so. . . yeah. . .on second watch of the commercial and then a quick surf on the nets. . . looks like the advertisers are trying to imply that coal mining is not horror that Tennessee was singing about, but, as you say, that’s got nuthin to do with GE!
even tho the commercial is on solid artistic footing, its not actually adverting the company whose logo is at the end.
so it actually fits in well with the OP!
sorry for jumping in, and missing the point completely! :o
mc
Sounds about right.
There is very little in modern advertising that is “providing information”–the vast majority of it is ‘playing on resentments’ and ‘appealing to unacknowledged bias’ and ‘promising competitive advantage [such as a chance to negotiate with supposedly ‘dimbulb’ used car salesmen] where there actually is none.’ And such-like manipulation.
To succeed in advertising, you need to have a pretty cynical view of your fellow humans.
There seem to be countless commercials like that. What comes to mind first for me are the Sonic TV ads.:smack:
We don’t watch TV much anymore, so I guess I am spared any new idiot hucksters. But I never understood why ad companies thought people would want to be associated with the morons in their ads.
That one always gets me when I see it on the Tide Pods package or the commercial’s small print.
“Like any household detergent, keep away from children.”
I imagine the CYA thought process was: They knew the fun-looking pod might attract kids, so they needed to put a warning. But they didn’t want pods to seem any more dangerous than any detergent, so they modified it.
I always assumed that the puppet owned the house, and the guy was sleeping on the couch.
Incidentally: the woman who talks about naming a car ‘Brad’? She’s standing still and looking straight ahead. And the woman who talks about not reading a policy until after an accident? She’s standing still and looking straight ahead. And the woman who talks about getting three-quarters of a car? Standing still. Looking straight ahead.
But right when this woman is going on and on about conducting oh-so-much research, she’s pointedly – not looking where she’s going.
Yes! We say the same thing every time that ad runs. Stop driving into trees and then stop expecting your insurance policy to have a clause that covers you in case you, idk forget basic driving skills like avoiding trees.
The commercial advertising Wal-Marts latest charity seems quite heartwarming on the surface. I can’t help wondering if they’re aware that the next line in the lyrics is “I get high with a little help from my friends.” 
Similarly, a few years back some electronics company used the part of The Beatles’ Getting Better in their ads that goes “I have to admit its getting better, a little better all the time.”
Leaving the watcher to finish the lyric “It can’t get much worse”
Seeing as we’ve drifted into “weird music in ads”, what’s with the John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in the latest Aliens movie ad? A movie that apparently addresses the as of yet unexplored territory of explorers stumbling across Alien eggs and then spending the rest of the movie nervously edging around atmospherically misty, dripping sets with guns while Aliens pick them off one by one. A bold move, and I’m anxious to see what they do with it.
No, that makes perfect sense. It says that these guys just want to go back to their uneventful homes, and gives a snapshot of characterization by showing what kind of music they like. Which contrasts, of course, with the Hell they find themselves in.
Also, slightly NSFW
This one kills me!
The nearest is 1.5 miles from the sign. I drive a hot Buick wagon and know the shortcuts. Bobby Rahal and Freddie Lorenzon are locals. Danica isn’t.
Didn’t watch it but dropdad was a Social Security appeals judge who specialized in Black Lung and no, it’s how it still goes.
There’s obviously not much supervision in that classroom, if a little GIRL ( :eek: ) could find the time to write “BUTT” on the letter board in magnets. :smack:
Not exactly a commercial since it’s not selling anything, but does anyone else remember this anti-domestic violence PSA from the 90’s, where the kid at the top of the stairs watches his parents off-screen, the evil dad yelling “dinner ready is PIZZA?!” and then proceeding to beat the mother? How many of us saw that and thought, “what the heck is wrong with that guy? Pizza for dinner? Sweet!”
Anyone else think she seems a bit psycho? Naming your car, OK, NBD. It’s her overall tone and demeanor that would have me a bit edgy if I were in an elevator with her.
That was Microsoft, which also used Start Me Up, with lines like “you make a grown man cry” and “I can’t compete”. They also used the portion of Mozart’s “Requiem” that talked about the souls of the damned.
You’d think they’d start checking up on the music their ad department is using.
Threadjack: I personally know 3 women who have said that if their husbands cook dinner and it’s not what she wants, she will take the food off the table and make something else, even if the kids are hungry and say they want it. :rolleyes: I’m mentioning it here because one of them has even bragged about throwing food in the garbage because she felt her husband hadn’t put enough effort into its preparation, and frozen pizzas were an excellent example of this. :mad: OTOH, if she makes frozen pizza, that’s OK, because it’s, well, OK.