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The Super Bowl commercials were both boring and forgettable this year Like I can't even remember one to hate it, I just remember too many CGI explosions and too much smug self awareness
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The one with Ellen dancing was the worst that I saw but the game was so boring that I hardly watched in the second half. I thought this thread would be a lot busier tonight.
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Feb 3, 2014 05:39
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Vicas posted:The Super Bowl commercials were both boring and forgettable this year They were really loving bad. It didn't help that the game was basically a snuff film, but this is supposed to be the best opportunity you have to pitch your poo poo to a hundred million people and instead we got cow sex, the same tired Clydesdale schmaltz, Morpheus singing, the guy from Big Bang that no one really likes, and the re-animated corpse of Bob Dylan.
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Feb 3, 2014 06:36
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BigBoss posted:They were really loving bad. It didn't help that the game was basically a snuff film, but this is supposed to be the best opportunity you have to pitch your poo poo to a hundred million people and instead we got cow sex, the same tired Clydesdale schmaltz, Morpheus singing, the guy from Big Bang that no one really likes, and the re-animated corpse of Bob Dylan. That and now we have a bunch of idiots pitching a loving fit because one of them featured a song about America that included foreign languages. 
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Feb 3, 2014 07:21
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Outside of the Radio Shack ad, and the mutant dog hybrid ad (which I can't for the life of me remember what it was for), it was yet again a forgettable SB commercial season.
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Feb 3, 2014 07:22
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Kimmalah posted:I love late night advertising. Who wants some dump cakes and dump dinners? I'm loving dying. Also I eat at Taco Bell more than I'd care to think about (I eat healthy more often than not, shut up  ) and have not once gotten a particularly upset stomach from it which means one of a few things:-I just have a particularly good local Taco Bell -I am goonier than I thought -I have an iron stomach -All of the above
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Vicas posted:The Super Bowl commercials were both boring and forgettable this year
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Feb 3, 2014 10:18
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SamuraiFoochs posted:I'm loving dying. It's just a result of the old adage, "You can always eat the food from the fast-food restaurant you were born behind in a dumpster." Just count your lucky stars you weren't born into the Arbys dumpster.
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Feb 3, 2014 10:28
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Kimmalah posted:I love late night advertising. Who wants some dump cakes and dump dinners? Literally no human beings ever went up to this woman during the naming stage of this product and enlightened her regarding it's possible secondary translation. Nobody. I don't know if that makes me happy or sad.
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Feb 3, 2014 10:29
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Gonz posted:Literally no human beings ever went up to this woman during the naming stage of this product and enlightened her regarding it's possible secondary translation. Nobody. I always thought that about that furniture chain called "The Dump". Someone thought long and hard about that name and probably thought they were pretty clever, "because you take furniture to the dump, and we have furniture!". At the end of the day though, you've still named your business The Dump. Who the gently caress wants to shop at The Dump?!
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Feb 3, 2014 10:33
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I always thought that about that furniture chain called "The Dump". Someone thought long and hard about that name and probably thought they were pretty clever, "because you take furniture to the dump, and we have furniture!". At the end of the day though, you've still named your business The Dump. Who the gently caress wants to shop at The Dump?! A couple years ago, a "The Dump" opened up not to far from my house. I went there to see what kind of furniture they had, and as soon as I walked in, I was greeted to a mahogany four post bed frame that cost 11,000 dollars. Behind that? A row of upholstered sectionals with heated seats and electronic reclining features for 5,000-6,000 dollars apiece. Not only is The Dump a terrible, terrible name for a company, but apparently they only cater to people who are pulling down Tony Montana-style numbers each year (or pro athletes). I guess the wordplay is meant to be ironic, because they call themselves "The Dump" but sell furniture that only the Pentagon budget office can afford. EDIT: It doesn't surprise me at all that almost 75% of the online reviews for the store near me are negative. Not one bit. That place was a ghost town of customer service. Gonz fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Feb 3, 2014 10:41
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Gonz posted:A couple years ago, a "The Dump" opened up not to far from my house. I went there to see what kind of furniture they had, and as soon as I walked in, I was greeted to a mahogany four post bed frame that cost 11,000 dollars. Behind that? A row of upholstered sectionals with heated seats and electronic reclining features for 5,000-6,000 dollars apiece. The real kicker is that The Dump sells this poo poo at a discount because they buy their stock from bankrupt furniture retailers, declined prototypes, and custom jobs that a client commissioned but fell through at the last moment and now the makers are having to sell the product at cost to remain solvent. That's actually where The Dump gets it's name. You can imagine how much this poo poo actually cost originally. Stuff like office recliners that were supposed to be used for the million dollar overhaul of a lobby of some corporate headquarters but the company went bankrupt and now the creditors dumped this stuff here to make up the loss.
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Feb 3, 2014 11:33
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Y-Hat posted:This has been the case for the past few Super Bowls. Obviously there weren't any very good commercials over that timespan, but even stranger, there haven't been any commercials that were memorably awful (i.e. the Britney Spears Pepsi commercial). It's just been mediocrity through and through. The whole concept of a "Super Bowl Commercial" has just become this ridiculously weird self aware thing where you have to point put how much money you're spending, or saving, out you have to bring in a star cameo, and you have to release a teaser for your commercial, and it's all become so formulaic that we've gotten this And of course then everyone comes up with a top ten best and worst list and talks about the ads anyway, so why do anything different
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Feb 3, 2014 14:21
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The local news here started summarizing and even explaining the commercials as part of their reporting. Personally, I think they would be much better if every ad slot was required to be filmed under the same time and budget constraints as that one-take lawyer posted earlier. "Papa Johns pizza is a.......... a............ (drat) ......... a GOOD VALUE!"
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Feb 3, 2014 14:33
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Gonz posted:Literally no human beings ever went up to this woman during the naming stage of this product and enlightened her regarding it's possible secondary translation. Nobody. Have people never heard of dump cakes before this or what?
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Feb 3, 2014 15:07
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"Full House" was not funny back in the 90's and it's not funny now. It's going to be really irritating when the gang from "Big Bang Theory" (or some similar crappy sitcom) get together for a commercial in 20 years and people lose their poo poo over it.
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Feb 3, 2014 15:31
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Feb 3, 2014 15:37
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Terry Crews and the Muppets owned In the making of ipecac syrup obsolete, yes.
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Feb 3, 2014 15:43
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bean_shadow posted:"Full House" was not funny back in the 90's and it's not funny now. It's going to be really irritating when the gang from "Big Bang Theory" (or some similar crappy sitcom) get together for a commercial in 20 years and people lose their poo poo over it. Yeah, but the women in their 30's who are buying Greek yogurt now were 10 when Full House was on, so it makes sense.
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Feb 3, 2014 16:40
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Everyone stop what you're doing and watch some Georgia lawyer's amazing local spot that ran during the game last night 
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DJExile posted:Everyone stop what you're doing and watch some Georgia lawyer's amazing local spot that ran during the game last night I'm strongly considering moving to Georgia and getting injured just hire him.
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Feb 3, 2014 17:27
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I like how the commercial threw in that the chief was in an adultery scandal, just to make him look like as big of a poo poo as possible.
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Feb 3, 2014 17:56
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reagan posted:Have people never heard of dump cakes before this or what? No I never have, until this commercial. Even if it's an established thing in cooking, that still doesn't mean it isn't funny to watch a woman pour soda on cake mix and call it a five star dessert (with the name of the product also being a euphemism for poo poo).
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Feb 3, 2014 18:03
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LeJackal posted:In the making of ipecac syrup obsolete, yes. What the gently caress
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BigBoss posted:They were really loving bad. It didn't help that the game was basically a snuff film, but this is supposed to be the best opportunity you have to pitch your poo poo to a hundred million people and instead we got cow sex, the same tired Clydesdale schmaltz, Morpheus singing, the guy from Big Bang that no one really likes, and the re-animated corpse of Bob Dylan. Don't forget Butterfinger cucking.  DJExile posted:Everyone stop what you're doing and watch some Georgia lawyer's amazing local spot that ran during the game last night Holy poo poo. I want to see the movie that gets optioned from this commercial, starring Nicolas Cage as Jamie Casino. raditts fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Feb 4, 2014 00:14
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He should be given free air time next year for a sequel
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Feb 4, 2014 03:19
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raditts posted:Don't forget Butterfinger cucking. Dammit, my Fox comes out of Albany instead of Savannah. Even better: Like Cage, Casino is apparently a stage name. The real last name is Biancosino.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:01
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raditts posted:Don't forget Butterfinger cucking. What about the "Welcome Home" Bud spot? I was sitting next to an Iraq vet when that played and they were legit pissed at the BS jingoism masturbation-fest.
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Feb 4, 2014 05:11
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Vicas posted:The whole concept of a "Super Bowl Commercial" has just become this ridiculously weird self aware thing where you have to point put how much money you're spending, or saving, out you have to bring in a star cameo, and you have to release a teaser for your commercial, and it's all become so formulaic that we've gotten this It's even dumber because now that we live in the age of streaming video most companies just release the commercials online anyways so it becomes more about "going viral" than actually making a good commercial. DJExile posted:Everyone stop what you're doing and watch some Georgia lawyer's amazing local spot that ran during the game last night My point exactly. A dude makes wackety-schmackety commercial that's cooly calculated to be posted on everybody's Facebook feed and he gets national coverage with a local commercial. Why pay Superbowl premiums when people will willingly consume and distribute your advertising for you?
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Feb 4, 2014 08:00
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's even dumber because now that we live in the age of streaming video most companies just release the commercials online anyways so it becomes more about "going viral" than actually making a good commercial. That guy is the very rare exception to the rule.
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Feb 4, 2014 16:13
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Bob Saget and Dave Coulier loving with John Stamos ability to get a blowjob is actually funny sorry. Am I the only one disappointed that the Doritos Gloryhole didn't win?
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Feb 4, 2014 18:30
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That Jamie Casino commercial loving owns and if you insist on finding any reasons to the contrary, then I just don't want to know you. That commercial RULES.
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Feb 4, 2014 18:42
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Why pay Superbowl premiums when people will willingly consume and distribute your advertising for you? Because one nets you a captive audience of 100+ million viewers. The other will likely send you around next to funny cat videos and other ads that they hate.
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Feb 4, 2014 18:49
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Kimmalah posted:That and now we have a bunch of idiots pitching a loving fit because one of them featured a song about America that included foreign languages. I for one did not pitch a fit. I did however roll my eyes at the all too obvious trolling that it was.
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Feb 4, 2014 19:12
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Fog Tripper posted:I for one did not pitch a fit. I did however roll my eyes at the all too obvious trolling that it was. Never change, Fog Tripper.
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Feb 4, 2014 19:25
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Was the Cheerios ad trolling too?
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Feb 4, 2014 21:00
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DJExile posted:Was the Cheerios ad trolling too? Trolling the same people who were offended by "America the Beautiful" being sung in languages other than English.
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Feb 4, 2014 22:05
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I hate the halo orange commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlpX3H4rj0g I cant stand those kids and always wish the parents would beat the poo poo out of them.
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Feb 4, 2014 22:44
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I really wish the "Change the Redskins' name" ad had shown up just for the sheer outrage.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:That Jamie Casino commercial loving owns and if you insist on finding any reasons to the contrary, then I just don't want to know you. That commercial RULES. I live in Savannah and there's a large group of people who think that ad will destroy the city. There's nothing that ad can do that the city government hasn't already done.
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