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all my loli wolf companions are so moe
(05-30-2012, 03:37 AM)
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Stuff in commercials/ads that bother you
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Well not so much as irritate you, but rather, made you ponder why the hell they do that.
For me... Hygiene products, particularly shampoos and such, that uses plants as a test subject. Primarily because plants don't work like hair where dipping it in your miracle product would cause it to flourish or wilt when dipped to your competitive product. Also, flower as a metaphor for women's genitals in feminine washes. Jerkass protagonists in commercials. I wonder why they keep using that - I guess the "you can do anything and damn the others with this product" sell well. |
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(05-30-2012, 03:40 AM)
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#4
Everything in all of them.
Every Axe ad is especially terrible. Spray this foul smelling shit on your body and chicks will flock to you BRO! Sad thing is, it works. The commercials, I mean, not the vomit inducing body spray. |
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card-carrying scientician
(05-30-2012, 03:40 AM)
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#6
How incredibly stupid many if not most of them have gotten. I stopped watching broadcast TV for like three years a few years ago and when I got back all the commercials had gotten weird man. You might have like...a whale, in scuba gear, in a glass of iced tea, and it will be an ad for a hair-care product or something.
Its like all the marketers out there finally said "fuck coherence, we'll just flash a bunch of images of things we think people think are cool" |
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I recently went to my friends house to check out his wii. I was generally impressed. It was larger than I expected though.
(05-30-2012, 03:42 AM)
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#12
I haven't watched US television in years, are interracial couples still essentially banned from commercials? I would never see them when I used to watch TV.
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show 'em yer Jazz hands
(05-30-2012, 03:44 AM)
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#15
Specific example: The Bud Light twisted neck bottle.
Their ad campaign was a guy ordering a beer. They'd ask him if he wanted a regular bottle or the new spiraled one. He responded that he didn't care. He then gets ridiculed for his decision making. So let me get this straight. I get offered something, and then choose to settle for whatever is easiest for my host/server and somehow I'm the jerk? Cool, guys. Way to sell your product by making your audience into a bunch of a-holes if they don't demand a little twist in their beer bottles. |
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(05-30-2012, 03:44 AM)
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#16
Over dramatized commercials.
No, it's not that fucking hard to cook spaghetti!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd0jdL8_XB0
Last edited by woolley; 05-30-2012 at 03:48 AM.
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(05-30-2012, 03:48 AM)
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#21
I hate how every commercial has an annoying ass song now. I think music with vocals should be banned from commercials.
And any commercial with really annoying sounds, like that pig commercial where it's yelling, that cell phone one where the mom and daughter are bawling, that kit kat one with all the crunching and chomping etc. I get annoyed so easily with commercials. |
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(05-30-2012, 03:49 AM)
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#24
Originally Posted by The_Technomancer:
... mark my words: in time we will see a narwhal uppercut Mr.T into soft serve :S |
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(05-30-2012, 03:52 AM)
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#28
I really hate when commercials portray an extremely easy activity as the biggest ordeal in the world that only the advertised product can fix.
No, wait, I fucking love it. |
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card-carrying scientician
(05-30-2012, 03:54 AM)
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#30
Originally Posted by ManDudeChild:
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He's not our sharpest knife. In fact, he's one of our dullest.
(05-30-2012, 04:03 AM)
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#35
The fact that they will put a bicycle in the background of any commercial aimed at people under 40. I don't know why, but once I started noticing them it began to annoy me.
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(05-30-2012, 04:10 AM)
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#41
Originally Posted by Seda:
You know how winning a relay requires a team effort?...so that's why I trust my [some issue] with the hard working team of [business or firm Y] ...sigh... |
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Dot Hacked
(05-30-2012, 04:11 AM)
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#42
Commercials where the visuals consist entirely of someones finger poking some touchscreen for one. Also any commercial where they shush the viewer. And that art school one that's always shown on Adult Swim. I swear that commercial must be older than the network itself!
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(05-30-2012, 04:11 AM)
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#43
Originally Posted by Showmeyamoves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVY_lonKf4 Learn yo film history, son. |
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(05-30-2012, 04:13 AM)
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#46
During baseball games on FSN, they have public service commercials using clips from Hollywood blockbusters. I think this is tacky in general, but there is one that is supposed to get people to go outside and partake in physical activity, and they show the X-men flying around and using all their mutant powers.
I mean, well, sure, if I could fly, I would be outside zooming around. And pretty much all drug commercials. Most of them show unhappy people at the start, then by taking this drug, they're happy and surrounded by other people. Basically the same way beer and stuff is advertised - drink this and people will like you, or your life will be better. That would make sense for recreational drugs (though still wouldn't be accurate), but these are meant to cure illnesses and disorders. They're trying to convince people to fake illnesses to be able to take these drugs and thus have the lifestyle shown in the commercials |
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(05-30-2012, 04:13 AM)
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#47
Originally Posted by Lindsay:
Heres a commercial about electric razors! Look how awesome it is? See, the actor is watching a meta-commercial for it on his touchscreen! |
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(05-30-2012, 04:16 AM)
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#48
I hate that products still misrepresent themselves to a rather knowledgable public. A good example are these Siri commercials. It's rather common knowledge that the system (while fine) doesn't typically work as it's shown and the public generally knows this. We read blogs, there's word of mouth, twitter, youtube videos. Why the BS?
I don't know what the alternative is of course but airing these commercials that many know are false just seems rather odd to me. |
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(05-30-2012, 04:21 AM)
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#49
Originally Posted by .GqueB.:
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(05-30-2012, 04:21 AM)
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#50
Originally Posted by Piecake:
also, people in commercials never talk like anyone does in real life. rarely are we that that eager to gush about products we aren't financially dependent on. if you're going to pretend that you have real people talking about a product, have a real conversation: 'hey, use this swiffer to clean the ceiling' 'oh, cool, this thing works pretty well' 'yeah, i like em' |
