But shilling for Verizon in the first place doesn’t make him a sell out? I agree it doesn’t convince me Sprint is actually better, which convinced him to switch who he works for. He’s an actor, he gets paid by whomever will pay him.
Agreed. I have the same complaint.
And that gets you off the hook how?
Jimmy?
So you see Bigfoot somewhere, and your first thought is to do something to piss him off? Not only are they assholes, they are idiots, too.
I think the message is that he won’t thank you for his athletic ability, not that dad is bad for playing catch and trying to teach his son.
But 100% white meat chicken breaded with milk and flour is still “made with”. I think you’re being a bit over-interpretive.
Now this one I agree with.
Bothers me, too. “I’m going off to college.” “Have fun! Great, now I can sell all his stuff behind is back and make a buck. When he comes home for the weekend, he won’t miss anything.”
Whut? The ‘guy who knows how to get things done’ takes care of business, he does what needs to be done. He can’t get a boner? By golly, he goes to a doctor and gets a prescription for Viagra, no dilly-dallying around, because life is short, he is in a sexxy relationship, and there is no time to waste. What’s wrong with that?
Round these parts she’s shilling my hospital group. ER time at Elmhurst is thirteen minutes, at Edward it’s six minutes, but in Plainfield it’s only 1 minute. As if Edward at that location weren’t 30 minutes away and Plainfield over an hour. If she weren’t so hot I might complain.
Just saw a car commercial that used the whole “you can’t handle the truth” speech from A Few Good Men. Do they not know that Col. Jessup was a lying, amoral asshole?
I can’t decide which of the Liberty Mutual commercials I hate more. There’s the one where the woman read her policy (only after having an accident, mind you), and it said “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!” So, your company appeals to people who are too stupid to read and understand an insurance policy? Great.
Then there’s the pissy lady who snipes, “What are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car?” No, dumbshit, did it ever occur to you that entire cars come at different price points? You don’t have to “drive around on three wheels.”
My long-held theory is that car insurance companies genuinely do prefer low-IQ customers–such people are less likely to be able to figure out how to win against the insurance companies in court. And even if no incident get them to the point of having to go to court, they are less likely to understand how the company is routinely bilking them by charging them more for less.
Liberty Mutual has certainly distinguished itself as the company going hardest after that low-IQ customer–you have to give them that.
I’ve heard something similar about used car commercials. All these commercials have bad production values and some Larry Bud Melman-type guy telling you to rush on down for deals deals deals. The point is that Larry Bud is supposed to look like such a rube that people think they can get the better of him in a used car negotiation.
Don’t think this has been brought up yet, but a current ad for Booking.com shows a stressed out woman standing in a Kindergarten classroom (we assume she’s the teacher) with a bunch of kids in the background running amok. She states: “There’s nothing more important to me than my vacation.”
Really? Well, it’s obvious that your chosen career to teach children in Kindergarten isn’t that important, since you’re doing such a lousy job of it.
See also the GE coal power ad that used “Sixteen Tons” as background music, or the ultrapatriotic Wrangler jeans one with CCR’s “Fortunate Son” (which I can’t find on youtube, gee I wonder why?). For those of you youngsters who somehow don’t know the songs, they’re both radical protest songs against the very ideals they were used to advertise :smack:. Whatever spiritual descendant of Don Draper came up with those pairings was either incredibly clueless, or really pulled one over on the clients.
Good lord, I thought that they would just use an instrumental there, or maybe just a brief excerpt. But no, they used the lyrics, and enough of them to make the message abundantly clear that the coal companies are evil. That even beats out Reagan’s use of Springsteen, where at least he only played the title line.
That Lending Tree commercial where the muppet shows that man how he shops for a mortgage in his underwear. OK, so if it’s so freaking easy for that muppet to get a mortgage, why is he still living with that man? Or can he shop for a mortgage but just never closes on one and moves out? Does that mean that Lending Tree is great for getting you quotes on mortgages that you never use?
“Ingredients: 100% Pure USDA Inspected Beef; No Fillers, No Extenders.Prepared with Grill Seasoning (Salt, Black Pepper). *Based On The Weight Before Cooking 4.25 oz.”
Then the end product isn’t 100% pure beef, because it has salt and pepper in it.
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Good lord, I thought that they would just use an instrumental there, or maybe just a brief excerpt. But no, they used the lyrics, and enough of them to make the message abundantly clear that the coal companies are evil. That even beats out Reagan’s use of Springsteen, where at least he only played the title line.
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i think you’ve both missed the point of that commercial. its the juxtaposition of the old song with the new young hip models that they’re going for. something along the lines of “this isn’t your father’s old coal mining tech”. . . or maybe i’m giving them too much credit. . .
To continue the pile-on for Liberty Mutual - the idiot woman who goes on and on about how much research you do before buying your car, then you drive it into a tree. She complains about how her rate is raised or some such, finishing with “Maybe you should have done more research on the insurance company.” (not the exact quote, but it’s close.)
My immediate response is “Maybe you should learn how to drive without running into a tree!”
mikecurtis, that may have been the intent of the commercial, but it utterly fails. The fact that the coal miners they show are all young and sexy was not lost on me. But the id-level reaction it triggers in me is not “I want more coal mining, because that’s where the sexy women are”. It’s “I want to be the Knight in Shining Armor and rescue those poor women from those horrible working conditions, and they’ll be so grateful to me”.
Yeah, technically, but that’s hardly the same as saying it is made of tofu, mushrooms, and sawdust, which is the implication most people seem to be making.
I get that’s the juxtaposition, except it isn’t mining technology they have improved, it’s emissions control, i.e. burning it in power plants. Coal mining does use huge machinery including super dumptrucks and drilling machines, but it is still filthy, backbreaking work, and transporting and handling coal between the mines and the burners is also dirty.
