Commercials I Don't Understand

Cafe Society
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The latest Yellowbook TV commercial has a very small part that I don’t get.

A woman in a futuristic setting gets a video message from her boyfriend where he proclaims that he “needs to be alone”. Unfortunately for him, his scantilly-clad friend makes an appearance in the background messing up his story.

The woman then has a bunch of ideas going through her head, all of which Yellowbook can help her find. There are obvious reasons for all of them (couples therapy, chainsaw, lingerie, little black dress, personal trainer) except one: pawn shop. What was she thinking? I noticed that she wasn’t wearing a ring and didn’t seem to be in need of money.

http://www.yellowbook.com/commercial/

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It does seem a little incongruous, doesn’t it! Unless she’s thinking of pawning all the stuff he’d left at her flat?

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Well, I had a GF that pawned all my electronics when she announced her break up of us. I’m ashamed to admit I probably deserved it but still.

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The one I don’t get has Ozzy Osbourne mumbling incoherently at some waitress or something. I don’t grasp why he has trouble talking-brain damage from all the drugs he’s taken?

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He’s Brummie, so already off to a bad start at birth, the drugs just helped.

What’s with that American Airlines commercial with whales and dolphins swimming in the airport terminal?

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There are three links that you can click on Healthy Heart, Vindication and *Satisfaction *that each give different endings to the story.

The third one, Satisfaction, shows why she wants a pawn shop.

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I ranked the first one, Healthy Heart, highest. :slight_smile:

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Well, there’s no accounting for taste. :dubious:

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Thanks, had no idea that the answer was in the website. I would have loved to see the results of the chain saw option.

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Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.

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I, too, would love to understand all the sea life swimming around the airport. Totally confusing.

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I got totally irked when I saw this ad and the “personal trainer” option. The website ending is better than what I assumed (that they were having her get a personal trainer so she can “get her figure back” to her pre-dating shape to WIN HER MAN BACK). I still don’t like it.

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What TV do you guys watch?!

And where can I watch it?

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IIRC, there was some sort of connection to Sea World, where you can often find whales and dolphins.

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I don’t understand the car commerical that says that they’ll give you everything you want - everything being their car and a rain of shoes. How can the car “have everything you want” if you want random shoes, and then they don’t give you shoes?

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I just saw this commercial for the first time. I have 2 problems with it: 1) since people can actually understand me, I have no use for the device that they’re advertising and 2) How the heck does Ozzy know the taxi driver’s and coffee shop guy’s text numbers?

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I don’t get the Burger King ad with Daddy Whopper telling his son he shouldn’t sell himself for a buck, and Whopper Junior whining “I wish I’d never been broiled.”

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Yeah, that bugs me, too.

One thing I have noticed watching this commercial is that I am now able to understand some of what Ozzie is saying, i.e. he asks for a black coffee in the coffee shop and he tells the therapist that “it’s bollocks”.

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It’s a take-off on the old teen-angst “I wish I’d never been born.” Because, you know, he’s not a teen, he’s a burger. Or am I not getting what you’re not getting?

ETA: The burgers depicted are the Whopper and the Whopper Jr., hence the father-son theme.

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Yeah, me too. It’s actually for British Airways, and mentions a specific terminal (??). No mention of Seaworld. Ergo: WTF?