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Polaron
Oct 13, 2010

The Oncoming Storm
There's a cat food commercial going around right now that shows the cat eating their food and then being transported to a magical land of wonder and amazement. It's not bad, exactly, but all I can think when I watch it is that the catfood company laces their food with Kitty LSD.

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muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Speaking of cat food commercials, I'm still confused by that one that tells a mini story about a couple getting engaged and married. Not so much because the premise of the commercial so much as the fact that the father of the bride is Bruce Boxleitner.

Good Listener
Sep 2, 2006

Ask me about moons
Fact #1 The Moon is really cool
I similarly am confused why there is continuity in goldfish cracker commercials.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Schlegel Mach posted:

Gamefly's running the ad where a bunch of people throw hissyfits about their video games being bad. They stopped running it for a while and that was great, but now they're running it again and it's still terrible.

Portraying your target audience at as a bunch of irrational children is the worst idea. Even if you think they are!

I like this one better than the interview style commercial where they talk to a bunch a goons about how much they need video games

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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What the gently caress is up with Mio energy commercial with the creepy cgi anthropomorphic safari animal bros in the bar? I have no idea what they're talking about and if I didn't already know what Mio was, I would have no idea what the product is. And it's really bad cgi but that's the least of my issues with it.

ElectricSheep
Jan 14, 2006

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
Since I've seen a couple of radio ads dropped in here: if I can help it I will never, ever fill a prescription for Tamiflu ever. It starts with a man coughing, then hoarsely whispering for the entire commercial in a register that annoys me in a way I just can't describe.

All I know is that as soon as my brain realizes the commercial's playing, my arm shoots forward almost involuntarily and hits a different radio preset.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Uh. Am I the only one who saw that commercial for Luvs' diapers? :stare: With the cartoon kids intentionally making GBS threads themselves on a stadium stage?

I think Tag Team weighed in on it last year, they were pretty pissed that their most famous song is being used to sell diapers.

jojoinnit
Dec 13, 2010

Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.
You know that "Dreeeeaaaams. Dreams dreams dreams" song? I heard it in two commercials in a row last night. First was for Sleepys, then a Comcast ad came on next and it ran together perfectly to the point that I was confused for a second why the mattress ad had suddenly changed visual tones.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Rhyno posted:

I think Tag Team weighed in on it last year, they were pretty pissed that their most famous song is being used to sell diapers.

I'm sure that won't stop them from cashing the checks.

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

vyst posted:

I'm sure that won't stop them from cashing the checks.

If I remember right the record label is getting most of the money because they signed a terrible deal.

hamster_style
Nov 24, 2004
neenjah!
Is there a reason for the trend of fast food companies going hogwild advertising their fish sandwiches right now? Like is February/March National Fish Month?

I find the Arbys commercial with the guy climbing on the boat looking for the "perfect catch" or whatever really annoying. I also hate their slogan: "It's good mood food". Anytime I'm pressed for time and decide to eat there, my mood is far from "good". I guess "It's gut-wrenching food" isn't a very good slogan.

WHEEZY KISS A DUDE
Dec 28, 2000

ASK ME HOW TO GET FREE BEER!
(THE ANSWER IS "CHEATING GOONS OUT OF IT")
It's Lent. Lots of people give up eating meat for Lent.

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

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

WHEEZY KISS A DUDE posted:

It's Lent. Lots of people give up eating meat for Lent.

And Catholics can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent so fast food places have to plug their fish sandwich so that Long John Silver's doesn't take a chunk of their business.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
I live in Mormon HQ (Salt Lake City) and even here during Lent the grocery stores advertise fish specials as Lenten.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

jojoinnit posted:

You know that "Dreeeeaaaams. Dreams dreams dreams" song? I heard it in two commercials in a row last night. First was for Sleepys, then a Comcast ad came on next and it ran together perfectly to the point that I was confused for a second why the mattress ad had suddenly changed visual tones.

"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is name of the song. I'm not familiar with either ad (Charter-exclusive here), but the Everly Brothers originally sang it.

WescottF1
Oct 21, 2000
Forums Veteran
I'm goddamn sick of that Ford "EVERY DAY I LOVE YOU LESS AND LESS.. GOT TO GET THIS FEELING OFF MY CHEST!" poo poo. It seems like it plays EVERY commercial break on Fox.. sometimes twice.

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

And Catholics can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent so fast food places have to plug their fish sandwich so that Long John Silver's doesn't take a chunk of their business.

They should run commercials that say "Look. All fast food fish sucks. We know this. But you know what? Ours sucks less."

Because its true.

Robnoxious
Feb 17, 2004

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One-eight-seven-seven cars for kids
Donate your car today

WescottF1
Oct 21, 2000
Forums Veteran

Robnoxious posted:

One-eight-seven-seven cars for kids
K.A.R.S. cars for kids
One-eight-seven-seven cars for kids
Donate your car today

I was JUST telling the wife that the only thing I hate about listening to the Garry Meyer show on WGN on the way home from work is that goddamn jingle.

Robnoxious
Feb 17, 2004

WescottF1 posted:

I was JUST telling the wife that the only thing I hate about listening to the Garry Meyer show on WGN on the way home from work is that goddamn jingle.
And Chicagoland gets the worst of it I've heard. A friend of mine went to visit his folks in Rockford two weeks ago. We're both talk radio junkies and reported back that WLS plays the entire one-loving-minute long jingle. I hate that jingle too but thankfully KFI Los Angeles has sold enough commercial time that we only have to endure the 30 second version once an hour or so. It's still 30 seconds too long but it really does make you want to drive into a tree just to get it out of your head.

robot roll call
Mar 7, 2006

dance dance dance dance dance to the radio


WescottF1 posted:

I'm goddamn sick of that Ford "EVERY DAY I LOVE YOU LESS AND LESS.. GOT TO GET THIS FEELING OFF MY CHEST!" poo poo. It seems like it plays EVERY commercial break on Fox.. sometimes twice.

It plays about 8 times during every episode of the Simpsons I watch. I hate it so much.

WescottF1
Oct 21, 2000
Forums Veteran

Robnoxious posted:

A friend of mine went to visit his folks in Rockford two weeks ago. We're both talk radio junkies and reported back that WLS plays the entire one-loving-minute long jingle.

Woodch? Brad and Jen told me he was gonna be in town but I didn't get a chance to see him when he was here.

Robnoxious
Feb 17, 2004

WescottF1 posted:

Woodch? Brad and Jen told me he was gonna be in town but I didn't get a chance to see him when he was here.
Haha, hey Randy. Yeah, him and Brad got torn up on a Friday. What a jerk-o for not calling you.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Polaron posted:

There's a cat food commercial going around right now that shows the cat eating their food and then being transported to a magical land of wonder and amazement. It's not bad, exactly, but all I can think when I watch it is that the catfood company laces their food with Kitty LSD.

Catnip, basically the same thing. :catdrugs:

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Sash! posted:

They should run commercials that say "Look. All fast food fish sucks. We know this. But you know what? Ours sucks less."

Because its true.

Why is it so expensive now anyway? Didn't it used to be like 2/$1.50 even just a few years ago. Now it's like 2/$4 if you're lucky and if you don't buy it during Lent the drat sandwich is like $4.29. Aren't they still using those cheap ugly fish? Is their price surging that much?

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
Why do people not count fish as meat during lent? Is it because it's from the sea?

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


Gaunab posted:

Why do people not count fish as meat during lent? Is it because it's from the sea?

Fish aren't warm blooded. Apparently this what the cutoff for what counts.


OctoberBlues posted:

Why is it so expensive now anyway? Didn't it used to be like 2/$1.50 even just a few years ago. Now it's like 2/$4 if you're lucky and if you don't buy it during Lent the drat sandwich is like $4.29. Aren't they still using those cheap ugly fish? Is their price surging that much?

As a semi-practicing Catholic, this is one of the things that drives me nuts. Part of the no meat thing is because meat, back in the olden days, was a luxury item and cheap, plentiful fish were not. Now its all flipped around and seafood costs a fortune in the US.

Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!
A recent Best Buy commercial is bugging me. Two parents are talking to Best Buy Guy about how they just finished their first home movie. They play it and it's their little baby's first steps. Then this teenager appears and Best Buy Guy is shocked to discover that the baby is the teen and it has taken the parents this long to make the video.

All well and good, except at some point some executive must have thought people wouldn't get it. So they added a title to the start of the video: "Tommy's First Steps 1997". Utterly ruins the punchline.

404GoonNotFound
Aug 6, 2006

The McRib is back!?!?

Sash! posted:

Fish aren't warm blooded. Apparently this what the cutoff for what counts.

Apparently beaver meat doesn't count either, due to politicking/technicalities.

Sash!
Mar 16, 2001


404GoonNotFound posted:

Apparently beaver meat doesn't count either, due to politicking/technicalities.

Now to find a place that sells beaver-meat...

hamster_style
Nov 24, 2004
neenjah!
Oh, duh! Lent didn't even come to mind(not too many Catholics around where I live).

Also, beaver meat sounds so gross.

404GoonNotFound
Aug 6, 2006

The McRib is back!?!?

hamster_style posted:

Also, beaver meat sounds so gross.

What did you expect, it's Quebec.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
gently caress Jamster, and gently caress that lovely CGI Tiger.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Gaunab posted:

Why do people not count fish as meat during lent? Is it because it's from the sea?

Could be worse. I'm pretty sure that the Eastern Orthodox sect (the second-largest in the world, behind Roman Catholicism) still says that its members must abstain from all animal products for the entire duration of Lent.

Here's that Goldfish commercial I was bitching about earlier. God, I hate that little chucklefuck kid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXACsVVP_Q

gameface
Nov 23, 2007

RC and Moon Pie posted:

"All I Have to Do Is Dream" is name of the song. I'm not familiar with either ad (Charter-exclusive here), but the Everly Brothers originally sang it.

Well, the song the Comcast ad plays is one of those "change the lyrics to fit our product!" type deal. The ad is for Xfinity Streampix, the song lyrics are "All I have to do is Stream."
EDIT: Forgot Comcast was using the name "Xfinity" for all of their TV stuff.

Rirse
May 7, 2006

by R. Guyovich
Hardee/Carl Jr has another awful commercial where it pretty 30 seconds of a girl (who looks like she from the 40s) stripping in a car while watching some black and white movie all because of some lovely burger she is eating. Yeah, I have no idea either.

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
That's Kate Upton, she's king poo poo of the supermodel world right now.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



gently caress this rear end in a top hat trying to push me that gross looking arbys reuben. What a smug jerk

404GoonNotFound
Aug 6, 2006

The McRib is back!?!?
Dear Heineken: Valentine's day was nearly a month ago. No, I still do not want a serenade. Get this tone deaf lisping dumbass off my TV.

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GATOS Y VATOS
Aug 22, 2002


Polaron posted:

There's a cat food commercial going around right now that shows the cat eating their food and then being transported to a magical land of wonder and amazement. It's not bad, exactly, but all I can think when I watch it is that the catfood company laces their food with Kitty LSD.

wanna buy that cat food.

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