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So my wife went in the basement this morning and found a pipe leaking that had already created a puddle on the floor, and I immediately leapt to action to call one of the local plumbing services. Being in Central PA, apparently they were all low on staff because they were out for hunting season (???) and nobody would be able to show up for a couple of days at least. It was then that I begrudgingly dialed a number that's been burned into my brain since I moved here 4 years ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8etLD72Cc You win this round, lovely commercials. There's a whole goddamned series of them too.
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Kaizoku posted:I guess the reason you dislike them is pretty much the exact reason I like them. That's fair. I agree. While other commercials in the series may be less obvious, just one look at their faces (especially Jones's) makes it pretty clear how disgusted they are with these awful awful phrases.
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Dec 5, 2013 20:03
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The Fast and the Furious commercials advertising how they'll donate 10% of their proceeds from sales to Paul Walker's fund seems like a pretty shameless cash grab to me.
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Dec 5, 2013 21:54
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Pretty much every "buy our product and we'll give money to [charity name here]" is a shameless cash grab. Remember all the [red] stuff from a few years back? If I remember right, that was actually worse for AIDS fundraising.
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Dec 5, 2013 22:06
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Remember from a few years ago that awful series of ads where it had a horrible country song about being a Truck Man? Well in Indiana, on of the local car companies decided to make their own version of the song and it's horrible. I don't think it's online, so I can't link it through.
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Dec 5, 2013 22:10
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Also the "buy pink everything for breast cancer!" nonsense from Susan G. Komen. Most of the money goes to their marketing department which goes to making more pink products which sends money to the marketing department which goes to...
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Dec 5, 2013 22:11
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Women's Rights? posted:Also the "buy pink everything for breast cancer!" nonsense from Susan G. Komen. Most of the money goes to their marketing department which goes to making more pink products which sends money to the marketing department which goes to... ...their legal department, to sue any other organization that might have a reference to "a cure" or "the cure" in their name.
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Dec 5, 2013 22:20
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Meltathon posted:Pretty much every "buy our product and we'll give money to [charity name here]" is a shameless cash grab. Remember all the [red] stuff from a few years back? If I remember right, that was actually worse for AIDS fundraising. And all the NFL stuff: 
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Dec 5, 2013 22:43
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Meltathon posted:Pretty much every "buy our product and we'll give money to [charity name here]" is a shameless cash grab. Remember all the [red] stuff from a few years back? If I remember right, that was actually worse for AIDS fundraising. Yep, because instead of giving to charity people just buy the pink/red version of whatever they were going to buy anyway, and call it good.
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Dec 6, 2013 04:37
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The worst I've seen was a Bra company that donated 10 whole cents from every purchase!
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Dec 6, 2013 04:47
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Yeah, the Susan G. Komen foundation sued a prostate cancer foundation for using the "for the cure" slogan. It's just insane at this point.
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Dec 6, 2013 04:56
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There's this Windows phone ad I've been seeing a lot on Hulu, where a woman talks about the camera feature being really important to her. It's your standard phone ad right up until the end where she says "I dunno, maybe just see things differently" in the smuggest way possible. I can only imagine advertisers were trying to get that lucrative "self-absorbed rear end in a top hat" market.
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Dec 6, 2013 04:59
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Jonas Albrecht posted:There's this Windows phone ad I've been seeing a lot on Hulu, where a woman talks about the camera feature being really important to her. It's your standard phone ad right up until the end where she says "I dunno, maybe just see things differently" in the smuggest way possible. I can only imagine advertisers were trying to get that lucrative "self-absorbed rear end in a top hat" market. This is the one I was talking about - the whole reason she wants the camera is that she spends her entire life taking pictures of her boyfriend. She's so codependent that she's buying a phone based on its ability to photograph her boyfriend.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:14
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I always feel like a lot of those promotions where they are like "we'll donate money for EVERY _____ YOU BUY in the month of Whatever up to $10,000" just decide on a number they are comfortable with that they know they would hit anyway whether they were doing a promotion or not.
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ILL ON PZONES posted:Sometimes it feels like commercials are written by professional human being impersonators for people that don't exist. People actually say these things 
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Dec 6, 2013 05:25
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Timett posted:I always feel like a lot of those promotions where they are like "we'll donate money for EVERY _____ YOU BUY in the month of Whatever up to $10,000" just decide on a number they are comfortable with that they know they would hit anyway whether they were doing a promotion or not. Corporations can only deduct a certain amount of money per year towards charitable causes without still being taxed on revenue. These donations help them, and not just for PR.
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Dec 6, 2013 05:26
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raditts posted:Being in Central PA, apparently they were all low on staff because they were out for hunting season (???) Well, yeah, that's when a lot of guys take their vacation. I had a car with a November inspection. If I didn't do it at the beginning of the month, it wasn't happening until December. I also remember when I was younger and things were more regional than they are now. Back before "Black Friday" had percolated into all aspects of everywhere, Pennsylvania had "Deer Widow Sales" the first day of buck season.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:26
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Two words man: Liam Neisson.
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Dec 6, 2013 08:31
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raditts posted:It was then that I begrudgingly dialed a number that's been burned into my brain since I moved here 4 years ago... For an actual advertising success story (not that bullshit "you're talking about it! they won!" stuff), when a rock hit my windshield a couple years ago I was like "oh I'll call Safelite" because I heard their drat jingle on the radio a ton of times. And here's a service that people need really infrequently, if ever.
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ElwoodCuse posted:For an actual advertising success story (not that bullshit "you're talking about it! they won!" stuff), when a rock hit my windshield a couple years ago I was like "oh I'll call Safelite" because I heard their drat jingle on the radio a ton of times. And here's a service that people need really infrequently, if ever. Safelite were the guys I seeked out quotes from when hail damage completely smashed my rear window and windshield.
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Dec 6, 2013 10:58
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ElwoodCuse posted:For an actual advertising success story (not that bullshit "you're talking about it! they won!" stuff), when a rock hit my windshield a couple years ago I was like "oh I'll call Safelite" because I heard their drat jingle on the radio a ton of times. And here's a service that people need really infrequently, if ever. 1-800-54-GIANT for me.
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Dec 6, 2013 18:44
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Toffile posted:1-800-54-GIANT for me. EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE EIGHT EIGHT TWO THREE HUNDRED... EMPIRE... today! 
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Dec 6, 2013 20:49
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No jingle can match One Eight Seven Seven Kars 4 Kids, KAY EH ARR ESS KARS 4 KIDS ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS 4 KIDS, DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY.
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Dec 6, 2013 21:02
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Edit: Wrong thread.
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Retail Slave posted:EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE EIGHT EIGHT TWO THREE HUNDRED... EMPIRE... today! That man will live on in CGI form for another 40 years until people finally forget that he was once a living person.
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Dec 6, 2013 21:15
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SpookyLizard posted:No jingle can match One Eight Seven Seven Kars 4 Kids, KAY EH ARR ESS KARS 4 KIDS ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS 4 KIDS, DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY. 1-800 Victim 2 comes close. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KfRcxLPCIA
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cartoons123 posted:1-800 Victim 2 comes close. I was sort of expecting the one with the awful animated squirrel.
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If I ever slip in peepee like Lucky in king of the hill did a commercial song will help me call the local heavy hitter don't hesitate, dial 7 2 8 8 8 8 8. Hope he doesn't get me a structured-settlement but if so there's a song with a cure for that too.
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Dec 6, 2013 22:57
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Here in western/upstate NY we have a law firm called Cellino & Barnes. For the past 15 years or so they had a jingle which was just them singing their phone number, "Eight five four, twen-ty twenty". They recently changed their phone number to 888-8888 but they didnt change the beat of the jingle at all, so the song is awkward because its just a bunch of eights. Not really annoying to most I imagine, but it bugs the crap out of me.
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Cage posted:Here in western/upstate NY we have a law firm called Cellino & Barnes. For the past 15 years or so they had a jingle which was just them singing their phone number, "Eight five four, twen-ty twenty". They recently changed their phone number to 888-8888 but they didnt change the beat of the jingle at all, so the song is awkward because its just a bunch of eights. the worst thing about these commercials is that on the radio they always, always buy two spots in a row, so you hear the hilariously bad jingle twice in a row. "DON'T WAIT! CALL 8!"
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Dec 7, 2013 00:15
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Cage posted:Here in western/upstate NY we have a law firm called Cellino & Barnes. For the past 15 years or so they had a jingle which was just them singing their phone number, "Eight five four, twen-ty twenty". They recently changed their phone number to 888-8888 but they didnt change the beat of the jingle at all, so the song is awkward because its just a bunch of eights. I'm pretty sure the best part is that one of the guys was balding and eventually started wearing a giant cowboy hat to hide it. edit: Damnit, the dude is bald, but I was thinking of Binder & Binder. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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Dec 7, 2013 00:17
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The number of lawyers who wear cowboy hats in their commercials is both surprising and somewhat disturbing
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Meltathon posted:That man will live on in CGI form for another 40 years until people finally forget that he was once a living person. Archaeologists of the future will trace the artistic tableau of "Empire Carpet Man" through centuries of political turmoil and change, using it as a textbook example of the advancement of art techniques throughout the centuries.
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Vicas posted:The number of lawyers who wear cowboy hats in their commercials is both surprising and somewhat disturbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p6Jp71C6XE
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Dec 7, 2013 00:33
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SpookyLizard posted:No jingle can match One Eight Seven Seven Kars 4 Kids, KAY EH ARR ESS KARS 4 KIDS ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS 4 KIDS, DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVur1V0qPrw Gives me an excuse to post this. God Bless the Oswalt Brothers!
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Vicas posted:the worst thing about these commercials is that on the radio they always, always buy two spots in a row, so you hear the hilariously bad jingle twice in a row. "DON'T WAIT! CALL 8!" Yeah lately I've been hearing this mcdonalds commercial twice in a row on the radio and it annoys the poo poo out of me. It's all about MORE MORE MORE and says something like "more is the arch enemy of less" and other things about a loving sandwich at a fast food restaurant and it's just the fattest American commercial ever.
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Cage posted:Here in western/upstate NY we have a law firm called Cellino & Barnes. For the past 15 years or so they had a jingle which was just them singing their phone number, "Eight five four, twen-ty twenty". They recently changed their phone number to 888-8888 but they didnt change the beat of the jingle at all, so the song is awkward because its just a bunch of eights. Is that like a popular ambulance chaser thing to do? We've got one of those with an 888-8888 number too.
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Dec 7, 2013 04:49
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WUN ATE HUNDREAD FAVE THREE OH SEVUUN SIX SIX FAVE!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW! Jerry Clower, I would kill you for permanently burning that number into my skull if you weren't already dead.
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Can I say I hate these Halos ads, not because of the ads themselves, but because I'm tired of these seedless citrus that are "for kids only." Raise your kids to eat normal fruit; it's delicious! I can't remember what the other one is named, but the packaging looks quite similar, and it's been around for at least 2 years. Fake edit: Cuties, they're called Cuties.
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