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This. Not only is the talking baby creepy, that is the worst name for a product that I've ever seen.
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DJExile posted:Lisa's internal voice in that Verizon/Lucid commercial is driving me insane. They're actually reusing the footage, it was originally a Droid X2 commercial with the woman saying she could use it for productivity or some bullshit.
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Apr 24, 2012 16:55
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Nut Bunnies posted:They're actually reusing the footage, it was originally a Droid X2 commercial with the woman saying she could use it for productivity or some bullshit. Holy poo poo I knew it looked familiar.
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Apr 24, 2012 17:07
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The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life?
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Apr 25, 2012 03:56
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life? I guess that's society's new definition of "quirky". I dunno about anyone else but when I see girls act "quirky" it makes me want to jump off a cliff. We're not exactly the target market of that commercial though. The market, of course, being vapid high school girls.
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Apr 25, 2012 04:04
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life?
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Apr 25, 2012 04:48
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CapnAndy posted:Behold the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Behold, and despair, for all your works are naught against her quirkiness! But thankfully experts are had at work on a cure for the condition.
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Apr 25, 2012 04:51
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I think the reason it creeps me out so much is that I used to do special education assessments and other than the fact that she is reasonably attractive her persona is really no different than that of a mid-70s IQ high school student. If that is actually attractive/appealing to adults I don't even want to think about what that says for the human condition.
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Apr 25, 2012 05:02
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I don't know, I think you guys are missing who her typecasting is supposed to appeal to. It's aimed at the group that was referred to as the tail end of gen-x and beyond crowd. As a group they were pretty much told that they were all special snowflakes and to never compromise themselves, and be carefree. Compound that with the generalization that as a group they're all pretty aimless. I mean sure some have goals and are working toward them, but the traditional sense of a career is dead, we work a job until something better comes along. There is no longer such a thing as starting at a company and working your way up anymore. She's meant to appeal to that. She's meant to who we want to be, carefree and unburdened by the expectations of society. Someone who can just stay home and order tomato soup because it's raining. Then again, my favorite character of hers was the alcoholic roommate in "Failure to Launch," which is fortunately also the only thing I remember about that movie.
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Apr 25, 2012 13:55
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life? Hey now, she also sings a lot.
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Apr 25, 2012 14:02
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404GoonNotFound posted:But thankfully experts are had at work on a cure for the condition. The way the guy says "We got married in a fuckin' bouncy castle!" made me bust out laughing for a good minute.
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Apr 25, 2012 14:05
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life? I usually like her but that commercial annoys me too. Yes, we know she's quirky. That commercial is overkill.
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Apr 25, 2012 14:49
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Are you all talking about the Zooey iphone commercial? Cause I just now saw that and it was pretty terrible. I'd seen her cotton commercial and couldn't imagine what was all that horrible about her yesterday when I saw the poo poo talking start. MPDG rehab video was hilarious. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 25, 2012 |
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Apr 25, 2012 17:20
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I think the weirdest thing about that commercial is that they push the quirky thing so far it's almost become a parody of itself by this point. But she was kind of the first one to really rock this whole quirky personality as her whole thing, so I guess she's making fun of herself here?
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Apr 25, 2012 18:06
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Maybe she likes money, which Apple has a lot of, especially when it comes to advertising
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Apr 25, 2012 18:33
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Yeah, I doubt she had much say in the commercial's script or anything, and she probably got paid pretty well for it. I saw one immediately before the Zooey one featuring Samuel L. Jackson, so they're probably spending a lot on this campaign. Everything about her performance in it seems so forced, too. It's bad enough that she's "silly and so goddamn quirky". Jhe just seems so uninterested in everything that instead of it coming off as her being naturally quirky, it seems more like she is some sort of android that was asked to watch a few things with Zooey in them and go from there. e: In other commercial news, ad makers need to stop using babies. Talking babies, dancing babies, driving babies, bearded babies. Just babies everywhere. Cut it out.
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Apr 25, 2012 19:38
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Vicas posted:I think the weirdest thing about that commercial is that they push the quirky thing so far it's almost become a parody of itself by this point. But she was kind of the first one to really rock this whole quirky personality as her whole thing, so I guess she's making fun of herself here? She appeared on SNL in a skit explicitly making fun of her, I think she's just taking a piss at this point.
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Apr 25, 2012 19:41
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Atasi posted:She appeared on SNL in a skit explicitly making fun of her, I think she's just taking a piss at this point. I think she just got the paycheck and phoned that in. Oh she has to ask if it's raining even though it is! And she doesn't want real shoes! Today is for dancing! It's a vintage song! I like her but the commercial is way too forced.
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Apr 25, 2012 20:01
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raditts posted:Hey now, she also sings a lot. To be fair, anyone looks better when paired with Jean-Ralphio. He's like a human Armani.
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Apr 25, 2012 23:15
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DJExile posted:Holy poo poo I knew it looked familiar. Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsm1b3LiCNk I don't think there's many ads written worse than Verizon's. There's never a sentence you'd hear coming out of a human's mouth.
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Apr 26, 2012 02:08
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvyFFjP7RE Saw this while watching South Park on comedy central. Got a big "What the gently caress?" out of me, it looks like something done by Tim & Eric.
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Apr 26, 2012 02:35
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life? Okay, have literally none of you ever spent a lazy day at home? You get days off, don't you?
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Apr 26, 2012 02:40
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Anyone in the DC Metro area that watches CSN, MASN or any local sports will understand that these channels love to have 2 or 3 ads they love to run 24/7. Well currently its this Nissan ad where we "sell a car every minute" so every 5 seconds of this commercial there is an obnoxious siren that plays. The noise immediately sends me into a fit of rage. (Side note: This goddamn commercial came on as I was typing these 5 sentences. I want to kill someone after watching Nats and Caps play tonight..)
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Apr 26, 2012 03:57
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay, have literally none of you ever spent a lazy day at home? You get days off, don't you? There's a limit to how many days you can spend at home lazing around before you start to get a little  . Going stir-crazy is a real thing.
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Apr 26, 2012 04:12
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Malachite_Dragon posted:There's a limit to how many days you can spend at home lazing around before you start to get a little Oh, I know, but in the commercial itself it's nothing too outrageous or even insanely quirky. Unless the standards for excessive quirk have changed.
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Apr 26, 2012 04:25
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I think it's more the whole asking your phone if it's raining outside while staring out a window sort of thing.
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Apr 26, 2012 05:21
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Kanish posted:Anyone in the DC Metro area So do you want to throttle the life from the people that thought that King's Dominion commercial was a good idea? Because I just saw it and...I want to feel the life draining from them as their heart slows and I see the pleading, desperate look in their eyes and all they see back is the cold but gleeful expression in mine as I know that the world will never know the torment of another commercial like those ones. 
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Apr 26, 2012 05:51
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Dangerous Person posted:I think it's more the whole asking your phone if it's raining outside while staring out a window sort of thing.
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Apr 26, 2012 05:59
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CapnAndy posted:Eh. Judging by the Sam Jackson ad, the tone of the campaign seems to be "celebrities having a conversation with their phone to show off what Siri can do, sacrificing realism for keeping the celebrity's persona coming through". Jackson reacts incredulously to his phone confirming a reminder because yeah, he wants to chill his gazpacho! That's a silly way to talk to your phone too, but it works because they're going for an actual conversation treating the phone like it's a person. Yeah, it is easier to make dinner for Siri than it is a live human being... Now if only I could get one of those to come over for dinner, it would be awesome.
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Apr 26, 2012 13:37
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Sorry but the Sam Jackson one is awesome. Yeah! Unless you like hotspacho!
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Apr 26, 2012 16:22
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Nut Bunnies posted:Found it To be fair, they aren't coming out of a human's mouth... they are thinking it.
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Apr 26, 2012 18:05
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AT&T's 4g LTE- "That's soo 30 seconds ago. Every single one of them." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvVVQGgbKk0
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Apr 26, 2012 18:11
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Industrial posted:The Zooey Deschanel commercial bothers me as well. What is supposed to be appealing exactly about an adult who acts like a 4 year old girl/is confused by life? Just came here to post about this commercial. I've never understood the neckbeard obsession with this girl. "Ooh I'm so awkward and quirky, don't you just love me?!"
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Apr 27, 2012 01:21
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SON OF A BITCH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wtNYkngvA
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Apr 27, 2012 01:31
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Gonz posted:SON OF A BITCH That's pretty bad. Kinda really glad I saw that here 1st instead of being surprised by it on TV.
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Apr 27, 2012 01:39
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Gonz posted:SON OF A BITCH Yeah, I've seen that one as well. 
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Apr 27, 2012 01:40
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Just saw a Dunkin Donuts commercial of a group of hipsters sitting on some front steps talking about "artisan" bagels. I've never wanted to punch somebody in the face more than after watching that video.
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Apr 27, 2012 01:50
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Gonz posted:SON OF A BITCH It's still not as bad as the one from a year or two ago where a girl was talking to her mom in "text speak" by saying the first letter of every word she says. I don't remember which carrier it was for (probably Verizon going by how bad their ads are), so I can't find it, but I'm sure at least one or two people remember it and how horrible it was.
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Apr 27, 2012 02:19
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Kind of funny since the AT&T/T-Mobile merger got the kibosh put on it they're bringing back the T-Mobile girl. Except now she's all edgy and on a motorcycle.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Okay, have literally none of you ever spent a lazy day at home? You get days off, don't you? Sure I do but they don't typically involve me being confused by water falling from the sky or trying to order a single bowl of tomato soup for delivery.
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