Why, God, why did these commercials get made?

GeorgeUK wrote:

Nine pages and no mention of this bastard?



You think that's bad? About five more have been released and I heard they have a further 20 in the pipeline.

Each one worse than the last. At least the Compare the Meerkats.com ads had cute appeal.

But...

Nothing Mr. Go Compare has is as annoying as:

We buy any Car.

We buy any Car.

We buy any Car.

Any...

Any...

Any...

ANY.

Or the SafeStyle windows guy.

You buy one, you get one free. I SAY YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE!

Look. I'll Buy both, just make the mad axeman with the stupic coat go away. He can definitely BOGOF.

...dang

Summer's Eve ran an ad campaign not long ago called "Respect the V."

The commercial first shows two cavemen fighting with clubs while a woman watches from the mouth of the cave. Then it cuts to Roman gladiators dueling as the Caesar's daughter looks on. Next, knights jousting while a princess cheers on. All throughout, a woman provides voiceover, saying things such as, "Men have battled for it since the dawn of time."

Then it cuts to a Sassy Black Woman(tm) in the grocery store, who takes a box of Summer's Eve off the shelf, turns to the camera, and grins, "So ladies, give it some respect!"

Yeeeah.

This gets more annoying each time.

cristina_chavia wrote:

This gets more annoying each time.

Wait... you're from the British area? Hey, you know, I was wondering... how is Gary Numan doing? Seriously, I am envious of y'all livin' super close to that guy.

Eeveegou wrote:

cristina_chavia wrote:

This gets more annoying each time.

Wait... you're from the British area? Hey, you know, I was wondering... how is Gary Numan doing? Seriously, I am envious of y'all livin' super close to that guy.

Trolling or actual? I saw him a month or so ago. He remembers me from when I was the youngest person in his audience by about 15 years.

Gaah! Can't find vid for ad I want to show. Must be out there somewhere...

Leave it to the Brits to claim they have "proper" meat juices

Good grief! You can't make gravy with improper meat juices!

Now, where is my pipe?

cristina_chavia wrote:

This gets more annoying each time.

At least that bull doesn't have a fucking udder. BASIC BIOLOGY, ANIMATORS AND ADVERTISERS.

Really, Kohl's? Really?

EileenK98 wrote:

Really, Kohl's? Really?

Oh...dear...crap...

It's official. We need to make the ending of the Justin Bieber vs. Rebecca Black Death Battle happen and FAST!

In other news, the new WoW ad is out touting the new Monk class.

It's one...big...fucking...Chuck Norris...meme...

No Jack Black as a certain kung fu panda? Blizzard...I am disappoint.

This. For the win,

Because nothing says tasteful like showing a ladies razor with a little blade for doing your bikini line like the graphic demonstration of a bush trimming itself.

GMA, the Chuck Norris ad has nothing to do with Mists of Pandaria or the monk class; it's just the big Chuck Norris joke. [He's a hunter, but apparently a melee one.]

And why on Azeroth would Blizzard draw more attention to the Kung Fu Panda comparison when there are already way too many idiots accusing them of stealing the idea from Dreamworks (even though Pandaren go back officially to April 1, 2003, and unofficially even further)?

As for that Kohl's ad, I'm neutral on it. Just about every complaint I've seen has amounted to little more than "Rebecca Black is teh ebil!" First, she's not some demon who'll kill you if you say her name three times. Nor is she even in the ad. Second, what were the two biggest problems with "Friday"? The lyrics and the autotuning. And neither of those is here, either. The lyrics are changed to ones that aren't really any worse than those in every other parody song ad ever made. Plus, since it's only thirty seconds, we don't have to deal with things like the gratuitous rap segment. Best of all, it's going to be gone in a day or two, having blighted your TV for less than a week.

EileenK98 wrote:

Really, Kohl's? Really?

Forget drug tests, what we really need in the workplace are IQ tests. What jelly-brain could have possibly thought this ad was a good idea?

Drabbler wrote:

And why on Azeroth would Blizzard draw more attention to the Kung Fu Panda comparison when there are already way too many idiots accusing them of stealing the idea from Dreamworks (even though Pandaren go back officially to April 1, 2003, and unofficially even further)?

1.) They know they're going to get sued.
2.) They know it's not going to hurt their profits in the least.
3.) They're Blizzard, they're rich enough to be every bit as stupid as they want to be.
4.) Blizzard is very, very stupid to begin with when it comes to everything but marketing.

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As for that Kohl's ad, I'm neutral on it. Just about every complaint I've seen has amounted to little more than "Rebecca Black is teh ebil!" First, she's not some demon who'll kill you if you say her name three times.

No, but being reminded of her is enough to get that goddamn song stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

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Nor is she even in the ad.

Without getting all philosophical about how one puts oneself into one's art... it's still her goddamn song, just with different lyrics.

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Second, what were the two biggest problems with "Friday"? The lyrics and the autotuning. And neither of those is here, either.

No, those weren't the two biggest. Oh, they were big, but the song's droning lyrical tone combined with its gratingly rapid-fire delivery ensured that even if the lyrics weren't completely stupid, it would be an awful song. And guess what, they're here!

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The lyrics are changed to ones that aren't really any worse than those in every other parody song ad ever made.

The fuck? Seriously? Maybe if you listen to parody songs written and recorded by dipshits on Youtube with X-Box headsets.

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Plus, since it's only thirty seconds, we don't have to deal with things like the gratuitous rap segment.

That's racist.

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Best of all, it's going to be gone in a day or two, having blighted your TV for less than a week.

And yet now it lives forever on the Internet. Awesome.

It's more the concept than the commercial itself, but it just screams TROLL MEEEEEEEE. TROLLLLLLL MEEEEEEEEEEE~~~

Penguin wrote:

Drabbler wrote:

And why on Azeroth would Blizzard draw more attention to the Kung Fu Panda comparison when there are already way too many idiots accusing them of stealing the idea from Dreamworks (even though Pandaren go back officially to April 1, 2003, and unofficially even further)?

1.) They know they're going to get sued.
2.) They know it's not going to hurt their profits in the least.
3.) They're Blizzard, they're rich enough to be every bit as stupid as they want to be.
4.) Blizzard is very, very stupid to begin with when it comes to everything but marketing.

Why would they get sued? As I said, Pandaren predate Kung Fu Panda. Dreamworks wouldn't waste the money on a suit they know would get tossed. The people screaming "rip-off" are fans, and we all know what experts they can be. The idea that Blizzard should make an ad basically confirming these fools' false belief is absurd. Anyway, such an ad would have to be either an official tie-in -- and why would Blizzard or Dreamworks want that? -- or it would have to be the kind of thing that would invite a legitimate lawsuit.

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The lyrics are changed to ones that aren't really any worse than those in every other parody song ad ever made.

The fuck? Seriously? Maybe if you listen to parody songs written and recorded by dipshits on Youtube with X-Box headsets.

You missed a key word in there. I said "every other parody song ad ever made." In other words, commercials where they changed song lyrics to make them all about the product.

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Best of all, it's going to be gone in a day or two, having blighted your TV for less than a week.

And yet now it lives forever on the Internet. Awesome.

At least on the internet, you never have to hit the "play" button. Look back just at the early pages of this thread. So many bad ads, all out there on the 'net forever. How many of them have you given even a moment's thought to in the months since?

Sakurelf wrote:

It's more the concept than the commercial itself, but it just screams TROLL MEEEEEEEE. TROLLLLLLL MEEEEEEEEEEE~~~

Drabbler wrote:

Why would they get sued? As I said, Pandaren predate Kung Fu Panda.

Dammit. Edited that sentence too many times. It should've been they know they're not going to get sued.

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You missed a key word in there. I said "every other parody song ad ever made." In other words, commercials where they changed song lyrics to make them all about the product.

Meh. As far as making the words fit the song go, I'd still say it's worse.

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At least on the internet, you never have to hit the "play" button. Look back just at the early pages of this thread. So many bad ads, all out there on the 'net forever. How many of them have you given even a moment's thought to in the months since?

Apparently you've never been to a video streaming site where they randomly inject commercials at the beginning of the videos you meant to see.

Penguin wrote:

Apparently you've never been to a video streaming site where they randomly inject commercials at the beginning of the videos you meant to see.

AdBlock. It's a beautiful thing.

Freezer wrote:

Penguin wrote:

Apparently you've never been to a video streaming site where they randomly inject commercials at the beginning of the videos you meant to see.

AdBlock. It's a beautiful thing.

AdBlock wouldn't work here. It would block both the things you do want to see and the ones you don't, since they come from the same place.

Funny. Because it kills the "commericals" on TGWTG.com and The Escapist just fine, 90% of the time.

Or at least the Firefox version does (The Chrome version is ass).

Penguin wrote:

Apparently you've never been to a video streaming site where they randomly inject commercials at the beginning of the videos you meant to see.

What does that have to do with anything? The only thing those have in common with the Kohl's spot being online "forever" is that they're all on the internet. Those ads aren't all that random. They appear because sponsors are paying the streamers to run them, and when a sponsor wants an ad to stop (or simply stops paying for it), it doesn't appear anymore. It's really just like television advertising in that way.

But look at the video above. It's not there as an ad; Kohl's didn't put it up.* It's there as part of the great YouTube sideshow, a freak to amuse the masses until they move on to the next. That it may once have been used to advertise something has ceased to matter. And just like all the other freaks, viewing it is voluntary. You don't want to hear the song, don't play it. Soon, we'll all be complaining about something else, and this will fade into a dim memory.





*See, I didn't forget. I just say it's not a point of commonality anymore.

Found this... Oddity on Sociological Images.

Seems like an enormous budget to call men dumb slobs and women annoying shrews.