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Re: Commercials
« Reply #375 on: February 09, 2010, 04:47:56 PM »
Having tied a Super Bowl record by completing 32 of 39 passes, with 288 passing yards and two touchdowns, Drew Brees was named Super Bowl MVP. After the game, Brees said, "Four years ago, who ever thought this would be happening when 85 percent of the city was under water? Most people left not knowing if New Orleans would ever come back, or if the organization would ever come back. We just all looked at one another and said, 'We are going to rebuild together. We are going to lean on each other.' This is the culmination in all that belief."

I guess i enjoyed watching it because it really was that symbolic triumph over tragedy thing. Yeah, kicking Peyton Manning's ass is one thing, but putting your city back on the map, literally and figuratively, is something to be proud of too.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #376 on: February 09, 2010, 06:08:55 PM »
Exactly!  Feel-good story of the year, even if it's only early February.

CNN and the NY Times were practically silent about it, and even Google News only had a passing generic story.  I went to the Sports Illustrated NFL page after seeing this thread this morning, and they were like Well, What's Next For These Two Teams?

Really, just two days later all the OH MY GOD! stuff has vanished?  Have these people not seen Bob Ueker in Major League or Rob Schneider in Necessary Roughness?

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Is this all Dennis Miller's fault?
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #377 on: February 09, 2010, 07:29:09 PM »
Quote from: random axe on February 09, 2010, 10:50:15 AM
...a lot of the country suddenly feels the need for a wider stance and a 'return' to 'traditional values', as they imagine them...

They just better make sure there's no one in the stall next to 'em when they take that wider stance...
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #378 on: February 09, 2010, 07:36:17 PM »
Quote from: flipper on February 09, 2010, 07:29:09 PM
Quote from: random axe on February 09, 2010, 10:50:15 AM
They just better make sure there's no one in the stall next to 'em when they take that wider stance...

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #379 on: February 09, 2010, 07:54:23 PM »
Dennis Miller is such a disappointment to me.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #380 on: February 10, 2010, 11:26:10 AM »
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Dennis Miller is such a disappointment to me.

That.  I never thought he would sell out, and he sold out so hard and so fast and so cheaply . . . I lost all respect for him.  And he's horrible as a right-wing wiseass!  Not even funny anymore.

Besides, I hate to say it, but if one attack on your city causes you to abandon every principle you ever believed in and decide that it's now OK to kill whomever, wherever, whenever, just because something bad happened to you, then you have no business commenting on international affairs, much less the Middle East.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #381 on: February 17, 2010, 11:00:27 PM »
they've been showing that challenger commercial from the superbowl quite a bit. i really hate it. i really think it just makes people in couples look like idiots.

sorry, i just think it's one of the crappier ideas of an agency. i don't think they wasted time with focus groups. maybe mad men made it.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #382 on: February 18, 2010, 09:48:48 PM »
anyone seen this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZevI1pMXyg

they ought to paint it like this for the spot.

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Re: Commercials
« Reply #383 on: February 19, 2010, 05:02:18 PM »
Minus the misspelled "wagon" part.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #384 on: February 22, 2010, 08:08:02 PM »
no, i did that on purpose as a play on the word "swagger".

thought it might be more clever. guess not.  :cry:
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #385 on: May 22, 2010, 09:03:34 AM »
Saw a Paid Program this morning selling a product called the AuraWave.  It's supposed to send electrical current to painful areas of your body to help manage chronic pain.  They kept saying it was "FDA cleared".  WTF
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #386 on: May 22, 2010, 02:34:07 PM »
The phrase 'FDA-cleared' is code for 'it's snake oil, but we don't make a lot of testable claims that it does anything much'.

In a nutshell, the FDA 'encourages innovation' by only requiring minimal safety testing before a treatment or device is cleared.  Being cleared just means that the FDA feels it's reasonable to believe the thing won't hurt you in any major or permanent way.  In theory, it mostly gets used when something that's already approved has a slight change made to it -- you know, a stethoscope with new comfort earpods, or some such thing.  But if you make a vibrating foot bath, yeah, whatever, that should be OK.

Clearance from the FDA means absolutely nothing about whether or not the thing does anything good.  It's basically a rubber-stamp process.

The real problem is that Medicaid / Medicare pay doctors extra if they go to the trouble of learning how to use and implementing a new therapeutic technique.  You see where this is going?  So anytime some jackass can come up with some vaguely usable and probably not harmful whatever, all they need to do is get FDA clearance.  Then they can sell it to doctors looking to slightly scam the feds.  The doctors get to make their hypochondriac patients happy and get $$$.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #387 on: June 14, 2010, 12:53:11 PM »
If Starbucks does not stop its insanely horrible We Saw Something Like This On MTV Once ads for its have-it-your-way frappucinos, God will surely punish everyone who ever worked there with some hideous curse, such as hairy hemorrhoids all over their bodies, or there is no God.

Seriously, cut that out. 

The GMC basketball ads are very, very lame and annoying but just not in the same putrid ballpark.

Unfortunately, I'm contractually bound to admit that the winking Asian girl in the Starbucks ad manages to be cute despite her surroundings.  I'm just a sucker for women with expressive faces.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #388 on: June 18, 2010, 03:45:23 PM »
Dear Advertisers and Retailers Everywhere:

Click for price!

No.
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Re: Commercials
« Reply #389 on: August 02, 2010, 05:48:58 PM »
I have to give credit to Direct TV for this commercial. It's so rare that I see a commercial I like. It gets a grin out of me every time, and I've seen it like 50 times already. I think it's the giraffe licking its nose that gets me.
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