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Is there some kind of rule that Black Friday commercials have to be terrible? Target is driving me insane this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66exGdj4bs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiE4KvioEs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYxHjdFWgAI Edit: drat, too late. But there are more. Parasol Prophet fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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I am disheartened that that "Happier than Eddie Money running a travel agency" Geico commercial is still on. It's not so much the song (although I hate that song), it's the two people persistently trying to remind him of what they really wanted, as if they don't recognize that he's singing a song. I've got, two tickets to pawadise, pack your bags, we'll leave tonight-- Um, actually it's next month. --Two tickets to pawadiiiise! No, four. Either he's joking with you or he's too far gone and has no idea where he is! All five of you shut up and go away!
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Jan 9, 2013 05:19
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There's a Digiorno pizza commercial on that I can't stand, because it contains this line: "Now the shortest distance between you and a fresh-baked pizza is your oven." It could've been ".. is from your refrigerator to your oven" or ".. is the length of your kitchen" or ".. is no distance at all" or anything else. Maybe I'm nitpicking, but it bugs me. Your oven is not a distance.
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Mar 5, 2013 03:53
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I feel like a bad person for thinking it, but I can't stand the lady in the Chico's clothing store commercials. She's the one with short hair in the most recent spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IlGQGVr4A0 I don't even know why. I'm sure she's probably a nice person in real life. I think maybe because her expression only seems to alternate between smugness and manic glee. Or I just don't like her "Oh, how fun and youthful am I!" dancing. The other woman in that spot isn't as bad to me, maybe because she hasn't been doing the same thing in Chico's commercials since the dawn of time. Because every Chico's commercial is like that, with that same woman dancing around in front of a minimal set/backdrop looking just so drat pleased to be wearing super-slimming jeans or something. And there's a part of me that feels shame for devoting this much time and thought to Chico's commercials.
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Apr 26, 2013 06:24
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Speaking of seeing commercials over and over again, that McDonald's commercial with the guy in a studio getting distracted by people eating breakfast nearby. This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYcTY7WUiLg . But the version I've seen (which I can't find online) is trimmed down for maximum irritation to just this exchange: "What about love, bacon all and leave me muffin--" "Austin, you just said bacon and muffin." "I can biscuit! I mean fix it!" [V/O: Get a Sausage McMuffin value meal! Etc. etc.] "Ba da ba ba ba~" Austin Mahone must be some hip new pop star they're trying to promote, but if that's the case I don't know if it's working because literally the only place I've ever ever seen or heard his name is in this commercial. It used to play twice in a row (or with one other ad in between, separating the repeats), but that hasn't happened in a while-- so that's nice, I guess. Now it's just down to once every other break. Still, even on regular TV I think this one's been playing all the drat time for what feels like a year. Why this commercial? Is this Austin person actually really popular? I don't understand!
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Feb 19, 2014 05:56
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Tokelau All Star posted:Is the target audience for Ancestry.com really people half-watching reruns of poo poo on Comedy Central while they get ready for work in the morning? Well, Proactiv, X-Out, and Murad all seem to think that their target audience is people half-watching crappy movies on Comedy Central when they should be at work/school. Maybe the hip-yet-acne-ridden 18-35 demographic who are currently home sick also happen to start the day interested in their genealogy?
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Mar 22, 2014 01:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTc0Zr41LD0 This Honey Nut Cheerios commercial is the bane of my existence right now, not because of the song (which is bad) but this face the bee makes at the end, just before he breaks into a smile-- it just looks so weird for a cereal mascot to me. It's just a split second so I couldn't be sure he wasn't outright glaring at us for some reason. I mean, look at this bee.  I don't like that bee.
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Apr 5, 2014 20:13
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Gaunab posted:Miracle Whip is sticking to the idea that they're mayo alternative is for "badasses" with these strange commercials: Why on earth would you put Miracle Whip in artichoke dip? That sounds horrible.
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Apr 8, 2014 00:08
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PT6A posted:Now that Apple's playing that godawful exercise-app commercial with that lovely loving song, I want all y'all to admit that "Gigantic" was actually pretty good. The only redeeming quality of the "Gigantic" campaign was that at least that's a relatively decent song to have playing over and over in your head for the entire workday. Not so with this chicken fat nonsense. Not at all.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:26
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I know it's already been mentioned, but goddrat Apple, why do you keep discontinuing commercials I hate only to replace them with another commercial I hate?  This has happened twice now. I am so sick of having their stupid hipstery/musical/whatever songs stuck in my head all day. Because it's always a stupid hipstery/musical/whatever song that gets stuck in my head all day. When will it end?
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Jul 30, 2014 13:33
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I fully believe I got the brand wrong because I try to pay as little attention to them as possible once they come on. I think it looks like they're only using iPhones in each one, so that's probably where the confusion lies for me. Also, now I just think it's funny that Apple's marketing team has established itself in my mind such that my first thought is "Annoying indie/obscure song and cutesy 'living your life of dreams' message? Must be Apple." Of course, the other side of that coin is "Smug phone feature comparison? Must be Samsung."
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Jul 30, 2014 16:46
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Last holiday season I was at an office job where the mandatory radio station was all-Christmas-all-the-time from December 1st to January 1st. About halfway through the month I started up a tally of how many different versions of each carol they played. Per day. 'Frosty the Snowman' was usually the winner (averaging 7-8 times), with 'Let it Snow' a close second. People freaking love to sing Let it Snow, apparently. The first Christmas ad I saw this year was for K-Mart, which is kind of sad since our K-Mart is scheduled to close sometime in December. Everyone working there found out they were losing their job two months before Christmas.
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Nov 4, 2014 19:43
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Maxwell Lord posted:So an ad for some medication starts with "I've had it up to here with my moderate to severe lower back psoriasis" and later has "and now I can be clearer for longer than days, weeks, or months." I love when they frame it as a bunch of friends or relatives talking casually to each other about their medical conditions, but still have to word it in the government-approved way. So there's one lady using the entire phrase "my moderate-to-severe chronic plaque psoriasis" multiple times while out for drinks with the gals. Because that's something humans do!
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Nov 16, 2014 00:37
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Maybe they should actually pay their workers before trying to convince everybody how much they care about the community.
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Jan 12, 2015 04:03
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PaganGoatPants posted:They gave them a budget (without rent/mortgage in it). What more do you want? The budget did have rent! (Also an assumed second job, and health insurance that costs $20 a month) What it didn't include was heating.
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Jan 12, 2015 04:10
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I figured that was a given.
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Jan 12, 2015 04:48
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What kind of self-respecting dystopia builds their ideology around breakfast? This is the worst YA novel ever!
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Mar 26, 2015 04:22
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I was seriously unaware that the word 'Pizza' was still in their official name-- I thought that was dropped as part of their whole "We don't suck anymore!" campaign a few years ago. Everybody I know just says Domino's too.
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Mar 30, 2015 00:51
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I don't know when this happened, or if it's been posted yet, but I really don't like what they did to the Carfax fox.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOZD0qe1pVs I think it's the eyes.
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Mar 30, 2015 05:56
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TontoCorazon posted:The fact that they made him a furry's wet dream have anything to do with it? I thought furries all gave their characters massive cartoon eyes with like rainbow eyelashes and stuff, not tiny beady human eyes that rolled out of the Uncanny Valley and into the face of a possessed stuffed animal.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:21
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Kawalimus posted:This one I keep seeing now is a car commercial some stupid family singing "Buddy Holly" by the band Weezer. I've seen three iterations of this sort of commercial and every one of them is completely cringeworthy. The other two were families singing "Sweet child of mine" and "Crazy Train". The part that grates on me from that one is how everyone in the family perfectly enunciates the "WHOO HOO" every time it comes up. No one sings that way!
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Jul 13, 2015 17:45
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"X needs Y-ed" is definitely Midwestern, and confused the hell out of me when I first moved here from the Southwest. And the correct alternative is not "X needs Y-ing," it's "X needs TO BE Y-ed".
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Sep 17, 2015 23:26
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And that he is the most insufferable person at that party.
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Sep 20, 2015 22:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFgyI9M27E ~*~Oh my God not this again~*~ ~*~Peyton Manning, go away~*~ ~*~Stop it, for the love of Christ~*~ ~*~Now I want to kill myself~*~
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Oct 13, 2015 05:19
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Henchman of Santa posted:It's great to imagine him singing horrible things to that tune, as Jason Concepcion pointed out on Twitter. Okay, you may have just fixed the commercial for me. I can't thank you enough.
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Oct 14, 2015 01:24
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Mister Kingdom posted:The worst one in that series is the little girl with the thick glasses and raggedy teeth lisping her way through the song. I hate that little girl's voice so much. Who said "Yeah, let's get the kid with the piercingly highest, squeakiest voice we can find and have them sing two verses of this song for the whole length of the commercial."
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Dec 11, 2015 19:06
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Mister Kingdom posted:Ladies, do you wish you were living in the 18th century? Do you like having your guts crammed together? Ah yes, the completely natural look of having your body swerve sharply inward right under the ribcage, and also those lumpy velcro flaps sticking out from under your shirt. Just like women have naturally!
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Jan 9, 2016 22:56
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What types of clothing have this problem? My work uniform (not officially, I'm just really boring) is slacks, some top and a cardigan, and I've encountered no/useless pockets at a rate waaay lower than all the complaints I've heard about it would suggest I should be. Dresses and skirts I understand the fuss about because they never have pockets, but as far as regular pants and jeans go all mine have pretty serviceable pockets. I can even put my phone and keys in them with no trouble. Do other women want to carry way more stuff on their person, or have I just gotten lucky with my preferred brand, or what? Not denying it's a reality or anything, I'm genuinely curious if I've been blinded to the problem by either luck or circumstance.
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Apr 17, 2016 20:02
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Mister Kingdom posted:I hate those Trans Union "Getting to Know You" ads. I hate those commercials too (stop getting that loving song stuck in my head!), but at least one was made slightly better after someone pointed out that it made no sense. There's one that follows a lady around as a bunch of people try to steal her identity. But the VERY first thing that happens to her is one of the identity thieves switches out her bag at a coffee shop. So now: 1) Whatever was in that bag is already gone no matter what, and 2) If anyone's poo poo is getting hacked into by the other thieves, it's not hers.
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May 9, 2016 06:12
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Corny Cornflake posted:What is with Panera going on and on about how clean their food is? Did they have a E Coli scare alongside Chipotle? I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds this strange. You just shouldn't have to tell people your food is clean. When I go in, I expect it to already be that way. It's like running a whole campaign to advertise that your food is edible. Why do that? It's suspicious, not reassuring.
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May 29, 2016 09:16
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Vanderdeath posted:Monae seems to be getting into acting more and more lately. If she goes into acting full-time that'll be a shame because I really liked her trilogy of albums. She's also from the same crappy area of the country I'm from and it's nice seeing anyone, much less a black lady, make it outta that crapsack and do well for themselves. I remember reading someone a while back say that she is basically really ambitious and wants to do everything (acting/singing/I think even writing something based on her trilogy?), but unlike a lot of people she actually has the talent and commitment to back it up. I don't think she's abandoning music, just juggling a bunch of projects and getting her name out there. I love Janelle Monae.
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Nov 14, 2017 13:59
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I didn't realize the dilly-dilly thing was a Budweiser thing, I just know there's a local radio station that used it this year in a seasonal bumper that also included the phrase "I'm so happy I could shart in my Christmas pants!" *fart noise* ("Dilly dilly!") And I hate that ad, so I now also hate the Budweiser ad by extension.
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There's a Party City (I think) ad that autoplays on YouTube that's literally just a screamer, and I wish it to go away.
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