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Echophonic posted:I actually sort of like this one. I mean, they can't sing, but it's not all that offensive. I even thought it was kind of novel when it came on the first time. I don't know how anyone could even marginally like that commercial. It repeats almost every break on some channels and the entire shitmobile, all of them, are tone deaf. The end result is a cacophony of off key assholes. That commercial makes me want to hurt myself for not finding the mute button fast enough.
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Dr_Amazing posted:There's a subway commercial where a fireman steals another fireman's sandwich. Then he's a giant dick about it. Someone decided this wasn't annoying enough so they dubbed little kid voices in over it. Subways been running commercials based on the theme of adults acting like children with children voices for a while now. Most of them were based in an office environment. Subway also runs separate commercials for their particular 5 dollar sub of the month, breakfast promotions, and another one that I'm forgetting. DrBouvenstein posted:I prefer my interpretation, it's funnier. There are three interpretations of this joke in this thread, that's how bad the joke is. I didn't even get the joke at all until this thread. Also, all commercials with talking babies can go straight to hell. loving tired of these dumb etrade commercials.
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So, the new Madagascar ads have made it to the radio, so now I hear "Da-da-dadada-dada-da-circus" a bunch of times a day at work. I can't wait for this movie to be out of theaters, and I hope that the DVD release commercials use a different bit. Goddamn am I sick of them. Also, re: talking babies. The ETrade baby wasn't bad at first because it was strange, but not necessarily absurd. It was a baby making videos about giving financial advice to other babies because ETrade was easy enough for a baby to use. The lo-fi camera and constant framerate issues made it seem not only realistic to a home-made video, but also masked the poor lip-synching and did drop the baby into weird, uncanny valley stuff. Now, he's out on golf courses making fun of adults for not using ETrade, and now it's in HD so it just looks completely creepy. Also completely creepy: Babies moving like adults, ie: that Pepsi Next commercial.
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SpacePig posted:So, the new Madagascar ads have made it to the radio, so now I hear "Da-da-dadada-dada-da-circus" a bunch of times a day at work. I can't wait for this movie to be out of theaters, and I hope that the DVD release commercials use a different bit. Goddamn am I sick of them. The wedding ETrade one bothers me too due to one of the grossest men I have ever seen marrying a fairly attractive women. The one with "the general"
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Tupping Liberty posted:The new KFC ad where the grandpa and grandson are arguing and start to choke each other over what side they are going to get, and then the family walks in with all their food like seconds later. I like that commercial because I like to imagine the grandfather is Gary Busey and the whole thing is based off a true story.
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Tupping Liberty posted:The new KFC ad where the grandpa and grandson are arguing and start to choke each other over what side they are going to get, and then the family walks in with all their food like seconds later. I think it's the same logic as what's behind the Sprint commercials where Wifi or getting stuff off your phone via USB must not be a thing. Yes little girl, your dad can upload your the video of your play once your he gets home. Stuff isn't held hostage on the phone because he has a limited data plan.
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Feeble posted:It's probably already been posted by now but those drat anti-smoking commercials with the various people talking through their voice boxes with the grating robotic voice. I like to watch TV while I eat and seeing those is a frickin' fantastic way to spoil what little appetite I have. I actually like those ads because when the Big Tobacco settlement went through they were required to spend a certain amount of money on anti-smoking PSAs. They chose to use ads like this and those ones where the kids would stack bodies outside the tobacco HQ which have been shown in most cases to not deter anyone from smoking.
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It should be added that those anti-smoking ads were intentionally designed to be as annoying and smug as possible so people would hate them.
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Chunk posted:It should be added that those anti-smoking ads were intentionally designed to be as annoying and smug as possible so people would hate them. The tobacco companies don't make the ads, they just pay for them
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Another one of these British costume jewelry commercials! I'm starting to kind of love these, it's just such blatant bullshit. They're not even trying to hide that the entire thing is fake. I love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOMr2DZr6E "Beautiful simulated Ceylon Sapphire" "Represents the original quality" "Scintillating brilliant cut simulated diamonds" The Titanic one was a bit worse because it was a movie knockoff, at least this was based on a piece of jewelry that actually exists.
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SamBishop posted:I don't know how anyone could even marginally like that commercial. It repeats almost every break on some channels and the entire shitmobile, all of them, are tone deaf. The end result is a cacophony of off key assholes. That commercial makes me want to hurt myself for not finding the mute button fast enough. Now that TNT has finally stopped showing that motherfucking Goldfish commercial about the kids going through the car wash (seriously, I hate those chucklefuck kids), the Honda commercial has become my new cause célèbre. Holy balls, each person in that car is an individual shitdemon and I want that Honda Pilot to run into a Mack truck.
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Jun 10, 2012 02:53
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I think advertisements for the General Insurance are so incredibly bad that they're hilarious. It's fun to see such great early 90's computer animators getting work in 2012. Also why the heck is he keeping that penguin around? Who knows, it adds to the allure.
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Dr_Amazing posted:It's dumb but I'll give this one a pass because watching the guy try to hold the chili makes me laugh. Me too! I love the voiceover also, it is hilarious. I NEED that "Crazy Train" commercial to stop. I need it to, it is so terrible. I am just glad that the Mio commercials have slowed down, soon they will be permanently gone and I will stop getting the chills every time I see these animal people using creepy sexual words ..
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The Grimace posted:I think advertisements for the General Insurance are so incredibly bad that they're hilarious. It's fun to see such great early 90's computer animators getting work in 2012. I didn't like the General ads when they started but have slowly turned around. The dude's gotta lead an interesting life, hangs around with a penguin, scores the game winning field goal and hops into a Corvette. Now he's flying experimental aircraft and being the greatest two-foot tall basketball player of all time. I can't hate that!
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I am pretty sure I saw an ad for a liqour on NBC a week or two ago. The name escapes me, and Google just turns up pages of results from NBC's famous 2001-2002 attempt to air liqour ads. This was a national ad, not a local spot, the latter of which are not unheard of. Does anyone remember this, and/or what product was advertised?
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The Grimace posted:
I always figured they wanted to have at least one more CG character in the commercials, couldn't afford to create a new one, and could only afford a single model from one of those sites that provides pre-made characters. "gently caress it, people like penguins right? Just pay for the god drat penguin." Aintain posted:
I honestly can't think of another commercial that has had me reaching for the mute button like that loving thing. gently caress those kids and their terrible voices.
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Jun 10, 2012 19:10
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The penguin was featured as a character in an ad for The General a while ago, maybe a year or more, and I guess whoever is in charge liked the model and decided to keep it around. Besides, penguins can sell me anything and I'm ok with that. Besides The General is loving pixar quality compared to this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHK2qmGaUs ONE YEAR LATER fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jun 10, 2012 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:The penguin was featured as a character in an ad for The General a while ago, maybe a year or more, and I guess whoever is in charge liked the model and decided to keep it around. Besides, penguins can sell me anything and I'm ok with that. Didn't know Tim and Eric did tax commercials too.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Besides, the General is loving pixar quality compared to this thing: RaspberryCommie posted:Didn't know Tim and Eric did tax commercials too. BlueTax.com, as directed by Glen Tennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDGud3o0Nrc
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Gonz posted:BlueTax.com, as directed by Glen Tennis:
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The best part of the BlueTax commercial is when he shows the shot of the people who work in the company and they all like the worst Sims models ever and just sort of wave at you.
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Burger King, no one wants to have a BBQ at your fast food places. And if you're making burgers and selling burgers, don't show someone grilling home made (much better) burgers by a pool then people sittng in a drat Burger King.
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I haven't seen it on TV yet, but it seems like every ad I see before a video now is that Vitamin Water one with the memes. I thought those pistachio ones were bad enough, but this really takes the cake.
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pwn posted:I am pretty sure I saw an ad for a liqour on NBC a week or two ago. The name escapes me, and Google just turns up pages of results from NBC's famous 2001-2002 attempt to air liqour ads. This was a national ad, not a local spot, the latter of which are not unheard of. Does anyone remember this, and/or what product was advertised? Seriously? All we have to go on is "a liquor ad on NBC in the past two weeks"? Well, that certainly narrows it down to only a couple dozen!
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pwn posted:I am pretty sure I saw an ad for a liqour on NBC a week or two ago. The name escapes me, and Google just turns up pages of results from NBC's famous 2001-2002 attempt to air liqour ads. This was a national ad, not a local spot, the latter of which are not unheard of. Does anyone remember this, and/or what product was advertised? There are several? Starting this spring in post 11pm timeslots NBC allowed Liquor ads of all varieties after ABC/CBS started making good money off of the spots. It could be anything from the new Captain Morgan Black Rum line to Jameson. Soon Jagermeister should be launching their first US TV ad campaign so be on the lookout for that fine bottle of medicine.
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Those "foundation for a better life" commercials creep me the gently caress out. "Generosity...pass it on"  They have a very "They live" like quality to them.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Those "foundation for a better life" commercials creep me the gently caress out.
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Awesome Welles posted:I honestly can't think of another commercial that has had me reaching for the mute button like that loving thing. gently caress those kids and their terrible voices. That and their awful facial expressions, particularly the girl who slowly smirks while looking to her right. I can't stand it. I just saw a new awful commercial for Klondike bars. The guy is posed a challenge, "Listen To Your Wife For 5 Seconds" for a Klondike bar. She starts telling him about her day, he makes all kinds of contorted facial expressions of discomfort, then 5 seconds later, two girls rush in and cheer while confetti falls, and the guy celebrates. Oh, I get it, guys hate to listen to women talk! How hilarious! Men, am I right? And women, am I right? 
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Aintain posted:That and their awful facial expressions, particularly the girl who slowly smirks while looking to her right. I can't stand it. The worst part is that ad is from a few years ago. They started reshowing it for goddamn-knows-why.
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Never Odd or Even posted:The worst part is that ad is from a few years ago. They started reshowing it for goddamn-knows-why. Oh, I apologize, I thought it was new cause I've never seen it before. It's one of the worst commercials I've ever seen, cause I especially hate ads where the joke is "[gender] am I right folks?" Like this Klondike one, or any commercial where a guy can't manage to microwave his dinner without his wife rolling her eyes and doing it for him etc.
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CapnAndy posted:They're Mormons, that might explain it. I figured as such but the guy funding goes out of his way not to tip his hand politically or religiously. e: of course his education screams he is a mormon so there we are then. Rousimar Pauladeen fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jun 12, 2012 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:I figured as such but the guy funding goes out of his way not to tip his hand politically or religiously.
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Awesome Welles posted:
I didn't think there was a commercial I could possibly hate more than the Crazy Train thing, then I just recently started seeing this poo poo from Little Caesars. I don't know if I'd really consider it worse as far as butchering a song goes, but I guess since it's new they show it all the loving time right now. It sends me flailing for the remote every time but I can't escape it. The sign twirler isn't helping either.
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NaturalLow posted:I didn't think there was a commercial I could possibly hate more than the Crazy Train thing, then I just recently started seeing this poo poo from Little Caesars. I don't know if I'd really consider it worse as far as butchering a song goes, but I guess since it's new they show it all the loving time right now. It sends me flailing for the remote every time but I can't escape it. Ugh. The first couple words of this started up when I clicked the link, and my brain just went into  mode and kept mentally screaming NO. NO. NO. NO. Thankfully I paused it and xed out. I didn't know what commercial it was by the context because I always mute that ad and avert my eyes so I didn't know it was for Little Cesar's off the top of my head.Seriously, gently caress ads with singing. It is not fun. It is not making me buy your product. gently caress off.
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I wonder if those types of commercials are as embarrassing to shoot and audition for and act in as they are to watch. I guess a paycheck is a paycheck.
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There's also the one with the Dirt Devil steam mop or something with an awful cover of "Old Time Rock 'n Roll" with a woman doing the whole Risky Business dancing around the house thing. Instant mute. To top it off the commercial freezes for a second at the very end to show off the available locations and it's just weird as hell.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I wonder if those types of commercials are as embarrassing to shoot and audition for and act in as they are to watch. I guess a paycheck is a paycheck. It must be a weird catch-22 for them...the more it airs, the more someone will recognize them as being in that lovely ad. But on the other hand, most commercial actors get paid royalties every time it airs.
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Knowing that they shoot things without music playing makes it even worse. You can't hide behind the sound, you gotta lip synch to a lovely song about crappy frozen pizza and dance like a moron. I'm sure that's not what anyone dreamed of when they decided to major in acting. But that knowledge also makes any type of dance/club scene in a movie better, I just imagine the awkwardness of a bunch of extras standing around 'dancing' to music that isn't there and everyone is deathly quiet to not ruin the take.
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DrBouvenstein posted:It must be a weird catch-22 for them...the more it airs, the more someone will recognize them as being in that lovely ad. But on the other hand, most commercial actors get paid royalties every time it airs. Royalties? Really? That's a good deal.
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