I love the Triaminic commericals with the little animated felt animals- the latest one with the baby bear that says "I can barely hibernate" and the old ones with the baby wolf counting sheep are the best. Too cute!
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Im Hatin' It! - Commercials That Suck
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Posts: 638 (01/28/08 7:48 PM) Registered User |
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Posts: 9853 (01/28/08 9:32 PM)
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What are your thoughts on product placement these days?
We've come a long way from Richard Hatch driving away like Kaiser Sosze in his Pontiac Axtec. Last week's Friday Night Lights made me 1) go to an Applebee's and 2) take a serious look at a Tahoe Hybrid. |
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Posts: 473 (01/28/08 10:29 PM) |
i don't get the problem with product placement.
people do drink pepsi in their everyday lives. eat corn flakes, drive a chevy tahoe, whatever... i read all sorts of posts that complain about "the this and the that" of television shows, the inaccuracies and improbabilities and what not. i do too. but when an ep has a character consuming or using a real product, some seem to take that as a worse offense. ok. hummm... if omar loves his "honey nut" on the wire, i am cool with that... |
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Posts: 9854 (01/28/08 11:11 PM)
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I always loved Archie Bunker drinking a white can labelled "BEER."
But this is a new world, Albert. The advertisers know that we're skipping across their detritus, and that we mute them on the internet. Embedded advertsing. Not even the DVD releases will expunge them. You're an FNL vet. If someone suggests meeting up at the local Applebee's, wouldn't you want to go find out if the waitresses look like Tyra? |
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Posts: 475 (01/28/08 11:55 PM) |
Piranhahaha wrote: albert will stipulate. but again i come back to... if archie's can says "beer" or "budwiser" does it even matter to what do you drink? are you out
searching for that brand called "beer"? to be closer to your bud archie? is that how it works?
i will admit myself of this same sort of obsession, although for different reasons. when kiefer sutherland brandished a microtech halo III on "24", a highly illegal knife in the usa, i wondered, hummm... i wonder if i could get me one of them? but see, that's a dudes curiosity, more of a "wonder" than a "i could, it will just cost me". as it turned out, maybe not so much of a difference. i'm just saying bud, show your products. don't show your products. i don't eat honey nut. i don't wear jimmy choo. bring it on... |
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Posts: 30393 (01/29/08 12:04 AM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
Product Placement rarely works on me, but I did start eating Fritos again after Jason lee ate nothing but in Big Trouble.
Oh and I never had a Sobe in my life until I saw Vin drink one in XXX. |
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Posts: 476 (01/29/08 12:17 AM) |
ok.
total disclosure. in 1983 i bought a pair of ray-ban wayfarers. and i wore them. a lot. the chicks did dig it. i was not sorry for that. i did it . i admit to it now. forgive me... |
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Posts: 9855 (01/29/08 1:14 AM)
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When I saw Clint with a fridge full of Becks in Play Misty for Me, I was sold.
When I saw Humphrey schlepping those cases of Gordons despite that bitch Kate in African Queen? Again, I was sold. Steve McQueen running a Mustang through the streets of San Francisco: guess what kind of car I own. I'm a human petri dish when it comes to subliminal advertising. For life. These are all now on our TV's. OSTS luncheon at the nearest Applebee's? (Seriously though -- the Applebee's apple tour of its house is a laughable commercial. Its placement on Friday Night Lights is I think brilliant.) |
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Posts: 479 (01/29/08 2:03 AM) |
When I saw Clint with a fridge full of Becks in Play Misty for Me, I was sold. sold? shit, i remember that movie. jessica/evelyn was all "to sit here all dressed up in my little whore suit... waiting for my lord and master to call?" clint/dave was all "nobody asked you to wait for anything." before she came back with "you're not dumping me!" and then she went all medieval on his ass... to this day the sight of a heineken (not beck's you product placement moron) causes my nuts to recede up into my throat. that was one scary movie. one i have lived over and over again... |
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Posts: 480 (01/29/08 9:03 PM) |
damn, p'ha... you start this product placement discussion and tonight on "carpoolers" i saw the funniest product placement ever.
they had just come out of a toyota highlander commercial where some dude can't parallel park, but now that he has a highlander with the "rear view camera", he no longer hits cars and trees when he parks. a meh of a commercial but... the first carpoolers scene back from that commercial has two of the dudes in a car as a beautiful jogger runs past. one dude turns to the other and says "is this a highlander? with the rear camera thing?". they then proceed down the road in reverse checking out miss thing's butt on the lcd screen as they follow her. that shit was fucking funny and gets my vote for the best pp of the year... * oh, and sorry about that pp moron statement last night. all green bottled beers do look alike. an easy mistake. friends? *
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Posts: 8502 (01/29/08 9:36 PM) Registered User |
Same with the velvety-voiced brunette in the Caddy sedan. The one where she talks about her car turning her on? |
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BillNyeSurvivorGuy |
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Posts: 1505 (01/30/08 12:13 PM) Registered user |
All this talk about women getting turned on by cars reminds me of some interesting video's i've seen. Gives stickshifts a whole new dimension... errm
forget I said anything you can't unsee that stuff.
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Posts: 30515 (01/30/08 9:18 PM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
What happened to the fat nerd in the yellow shirt on the Chad commercials? Did they can him or what?
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Posts: 401 (01/31/08 1:41 AM) |
HATE: That commercial for some diet candy where the woman is in the taxi and this insipid singer is singing some stupid breathy song about "Candy."
The singer and the song set my teeth on edge.
LOVE: The 2 new T-mobile commercials with the goofy cute guy calling back his date from the night before and he keeps re-recording his message because he just can't get it right. (My favorite line is "you ate like a HORSE last night..... I should NEVER say that to a woman.") |
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Posts: 5540 (01/31/08 8:33 PM) Registered User |
That damn teenage slut. If I hear about her lost weekend one more time..."I was so high"
Public service message, my ass. |
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Posts: 200 (02/01/08 9:12 AM) |
I hate that castrating bitch of a wife on the H&R Block commercial who's razzing her husband for having trouble with the taxes. "Here, why
don't you ask the box for help?" Then she holds up the box like it's the phone, "Hello? Hello?" Sarcastic bitch!
Poor guy. He reminds me of my brother-in-law. And of course, the Pantene commercials still plague me. I'm sure I've seen them hundreds of times since I last posted about them. "Feel the rain on your skin...blah blah blah...the rest is still unwritten." Arrrrgh!!! This crap song is now eliciting physical responses from me. I'm like Kramer when he hears Mary Hart's voice. (eta: happy 200 to me!)
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Posts: 7334 (02/01/08 10:34 AM) Registered user |
Unwritten is a good song! Probably Natasha Bedingfield's best. |
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Posts: 201 (02/01/08 11:55 AM) |
BobbyBrown06 wrote: Hell of it is, I actually liked it okay before I heard it played 10,000 to hawk Pantene. |
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Posts: 6 (02/01/08 4:07 PM) Registered user |
I don't know how long they've been going on, but I just saw it yesterday, and I have to say I love the new Shreddies commercial. For Diamond Shreddies.
Hilarious.
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kittymistress |
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Posts: 197 (02/01/08 4:19 PM) Registered User |
A commercial that doesn't suck: the Monster.com spot with the guy with the, um, ENORMOUS thighs. Turns out his "job" is pedalling the machine
that keeps the earth rotating. I especially love the moment when he switches places (not quickly enough) with the guy doing the previous shift and the world
stops rotating for a few moments.
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