11 commercials Verizon and Budweiser made kinda piss me off. Both piss me off in a "OOH LOOK STATUE OF LIBERTY WE'LL NEVER FORGET TEARJERKER CRY NOW." way. The Verizon one irritates me due to its sheer length and just being pictures of a few kids (With token black kid but no asian kid, nice diversity guys.) and the statue of liberty in 5 or 6 different camera angles. Hell if it weren't for the message at the end I could've sworn it was a Visit New York type advert.
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Speaking of New York, they've started showing that Tri-State Ford dealer "Derek Jeter's got an edge" commercial again in my area (the one where multiple people say "Derek Jeter? He's got an edge!" before cutting to Jeter in a Ford). However, now they show it on every station that I watch in addition to showing it between innings during Yankee games. They stopped showing it for about a month, but that was the calm before the storm.
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Mozi posted:I dunno, if I were to buy a new car I'd probably grab a Consumer Reports and see what they had to say. Just because I'm aware that there's something called "Infiniti" or whatever doesn't mean I'll just drive up to my local Infiniti joint. Do you think most commercials appeal to intelligent people who read? Or people who are dumb and think the Bar Exam is a funny thing?
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There's probably one or two people like that, but for the most part I think commercials are targeted at a demographic that exists only in the heads of marketers and executives.
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Public Enema posted:For the Swedish goons: What the gently caress kind of currency is a ":-"?
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Anyone seen this Geico commercial? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zKE9_WKRy4 Every single thing about it is incredibly off-putting, ugh. e: \/\/\/\/ nah, I liked the robot commercial The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Sep 14, 2011 |
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The Moon Monster posted:Anyone seen this Geico commercial? I thought it was funny. I don't suppose you are this beautiful commenter: quote:I think that Geico is heading in the wrong direction. They have had a long history of great commercials but this new tough economic times way of advertising doesn't show them nor their target audience in a good light at all. Even though the commercials may be appealing to children and a very few adults, I think that the general public would be offended. I believe that the commercials would deter potential clients, rather than persuade them to purchase insurance with the company.
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The Moon Monster posted:Anyone seen this Geico commercial? It's not this commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F_G2zp-opg&feature=player_detailpage#t=10s
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