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Commercials
« on: June 21, 2007, 11:16:27 AM »
There are just too many commercials that wind me up.  I can't get by without a thread for them.


-- First, WTF is up with Tanqueray?  Does anyone like their Tony Sinclair character?  He's not funny, and he couldn't be a role model for Liberace's schipperke.  I could not bring myself to buy that product until they stopped running those ads.  At least the Bacardi & Cola ads had their moments.


-- Will Alltel, or whoever the hell it is, please stop running those horrible My Circle ads?  First of all, they suck.  Second of all, their boy, there, Chad, is a sad shell of a loser of a geek.  Two of the four guys he's supposed to be cooler than could steal his girlfriend without trying.  It's a dumb concept, poorly executed, and didn't some other cell phone company do pretty much the same damned thing before?  Oh, yeah, they did, with their Catherine Zeta Jones look-alike, etc.  End it.


-- The Vitamin Water ads are terrible.  Even when the concept is OK, the execution is weak . . . and sometimes unforgivably poor.  Besides, water with vitamin C and taurine?  Why don't I just drink the runoff from a cattle farm?


-- The cellphone ads with the dropped calls are sometimes funny.  The dating one is the best.  The guy's expressions completely sell it.  Not that it makes me want to buy whatever service they're advertising, but I like the ad.  It's something.


-- There's a moronic car dealership around here that has an ad where they parody 'extreme' dealership ads, with a crazy guy in a crazy hat talking like a monster truck show announced.  Then they say, no, shop here instead; we don't use gimmicks, etc. 

What's the dealership?  Extreme Dodge and Hyundai. 
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2007, 09:13:19 AM »
...Earl got your tongue?!
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2007, 12:10:09 PM »
I'm a sucker for them Sonic commercials. I've only seen a couple, but the one with ice tea, the alphabet and sub-responding kills me.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2007, 01:03:31 PM »
Yes!  Those Sonic commercials are freakin' brilliant -- and they even make me want to patronize the business advertised.

I don't know where any are around here, though . . . and I've avoided them for years.  First time I went to one was in Ohio, and I was horrified when a friend of mine ordered a drink called "Ocean Water".  (That was a Sonic, right?)  It was blue, and she seemed to like it, which suggests it has very little in common with ocean water.

I largely grew up on the coast, and, uh-uh.  That's worse than having a chocolate drink and calling it "Oil Change".
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2007, 01:06:39 PM »
I love Sonic.  We used to go all the time when we were back in OKC.  The last time I went to one though was in Vegas probably about 10 years ago.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2007, 01:38:18 PM »
The nearest Sonic to me is 146.2 miles away.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2007, 01:45:16 PM »
Wow, it looks like they're going up all over the Central Valley.  They even have one in Woodland now.  Tracy is the closest to us at only 40 miles away.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2007, 03:19:13 PM »
I'll buy your entire meal if you stop off in Tracy to smack my son upside his twenty year old non-thinking head and knock some sense into him.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2007, 03:26:17 PM »
Quote from: Soup on June 22, 2007, 03:19:13 PM
I'll buy your entire meal if you stop off in Tracy to smack my son upside his twenty year old non-thinking head and knock some sense into him.

Y'know, that sounds like something Andrrhea should do as a career.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2007, 03:32:42 PM »
Quote from: Soup on June 22, 2007, 03:19:13 PM
I'll buy your entire meal if you stop off in Tracy to smack my son upside his twenty year old non-thinking head and knock some sense into him.

So he didn't go to the wedding?
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #10 on: June 22, 2007, 03:51:00 PM »
Quote from: Psidefect on June 22, 2007, 03:26:17 PM
Quote from: Soup on June 22, 2007, 03:19:13 PM
I'll buy your entire meal if you stop off in Tracy to smack my son upside his twenty year old non-thinking head and knock some sense into him.

Y'know, that sounds like something Andrrhea should do as a career.

I wanted to get a few people together and do the Jay and Silent Bob thing where they fly around and beat the crap out of trolls.
That would be more rewarding than Peace Corps.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #11 on: June 22, 2007, 06:46:30 PM »
Quote from: flipper on June 22, 2007, 03:32:42 PM
Quote from: Soup on June 22, 2007, 03:19:13 PM
I'll buy your entire meal if you stop off in Tracy to smack my son upside his twenty year old non-thinking head and knock some sense into him.

So he didn't go to the wedding?

Somehow he made it and did it in his signature fashion. 

He screwed up and didn't go to the right airlines and then got mad at the world when he was told he wasn't booked on that flight.  He then taught the world a lesson by throwing a fit and trashed his itinerary.  Once he calmed down he spent almost every dime he had in spending cash on a one way ticket to Cancun.  He spent more on a taxi to his room.  His last few bucks he conserved cautiously in case of an emergency, which is to say he blew it on beers and shots at the hotel bar because, as he put it "What else was I going to do?".

A friend of ours pays for his taxi ride to the resort just in time for the rehearsal dinner or whatever you want to call that meal where everyone gets drunk before the wedding.  My dad gave him $100 and it lasted until the next day, the day of the wedding, where he showed up and stiffed the taxi driver out of $20 because he had spent most of it the night before in the hotel bar.  Two nights in Mexico, and most of his time and money spent in some crummy hotel bar.  I'm sure he was just conceiving a plan to come up with his cash for his return trip, or as I called it when I was young: "getting shitfaced".

His Mother ended up bailing him out of his trouble.  The day after the wedding Flamegirl and Kari worked over the airlines and the travelocity/orbitz/expedia/hahasucker sites for about 5 hours before finally giving up on him.  We'd called his hotel and they said he'd checked out.  His sister was down there with him and she threw him a couple of bones. 

I think the boy just assumes the angels/fairies/beautiful ethereal benevolent beings with wings will lift him up and carry him to wherever he wants to go just because he exists and desires this to be so, but truth is he manages to burn up every kindness thrown his way.

Sorry for stealing your thread, random axe.

You can have it back now.  I've never been known to stay on topic.  I'm sorry.  :-[
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2007, 06:56:50 PM »
Wow.  So is his sister the older one?  I'm assuming this because I hate to hear stories of us first borns behaving like that.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2007, 07:41:09 PM »
Yep.  He used to be the good one until they decided to switch places without telling me.

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #14 on: June 22, 2007, 07:45:35 PM »
Craziness.  My hellniece was that bad, and worse, Soup -- and then, near her last year of college, she suddenly pulled her shit together, got a job, met a guy who didn't suck, subsequently got married, and became a pretty damned responsible person.  Bizarre, but it happens.  Apparently.  One can hope.

Anyway, don't apologize to me for a threadjack.  That doesn't even make sense.  If I jacked a few more threads, I'd have a full wardrobe.
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