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Post by luke on Sept 26, 2006 11:53:26 GMT -5
The one with the girl and the mom shouting at each other but saying good things is clever at first, but wears thin real quick.
I don't mind songs in commercials, except when they change the words. Like fucking Applebee's commercials, Jesus fuck.
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Post by Mary on Sept 26, 2006 17:31:27 GMT -5
Someone has probably already mentioned this but I'm swamped and didn't get a chance to read the backposts, so....
HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
jesus. fucking. christ.
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Post by Dr. Drum on Sept 26, 2006 20:45:39 GMT -5
An ad that’s caused a bit of consternation back home in Newfoundland. Probably as much for the fact that they used an actor from Cape Breton who can’t really do the accent, as for any idea of having somehow been demeaned or something. Of course, if some ad agency from Upper Canada wants to make jokes at the expense at Newfoundlanders, Newfoundlanders are just gonna take the piss right back. 
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Post by Adam on Sept 26, 2006 23:46:56 GMT -5
Here's a YouTube video for that Pepto-Bismol rap commercial, for those who haven't seen it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAr73vmhP40Its annoying but its also funny, especially with the sound turned off. |
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Post by Adam on Sept 26, 2006 23:47:43 GMT -5
I love the gesture for diaherra.
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Post by strat-0 on Sept 27, 2006 19:25:29 GMT -5
I kinda like the Dr. Z commercials, too, Ken. Sure, they're hoky, but it's hard not to like the guy. A lot of people don't even realize that he really is the CEO!
I don't like when they fuck around with the lyrics either, Luke, but have you heard the one where they actually changed part of the chord progression for "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"? I can't even recall what it's for (yay, the ad doesn't work). And not just editing, either, but changing the resolution of the progression. Oughtta be a law.
HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
Oh, yes.
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Post by JACkory on Sept 28, 2006 11:24:35 GMT -5
I don't hate ALL the DrZ. commercials...just the one with the redneck who tells him he forgot to mention the Hemi...It's the snooty redneck I can't stand, not DrZ.
Low tolerance for IHOP's commercials as well.
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Post by rockkid on Oct 2, 2006 7:42:16 GMT -5
Any Pizza Hut ad with the five buck five buck a roonies gets a real fast mute.
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Post by JACkory on Oct 2, 2006 12:01:07 GMT -5
There aren't a whole lot of ads that are just killing me at this point, but I do hate that Target spot with the "Gotta have more/Gotta have it now" song. Ooh.
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Post by wayved on Oct 2, 2006 23:56:13 GMT -5
Commercials suck.
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 3, 2006 1:46:42 GMT -5
Have you seen the new Head On commercial? They got the message -- some chick interrupts the commercial and says, "I hate their commercial, but I love the product."  |
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Post by JACkory on Oct 3, 2006 10:48:23 GMT -5
It's not that they "got the message"...the whole repetition thing was INTENTIONAL. They knew exactly what they were doing. I saw a piece about it on the NBC Nightly News some time back where they explained how somewhere betweeen the subtle annoyance and the time when it gets REALLY annoying there is a curiosity sparked and an awareness of the product sinks in. In other words, they WANT you to hate the commercial, just as long as you remember Head On when you get your next headache.
Right now I'm really hatin' on the Cheerios commercial that has all the kids jumping into a giant bowl of cereal, landing in giant cereal rings. Now that's okay, no big deal, but what really gets on my bad side is the song they're playing, which is a 4th rate Cat Stevens impersonator singing a thing called "Happiness Runs", whatever tthe fuck that's supposed to mean. Sounds like someone's taken one of Cat Stevens most saccharine songs and made it even more sappy...
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 3, 2006 23:05:55 GMT -5
Haven't seen the Cheerios commercial yet.
Sure, the annoying repitition is intentional in the Head On commercials. Repeating the slogan four of five times in a row is an attempt to brand it in your brain - annoying be damned. And it works. Then NBC does a piece on it -- it just goes back to the old addage, "there's no such thing as bad publicity." The ad really says nothing important about the efficacy of the product.
Yet I can't even recall the product for the ad that mangled the Bachman Turner Overdrive tune. It didn't work. But it does annoy me.
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Post by phil on Oct 4, 2006 5:36:28 GMT -5
If "you" were to remember every single commercial
you've seen since you stated watching TV ...
Your head would've exploded a long time ago !!
It's a good thing that memory is a faculty that forgets ...
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Post by Ryosuke on Oct 4, 2006 5:40:56 GMT -5
Commercials don't bother me much because I don't really watch TV all that often, but one commercial that rankled me a couple of years ago was this hair care product where the concept was "Asian beauty." It featured this pretty Chinese (?) model looking all gorgeous and stuff, while these white girls with messy hair looked on in envy.
I fucking hated that. It made me want to dye my hair blonde, wear blue-eyed contacts, and act all Caucasian.
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