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Gonz posted:FISHAY FISHAYYYYYYYY I want to know who told McDonalds they knew how to make fish and punch them in the loving throat.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:35
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The AT&T commercials with the little kids. "Which is better: More or Less?" And then the one girl rambling on and on about nothing that makes any sense what so ever and the AT&T guy is following along because that is what makes the commercial adorable and smart, right? I would like to see less commercials and more actual TV shows.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:44
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I don't understand the McDonalds radio ads for the "Filet-O-fish finder". I dont need a geiger counter-like device to find a filet-o-fish sandwich. Eating a random fish sandwich found laying around is a poor nutritonal choice. Maybe an app for a GPS that tells me where the closest McDonalds is would be more practical. The TV spot on the fishing boat also does not make logical sense. The boat is out to sea. All of a sudden, the fish finder goes off. The Captain, in his zeal, runs to tell the crew in the galley that they have just hit the "mother load". As he runs to the galley, the beeping of the device increases in rhythm. When he enters the galley, he finds that the fish finder is not triggered by a school of fish underneath the boat, but by the crew eating Filet-o-fish sandwiches. A crew member even taunts the Captain by moving his sandwich closer to the device, causing it to increase in frequency. When did the fish sandwiches appear on the boat? Since the fish finder did not trigger until now, the fish sandwiches did not arrive on the boat until just now. How did the fish sandwiches arrive on the boat? Helicoptor? Would not the Captain know that a helicoptor just dropped supplies on the ship (answer: yes) Am I over the top in my train of thought? I have accepted that a fish finding device can be triggered by a fish sandwich (impossible, no such device currently exists), I just want the rest of the commercial to make logical sense.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:53
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trunkwontopen posted:The AT&T commercials with the little kids. Oh, if only. The one constant in TV over the decades is that the space allotted to shows has been getting shorter.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:56
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The short answer: Jesus. Jesus delivered all of those sandwiches. With magic.
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Mar 4, 2013 23:56
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trunkwontopen posted:The AT&T commercials with the little kids. This is kind of my main complaint with commercials. I really can't stand that so many commercials need to make up some story or little skit to sell their product. I understand why they do it, because the vast majority of people need a dumb little playlet for them to connect with a product, but I would much prefer if the ad was simply showing their product and plainly saying why they think it's good and better than the next guys product. Advertising as it is now means nothing to me, but the few ads that do come out and go "This is our product, it's got A/B/C, and it's better than the other companies because of X/Y/Z." actually have more of an impact because I get info I can use rather than "Oh boy, driving this truck will make me a cowboy just like in the ads!".
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Mar 5, 2013 00:12
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Gonz posted:The short answer: Jesus. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions - all on a sesame seed bun, I will fear no evil.
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Mar 5, 2013 00:13
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I guess William Shatner is getting pretty cheap for commercials considering I just saw him do one for a local lawyer.
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Mar 5, 2013 00:43
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These Arby's detective commercials are pretty annoying. Their "good mood food" commercials were poo poo too. drat, I can't think of a good Arby's campaign in my entire lifetime.
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Mar 5, 2013 00:51
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Doctor Butts posted:These Arby's detective commercials are pretty annoying. Their "good mood food" commercials were poo poo too. drat, I can't think of a good Arby's campaign in my entire lifetime. Funny, an Internet search reveals to me that's Tom Arnold and not Stephen Colbert. I don't remember where I heard that, but I guess I was wrong. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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Mar 5, 2013 00:53
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muscles like this? posted:I guess William Shatner is getting pretty cheap for commercials considering I just saw him do one for a local lawyer. I've seen that one locally. He's just replaced Robert Vaughn. Probably gets some good scratch for saying a list of names.
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Mar 5, 2013 01:06
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Gonz posted:FISHAY FISHAYYYYYYYY Ugh. My aunt thinks this commercial is the height of hilarity and has her son sing it with her every time they come over.
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Mar 5, 2013 01:18
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This ad has been playing non-stop where I live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69TzwmuVBZU Apparently having a 91 year old grandmother dress like the Unibomber and yell that she's 91 is the best way to sell supplements 
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Mar 5, 2013 02:15
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RaspberryCommie posted:Ugh. My aunt thinks this commercial is the height of hilarity and has her son sing it with her every time they come over. From this fact alone I hate your aunt.
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Mar 5, 2013 02:56
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There's a Digiorno pizza commercial on that I can't stand, because it contains this line: "Now the shortest distance between you and a fresh-baked pizza is your oven." It could've been ".. is from your refrigerator to your oven" or ".. is the length of your kitchen" or ".. is no distance at all" or anything else. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but it bugs me. Your oven is not a distance.
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Mar 5, 2013 03:53
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trunkwontopen posted:The AT&T commercials with the little kids. The biggest problem I have with them is that the message is pretty blatantly "only a child would be stupid and shortsighted enough to use AT&T." Like, the whole concept of "faster is better" seems designed to make you think "well when wouldn't faster be better? Oh, maybe if there isn't a wide area of coverage" or something like that. I really hate commercials that dumb things down by saying "even a child knows <x>" because so many times it comes off as "this only works because children are simple-minded and do not understand the world, buy our product!" If network speed is your selling point don't use kids talking about taping a cheetah to your grandma's back, basically.
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Mar 5, 2013 04:36
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I think AT&T realizes those commercials aren't great, which is why the one just has the guy say "....what?"
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Mar 5, 2013 06:08
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muscles like this? posted:I guess William Shatner is getting pretty cheap for commercials considering I just saw him do one for a local lawyer. goddamnit OT, but someone was asking him if he'd buy an account here on twitter, and he denied preferring 4chan. My contribution is a new DSW commercial which uses music from the Food Fight scene from "Animal House". Everytime I hear it, I keep expecting to hear Marmalard to go "ALRIGHT YOU BASTARD...LET'S GO RIGHT HERE". Animal House is one of the best comedies of all times, quit teasing me shoe commercial.
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Mar 5, 2013 06:19
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muscles like this? posted:I guess William Shatner is getting pretty cheap for commercials considering I just saw him do one for a local lawyer. Judge Joe Brown's doing ads for a local law office too (St. Louis area). I wonder if it's not that they're coming cheap, but that attorneys are doing that well these days.
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Mar 5, 2013 06:51
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Vicas posted:The biggest problem I have with them is that the message is pretty blatantly "only a child would be stupid and shortsighted enough to use AT&T." No, it's "even a child gets that our poo poo is better you loving moron, go buy our phones".
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Mar 5, 2013 07:25
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computer parts posted:No, it's "even a child gets that our poo poo is better you loving moron, go buy our phones". Wait, those commercials are about phones? Jesus, I was under the assumption that they were insurance ads. It's worth noting that I never bother to watch past the first few seconds of those ads.
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Mar 5, 2013 13:47
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I detest the commercials but they are kind of brilliant. The kids who watch it will be like "Heh, that kid is cool and funny" The parents who watch it will say "Awww, that's so cute" Everyone else gets to laugh with the guy "Heh, yea, those kids are totally dumb, you got them good".
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Mar 5, 2013 14:02
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The guy in those AT&T commercials has pretty great comic timing, he's really the only good thing about them.
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Mar 5, 2013 14:29
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I actually like those commercials, other than the fact they play non stop.
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Mar 5, 2013 16:16
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They always have to have a commercial in my Kings games to piss me off. This is worse than the Jumbaco commercial.
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Mar 6, 2013 06:54
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Olympus has fallen is using an ad with the EAS code playing over and over again. it's annoying. I also sincerely believe that sound should be specifically only be used either during a legitimate artistic usage within a film (such as "The day after") or you know..during an emergency.
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Mar 6, 2013 08:38
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I dunno, i'd have to qualify a C-130 gunship spraying Washington DC with .50 cal bullets as an "emergency".
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Mar 6, 2013 08:39
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There's a US Cellular ad with a bearded guy and his pregnant wife who believe in Bigfoot and aliens but not the "great" deal US Cellular is running. It's super boring but plays constantly. Why???
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Mar 6, 2013 16:03
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Gonz posted:I dunno, i'd have to qualify a C-130 gunship spraying Washington DC with .50 cal bullets as an "emergency". I think Fuzzy means that they should not use what might be interpreted as an actual EAS message in a commercial (War of the Worlds radio broadcast). Within the movie is fine, but dont use that in the commercial. Generating interest in a fictional film for the purpose of increased ticket sales is not an emergency.
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Mar 6, 2013 18:31
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Nerdfest X posted:I think Fuzzy means that they should not use what might be interpreted as an actual EAS message in a commercial (War of the Worlds radio broadcast). Within the movie is fine, but dont use that in the commercial. Generating interest in a fictional film for the purpose of increased ticket sales is not an emergency. I remember that the trailers for Outbreak had warning sirens with a regionalized message depending on the theater and such and that, when the film debuted in still-opening-up eastern Europe, the sirens blaring about their theater cities are under quarantine caused a panic.
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Nerdfest X posted:I think Fuzzy means that they should not use what might be interpreted as an actual EAS message in a commercial (War of the Worlds radio broadcast). Within the movie is fine, but dont use that in the commercial. Generating interest in a fictional film for the purpose of increased ticket sales is not an emergency. Exactly. If for example I have a feeling that a bad, bad storm is going to hit within my area (be it blizzard or a tornado) the last thing I should be hearing is a fake alarm in a commercial. The reason why that tone of sound is used is for that exact reason (hence why it's ear piercingly loud and annoying). It shouldn't be used to market your product. I also shouldn't have to mute your ad every time because of it. Again, fine with it being used in a TV show or movie in which it's used to illustrate some sense of realism during an actual legit emergency. Hell, I'm rather interested in seeing that angle of things.
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Mar 6, 2013 21:00
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Parasol Prophet posted:There's a Digiorno pizza commercial on that I can't stand, because it contains this line: The Prevacid 24 Hour commercial is more infurating to me: "I take a Prevacid 24 Hour, and coffee is coffee, a quick bite is a quick bite, and playtime is playtime." IT MEANS NOTHING, THOSE ARE A SERIES OF MEANINGLESS STATEMENTS. She might as well be speaking gibberish. It's like the verbal equivalent to those Clear Eyes commercials where they show "how it works" by making a picture of an eye tinted red turn into a picture of an eye tinted blue. This is easily the worst commercial on television right now, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4seqskzmyXI gently caress that commercial. raditts fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 21:47
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Low production values, bad jingle, floozy T&A... Sounds like a perfect local commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI-FC1XRgqI
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Thwomp posted:Low production values, bad jingle, floozy T&A... Is it common to call a regular-rear end Town Car a limo? or anything not painted yellow or something? There was a black Town Car like that at the carport at work one time and the front desk lady asked me if I could tell so and so on my floor that so and so other person's "limo" was here. edit: Been away from thread/TV, I'm really digging the VW Jamaican ad pages and pages back. If you'd have told me yesterday that some marketing exec wanted a white office worker to talk in a Jamaican way to his co-workers to advertise a car or anything I'd tell you that I'd want that marketing guy beaten alongside the ones responsible for record scratches in wacky movie trailers and the ones for the pads ad 2 posts up. Dude just had amazing delivery. "Yes I! The land a ten-tousand lakes!" Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Mar 6, 2013 |
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Mar 6, 2013 23:02
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FuzzySkinner posted:Exactly. I hate when they use words like 'attention', 'alert', and 'warning' in commercials that aren't public service announcements. I like to joke that when I die, I'll go to Heaven, and God will ask me why I didn't pay attention to that PSA warning about a tornado. "Well, Lord, I heard the word 'Attention' and I thought they were going to sell me adult diapers, so I tuned it out."
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Mar 7, 2013 01:22
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Kanish posted:I actually like those commercials, other than the fact they play non stop. If I made a pie chart of commercials, about 60% would be "obnoxious at any time;" 35 would be "good, but now obnoxious due to overplay," and 5% would be "good, now don't overplay it."
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Mar 7, 2013 01:41
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Similar to the commercials that sound like an emergency alert, awhile back I heard a radio commercial that opens with the sounds of screeching tires and scraping metal (I don't remember what it was for, probably insurance). Hearing that poo poo while you're driving is goddamn terrifying.
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Anyone seen the spot for that new at-home HIV test Oraquick? The men they show with it are uh... let's say well-groomed and their homes are clearly decorated by someone with good taste.  I mean I get that you're trying to hit a target demographic without outright saying it, but it's not like gay men are the only people that get HIV. There's literally no reason a woman couldn't be in that spot.
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Mar 7, 2013 02:32
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raditts posted:The Prevacid 24 Hour commercial is more infurating to me: Uh, you obviously don't have acid reflux, man. Coffee is a risky decision for those of us who have chronic acid reflux, because while it'll wake you up, it'll give you really nasty, painful heartburn. Any food has to be carefully chosen, and physical activity has to be kept in mind when you are eating prior to it. Unless you keep antacids on hand at all times, or take some kind of daily pill to help with that stuff, those statements do have a significance to someone whose stomach acid goes PFWHOOSH at the drop of a hat. I understand the point you're trying to make, but coffee is a calculated gamble, a quick bite can be a one-way ticket to hell, and playtime could be a bad decision. Or coffee can just be coffee, quick bite blah blarg et cetera.
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rotinaj posted:or take some kind of daily pill If your heartburn/reflux/GERDS is this much a negative influence in your life, why would you not take medication for it? But, yes, you are correct. "X = X" is a stupid statement that means absolutely nothing.
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