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Re: Commercials
« Reply #330 on: August 18, 2009, 11:19:19 AM »
Letting the days go by...
It's symbolic of our struggle against reality.

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #331 on: September 25, 2009, 11:47:53 AM »
Yesterday morning on the Bravo channel, I saw the first Christmas commercial this year already.
 
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #332 on: September 25, 2009, 12:18:55 PM »
Maybe they're just trying to beat the October rush.

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #333 on: September 25, 2009, 12:28:44 PM »
You know, and while I'm thinking about it, why is Jamie Lee Curtis so interested in how often I poop?

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #334 on: September 25, 2009, 12:51:13 PM »
So I've been hearing this commercial with no words (always a big point up in my book) playing behind me while I'm at the computer.  So to me, all I'm hearing is this old-school midi tune.  I've heard it like three times and by the end I'm getting into it, bobbing my head and tapping my toes.  The fourth time I finally turned around to see what it's for: Google Chrome.  How awesome are they that they make one of the 2 commercials on TV right now that I don't absolutely abhor.  I swear I'd let those guys rule the country as monarchs if they wanted the job.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #335 on: September 25, 2009, 01:17:36 PM »
No doubt. The corporate world could learn a thing or two about right-brained thinking....

It's much more palatable. Mmmm...RIGHT....BRANES...

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #336 on: November 17, 2009, 06:40:19 PM »
Um, so, I tried Hulu, myself, last night, and I watched a Family Guy (eh) and one of the Simpsons Halloween episodes I missed (meh).

The most notable thing is that both had an intro saying 'Presented with minimal commercial interruption by Nissan' . . . but then the only ad I saw (which I saw half a dozen times) was for that lame-looking film adaptation of Jumper.

Is this a Hulu error, or is there something I should know about Nissan?

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #337 on: November 18, 2009, 12:19:20 PM »
Aren't they the ones that make ramen noodles?
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #338 on: November 18, 2009, 12:48:09 PM »
No, they make fairly cool cars that used to look good, too, about fifteen years ago.

Actually, a lot of the Japanese car companies had their styling peak by the mid-90s.  There are a few signs of improvement, but a whole hell of a lot of the cars they've been putting out in the last ten years represent their worst styling since the 70s.  The cars themselves are often impressive, but just embarrassingly ugly and incoherent shapes.  Bleh.

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #339 on: November 19, 2009, 11:01:04 AM »
Watched another Simpsons (meh, it's true) on Hulu, and they showed me ads other than for Jumper, so that was an improvement. 

They did show me an ad for Folgers that had more incestuous sexual tension than all of Greek drama put together.  Awkward, with more than a hint of creepy and a generous splash of WTF.  Apparently the best part of waking up is nailing your younger sister again.  :thumbsdn:


I also saw this today:  The Brother QL-570 Label Printer can print up to 50 labels per minute (faster then one per second!).

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #340 on: November 19, 2009, 11:58:29 AM »
I suck at math and even I know better than that. Crivens.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #341 on: November 19, 2009, 12:21:35 PM »
Of course, maybe it does print them faster than one per second . . . for 45 seconds . . . and then it overheats and melts down.  Who knows?

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #342 on: November 19, 2009, 03:15:17 PM »
Or maybe in their perceptual reality there are fewer than 50 seconds in a minute.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #343 on: November 19, 2009, 10:19:54 PM »
Watched another Simpsons (meh, it's true) on Hulu, and they showed me ads other than for Jumper, so that was an improvement. 

They did show me an ad for Folgers that had more incestuous sexual tension than all of Greek drama put together.  Awkward, with more than a hint of creepy and a generous splash of WTF.  Apparently the best part of waking up is nailing your younger sister again.  :thumbsdn:


I also saw this today:  The Brother QL-570 Label Printer can print up to 50 labels per minute (faster then one per second!).

:huh:

was it the one where the son comes home and makes coffee and wakes his mom up with the smell? oedipus wrecks!
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #344 on: November 19, 2009, 10:46:37 PM »
No, it was kind of a remake of their famous mid-80s Peter Comes Home ad, except they were too chickenshit to make the kid a soldier, apparently.  He looks more like a hackey-sack activist grad student.  He gets home in the early-early AM, and his 17 to 19-year-old sister is waiting for him in her, um, pajamas, I guess.  He mumbles something about the time difference from West Africa.  Mom and Dad smell the coffee and smile sleepily but don't get up while the siblings cuddle up awkwardly.  He gives her an Xmas present from Africa, but she takes the ribbon off and sticks it on his chest and tells him that he's her present.

But it's the hungry-staring-eyes thing and awkward conversation that makes it a little too internetty.  His sister's kind of a hotty with a blouse full of goodies, but it's wrong, and then you wind up with kids with no thumbs, sucking applesauce through a straw from a rocking chair while trying to play the banjo . . .


. . . or however that bit from Hot Shots Part Deux goes.