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There's a new ad (or just new to me) that goes on for an interminable 60 or 90 seconds. It's a lot of quick cuts of this sick-looking young guy's urban life where he interrupts whoever he's talking to -- co-worker, family member, or dental hygenist -- to spout off random facts about living in Africa. "Never look a howler monkey in the eye." "Ants are delicious." "Never exclude the village elders." It culminates in statements of increasing smugness, like "My morning commute was in a canoe  " Things of that formula: "My $EVERYDAY_URBAN_OCCURANCE was $NATURAL_LIVING_SUBSTITUTE"Anyway, you find out it's for the Peace Corps in the last five seconds. I don't have a problem with the Peace Corps, but I hate how the commercial is edited and I hate how they manage to build up such a sanctimonious attitude out of the ugly little douche in only 60 seconds. Maxwell Lord posted:My mind just boggles at what must be the expense of the Kia ads. The hamster thing was costly and just kind of random and stupid to start with, and now it's just degenerated into random dream imagery. The Kia ads are trying so hard to ape the Scion ads c. 2007. "It's what the kids like, right? Kids!  Buy up two months' worth of Turner Broadcasting ad space."EDIT: Ugh, but I guess it works. Maxwell Lord posted:How is this selling cars? Is it? Wikipedia posted:Soon after the vehicle's release, Kia launched a series of commercials as part of their "A new way to roll" campaign. The ads, created by ad agency David&Goliath, features (a combination of motion-captured and costumed) hamsters on stationary Hamster wheels on city streets, which are then all passed by "cooler" hamsters riding in the Kia Soul. The commercials have attracted a cult following and have surged in popularity on video-sharing sites like YouTube. The commercials were awarded "Automotive Ad of the Year" at the Nielsen Automotive Advertising Awards.  Judge Ito Boxing fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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I'm going to murder every Korean automobile manufacturer. I'm also gonna smash the local Toyotathon guy's face in with a tire iron if I ever see him. The thon is on? Well you know what else is on? My bludgeoning tool is on your face you stupid son of a bitch.
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hamster_style posted:If I have to hear: "Do any of you guys know how to post videos to Facebook" one more time I may very well lose my mind(and punch the TV). The worse part is the enunciation. "Do you know to post videos toooo...Facebook?" 
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So 23 seconds ago  Yeah, those commercials need to die. FAST.
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Dec 31, 2011 18:43
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Nerdfest X posted:I hate all these commercials that imply that just because you are now saving what? $10-$15 on your cell phone bill, you can now buy a Rolls or the Crown Jewels. "I saved ten bucks, so that puts me in the Bill Gates wealth zone". Just stop, already. I hate those commercials too, but that's not even what they actually say in those commercials.
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Judge Ito Boxing posted:There's a new ad (or just new to me) that goes on for an interminable 60 or 90 seconds. It's a lot of quick cuts of this sick-looking young guy's urban life where he interrupts whoever he's talking to -- co-worker, family member, or dental hygenist -- to spout off random facts about living in Africa. "Never look a howler monkey in the eye." "Ants are delicious." "Never exclude the village elders." It culminates in statements of increasing smugness, like "My morning commute was in a canoe Until I read this post, I thought those hamster commercials were for a type of Scion, based on how ugly the car was and how bad the commercials are. Guess it never quite clicked in my head when watching them that someone would try to mimic something so terrible.
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I'm sure it's been mentioned to death, but if I never see another Lexus December to Remember commercial it'll be too soon.
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C-Euro posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned to death, but if I never see another Lexus December to Remember commercial it'll be too soon. I didn't know Lexus had such a recognizable theme song.
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C-Euro posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned to death, but if I never see another Lexus December to Remember commercial it'll be too soon. Add that and the Nisan ad with the people singing to ads I never want to hear again.
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the_Vandal posted:I'm going to murder every Korean automobile manufacturer. I'm also gonna smash the local Toyotathon guy's face in with a tire iron if I ever see him. The thon is on? Well you know what else is on? My bludgeoning tool is on your face you stupid son of a bitch. Isn't Toyota Japanese?  E: Oh I guess you meant them separately.
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the_Vandal posted:I don't mean to be derogatory, but Korean automobiles are poo poo and are ugly. The 2009 Hyundai Elantra we bought was not only used, but was a former rental and has performed wonderfully for two years now. I've changed the air filter once and obviously done the normal oil changes (usually a little late), but for a former rental that had well over 40k miles, it's been an absolute dream. Zero problems, it looks fairly nice in a generic sedan sort of way, and I'm pretty sure once this thing has been driven into the ground that my next car will be a Hyundai again. Anecdotal, sure, but at least it's first-hand testimony that despite coming at least partly from the same company, Kias and Hyundais are not the same level of cars.
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Hey H&R Block: People getting huge tax refunds mean they hosed up and paid too much tax over the year in the first place. E: OK it's not just that but still 
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Judge Ito Boxing posted:The Kia ads are trying so hard to ape the Scion ads c. 2007. "It's what the kids like, right? Kids! I always just sort of assumed those were Sion ads until reading this thread. I don't pay much attention.
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the_Vandal posted:I hope not. I don't mean to be derogatory, but Korean automobiles are poo poo and are ugly. My parents have a 1999 Kia Sportage. It is ugly but they have encountered no major issues with the vehicle. Of course they have peformed all the necessary maintenence.
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The VW Sign and Drive ads can go right to hell. Especially the "Let's go to Vegas" one. Those two fuckers would get eaten alive in Vegas.
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Jan 1, 2012 05:30
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Please tell me that Gotham Dating Partners is an ARG for the next Batman movie. 
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Those loving Honda holiday ads with the smug-as-gently caress spokesman talking about how they aren't taking the "holiday angle".
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Sinestro posted:Those loving Honda holiday ads with the smug-as-gently caress spokesman talking about how they aren't taking the "holiday angle". Agreed, for the most part I like the Honda ads with Patrick Warburton but that one can gently caress right off.
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Young Freud posted:Please tell me that Gotham Dating Partners is an ARG for the next Batman movie. Wow this is real. It links to a bunch of other dating sites and one of those is. http://www.whitepeopledate.com/ And they have a wonderful line of. �A Place Where Love and Race are Related� Tiger Woods, Quincy Jones , Seal, Ice-T, Reggie Bush and Cuba Godding Jr are stealing your white women. Halle Berry ,Iman, Paula Patton, and Garcelle Beauvais are stealing your white men. That has to be a blatant troll or some one has really bad humor.
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Darth Freddy posted:Wow this is real. It links to a bunch of other dating sites and one of those is. http://www.whitepeopledate.com/ I seen a commercial on Adult Swim the other day for the counterpart site, Blackpeopledate.com and thought it was a troll.
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The recent GoDaddy ads make me ashamed to be alive. As for the .XXX TLD commercials brought up a couple pages ago, the reason they're advertising them so heavily isn't for the porn producers--it's for everyone else who has a domain. They're encouraging you to obtain the .XXX TLD for your site if you don't want it snapped up by and associated with a porn producer. It's an enormous money grab--they're charging $99/year for registration. cnn.xxx and microsoft.xxx have been parked, but the commercials are trying to make sure that the owner of grandmascookierecipes.com registers grandmascookierecipes.xxx before some evil porn producer starts selling porn on it.
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Pyroclastic posted:The recent GoDaddy ads make me ashamed to be alive. I've been subjected to the GoDaddy commercials since they first started and I still, for the life of me, have no loving clue what the hell GoDaddy is.
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I can't find it on YouTube, but I've been seeing an ad for a dental school during King of the Hill reruns. It shows a woman standing in front of a mirror, then her toothbrush starts talking to her and convincing her she should enroll in dental school because she likes teeth. She just smiles and nods mindlessly through this entire conversation. From now on when I see a new dentist, I am going to ask them what made them decide to become a dentist. If they say "My toothbrush told me to" I am getting the gently caress out of there.
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Ugh, looks like Subway bought back their horrible ads where "if you eat anything else, YOUR INSTANTLY FAT".
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Rirse posted:Ugh, looks like Subway bought back their horrible ads where "if you eat anything else, YOUR INSTANTLY FAT". Subway is bigger than McDonald's in terms of locations across the world, now, so they're probably trying to bank on what's left of the organic / health food craze.
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Subway will probably let you open a store in your basement if you have a fridge and a machine to reconstitute their bread down there.
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It's adorable that Google still thinks Google+ is still relevant.
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DJExile posted:It's adorable that Google still thinks Google+ is still relevant. "Nah man, I'm on Google+" is my favorite lie about why I'm not on Facebook. I like to imagine people going home and getting on Google+ to try and get in touch with me after I tell them this. I have no idea if this has actually ever happened, but I like to think that it has.
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SamBishop posted:... Kias and Hyundais are not the same level of cars. Not for a long while, since Hyundai bought out Kia several years back, they have transformed Kia into the "budget" brand of cars and Hyundai the middle to upper range, (the Equis is their luxury car)
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Google+ will hopefully be the last time they hype something that still requires invites to become part of. By the time they opened it to the public, no one gave a poo poo.
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Just saw a commercial for Dunkin Donuts "pancake sausage bites." They use the tag line "just like mom used to make." Uh...I don't think anyone's mom ever made 'pancake sausage bites."
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DrBouvenstein posted:Just saw a commercial for Dunkin Donuts "pancake sausage bites." They use the tag line "just like mom used to make." I just came here to post about the same commercial. Thanks, HIMYM. They looked horrifying, by the way.
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Guess what GEICO commercial just got a sequelGlenn_Beckett posted:I just came here to post about the same commercial. Thanks, HIMYM. Pretty sure it's a replay of the campaign from last year. They're also not that bad
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Huh. Came to say the same thing.
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That makes three of us. Do you guys happen to be watching Adult Swim right now? It just aired.
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QUIT THE loving CRUNCHY SMACKY NOISES KITKAT HOLY poo poo 
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DJExile posted:QUIT THE loving CRUNCHY SMACKY NOISES KITKAT HOLY poo poo Sound effects like that are seriously the most unappetizing loving thing I can possibly hear. Also, Kit Kats don't make a crunching sound like a cracker, they're softer than that. 
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Some of these commercials are bad, yes, but they don't force me to turn my TV off. Seriously. I'll hit the power button and wait thirty seconds before turning it back on. A brief moment of David Puddy-esque wall-staring is easily preferable. I would just change the channel, but it invariably leads to me somehow finding something worse on the adjacent network, and I throw my remote at the wall, and then I'm hosed. It's all the music. Most recent example I can think of is the 'EVEN IF DEY SLIPPAS DEY BETTA BE ADIDAS' thing. Previous top entry was that Heineken commercial with the two people dancing like retards. Aforementioned underbite Hyundai girl is pretty wretched. Ect ect. I miss the time when TV ads seemed to at least have the common courtesy to insufferable in (relative) silence. edit: and even a kitkat soaked in liquid nitrogen won't make those noises. I've always wondered what the hell was up with that.
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Awesome Welles posted:Sound effects like that are seriously the most unappetizing loving thing I can possibly hear. When I was younger, this annoyed me about Nestle Crunch commercials as well. But I get why they do it. Crunchiness is something a lot of people have urges for, so they like to over play it in commercials. Everything is exaggerated in commercials.
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Toffile posted:Guess what GEICO commercial just got a sequel I'm not even going to watch your link and I know it's the Pig.
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