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Malachite_Dragon posted:... Okay? I know someone who literally would not eat Wendy's because it was square. They genuinely had a problem with this. Which can only mean they think ground beef has an actual shape.
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DJExile posted:Wow nissan, it doesn't get much more pretentious than that "what if everything ran on gas?" ad I love that ad. I want a gas powered computer!
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ToastyPotato posted:I know someone who literally would not eat Wendy's because it was square. They genuinely had a problem with this. Which can only mean they think ground beef has an actual shape. Having seen a cow become transformed into, ultimately, a hamburger, I consider myself an expert on ground beef. If I had to give ground beef a shape, I'd say Play-Doh. Is Play-Doh a shape?
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Sash! posted:Having seen a cow become transformed into, ultimately, a hamburger, I consider myself an expert on ground beef. If I had to give ground beef a shape, I'd say Play-Doh. Is Play-Doh a shape? Well, not by itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptbVF9XETo
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Sash! posted:Having seen a cow become transformed into, ultimately, a hamburger, I consider myself an expert on ground beef. If I had to give ground beef a shape, I'd say Play-Doh. Is Play-Doh a shape? Play-Doh can be whatever shape you want; Whatever your hands can give it. That's the beauty of Play-Doh 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Play-Doh can be whatever shape you want; Whatever your hands can give it. That's the beauty of Play-Doh And so can ground beef! ...my family won't let me make the meatballs for spaghetti night anymore.
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GenericOverusedName posted:And so can ground beef! "I'm a snake, and I want your spaghetti," he growled, mashing one end of a meat-tube into a pile of uncooked angel-hair. His family looked on in sad perplexity. There would be no meatballs this night.
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I'm trying to watch Breaking Bad every week, and will be watching The Walking Dead this season, but every night, these Hotels.com commercials kill me. Between the claymation akin to Chicken Run or Wallace and Gromit (a claymation style I honestly can't stand, sorry goons) and the guy's  look just makes me want to roll him up and throw him in the trash.
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i hate all of the new DSW commercials.someone asks the protagonist where they bought their shoes and they get so caught up in a weird non-sequitur dream that they dont even answer the person's question. example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cdB6BwiODY
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I just saw an ad for Dr. Pepper 10 that went super heavy on the "MAN STUFF" bullshit. It even ended with "DR. PEPPER 10 - IT'S NOT FOR WOMEN!" Look I'm no marketing major but isn't alienating HALF your potential consumers a horrible idea? It's understandable for a man-scented body wash or whatever, but for loving Diet Soda?
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Isn't there some candy in the UK or something that has the exact some tagline "NOT FOR WOMEN!" Haven't seen the commercial but maybe the marketing guys thought process is something like "Men are stupid and will buy anything that is portrayed as manly, women are stupid and will buy anything that is diet, they don't even need an ad."
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Wagonburner posted:Isn't there some candy in the UK or something that has the exact some tagline "NOT FOR WOMEN!" You're thinking of Yorkie: http://www.nestle.co.uk/brands/Pages/Yorkie.aspx 
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If the Super Bowl is the place for the best commercials, then the MLB Postseason is the worst. I suppose that having some generic pop group singing a song a million times a game (I hope someone else gets the reference I'm making) is better than Dane Cook's shouting during the 2007 MLB Postseason, though.That DICK! posted:I just saw an ad for Dr. Pepper 10 that went super heavy on the "MAN STUFF" bullshit. It even ended with "DR. PEPPER 10 - IT'S NOT FOR WOMEN!"
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It's not a terrible commercial but there's still something strange about hearing that "nobody beats Cox for reliability."
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Y-Hat posted:If the Super Bowl is the place for the best commercials, then the MLB Postseason is the worst. I suppose that having some generic pop group singing a song a million times a game (I hope someone else gets the reference I'm making) is better than Dane Cook's shouting during the 2007 MLB Postseason, though. The NCAA Basketball tournament also suffers from the same problem. A poo poo ton of commercial breaks, an extremely low number of ads and advertisers, and you want to put a brick through your TV after one round of games.
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Y-Hat posted:better than Dane Cook's shouting during the 2007 MLB Postseason, though. Without Dane Cook, how will I know how many Octobers occur per calendar year.
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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. Move over MAYO!!!! Look I don't eat the junk because it's "hip" I eat the stuff becuase it doesn't taste like regular mayo. The ad's to me come off like the EXXXXXXXXXXXTREAM!!!!! ad's of the late 90's. quote:Look I'm no marketing major but isn't alienating HALF your potential consumers a horrible idea? It's understandable for a man-scented body wash or whatever, but for loving Diet Soda? Who spends most of the cash??? Men, Besides most ads make men look like retards hardly capable of breathing on their own. Also Dr Peeper 10 is really good. tere fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Oct 11, 2011 |
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tere posted:Who spends most of the cash??? Men, Besides most ads make men look like retards hardly capable of breathing on their own. Holy loving  dude. drat ADS PANDERING TO THOSE UPPITY WIMMIN, NEXT THING YOU KNOW THEY'LL WANT TO VOTE.There are countless market studies out there that point to women as the main decision maker for household day-to-day spending, especially as regards food and beverages. There's a drat good reason advertising for so many things are aimed at women, they're the ones going out to buy the items. I can sort of understand Pepsi Max aiming at men since I only seemed to see the ads during sporting events, but that was still a stretch. Coke Zero seemed to do the best of all of them and basically called the stuff a diet soda that didn't taste like diet. DJExile fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Oct 11, 2011 |
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"Did everyone see what Anandra just did?" Shut the gently caress up, Tim Gunn, you used to be classy why are you shilling for Expedia, or Travelocity, or whoever the gently caress it is?
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Mozi posted:It's not a terrible commercial but there's still something strange about hearing that "nobody beats Cox for reliability." Someone else in an area where Cox controls the cable? How about the "facebook" one? That one annoys the poo poo out of me. "your friend in the digital age" my rear end. Fuckers.
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Is it ok to post old commercials here? From the "It was a good idea at the time" Department, I present to you: Ayds Diet Candy. Ayds was a very popular product in the 70's and early 80's, promoted as a tasty weight-loss candy. It had quite a large market share in the "weight loss products" department. That was before the discovery and classification of the AIDS disease in the early 80's. Suddenly, people didn't want AYDS anymore. The company stubbornly refused to change the name of the product even after their sales dropped by 85% and quickly went out of business. Video quality isn't the greatest, but these are hilarious in retrospect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOQ3O4kD3I "Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFs0o6pCxc "The plan lets you take two AYDS before each meal!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3OycTJkr5E "Thank Goodness for Ayds!"
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That DICK! posted:I just saw an ad for Dr. Pepper 10 that went super heavy on the "MAN STUFF" bullshit. It even ended with "DR. PEPPER 10 - IT'S NOT FOR WOMEN!"
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I just can't be mad at a commercial where a dude punches a snake so hard it explodes. "Catchphraaaaase" was pretty cool too.
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DJExile posted:Holy loving No actually he's right. Have you not noticed how many commercial's gimmick is "Dad/husband/brother doesn't understand a retardedly simple concept! Oh dad/husband/brother!" Like I'm pretty sure that was AOLs entire marketing plan. The same with anything Multigrain or high in fiber.
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DJExile posted:There are countless market studies out there that point to women as the main decision maker for household day-to-day spending, especially as regards food and beverages. There's a drat good reason advertising for so many things are aimed at women, they're the ones going out to buy the items. While I won't argue the study or its affects on advertising, this only make me think of that AT&T Commercial where the wife freaks out because the husband went out and bought something. Who is that geared towards? Like, how does that make the product or service appealing to anyone? Also, it makes me think of the Sears air conditioning commercial of yesteryear.  You said you'd call yesterday! I'll call today!You'll call now!... I'll call now.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:If you're talking about this one, then yeah, I know I should be offended at how blatantly dumb it is to be all "hurf durf drink for men, bitches leave" but honestly I just can't be mad at a commercial where a dude punches a snake so hard it explodes. I'm kind of impressed that they were just so blatant about it.
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That DICK! posted:No actually he's right. Have you not noticed how many commercial's gimmick is "Dad/husband/brother doesn't understand a retardedly simple concept! Oh dad/husband/brother!" Yeah there's a lot of that out there but it's a pretty dumb thing to get all indignant about these days. We're not exactly going back to the 50s here and instead oppressing men.
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Iron Crowned posted:Someone else in an area where Cox controls the cable? The best one when I had Cox was the ad they kept running encouraging you to sign up for the "Cox insider"
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:"Cox insider" That's awesome, but this is like that moment everyone has when they realize they're getting old, yeah it just happened to me when I thought back to how many hundreds of times I've probably heard that on TV and it didn't make me laugh until just now when I saw you point it out on the internet. I'm not quick enough to have got it the hundreds of times I heard it but at least I laughed when it was laid out for me, that counts for something right? I don't need to buy a hover-round just yet. (but I may call for info and get a free lighted magnifier)
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:The best one when I had Cox was the ad they kept running encouraging you to sign up for the "Cox insider" I don't have Cox in my area and am sad I missed this. That has to be intentional, right?
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Professor X posted:gently caress you, Marty Lempkin. I'm pretty okay with the "hottie" they show in that commercial though. More than pretty, really.
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100 Years in Iraq posted:I don't have Cox in my area and am sad I missed this. That has to be intentional, right? There's never been a better time to switch to Cox.
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DrBouvenstein posted:"Did everyone see what Anandra just did?" "Let's see if we can stitch together a better deal!" "Major wow factor!" Ugh I hate this commercial. Tim Gunn why? 
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Mozi posted:There's never been a better time to switch to Cox.  If I worked for their ad agency it would be a neverending series of blatant dick jokes.
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DJExile posted:Yeah there's a lot of that out there but it's a pretty dumb thing to get all indignant about these days. We're not exactly going back to the 50s here and instead oppressing men. No we're not but it is one huge double standard. It's fine and dandy that we can make Men look like retards who can't even dress themselves. However god forbid we portray women in a negative light.
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I actually like most of this commercial. I think the whole "videogame characters celebrating the player who guides them to the end" theme is pretty neat and the film nerd in me likes the production values/set design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWkKKSckNk ....but when it gets to the part about the G.I.'s celebrating some PS3 player as the hero of D-Day, it just really manages to piss me off in ways that I guess probably shouldn't. I love the whole "flight-of-fancy/be part of something big" aspect of the commercial, but this bit strikes me as incredibly disrespectful to all of the real WWII veterans- and I'm sure it would've angered a lot of them if they were alive to see it. "I was pinned down, on that godforsaken beach.....my friends were dying....and then MICHAEL broke through!" gently caress off, people's actual grandfathers were traumatized for life on Omaha beach, and you want to celebrate some pudgy dude on his sofa? To be fair, I feel sort of the same way about the WWII-themed Medal of Honor games full-stop. I have a blast playing things based on fictional premises (like any other "military sim" game), but something about making a game out of real-life events (Now YOU can fight in the Battle of the Bulge, from the comfort of your home!) seems like it diminishes their importance or gravity somehow (Wolfenstein is awesome, and is obviously not in this category). If it weren't for the "too soon" aspect, I'm sure there'd be a "9/11 first responder" game out, and I'll cringe when it inevitably arrives. On a related note, the Halo 3 "museum" ads were great. CBJSprague24 posted:Can we kill off the GEICO cavemen and/or Flo from Progressive yet? I don't want the Flo commercials to stop airing because I find her strangely attractive. It's really weird, but I've had like 10 people agree with me...and then feel uneasy about themselves. But the commercials themselves are annoying. DJExile posted:Wow nissan, it doesn't get much more pretentious than that "what if everything ran on gas?" ad "Pretentious" is the most overused word in this thread. It kinda needs to stop. But on the subject of "pretentious"- and music in commercials (from a few pages back): I know a lot of people who become enraged when a song from a revered Indie band gets popped into a commercial (See: Grizzly Bear and the Generationals used in Reese's Cup ads/the New Pornographers in cruise ship and T-Mobile commercials/all Apple ads that goons loathe because  HipsterSmugCoffeeshop/etc.) but I really don't get more than annoyed with the commercial if it's annoying. I have no problem with artists "selling out"- especially "indie" acts with comparatively small fanbases- in this era where 80%+ of the music that gets exchanged is pirated. I remember seeing an interview with a band that said their payout from one ad placement earned them more than the sales from their multiple albums combined. I was watching TV with a friend and heard him mutter something about "thinking they were better than that" when he saw the New Pornographers T-Mobile ad, but come on- they're actually getting paid for their work.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:"Pretentious" is the most overused word in this thread. It kinda needs to stop. I would argue that pretentious is the precise word to describe most advertisements. After all, pretentiousness is simply the state of holding a pretense--of presuming an undeserved air of importance. Given this, what could possibly be more pretentious than trying to tell an audience that a stick of deodorant is the only thing that can make them attractive, or that a certain brand of fake mayonnaise should be the symbol of youth and vitality?
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In regards to the Men's Only diet Dr. Pepper ad, I think it's due to the higher amount of men that are now drinking diet. For the longest time, diet commercials were only directed at women. But recently, say within the last few years, men have started drinking more diet. It makes sense for them to advertise directly to men to make them feel that drinking diet is not a womanly thing.
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