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Fauxhawk Express posted:I wish Chappelle's Show was still around to mock these Edward Jones commercials that play during NHL games. Just 30 seconds of entitled white people problems. Fauxhawk Express posted:NHL games. white people. Sounds like they're very well made commercials to me. Nailing their audience.
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I finally found that truck commercial that'd been bothering me ages ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS0JkKa3FdU It feels so over the top and deliberately low-budget and dirty.
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Jan 23, 2012 02:09
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Sash! posted:Red Tails commercials on most channels and Red Tails commercials on the Historical Things Exploding featuring Hitler and/or Saddam channels are clearly promoting two different movies. I am so loving sick of Red Tails commercials. I can't watch any channel without hearing some guys shout "we fight" 20 times per half hour.
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Jan 23, 2012 02:11
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Samsung Galaxy 2 commercials are pretty loving annoying, "we're just like the iphone so it means were better!". Some dopey guy walks into a small clothes shop and asks the girl for thumbless gloves to text and she shows him she can text by asking him out on a date through voice text. They sell gloves that let you text jerk, and you can text via voice on Iphone 4s too.
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Jan 23, 2012 03:02
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Not really a awful ad, but it always amuses me when they play a commercial for Shirely Temple Collection on Adult Swim. Talk about poor marketing.
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Jan 23, 2012 03:16
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squarerandom posted:Samsung Galaxy 2 commercials are pretty loving annoying, "we're just like the iphone so it means were better!". Some dopey guy walks into a small clothes shop and asks the girl for thumbless gloves to text and she shows him she can text by asking him out on a date through voice text. They sell gloves that let you text jerk, and you can text via voice on Iphone 4s too. Welcome to pretty much all iPhone ads.
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Jan 23, 2012 19:06
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Cyril Sneer posted:The talk of Red Tails reminded me that there's a new movie commercial voice-over guy whose been making the rounds lately. He tries to sound deep and dramatic, but it just sounds like someone with a plugged nose from a bad cold. Is it the guy who does the voiceover for the Bones (TV show) trailers? Because he always pronounces it "bownnes"
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Jan 23, 2012 20:15
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jojoinnit posted:I finally found that truck commercial that'd been bothering me ages ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS0JkKa3FdU Holy gently caress. HOW COOL IS THIIIISSSSSS!
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Jan 23, 2012 21:04
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The Merkinman posted:A phone commercial shows a feature implying you can't do the same/similar on a competing device? I know I know, low hanging fruit but maybe it's because I haven't seen as many iphone ads lately. Did get super pissed when I got lost driving last night and couldn't redo my route because I was on a call, thanks iphone.
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Jan 23, 2012 22:59
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Rirse posted:Not really a awful ad, but it always amuses me when they play a commercial for Shirely Temple Collection on Adult Swim. Talk about poor marketing. Adult Swim always seems to have weird ads.
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Jan 24, 2012 01:50
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DrBouvenstein posted:Adult Swim always seems to have weird ads. That is true, but it's always jarring when they play a commercial that just doesn't fit their userbase at all, like the Shirley Temple ad. Anyway, I'm really tired of the new Dish Network(?) ad where it implies if you use cable, your grandson will be some horrible mistake from a biker daughter somehow.
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Jan 24, 2012 02:17
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Rirse posted:Anyway, I'm really tired of the new Dish Network(?) ad where it implies if you use cable, your grandson will be some horrible mistake from a biker daughter somehow. That's DirecTv. I'm tired of the Vonnage anti-bundle ads. Especially the one where the idiot husband (shocker - a dumb husband) somehow thinks his wife is referring to their baby when she rips on their phone company bundle.
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Jan 24, 2012 02:25
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Rirse posted:That is true, but it's always jarring when they play a commercial that just doesn't fit their userbase at all, like the Shirley Temple ad. It's not so much that Turner is selling that block specifically because honestly, nobody wants to market to drunk, broke college kids. Any channel from 10PM until about 5:30 AM is selling dirt-cheap ad times.
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Jan 24, 2012 02:46
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Rirse posted:when they play a commercial that just doesn't fit their userbase at all I'm glad you can think that, cause when I see that ad just an hour or so before the animu comes on I have terrible thoughts about what's being thought about in other living rooms.
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Jan 24, 2012 02:55
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Sometimes when you see a bizarre, out-of-place spot in late night cable programming, it's actually because that spot was meant to be covered by a local spot from your cable/satellite company. You ever see a split-second of a spot right after a local one right before the show resumes? That's one of the spots that got covered. The whole explanation is a bit more technical, but that's the gist of it.
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Jan 24, 2012 03:30
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Rirse posted:Not really a awful ad, but it always amuses me when they play a commercial for Shirely Temple Collection on Adult Swim. Talk about poor marketing. That's the one with the set that costs like 100 Goddamn dollars, right? If I had a bunch of money to waste I know what all my friends would get as birthday and/or Christmas presents!
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Jan 24, 2012 04:50
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The Moon Monster posted:I am so loving sick of Red Tails commercials. I can't watch any channel without hearing some guys shout "we fight" 20 times per half hour. "Take THAT, Mr. Hitler!" 
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Jan 24, 2012 06:42
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Velveeta "I'm a Blacksmith" commercial is loving rad.
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Jan 24, 2012 07:48
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The music in those Prius V commercials give me a loving headache.
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Rhyno posted:On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Velveeta "I'm a Blacksmith" commercial is loving rad. Just add ground beef, apprentice.
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Jan 25, 2012 01:51
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Rirse posted:Not really a awful ad, but it always amuses me when they play a commercial for Shirely Temple Collection on Adult Swim. Talk about poor marketing. What is with those commercials? They show all the time for a few months and then they disappear for like 5 years or whenever the next video format comes out. Aside from them showing VHS tapes / DVDs / HD-DVDs / Blu-Rays in the commercial, it's been like the same commercial for the last 15 years or so.
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Jan 25, 2012 03:16
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raditts posted:What is with those commercials? They show all the time for a few months and then they disappear for like 5 years or whenever the next video format comes out. Aside from them showing VHS tapes / DVDs / HD-DVDs / Blu-Rays in the commercial, it's been like the same commercial for the last 15 years or so. The commercial doesn't seem to say it, but I believe the restoration was done by Legend Films. The fine folks who give us Rifftrax.
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Jan 25, 2012 03:36
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I really want to smack the Gazelle lady with an old iPhone.
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Jan 25, 2012 04:15
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This isn't so much a "bad commercial" post so much as a "what the gently caress?" commercial post. I just saw a commercial for mail. Regular rear end mail, by the USPS.
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Jan 25, 2012 04:55
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How exactly is the USPS meant to turn a profit if they don't advertise in these, our futurist times?
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Jan 25, 2012 04:56
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Mister Kingdom posted:I really want to smack the Gazelle lady with an old iPhone. There's something really obnoxious about her delivery but I just can't put my finger on it. On the other hand she kind of reminds me of Sabrina from Raising Hope, so I'm kind of torn about how I feel.
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Jan 25, 2012 04:59
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angerbeet posted:How exactly is the USPS meant to turn a profit if they don't advertise in these, our futurist times? The strangest part was that it wasn't targeted towards regular people, instead it was towards companies telling them to send people their statements and such through the mail because mail doesn't get hacked.
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Jan 25, 2012 05:04
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Yeah, and it's such an rear end message. I don't WANT paper statements. I'm happy I don't have electric bills and gas bills littering up my house. They serve no purpose and if I really needed one for something I can go to the website and print out one. Not to mention that it's a shitload more environmentally friendly. There's no paper used and no fuel used to deliver the bill. 98% of what I get in the mail, without hyperbole, goes directly into the recycling. I don't have answers as to how the USPS can remain solvent, but trying to go back in time just isn't the answer. They need to evolve.
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Jan 25, 2012 07:01
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Forget solvency. The USPS should be funded as a public utility and screw having to make a profit.
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Jan 25, 2012 07:23
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Maxwell Lord posted:Forget solvency. The USPS should be funded as a public utility and screw having to make a profit. Wait, it isn't that way already? I thought the postal service was a government agency? And perhaps a third statement of confusion?
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McSpanky posted:Wait, it isn't that way already? I thought the postal service was a government agency? And perhaps a third statement of confusion? It's an independent government agency and hasn't received government subsidy since Reagan.
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Jan 25, 2012 09:03
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Also they do actually turn a profit from mailings and such, its just that Congress hosed them over with the mandate that they have to fully fund pensions well in advance. Or something like that.
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muscles like this? posted:The strangest part was that it wasn't targeted towards regular people, instead it was towards companies telling them to send people their statements and such through the mail because mail doesn't get hacked. It was such a great line too. "A letter doesn't get a virus!" All sorts of goofy poo poo. Awesome Welles posted:The music in those Prius V commercials give me a loving headache. Is this the peppy "love you and i need you" one where they're showing that rotating stage? God that's bad.
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McSpanky posted:Wait, it isn't that way already? I thought the postal service was a government agency? And perhaps a third statement of confusion? It hasn't been that since the Nixon administration. The USPS is supposed to fund itself and has pretty much done so since the '80s. The model has been doomed since the getgo, as the USPS needs an act of Congress to authorize price changes. It isn't helping that in 2006 that Congress passed a bill that is currently making the USPS divert most of its revenue to prepaying 75 years worth of health benefits for future employees.
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Jan 25, 2012 15:46
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Not only all that other stuff, they have to provide mail serive to every single house in the US, 6 days a week. They have to do that with no federal funding.
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Jan 25, 2012 16:45
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Toffile posted:It isn't helping that in 2006 that Congress passed a bill that is currently making the USPS divert most of its revenue to prepaying 75 years worth of health benefits for future employees. Yep, and the bill to repeal that requirement (one that is imposed on no other business, public or private, in the United States) that has over 200 co-sponsors is being held up in committee by supreme rear end in a top hat Darrell Issa.
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Jan 25, 2012 20:45
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We asked Bill Gates where he would go for a 300 dollar loan. We even asked a U.S. President where they would go for a 500 dollar loan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_C82rUXgmE God I hate you so much.
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Toffile posted:It hasn't been that since the Nixon administration. The USPS is supposed to fund itself and has pretty much done so since the '80s. The model has been doomed since the getgo, as the USPS needs an act of Congress to authorize price changes. It isn't helping that in 2006 that Congress passed a bill that is currently making the USPS divert most of its revenue to prepaying 75 years worth of health benefits for future employees. Yeah, they literally enacted that so they could go "look! The Post Office is unprofitable! We should get rid of it and privatize the mail!"
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The Merkinman posted:A phone commercial shows a feature implying you can't do the same/similar on a competing device? The difference here is that the iPhone ads merely show off what you can do with the phone, whereas Samsung has been insulting potential customers in theirs. And before you cite the ads with Justin Long and John Hodgman, those ads were insulting Windows, not Windows users.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Yeah, they literally enacted that so they could go "look! The Post Office is unprofitable! We should get rid of it and privatize the mail!" Wasn't that a push by the same people who wanted to get rid of the NWS and make AccuWeather a sanctioned monopoly?
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