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Doctor Doodler posted:Geico has such an iconic and well known slogan that they don't even need to say it fully at the end of commercials. "15 minutes and you, well, you know." I'm annoyed by these because the actor is supposedly reading the printed tag line off of a billboard, from a newspaper ad, etc. and they say "15 minutes could save you 15% on car insurance". The text they're reading is shown on-screen and it never has the "on car insurance" part!
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Moai Ou posted:Time Warner Cable has lovely ads. Rather, they have sub-par ads, but the shittyness is magnified by the fact that they play EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK. Sometimes you'll luck out and get two in the same break. That's Bill Cowher a very successful retired NFL coach. I can't stand the football player in those because his acting is just so bad. Downloadded!  indeed.
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ShaqDiesel posted:Time warner is running a commercial where a dad is telling his son to go play in the rain because dad's trying to watch TV and he can't record his show because of the family's current lovely DVR capabilities. Former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher then unlawfully enters from the storm and announces, "with time warner cable you can watch more than 4 shows at the same time" then stands there grinning like a serial killer. Thats all of his dialogue...it is pure lunacy. Also Cowher supposedly comes in from the rain but he isn't wet at all. He's even wearing a poncho! Now that I've noticed it, I cant unsee it.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It's always annoying when advertisers think they're going to get something "viral" happening. "Farm Fresh Egg Boy" was in an ad for Egg McMuffins about 10 years ago. It entered into my parents vernacular and they have been using as a random nickname for me and my brother ever since. 
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Sep 27, 2013 14:38
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raditts posted:Aren't stand-alone GPS units kind of obsolete in an age where almost everyone has a cell phone and a data plan? Not for pilots, who is traditionally Garmin's main market. It's only within the last 5 years or so that they branched out into road navigation GPS. I think it's basically a case of "we already have the data and it's not much more R&D to add this product line". It's probably more about increasing brand recognition than selling the road GPS itself.
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Dec 16, 2013 15:32
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I don't know about your phone, but using the GPS on mine drains the battery faster than anything else. I actually got lost last year in Indiana after missing an exit and had to sit in a gas station charging my phone enough to continue, not fun. Also means I can't use my phone as a phone while I'm using it to navigate, which is problematic for my job. I got your power problem covered:  As for the second, well... you shouldn't be talking on the phone while driving 
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NBA Jam big-head mode IRL rules. gently caress the haters.
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Phobic Nest posted:I didn't notice, too busy laughing at the magic computer that's voice activated but demands you high-five its holograms. Just imagining the director saying, "Look happy as you slap that air." If he were actually interacting with those holo-buttons, all the text on them would be backwards from his perspective, too.
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Vicas posted:Wahhhh, speak English proper, wahhhh In a commercial that's attempting to espouse the value of professionalism? Yes, you absolutely should.
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Sash! posted:I forgot about that commercial. Old Spice and Bounce are Proctor & Gamble brands.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The Heinz wiener dog ad was the best because everyone loves wieners. My parents got a wiener dog and named her "Stampede" because of that old commercial.
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This is dumb and nit picky. There’s a commercial for the video game “Just Dance” that I keep seeing on Hulu. It uses the tag line “dance to your own beat” for a game where you have to match movements to the screen in time with a song. So, not dancing to your own beat at all.
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Hulu commercial: “What Fyre festival proved, is that the power of influence is real” Noooooooooo poo poo. That’s the very definition of the word “influence”. What an idiotic non-statement trying to sound meaningful and profound. Makes me irrationally angry.
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Jan 28, 2019 19:09
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muscles like this! posted:They have another commercial which shows how absolutely timely they are in that it has Lil Jon doing his "OKAY?" bit as well. Which is like, great job time traveling back to the early 00s for that reference. They did that at the superbowl halftime show, too. Pepsi is the epitome of “tries too hard to be different and cool”.
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Lego once put up the entire first Lego Movie as a YouTube ad, as promotion for the second movie. That was kinda neat though.
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Mahoning posted:No they didn’t they put like a 30 second clip of a song from the second movie on loop for over 4 hours as an ad. Pretty sure I posted about it in this thread. They absolutely did
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Feb 2, 2020 13:33
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Sash! posted:Old people do, so they can do the math to compare themselves to that person. I was going to make a remark about old guys and killing fiddy men based on your avatar, but then had a realization. In my head 70+ was always “World War II grandpa” age. My dad is in his late 60s and was in the Vietnam draft, so someone in their 70s now couldn’t have been in WWII. Where did the last 20 years go?
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Jan 7, 2021 18:20
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PhazonLink posted:dont some modern public bathrooms have ad screens in the bathroom? I was at a conference last week and some tech company put branded splash guards in the urinals with piss puns on them, like “Urine luck if you come to our booth”
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Jun 26, 2023 02:43
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There’s a drug commercial on Hulu for some probably made-up-just-to-sell-this-drug condition that has an acronym for a name but they don’t explain what it is or what the symptoms are so you’ll hopefully go Google it and click on the search result ad. It is a goddamn eye injection. No, I don’t care if it’s not actually injected directly into the eyeball. gently caress that.
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Jul 25, 2023 02:56
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I have multiple pieces of 2x6 scrap less than a foot long left over from some deck repair just sitting in the garage taking up space. My wife insists that we keep them. I have been slowly disposing of them by putting one out with the trash every other week. So far she hasn’t noticed. Because it’s scrap. That we won’t need. Or use. Ever.
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Sash! posted:You have doomed yourself to need a bunch of 2x6 scraps I refuse to be held hostage
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