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Tupping Liberty posted:I know this is the hate thread, but I saw this in the theatre yesterday and loved it. Probably will start to hate it with time, but for now, I still think it's pretty fun. The other day, I was watching The Price is Right on cbs.com and that commercial played during every ad break. It got annoying really quick.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2011 20:45 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:33 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Oh God, there's a second one with a "cat" The pet stain cleaner ad you won't believe! Tonight on What The gently caress Did I Just Watch!?
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2011 17:23 |
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More radio ad bitching: "Thank you for calling Rosetta Stone for the free demo." "Yeah, what's the catch?" The catch is that you have to listen to the full sales pitch which has from 1 to 3 attempts to get you to spend money before they'll take down your name and address to send the demo CD. Rosetta Stone language courses aren't cheap, they're like $150 per level, and some languages have 3 levels. I used to work in a call center, and I know that I would have failed every call if I handled them like they do in commercials. I was a "Thank you for calling Rosetta Stone" person.
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# ¿ Oct 27, 2011 00:03 |
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Local car dealerships, at this time of year. Their commercials are like "AAAAH!! Inventory tax!! We've got to sell all these cars or we're DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!" It's like cars have an inventory tax of 95% of their value.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2011 19:19 |
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Sash! posted:I was oddly impressed with the Abarth when I saw one in person. I can't remember where I saw it, but the Fiat 500 isn't very popular in the US. So unpopular, they even have a hard time giving them away on The Price is Right.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2012 04:51 |
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Looks like the Ginger Neckbeard is done. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-19/taxmasters-files-for-bankruptcy-dogged-by-fraud-suits Apparently, their service was just a bunch of bullshit.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2012 04:42 |
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raditts posted:Those commercials are produced by the cigarette companies, so there's some incentive there to be annoying. These new anti-smoking ads are put out by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). They won't ban it simply because of all the tax revenue they get. Sometimes, I think they should ban tobacco in hopes that America the Stupid will finally figure out that PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK. It didn't work for alcohol in the 1920s, and it isn't working for drugs now.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2012 20:54 |
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I hate the McDonald's radio ad where the guy is using big words to sound smart because he ordered breakfast stuff from the dollar menu. I don't care if I'm using it wrong, but I indubitably hate that ad. Actually, I hate all McDonald's radio ads.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 06:11 |
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Vicas posted:yeah but that's when the next one starts up. Car dealer sales "events" never end, they just change the name every now and then. Furniture stores do the same thing.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2012 05:59 |
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The lights, the lights, the lights, the lights that light, the ligh-SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! gently caress you, Kmart.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2012 17:53 |
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Not TV but radio, on the station I listen to, just about every commercial break has at least 2 of these 3: #1 Guy humming:"mm mmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmm" That's the sound of someone enjoying cheap food at McDonald's Girl "Aaah aah aah ahh aah aah" That's the sound of someone enjoying a $1 soda at McDonald's #2 Hi, I'm Than Merrill, star of the hit A&E show Flip This House (which has been off the air for a few years, unless it's still in reruns). Call NOW for free tickets to my seminar on how to make BIG BUCKS flipping houses. #3 The newest Progressive Insurance ads. Flo SINGS!!! There's also the ads for coloradocarcredit.com with two VERY annoying women. "I rule" "Yes, you rule." "That's what I said, I rule!"
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2013 22:29 |
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Nuclear Pogostick posted:The loving Flo singing radio ads auuuuuugh They're all over the station I listen to. I've heard, in a single ad break, Flo singing about different kinds of strikes, then an ad for something else, and then Flo's back singing about the Name Your Price Tool. I hope KILO is raking in the big bucks playing these so much.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2013 04:43 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:Exactly. I hate when they use words like 'attention', 'alert', and 'warning' in commercials that aren't public service announcements. I like to joke that when I die, I'll go to Heaven, and God will ask me why I didn't pay attention to that PSA warning about a tornado. "Well, Lord, I heard the word 'Attention' and I thought they were going to sell me adult diapers, so I tuned it out."
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2013 01:22 |
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Gonz posted:Look at these loving morons in the Black & White Zanyverse all sitting on the couch, with their CRT TV facing away from their field of vision: It's just $10! Service, $10 a year automatic renewal until cancelled Doesn't sound all that FREE to me.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 02:18 |
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Bugsy posted:I haven't been able to find a youtube copy of it, but Progressive radio commercials now have Flo attempting to rap. And it is exactly as awful as it sounds. I haven't heard that one yet, but if her rapping is anything like her kazoo playing, it's bound to suck. Personally, I think Flo is done, time for a new player.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2013 01:41 |
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More radio retardedness. Colorado goons probably know this one. The radio ad for the Colorado Lottery Monopoly scratch game. Two guys talking, one says he played a new scratch game, the other guy asks which one. The first guy says the Monopoly game. The second guyis "You played the monopoly game, but you said you played a scratch game" SHOW HIM THE TICKET YOU loving MORON. Of course, if he did that the ad would be over in 5 seconds. Almost as annoying as Flo "singing" and "playing" the kazoo. If you think TV ads are stupid, listen to the radio. Your brain will try to escape even faster.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 04:41 |
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You Are A Elf posted:Also, "Working in the Coal Mine" by Lee Dorsey. Better yet, use the Devo version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8NNjhzSXwE
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2013 23:42 |
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I also think they should outlaw advertising prescription drugs to the public. I also think that they shouldn't use old people in ads for erectile dysfunction drugs, because, to me anyway, that reinforces the idea that they are legally prescribed recreational drugs. If Viagra and Cialis get to be legally prescribed recreational drugs, then so does marijuana.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2013 04:21 |
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I hate the radio ad I've been hearing lately for Test-X 180, some kind of testosterone supplement being sold thru an 800 number. The guy talks about how we're becoming a nation of powderpuffs because today's men have less testosterone than their fathers. They call their promotion the "Man Up America" campaign. I find it kinda offensive.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 05:24 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:I think Flo has outstayed her welcome by about three years. Between that, the radio ads, and "Let's get ready to BUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" I would have to agree.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2013 18:38 |
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Today, they showed a repeat of the first episode of the Teen Tournament on Jeopardy. They had a category about auto insurance, one of the questions mentioned that Flo has been in the Progressive ads since 2008. I couldn't believe she's been on for 5 years already. I can still remember when she first popped up, there was so much spooging over her, TVIV smelled like semen for a month.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 00:22 |
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Another annoying ad, on the radio this time. I don't know if any other states are doing this, but Colorado has an anti-tobacco campaign going right now. The commercial has a guy named Justin getting dumped by his girlfriend over oropharyngial cancer he doesn't even have. It plays during just about every commercial break. Between Flo 'singing' and this one, it's really annoying.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 17:19 |
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DJExile posted:So here's a fun one, infomercial giant Kevin Trudeau is facing 10-25 years in federal prison for criminal contempt. He also hasn't paid any of his $37,000,000 fine the FTC hit him with a couple years ago. He got 10 years in prison, and 5 years supervised release after prison. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/17/deceitful-to-the-very-core-tv-pitchman-kevin-trudeau-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2014 01:19 |
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Timett posted:I don't have a problem with their commercials in general but I wish rosetta stone would stop acting like giving away a free demo was a huge event The one I hate is the one where it's supposed to be someone calling in for the free demo, and he asks "What's the catch?" I used to take these calls. The 'catch' is that you have to get past no less than THREE attempts to get you to whip out the credit card and buy the full program. Once you get past this, then we get your shipping info to send the demo. I think it's jumping through all the hoops is what makes the demo giveaway an "event".
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 02:52 |
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Promoted Pawn posted:Considering it's the store that was running a Christmas commercial literally before summer was even over I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier. I saw their "This is not a Christmas commercial" ad during the first regular-season Thursday night NFL game. I was all "WTF?"
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 04:18 |
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Vicas posted:So this is radio, but there's this series of Progressive commercials with Flo singing dumb piano songs, and it's been on forever, and it's awful, but that's whatever. What gets to me is this one that includes the line "then someone told me about a basketball strike, that sounds bad but I'm not quite sure." It's literally about the 2011 basketball lockout, and it's been annoying me for the last 4 years because it wasn't even a fuckin' strike Savingsville, the town famous for the World's Biggest Puppy. I hate those ads, too. Especially when the station's commercial server fucks up and plays 2 or 3 of them during a single break. They may be set up to do that, because they're only 15-second spots, and some of them have the fast-talking "small print" at the end.
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2015 05:17 |
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Jeopardy Ads? I've been seeing this one lately, she sure looks familiar. Ali Larter?
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2015 22:35 |
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raditts posted:Worse than those are the radio ads that pretend to be morning zoo shows coming back from commercial, where the fake hosts spend like 2 minutes excitedly talking about whatever is coming on that night on NBC primetime or whatever. Who the gently caress do they think they're fooling with that one? Even if you were station hopping and didn't know it was an actual show, you'd know in another couple minutes when the real show comes back from commercial, and then you're just going to say "gently caress you" to whatever they were plugging for being disingenuous. The radio ads that sound like a talk show coming back from a commercial. Yeah, right, like I'm going to believe that a talk show about mortgage refinancing took a break to play Mandatory Metallica. Yes, I listen to a station that still does Mandatory Metallica.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2015 02:32 |
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bull3964 posted:If you want to see what a 15 minute commercial break is like, just turn on TNT, TBS, or FX during a movie. H2 when they show Ancient Aliens is almost as bad, when they put on 5-minute mini-infomercials for the portable induction cooktop thing or the voice recognition software. I almost forget what I'm watching.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2015 22:11 |
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I can't find a Good Ads thread, if one even exists, so I'll drop this here. I don't hate this ad, I love it. Mainly for the choice of music. It plays twice because it's that awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDdjsz585nU
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# ¿ Dec 16, 2015 19:51 |
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If Tom Shane ever calls me and asks what I'm getting my lady for Christmas, I'm telling him that I got her a dildo. I hate the current Tom Shane radio ad campaign. Radio ads suck, anyway.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2015 04:00 |
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rockinricky posted:If Tom Shane ever calls me and asks what I'm getting my lady for Christmas, I'm telling him that I got her a dildo. I hate the current Tom Shane radio ad campaign. Radio ads suck, anyway. OH MY GOD IT'S BACK!!! But now, it's for Valentine's Day. gently caress you, Tom Shane!
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 04:14 |
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One I mute every time starts like this: <50 packs a day for 1000 years> I'm Terri, I used to be a smoker... </50 packs a day for 1000 years> I can handle the one with Brian, the former soldier and the lady with the oxygen tube, but Terri is just too much.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2016 21:01 |
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I'm not sure whether to call it dumb or silly, but Pepsi has a radio commercial for 20oz bottles with Pepsi Emojis on them. The sound effects used make Pepsi sound like it's so good you must be at least 21 to buy it.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2016 05:06 |
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Pontius Pilate posted:Was he also mashing every button constantly? Did it sound like he was playing the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man?
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 18:03 |
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Troy Queef posted:We’ve gotten this far and no one has mentioned the Norelco ads with Santa sledding on a shaver head, shame on you all Or the new sequel to the M&Ms/Santa 'He's real" commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auu_2hqhFHM
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2017 02:27 |
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Some radio ad hate: GEICO "Beatboxing in a big box store" Especially when the ad break goes like this: GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' GEICO beatboxing Progressive Flo 'Floetry' Yeah, I still listen to radio, since I can listen to a station that is not iheart radio. That's the one that does ad breaks as described above (usually only after 8pm).
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 06:41 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Speaking of, I hate the Alexa radio ads that start with songs, but only the vocal tracks. There’s one with Imagine Dragons that makes me want to curl into a ball and die. That singers voice sucks. I hate that one too. On the station I listen to, that one can come up 2-3 times during a single break, especially at night. What's really annoying is when the commercial break is something like: 5 x=0 10 Alexa, play Imagine Dragons 20 Progressive Lounge Singer Box 25 x=x+1 30 if x < 3 then goto 10 40 back to the rock What makes it worse is that this particular station doesn't even play Imagine Dragons. rockinricky fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Feb 22, 2019 |
# ¿ Feb 22, 2019 05:49 |
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carcreditgiant.com We get it, Janice is a slut. Radio ads are the worst.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2019 17:39 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:33 |
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There are only two ways that I will accept "The Ecstasy of Gold" 1. When watching The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. At a Metallica concert
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2019 06:29 |