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I don't know if anyone else here listens to radio in the Philly area, but when I'm listening to the Flyers on 610 those Colonial Marble and Granite commercials are the loving worst. They have a couple fighting over getting new countertops and announce it like it's a sporting event and it's such a typical local commercial and ugh.
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SpacePig posted:I do like the way that Billy says "BUT I CAN'T AFFORD NEW COUNTERTOPS!", though. He's just so tired fo the whole thing, and obviously can't get through to her that new countertops just aren't in the budget. He's obviously at the end of his rope. I guess it could be worse. It could be Pepsi Throwback.
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Mar 27, 2012 18:05
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It's honestly no different than any other scare tactics that have been used to push drugs, especially in that it's so extreme that it basically makes itself ineffective, because a single pack of cigarettes is not going to do that to you, so you don't really keep people from starting, and the people who already smoke very likely know the risks anyway, so showing them yucky pictures won't help. I dunno how much of a say the tobacco companies get in the content of the ads (obviously none, legally), but it doesn't seem completely far-fetched that they might push something like this to hold to their legal obligations without actually trying to get people to stop buying their product.
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Mar 29, 2012 20:40
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Gonz posted:Yeah I thought that commercial sucked, too.
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Apr 18, 2012 00:32
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Barudak posted:I know this is from pages back but I work at the agency Friendly's was with prior to their switch to the one who made the ad. Friendly's really, really wanted to get away from the imaging you describe and its one of the key reasons they ended up switching accounts. They wanted to capture some halcyon days gone by family setting which resulted in the ad you see here. Having been in a Friendly's in the last 5 months I can confirm that they are really really trying to go with some sort of "1950s-70s childhood refuge" or something like that.
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Apr 20, 2012 04:31
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I think the weirdest thing about that commercial is that they push the quirky thing so far it's almost become a parody of itself by this point. But she was kind of the first one to really rock this whole quirky personality as her whole thing, so I guess she's making fun of herself here?
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Apr 25, 2012 18:06
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Maxwell Lord posted:I suspect it's more about the narrator being good on camera. Anyone seen those Binder and Binder commercials, I think in the NYC area, where it's the lawyer himself and he's wearing a cowboy hat and suit and the whole thing is super awkward? That's why lawyers don't do their own commercials. e: found it. he only gets two sentences and it's still awkward as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb_pmbO_R4w
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May 2, 2012 04:55
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vyst posted:We get them in Florida too. The cowboy hat makes me lol every time They're probably a nationwide service, but I wasn't sure. And yeah the cowboy hat owns so much. It's so beautifully out of place that it borders on parody.
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May 2, 2012 21:38
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Rhyno posted:My local Hyundai dealership is the king of bad radio ads. They've been using "Don't Worry Be Happy" as their theme song for the past few years and it's made me hate the song all over again. Their current ad uses a soundbyte of Dave Hester from Storage Wars screaming "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!" about 6 times in 30 seconds. It's worse than I can possibly explain. hahahahaha that sounds like the best worst commercial. I feel so sorry for you.
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May 3, 2012 21:39
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I noticed it was different because they took out the subtitles. I think if your commercial needs subtitles in the first place you need to tone it down.
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May 12, 2012 15:39
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monkey vs kid robot posted:There's a preview for the new "Madagascar" movie which entails Chris Rock shouting at me "circus afro circus afro polka dot polka dot circus afro" over and over and over. I can't believe how irate this commercial makes me. I hate to tell you this, but that is actually the entire ad campaign for the new Madagascar movie. I've seen at least 3 versions where he doesn't stop with that circus afro poo poo and it is terrible.
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May 22, 2012 20:44
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Tupping Liberty posted:The new KFC ad where the grandpa and grandson are arguing and start to choke each other over what side they are going to get, and then the family walks in with all their food like seconds later. I like that commercial because I like to imagine the grandfather is Gary Busey and the whole thing is based off a true story.
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Jun 8, 2012 16:16
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I can't quite put my finger on it, but that Bacardi commercial with the 1950s party really rubs me the wrong way for some reason. The music gets stuck in my head, but I guess the whole idea that "fun" in history is a party with a bunch of rich white people (and some token minorities, mostly attractive women) is annoying, too.
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Jun 22, 2012 05:12
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Dr_Amazing posted:There's another car commercial where this guy moves back in with his parents after finishing college. They make it clear that he's a lazy idiot who can barely take care of himself. The whole thing comes off as really insulting considering how many people are in that situation for purely economic reasons. nope, sorry, kids these days, am I right, baby boomers? (buy my car please)
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Jun 25, 2012 17:14
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Norm MacDonald has been doing commercials for SafeAuto, which seems to be a car insurance company for when you literally cannot afford car insurance but can't afford to lose your license in a traffic stop, either. The commercials aren't egregiously bad, but they seem to be going for just the right level of awkward forced comedy where it becomes funny, but missing it completely and ending up with an annoying commercial that I hate listening to. A shame. 
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Jul 13, 2012 22:09
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There was actually a court case about that somewhat recently. It was about whether or not you could be prosecuted for sending a text to someone who was driving. Of course, that's ridiculous, and it got thrown out for that reason. That commercial definitely sucks, though, because it places the blame on the person who sent the text rather than the person who read the text in their car. Yeah, that'll solve the problem.
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Jul 30, 2012 15:03
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FuzzySkinner posted:Also, "Back to School" ads suck in general. Even as someone who's towards the end of their education, and is in College, there's a certain buzz killing effect to them. To be fair that staples one with Alice Cooper they've had for the last few tears kind of owns.
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Aug 3, 2012 13:00
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raditts posted:Stompeez commercials show up all the time on the kids'/cartoon stations. It's pretty pedestrian comparatively, when you have stuff like this that only the loneliest kids in the world could possibly appreciate. They really missed an opportunity by not making that elephant pink.
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Aug 25, 2012 16:02
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raditts posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdAiVGdLjw To be fair, what else could that set possibly be used for?
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Sep 1, 2012 01:48
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SubponticatePoster posted:This happened to my dad who was a cop, except it was the cook who hanged himself in the kitchen. He couldn't figure out why his lunch was taking so long until the waitress asked if he could come to the back. Wasn't at a Denny's, though. Yeah, Denny's wouldn't tell a customer until he'd paid for the meal.
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Sep 7, 2012 04:54
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Y-Hat posted:Hey guys, it's football season again! Guess what that means! If you guessed "new Ford F-150 commercials where Dennis Leary speaks and the words appear on the screen as he's speaking them," you're absolutely right! HEY. Do you like cars? Like, truck cars? How about ones that are really good at doing truck car things, like pulling stuff or running over deer? Of course you do. Buy our truck car, voted top truck car by people who know truck cars. The only thing I like about Ford commercials these days is that they aren't trying to make Hemi into a buzzword anymore
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Sep 9, 2012 23:28
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Mister Kingdom posted:That would be because Hemi is a Dodge thing. Oh. So much for distinctive advertising, I guess.
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Sep 10, 2012 00:26
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Pththya-lyi posted:Don't be. Well who else would you put Regina Spektor as? And as for Ahab, I think Moby Dick has just always been one of those "hey kids you should read books" kind of books, despite the fact that it's dense as hell for today's young reader. I guess it's just one of those things old ad execs do where they don't realize they're putting something that may have made more sense when they were young into the ad.
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Sep 20, 2012 03:48
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Y-Hat posted:October 1st apparently. 10 more days of this. yeah but that's when the next one starts up. Also compared to Jersey the Upstate New York car dealer ads are kind of endearing. At least I don't have people yelling WOO HOO at me every 5 minutes.
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Sep 22, 2012 01:37
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Barudak posted:I've got an inflatable one if you want it. The actual puppet though? I'd have to do some searching. Probably also an express written confirmation you won't film lurid Carfox/Pets.Com sexvids to publish on the internet. Better make sure the contract also covers the term "carfux," in that case.
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Sep 25, 2012 21:50
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The one thing I think is funny about the iPhone 5 commercials is how they're really only showcasing features that were missing from older iPhone models, not the numerous other smartphones on the market these days. "It's so obvious, it only took us 5 phones to come up with it."
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Oct 7, 2012 22:29
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I love how car commercials are basically required to have a shot of that car driving past a gas station defiantly these these days.
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Oct 9, 2012 01:30
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lelandjs posted:Is it wrong that the thing that pisses me off the most about the ad is that the song is a blatant ripoff of Metric's "Stadium Love"? haha, I didn't hear it until you said it but drat. That is pretty much "write me a song in under 24 hours or you're fired" plagiarism
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Oct 11, 2012 04:44
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iamathousandapples posted:I second this. I don't know how they picked Fly By Night, but I'm glad they did Every time I hear that commercial I marvel that it isn't Tom Sawyer.
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Oct 12, 2012 01:47
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fount of knowledge posted:NEIN DOLLERS?! *knocks over store shelves, flings own poo poo like a monkey* RENTING!? WHAT THE gently caress IS RENTING AHHHHHHH *murders the clerk, escapes through back door*
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Oct 29, 2012 18:46
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:So there's this local place called Video Environment Plus which is porno video place (how it's still around with the internet I do not know) and this commercial used to air all of the time. this video led me to this, arguably the greatest thing I have ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un8Ri1L2lEY Something about that generic infomercial voice just makes this perfect.
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Nov 8, 2012 01:27
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DJExile posted:Ha, did they really? That's ballsy of them. "poo poo OK let's not piss off the Chinese... Wait! I've got it!" I may be misremembering, but I believe a Chinese company bought the rights to the movie after the original backers went belly up in production. Making it even better. This movie gonna own.
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Nov 12, 2012 16:54
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DJExile posted:ahahaha please be true wikipedia posted:In March 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that MGM changed the villains in its Red Dawn remake from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's lucrative box office. The changes reportedly cost less than $1 million and involve changing an opening sequence summarizing the story's fictional backdrop, re-editing two scenes and using digital technology to transform many Chinese symbols to Korean. The film's producer Trip Vinson stated, "We were initially very reluctant to make any changes, but after careful consideration we constructed a way to make a scarier, smarter and more dangerous Red Dawn that we believe improves the movie".[16] Okay so I was a little off since MGM didn't sell it but they seriously changed the whole antagonist after the movie was shot, so it will still own.
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Nov 12, 2012 21:40
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:It's weird to quote myself, but the reason I couldn't find that commercial is because it was for Infiniti. My point still stands though. Infiniti, go gently caress yourself. And take Lexus with you. "... vote republican."
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Nov 17, 2012 05:30
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Capn Beeb posted:I get ~*christian mingle dot com*~ here. I get both 
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Nov 20, 2012 06:46
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Tragedienne posted:Really Lexus? You somehow found a way to make your holiday commercials worse by adding dubstep in the background. I can't figure out which car commercials are the whitest, but there's no way Lexus isn't in the top 3. I can't believe just how perfectly the whole "the higher end the car is, the whiter the family and subject matter of the commercial is" thing fits
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Nov 26, 2012 17:01
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Doctor Butts posted:I am so tired of the Jack Reacher commercial and that loving song in the ad. The one guy just rattles off the cliched agencies a hero needs to be a part of in an action movie "You betta watch it! The guy was part of FBI, CIA, BLACK OPS, Seal team 345, CBS, NBC, Super Secret Super Agent Club, Evolution Revolution, Banana Splits" The books are a fun read but my girlfriend and I can't stop laughing that they seriously cast Tom Cruise as this dude who is supposed to be a tall, muscular giant. Dude's not exactly a spy, he just beats the poo poo out of people, but nope, let's get Tom Cruise.
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Dec 9, 2012 00:53
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"I got him a John Cena fathead. I put it on his ceiling right above his bed so that it'll spend every single night, staring him down."
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Dec 9, 2012 03:21
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raditts posted:No, last year we had the weird looking girl who had a terrible singing voice and loved dressing up in stupid outfits. She was also really bad at faking playing guitar.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Add the Kinks' "Father Christmas" to the list of songs that got bought for a commercial and had their lyrics chopped up and miss the point of the song entirely I actually want the Killers to sell Don't Shoot Me Santa for a commercial. Don't even care what product, it would be awesome.
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