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Speaking of dumb Pepsi commercials, I think very little compares to the horrible alien kid thing they had with The Phantom Menace. drat it, I am getting physically mad just looking at these, again... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlU4D4BMgXM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9kmFTTxucE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhKtlRBZTsE
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raditts posted:Is there supposed to be a door to that place, or was it walled over to stop the contamination from spreading? Every night Randy Savage would burst through it, creating a Randy Savage shaped hole, instructing the patrons to snap into a Slim Jim.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:12
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raditts posted:Is there supposed to be a door to that place, or was it walled over to stop the contamination from spreading? Pretty much. The health department was worried that Pastamania might run wild on you, and they were concerned that people wouldn't know what to do.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:20
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raditts posted:Is there supposed to be a door to that place, or was it walled over to stop the contamination from spreading? Judging by the paint degradation it looks like one poor Hulkamaniac tried to
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Sep 11, 2013 03:32
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Choco1980 posted:Aww fooey, it cut out the best part at the end. A little toy robot comes walking in on the group of ladies, and one picks it up laughing... god I forgot to post the original. Yeah, it's such a dead on satire of Colonial Penn it's scary. I keep seeing the Colonial Penn Ads, and I keep cracking up thinking of that SNL skit.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:33
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greatn posted:Every night Randy Savage would burst through it, creating a Randy Savage shaped hole, instructing the patrons to snap into a Slim Jim. Until that ill-fated day when he tried to launch himself through the wall with the momentum of his Jeep, I presume.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:55
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raditts posted:Is there supposed to be a door to that place, or was it walled over to stop the contamination from spreading? Someone bought the sign after the restaurant closed and stuck it in a vacant alley.
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Sep 11, 2013 03:58
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Toffile posted:Someone bought the sign after the restaurant closed and stuck it in a vacant alley. Was that "someone" the Hulkster himself?
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Sep 11, 2013 03:59
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I can't take fast food commercials anymore. Everyone in the McDonald's universe is a hip, special snowflake who's just so "with it" or "wacky" and always unreasonably loud in some way. Everyone in the Burger King universe is a complete dummo that is just fascinated with the idea of food, and that food being a price. Everyone in the Wendy's universe, whether they eat at Wendy's or not, is an absolute rear end in a top hat who judges their social worth by the appeal of their lunch. What's sad is that they've been this way for awhile, which means somebody is responding positively to them. There are also radio commercials for this sandwich place called Jimmy John's that I've never heard of before this year. Apparently their selling point is the speed at which they make and deliver sandwiches. So, of course, all of the commercials are people talking quickly about how quick their sandwich arrived, and it's a bit grating after the first few times. HOWEVER, there is one that I have a soft spot for due to my love of dad jokes. It's two guys talking about how to make the whole sandwich process faster, and one suggests online delivery. When asked how one would deliver sandwiches over the internet, he responds, "Easy. In bytes." I still laugh every time.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:04
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Jimmy Johns isn't bad. Their whole thing is pretty much standard sandwiches, just that they deliver. The weird thing about Wendy's commercials is that they refilmed one, almost exactly the same just slightly different. Its the flatbread hipster one where instead of taking pictures of the Wendy's girl and sandwich now he's taking video (so instead of Instagram he's using Vine.) They also did a different take on the whole "sharing it with my taste buds" punchline that makes it come off a little less grating.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:09
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Jimmy John's cornerstones are basic sandwiches, a goofy sense of humor, and delivery drives that are blazed out of their minds. If you order Jimmy John's and the delivery does not arrive in 1984 Honda Accord with body panels from at least two other Accords and leaving a Cheech and Chong-like contrail of weed smoke, it may not be an actual Jimmy John's delivery driver and you should act with caution.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:13
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muscles like this? posted:The weird thing about Wendy's commercials is that they refilmed one, almost exactly the same just slightly different. Its the flatbread hipster one where instead of taking pictures of the Wendy's girl and sandwich now he's taking video (so instead of Instagram he's using Vine.) They also did a different take on the whole "sharing it with my taste buds" punchline that makes it come off a little less grating. I thought it seemed really familiar, but completely different. How was the original taste buds joke different? I honestly don't remember.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:17
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She just said it in a different tone that made it come across more that she was making fun of the guy than being jokey.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:20
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Toffile posted:Someone bought the sign after the restaurant closed and stuck it in a vacant alley. Correct. The actual Pastamania restaurant itself was in the Mall of America, of all places.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:28
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Did they serve 24 inch noodles, brother?
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Sep 11, 2013 04:33
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Sash! posted:Jimmy John's cornerstones are basic sandwiches, a goofy sense of humor, and delivery drives that are blazed out of their minds. This man tells the truth. Also, the secret to their speed is that they're basically subway without the customization complexity. They're all pretty much just one kind of coldcut or the other, so it takes like two minutes to get your food out the door. You want your food cooked? Go someplace else, jackass.
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Sep 11, 2013 04:57
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My friend refuses to eat at Jimmy John's because in a commercial for it when we were in college, they show a guy slicing and making a sandwich without wearing gloves.
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Sep 11, 2013 05:34
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JediTalentAgent posted:Speaking of dumb Pepsi commercials, I think very little compares to the horrible alien kid thing they had with The Phantom Menace. Aw man, I love Billy West but he has a lot to answer for. I remember my mom considered having a whole set of 24 Star Wars commemorative cans for about 15 minutes, before realizing how dumb that idea was.
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Sep 11, 2013 05:39
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Choco1980 posted:This man tells the truth. Also, the secret to their speed is that they're basically subway without the customization complexity. They're all pretty much just one kind of coldcut or the other, so it takes like two minutes to get your food out the door. You want your food cooked? Go someplace else, jackass. They also do bike delivery in more condensed populations--I used to order delivery at the JJ's and compete with the biker, when it was my friend, and the loser had to provide the intoxicant (usually whisky/bourbon or weed). I rarely won, but I'm a much better cyclist for it. This was over half a decade ago, I don't know if franchises still can get away with this stuff, but going off my pizza delivery guys, I'm guessing yes. (You can also order bread separate and cook the meat yourself, making it like a Papa Murphy's with delivery for sandwiches). Once again, haven't lived in a JJ's delivery area for years. Apparently Jimmy Johns, Milios, and Erbert & Gerberts are all founded by cousins who don't get along--according to employees of all three. But yes, those ads are stupid, and be happy you don't have to deal with the fairly racist Japanese businessman Jimmy Johns TV ads.
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Sep 11, 2013 06:50
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Choco1980 posted:This man tells the truth. Also, the secret to their speed is that they're basically subway without the customization complexity. They're all pretty much just one kind of coldcut or the other, so it takes like two minutes to get your food out the door. You want your food cooked? Go someplace else, jackass. I ate Jimmy John's nonstop in college since there was a restaurant literally across the street from the campus and two blocks from the dorms. The lack of customization is a huge help, but their real secret is their assembly line style--all the portions of meat, cheese, veggies, basically everything but the bread and sauces has been preseparated with wax paper. When they get an order, the sandwich is literally slapped together, sauce/extra condiments applied, and that poo poo's ready to go. Add that to free infinite refills and staying open to 3 AM on weekend nights, and they were a college student's dream. Jimmy John's helped turn my GPA around.
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Sep 11, 2013 07:32
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My cable provider, SuddenLink, has been running a pretty great one lately. I can't find a video, but it opens with a 911 operator taking a call from a child. "I notice you're calling from a cellular phone. Can you tell me your address so we can help you?" "I don't know... I live next to Joey" Then it goes into a spiel about how 911 can't help you unless you purchase a land line from SuddenLink. The scare tactics... they're beautiful.
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Sep 11, 2013 07:59
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:My cable provider, SuddenLink, has been running a pretty great one lately. I can't find a video, but it opens with a 911 operator taking a call from a child. Haven't cell phones been required to be 911 compliant for years now?
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Sep 11, 2013 10:20
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muscles like this? posted:Haven't cell phones been required to be 911 compliant for years now? Yes, but they have some bullshit reasoning, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwsjHpD9cLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKKtBQfUos
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Sep 11, 2013 10:44
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I've seen an ad a lot recently for one of those nurse training schools and its pretty normal for most of it but during the what you'll learn montage there's a shot with a creepy human robot lying on a bed. I guess its supposed to be a learning tool or something but it just looks really creepy.
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Sep 11, 2013 11:59
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muscles like this? posted:Haven't cell phones been required to be 911 compliant for years now? Not only that but the FCC and telecoms rolled out Enhanced 911 in the last five years that allows emergency services to pull your location from the embedded GPS in your cell or use radiolocation data from the cell towers. This can actually even quicker than land lines, since responders first have to determine your number from the phone network, then cross-reference it from a Automatic Location Information database. As well, most PSAPs and dispatchers can now receive text messages as part of their normal calls, which is helpful if you're in an area of poor reception or deaf, since you would have to go through a TTY service.
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Sep 11, 2013 15:52
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Notgothic posted:Aw man, I love Billy West but he has a lot to answer for. He's in a lot of commercials, actually. I'm pretty sure he's still the Honey Nut Cheerios bee, but I haven't been watching many commercials lately
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Sep 11, 2013 20:26
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Really hate the car commercial where it switch between various bad music with a bunch of people dancing in the street.
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Sep 12, 2013 03:20
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Rirse posted:Really hate the car commercial where it switch between various bad music with a bunch of people dancing in the street. oh word? Soundgarden and the theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" are now bad music? why don't you post your iTunes playlist chuckles ( it's a dumb ad but I think most of the music is good)
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Sep 12, 2013 05:45
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Marvin_Gardens posted:oh word? Soundgarden and the theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" are now bad music? why don't you post your iTunes playlist chuckles I honestly don't even pay attention to what songs are playing in the ad. It just really annoying hearing the music jump from one to the other
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Sep 12, 2013 06:18
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The Corolla ad is actually a decent concept but having it play during literally every football ad break gets old real loving fast.
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Sep 12, 2013 08:23
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Benne posted:The Corolla ad is actually a decent concept but having it play during literally every football ad break gets old real loving fast. Yeah that pretty much the issue. The songs in the ad are good, but amount of times this ad is played makes them annoying to hear, especially when your not paying attention to the tv and just suddenly hearing a bunch of song jumping around.
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Sep 12, 2013 08:33
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Marvin_Gardens posted:oh word? Soundgarden and the theme from "Beverly Hills Cop" are now bad music? why don't you post your iTunes playlist chuckles You have to admit that "Rusty Cage" is a pretty poor choice of music for your car ad.
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Sep 13, 2013 00:31
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Rirse posted:Really hate the car commercial where it switch between various bad music with a bunch of people dancing in the street. Dancing in the street?
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I think you mean this.
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Sep 13, 2013 22:55
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I think you mean this. I have no loving idea why this makes me laugh so hard every time I see it. I think it might be the most unintentionally(?) homoerotic thing I have ever seen, and I watch a shitload of pro wrestling. Also, Firefox spell check acknowledges shitload as a word. Brilliant. I didn't hate the Lumia ad with the kids like everyone else when I first saw it, but now when I hear "I am a veggie, I am so tasty, and I am filled with vitamins and minerals" I pretty much want to punch something. As for local commercials, any commercial for this place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig6PWMLiHtk I loving hate the kid that mushmouths "ERRYBODY RAHDS" and they play the clip in EVERY COMMERCIAL.
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Some great Ingmar Bergman inspired It's Always Sunny promos. All of them: http://www.indiewire.com/article/ingmar-bergman-inspired-promos-for-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia My favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLJ0NkH4ayk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPu_C2xkE0
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I was just watching AMC's HD channel and during one commercial it started playing an ad that was in 4:3 and instead of black bars on the side of the screen they put MORE ads in. So they were advertising during their advertising.
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Sep 15, 2013 21:38
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muscles like this? posted:I was just watching AMC's HD channel and during one commercial it started playing an ad that was in 4:3 and instead of black bars on the side of the screen they put MORE ads in. So they were advertising during their advertising. Clever girl.
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Sep 15, 2013 22:47
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muscles like this? posted:I was just watching AMC's HD channel and during one commercial it started playing an ad that was in 4:3 and instead of black bars on the side of the screen they put MORE ads in. So they were advertising during their advertising. Fox Sports 1 does this DURING SHOWS. We were watching the USC game last week, good drive, kinda important, all of a sudden screen shrinks and it's an all text ad with the truck and text moving around. 
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God do these Kmart ads with the rapping children such hate and rage in me.
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