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Rirse posted:While I was on vacation Florida I kept seeing this awful ad for some used car lot named Courtesy. It had a bunch of people singing off key to a variation of the Ghostbuster theme, but about the crappy car lot instead. Can't find it on Youtube through. Maroone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJH4BPaRnU They've been around forever down here. I actually remarked to my friend a while ago that there's probably a generation of kids who think the proper answer to "Who you gonna call?" is "Maroone" and not "Ghostbusters". Then we got sad.  I know this isn't a "Request an Ad" thread but on Youtube I saw a cool commercial that had a guy made up of bugs. His lips were grasshoppers moving around, that kind of thing. Anyone know what I mean?
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May 28, 2012 00:24
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Maroone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJH4BPaRnU No, it was in english and had a bunch of white girls singing.
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May 28, 2012 00:29
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Rirse posted:No, it was in english and had a bunch of white girls singing. It was probably for Autoway. IF YOU NEED A CAR...TRUCK OR VAN...WHO YOU GONNA CALL?? AUTOWAY!!!! I am disappointed in myself that I know that by heart.
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vyst posted:It was probably for Autoway. IF YOU NEED A CAR...TRUCK OR VAN...WHO YOU GONNA CALL?? AUTOWAY!!!! Actually, they're for a variety of awful car dealerships, all owned by the AutoNation group (founded by noted idiot Wayne Huizenga). Maroone, Courtesy, and Autoway are all subsidiaries of AutoNation. In Southern California, their subsidiary is Power Auto Group, so the response is "CALL POWER!" SporkOfTruth fucked around with this message at 20:56 on May 28, 2012 |
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Watching A&E when a commercial for one of their shows (Monsters-In-Law I think) played: the same 5-second clip played on a loop six times while generic "ooh this is spooky thriller slasher music" played and a hashtag slowly revealed itself. It was the most baffling low effort commercial I have ever seen.
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vyst posted:It was probably for Autoway. IF YOU NEED A CAR...TRUCK OR VAN...WHO YOU GONNA CALL?? AUTOWAY!!!! I think their name was Courtesy. But it does prove one thing....they really love the Ghostbuster theme.
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May 28, 2012 21:02
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Man, John Malkovich is so lonely he has to ask his iphone to tell him a joke
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This is a very stupid piece of jewelry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY2njl-bI6s Real Fake Sapphire! Not Quite Made of Silver! Make your wife blow you in the spirit of the 1500 people that died when a boat sank 100 years ago! Also this looks like the one from the movie! Plus, that announcer's voice is annoying.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Real I had to rewind the video back to hear that again. You weren't kidding about that sapphire, they just gussed it up with "faux ceylon sapphire" and "silvertone" so anyone with half a brain could recognize it as false as poo poo. quote:Plus, that announcer's voice is annoying. Also, his voice is cut the poo poo apart, like they edited it down for time or did ADR on it. Not just the "silvertone" but stuff like the "pendantnecklace".
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May 29, 2012 01:41
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Holy poo poo, SK Energy, get your stupid loving "steroid dealer guy" ad with Joan Rivers off of my TV. I swear it plays twice a break.
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Oh, gently caress, I think I just saw that douchebag from the Dairy Queen commercials in an ad for Edge Pro Gel. 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Holy poo poo, SK Energy, get your stupid loving "steroid dealer guy" ad with Joan Rivers off of my TV. That's 50 Cent, but calling him steroid dealer guy makes it funnier.
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Just saw the worse thing. While a show was still going, a banner ad for Adam Sandler's new movie came up. The actual show shrank to the top corner and about 2/3 of the screen was ad space.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Just saw the worse thing. While a show was still going, a banner ad for Adam Sandler's new movie came up. The actual show shrank to the top corner and about 2/3 of the screen was ad space. Was this on broadcast TV, cable, or the internet? I can see such a thing happening on the last one, but if it happened with the first two, this does not bode well.
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Young Freud posted:Was this on broadcast TV, cable, or the internet? I can see such a thing happening on the last one, but if it happened with the first two, this does not bode well. The other day, I was watching Futurama on Comedy Central. Right in the middle of each act, a giant "TOSH 5.29" flashed across the entire screen, then gradually faded away. It tied in with a bunch of commercials for Tosh acting as a cult leader, so I guess the flash was mimicking subliminal advertising, but really? Is there a need for that? Those lovely commercials for a lovely show get run every commercial break, so is there a need to do something like interrupt airtime of other shows with "subliminal messages"? I can see this eventually happening with the first two, like you said
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Have you guys never heard of the poo poo they pull on TBS? Literally pausing a show to have a commercial pop up so your pesky DVR can't skip it.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Have you guys never heard of the poo poo they pull on TBS? Literally pausing a show to have a commercial pop up so your pesky DVR can't skip it. Wait, what? As in the action freezes and an ad comes up over it? Or that it has some way that it pauses what you recorded and plays an ad separate to it?
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May 29, 2012 16:57
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SpacePig posted:Wait, what? As in the action freezes and an ad comes up over it? Or that it has some way that it pauses what you recorded and plays an ad separate to it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vUtfG9Bkec
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Oh, wow. I only saw something like that once before, and it was on Nickelodeon when they were pemiering Jimmy Neutron, I think, because he would come in with some gizmo and he'd pause and rewind the show you were trying to watch. I hated it then, and I hate it now.
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Are they still actually doing this? That ad's from 2008.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Holy poo poo, SK Energy, get your stupid loving "steroid dealer guy" ad with Joan Rivers off of my TV. Seriously. That edit at the end where she barely touches him, and he looks at her in wide-eye surprise like the world's going to end... it's so loving awkwardly cut together, it makes me uncomfortably angry.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Have you guys never heard of the poo poo they pull on TBS? Literally pausing a show to have a commercial pop up so your pesky DVR can't skip it. I could see in show advertising becoming standard for all shows, it's the only way to keep DVRs, internet pirates and other from stripping them our or skipping them.
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You Are A Elf posted:The other day, I was watching Futurama on Comedy Central. Right in the middle of each act, a giant "TOSH 5.29" flashed across the entire screen, then gradually faded away. It tied in with a bunch of commercials for Tosh acting as a cult leader, so I guess the flash was mimicking subliminal advertising, but really? Is there a need for that? Those lovely commercials for a lovely show get run every commercial break, so is there a need to do something like interrupt airtime of other shows with "subliminal messages"? Not too long ago there was an ep of Parks & Rec where Ben gave Leslie a little stuffed animal and while he was giving it, and ad popped up telling viewers where they could order the thing.
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Is there some context to the iPhone ad with the guy who only speaks in single words that I am missing?
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Industrial posted:Is there some context to the iPhone ad with the guy who only speaks in single words that I am missing? Not much. John Malkovich (the guy) talks in a slow and subdued manner and it's part of what makes his acting distinctive.
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Google+ ads, while a noble endeavor, don't make it seem too appealing. They all seem so generic like the guys freaking out about their friend wearing an apron and the women freaking out about an engagement. I guess it's better than their first ads where the guy stalked the girl and ended up marrying her. And this Klondike ad. I was watching the South Park Marathon yesterday and they seriously played it like 3 times per commercial break.
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Gaunab posted:Google+ ads, while a noble endeavor, don't make it seem too appealing. They all seem so generic like the guys freaking out about their friend wearing an apron and the women freaking out about an engagement. I guess it's better than their first ads where the guy stalked the girl and ended up marrying her. I think the latter ad you were talking about was more about them having a relationship of some sort before and it sort of falling apart, but him basically realizing that they'd done so much together that it was time to finally pull the trigger. I didn't see it as stalker-ish or anything, but that might have been my romantic side just reading a bunch into it. The Chrome ads were really good and helped explain why the Google offerings were so interesting, even getting me a little choked up at times (that dad one was fantastic), but they were more about a general experience that used Google rather than something that WAS Google-only, which I think is the key. I'm not a social networking person. I log into Facebook basically to add friends and just reply to conversations via e-mail. But there's some fairly interesting stuff that Google+ is trying, and I like that it's different, but of course I don't regularly use Facebook, which from what I can tell is effectively an entire sect of the Internet unto its own. The idea, though, of having to spread your conversations across multiple places means social networking as a basic idea is effectively the IM rundown we got into a few years ago. At one point, (and I still use Trillian to manage them all) there was AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, GTalk and MSN. Is there going to be a social "collector" or are we already there with apps that do Twitter and Facebook and stuff?
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Rirse posted:I think their name was Courtesy. But it does prove one thing....they really love the Ghostbuster theme. AutoNation is a client and they love, love love that theme.
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Gaunab posted:Google+ ads, while a noble endeavor, don't make it seem too appealing. They all seem so generic like the guys freaking out about their friend wearing an apron and the women freaking out about an engagement. I guess it's better than their first ads where the guy stalked the girl and ended up marrying her. That loving klondike commercial. Comedy Central plays it at least once every single commercial break. It's a lovely commercial with a guy dancing like a spaz, and the song is creepy as gently caress. It's a woman singing about how she is "sugar daddy's little girl."
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Not any one commercial but a few: are we really to the point where adults use the word "veggies" in conversation with other adults? Is this related to the adult footed pajamas in the skymall catalog? or Zooey's iphone commercial? Or the miracle gro girl commercial I posted a few days ago. Childrenization of America.
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Wagonburner posted:Not any one commercial but a few: are we really to the point where adults use the word "veggies" in conversation with other adults? I honestly don't see what's wrong with the term. Would you care to elaborate on your idea that using shorter words or being playful with speech is ruining our sweet motherland?
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I posted the Prometheus/Coors commercial earlier in this thread but I think it's been topped. Tonight, I forgot to turn off my television after the NBA playoff game and there was a Prometheus ad framed by ESPN personality/rear end in a top hat Stephen A. Smith yammering about getting your Prometheus tweets on SportsCenter 
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I posted the Prometheus/Coors commercial earlier in this thread but I think it's been topped. Tonight, I forgot to turn off my television after the NBA playoff game and there was a Prometheus ad framed by ESPN personality/rear end in a top hat Stephen A. Smith yammering about getting your Prometheus tweets on SportsCenter I had thought I was the only one who was actually offended about that. You know, I understand it's just basic marketing, but it came off as just really tacky. It also proved to me that someone like Stephen A. Smith should never, ever be referred to as a "Sports Journalist" or a "Reporter".
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FuzzySkinner posted:I had thought I was the only one who was actually offended about that. It's a dumb spot but what's exactly offensive? It's a 'prequel' sci-fi movie for nerdy fanboys being promoted by some goofball TV personality. I mean, yeah, Smith's a joke but people have known that for years.
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DJExile posted:It's a dumb spot but what's exactly offensive? It's a 'prequel' sci-fi movie for nerdy fanboys being promoted by some goofball TV personality. Maybe offensive was the wrong word. I have no problem with the movie itself, just the advertisement didn't sit well with me for some reason. Maybe it's just because Stephen A. Smith is terrible and should not be on TV.
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The Pepsi ad with the really creepy looking singers on stage that freeze frame on their dead eyes is really bugging me now.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Maybe offensive was the wrong word. Oh, yeah that's fair then 
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Rirse posted:The Pepsi ad with the really creepy looking singers on stage that freeze frame on their dead eyes is really bugging me now. Lol that's an actual "pop star" it's Nicki Minaj. But yes, it's creepy.
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