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Apr 13, 2020 07:08
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I've now seen ads from three different toilet paper companies telling me they're working hard to keep my rear end clean. loving Charmin bears OH GOD THERES UNDERWEAR ON THE FLOOR!!!! Which brings up another point. If this child bear wears underwear which is kept clean by this amazing toilet paper, then why is he not wearing any!?!? Following their logic, you are showing us a nude child!
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Apr 13, 2020 12:55
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They're not bears at all. Those are fursuits. Evidence: bears aren't blue, so?
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Apr 13, 2020 16:02
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I've now seen ads from three different toilet paper companies telling me they're working hard to keep my rear end clean. Given how scarce TP still is (at least where I live) that seems just cruel. "Here look at this product that we still don't have enough of!" (I realize it's down to the industry being used to steady demand and not having a very elastic manufacturing/supply chain but it's still irritating.)
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Sash! posted:They're not bears at all. 
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Apr 14, 2020 06:10
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Every single goddamned company trying to profit off the Corvid-19 pandemic. But there is a special place in hell for state farm just for playing that "Rise Up" song over, and over, and over. I swear there is not a commercial break that goes by that I don't hear that loving ear worm.
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Smiling Mandrill posted:Every single goddamned company trying to profit off the Corvid-19 pandemic. But there is a special place in hell for state farm just for playing that "Rise Up" song over, and over, and over. I swear there is not a commercial break that goes by that I don't hear that loving ear worm. There’s a plague of crows? I will never not be annoyed by people calling it corvid-19. I know it’s autocorrect being dumb but it’s a pet peeve. The insurance company commercials are the goddamn worst though. They’re making bank since no one is driving but they do a stand-with-you thing.
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Apr 24, 2020 06:20
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There’s a plague of crows? No it's a plague of grackles. Crows is a murder.
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Apr 24, 2020 15:16
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For the first time in a long time, I'm actually watching broadcast TV. I just need some sort of background noise during the day, and dumb poo poo like Rachel Ray, or Price is Right (which is actualkly awesome and not dumb) fits the bill since I don't want to have to decide on a REAL thing from a streaming service. There is a REALLY weird Windex commercial that I don't care for. It starts normally, a woman cleaning a window...then for some reason there's a loving marching band outside with a VERY falsetto voiced singer/parade leader dude singing something. His voice is so high-pitched (I suspect it might be tone shifted, but maybe he does sing that high) it's hard to make out. It SOUNDS like he's saying, "LADIES' night!" But that makes no sense. Only on like the fourth or fifth time I started to hear the ad did I finally manage to turn my head from my work to the TV in time to see what I assume is the Windex slogan, "Light is Life" on the screen. I assume that's what he's singing, but I will never not hear "Ladies' night!" https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oG9Q/windex-light-is-life
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Apr 24, 2020 15:30
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The insurance company commercials are the goddamn worst though. They’re making bank since no one is driving but they do a stand-with-you thing. State Farm at least does some kind of refund, don't know if any others do. Which they made sure to run an ad saying so. 
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Apr 24, 2020 22:07
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American Family is giving out $50 per car. I’m sure whatever amount they give out is about 10% of what they’re saving right now.
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Apr 24, 2020 22:33
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Polygynous posted:State Farm at least does some kind of refund, don't know if any others do. Which they made sure to run an ad saying so. Allstate says they will do the same. I haven't seen it yet, though.
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Farmers is also there for you TM. Though they busted out JK Simmons doing his senior insurance agent shtick, which doesn't really work for a serious commerical. poo poo, even progressive is hiding Flo in there commericals.
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Apr 25, 2020 03:18
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DrBouvenstein posted:For the first time in a long time, I'm actually watching broadcast TV. I just need some sort of background noise during the day, and dumb poo poo like Rachel Ray, or Price is Right (which is actualkly awesome and not dumb) fits the bill since I don't want to have to decide on a REAL thing from a streaming service. I am cracking up at how nonsensical this would be if he were saying ladies night
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I've been listening to Spotify at work today. Spotify has played the same Ralph's "thanks to our employees for helping out during These Uncertain Times" during every ad break. It feels like it lasts about fifteen minutes, without saying a single thing. The advert did make me look up just how Ralph's is thanking their employees IRL. They're only giving their employees a one-time $150 bonus (or a one-time $300 bonus for full-time employees, but as anyone who's ever worked at a grocery store knows, they will do anything to keep you from being full-time). I don't think this ad is going to work the way they want it to.
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ghost emoji posted:I've been listening to Spotify at work today. Spotify has played the same Ralph's "thanks to our employees for helping out during These Uncertain Times" during every ad break. It feels like it lasts about fifteen minutes, without saying a single thing. Those ads aren't for the employees. They're for the general public because people are stupid and will say "gee isn't that nice" and slightly tip the balance towards Ralph's as opposed to whatever competitor they have in the area.
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Apr 27, 2020 14:31
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Saw an ad for a colon cancer screening by mail product and the disclaimer showed that it was completely useless because it had both false positives and false negatives. Great test there guys.
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Apr 28, 2020 03:51
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muscles like this! posted:Saw an ad for a colon cancer screening by mail product and the disclaimer showed that it was completely useless because it had both false positives and false negatives. Great test there guys. Nothing's 100% accurate, did it say the rate?
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Apr 28, 2020 04:01
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I've been seeing ads for Cologuard for a few years. Who would have thought popping in a box would become a business?
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Apr 28, 2020 14:41
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Bruceski posted:Nothing's 100% accurate, did it say the rate? I heard the false positive rate is slightly higher than a colonoscopy, but the false negative is like 50 percent.
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Apr 28, 2020 15:51
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Sash! posted:I heard the false positive rate is slightly higher than a colonoscopy, but the false negative is like 50 percent. Yeah, Cologuard still has a lot of issues with false positives (about 13 percent), but last I heard the company has re-worked the test's formulation and gotten the false negative rate down to below 8 percent. Exact Sciences has been a fascinating company to watch over the years. Five years ago, they were angling hard to get some free money from the City of Madison to relocate its headquarters downtown, but they backed out after learning they'd need to put $15 million into an escrow account. At the same time, their stock price plummeted to just a few dollars after an FDA task force listed Cologuard as an "alternative" screening method, rather than a recommended or primary option. The price eventually rebounded, it's trading around $70 nowadays, but it's still a risky company to be invested in, because they're still a one-product company and the soonest any of their other screening products that are in the pipeline could begin clinical trials is like 2024.
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so do you send your poop through the mail
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Just poo poo me to the lab!
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Riptor posted:so do you send your poop through the mail Yes. Wait, you mean for the test. I think that’s also a yes.
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May 3, 2020 14:51
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One of my favorite bad commercial tropes is songs getting appropriated for commercial use by taking one line out of the song and playing it over and over again to match their message, and wondering if the band ever considered while writing the song that some day they're gonna get a fat check from Chevy because they'll want to use this song for sure. I'm thinking of a car commercial from the 00's that I heard a million times where they played the line from the song Walkin' on the Sun "So don't delay.. act now.." then something about APR for 15 seconds, then ".. so don't delay, act now.." again. Anyway, I found my new favorite example of this last night at like 2AM while watching Guy's Grocery Games: an ad for UMMC, a hospital out of Baltimore, took a snippet out of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters and turned that into a touching commercial about how Nothing Else Matters [to us but you?]. It caught me off guard but man, I laaaughed.
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I feel the same way when I see that loving Sarah McLaughlin commercial. Isn't "Angel" about overdosing on heroin? Am I the only one who is seeing the dark bitterness in the lyrics? Why is it that we just key in on "in the arms of the angel" and ignore the verses that talk about vultures and thieves and being tired of the straight life. In the arms of the angel - that's loving heroin man. I don't want to see sad animals.
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May 3, 2020 18:06
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Every time Fortunate Son is in an ad and the lyrics stop after the first line I die a little.
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Carnival Cruise's use of Lust for Life will remain the ultimate example of this, never to be beaten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITdiptTiFyc
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May 4, 2020 14:32
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Changing the line “Blow a kiss, fire a gun” to “blow a kiss into the sun” is kind of weird.
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The Modern Leper posted:Carnival Cruise's use of Lust for Life will remain the ultimate example of this, never to be beaten.  I completely forgot about this commercial until now and yeah this might be the best one. I certainly had no idea this song was about being a heroin addict until much later in life. This is also one of those like the Sears air conditioner commercial that after seeing the first two seconds of it can remember almost the whole thing shot for shot.
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May 4, 2020 16:07
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"Yesterday you said you'd call Sears!" "I'll call tomorrow." "You'll call today." "I'll call today." I can't remember the sound of my late mother's voice, but that will be with me until I die. EDIT--Also, love that I pulled the video and still got the cruise company's name wrong. 
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May 4, 2020 16:13
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in my memory that commercial was on the air for 10 years though I'm sure that isn't true I do enjoy how that ad, and really *only* that ad, seems to be imprinted in my generation's collective memory. like we all kinda remember the Zoobooks ad or Pure Moods or whatever but I feel like every #90skid could do a shot for shot reproduction of "Yesterday you said you'd call Sears!". I even remember exactly how the outside of the house looked
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May 4, 2020 17:20
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It was on the air for more than 10 years, I’m pretty sure. Between that and how frequently it aired (occasionally more than once per ad break) I’m not shocked it stayed in everyone’s brains so hard. It also aired weird places like Nickelodeon.
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The Modern Leper posted:Carnival Cruise's use of Lust for Life will remain the ultimate example of this, never to be beaten. Semi-Charmed Life (about meth) was used for The Tigger Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bba-dK_nS-M
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It was on the air for more than 10 years, I’m pretty sure. Between that and how frequently it aired (occasionally more than once per ad break) I’m not shocked it stayed in everyone’s brains so hard. It also aired weird places like Nickelodeon. That commercial airing during Tiny Toons’ How I Spent my Summer Vacation was the indicator had school either just ended or would be coming up soon. It definitely aired on Nickelodeon a ton during the late 90’s and into the early 00’s for the same reason you’ll see adds for vacuums and cleaning crap along side toys and cereal, they were targeted for the parents of the kids who were watching and might be in the same room and see it or overhear the ad.
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I would pay money to never see another Progressive ad in my life. The commercials wouldn’t be as intolerable as they are if they didn’t have that smug “aren’t we wacky and self deprecating” vibe. It makes all of the commercials drag on endlessly. It feels like when your least favorite coworker is making you watch a “funny” YouTube video and they keep looking over at you waiting for you to laugh.
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The Modern Leper posted:Carnival Cruise's use of Lust for Life will remain the ultimate example of this, never to be beaten. My favorite has still gotta be GE using Sixteen Tons in their models mining clean coal commercial: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J1A146sANdg
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May 4, 2020 20:32
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DrBouvenstein posted:Semi-Charmed Life (about meth) was used for The Tigger Movie: It's hilarious because the song doesn't even try to hide the fact that it's about crystal meth, and the radio edit is missing only one line, that has nothing directly to do about crystal meth.
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explosivo posted:wondering if the band ever considered while writing the song that some day they're gonna get a fat check from Chevy because they'll want to use this song for sure. Not a lyric, but Buick has been bumping that Matt and Kim intro for at least a decade. I hope they’re getting paid.
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