I thought the ad was sappy and geared towards a middle-school male audience.
Dr. Pepper’s attention seeking plan seems to be gaining the desired results.
I’m enjoying the humor on this thread.
Maybe their gender detecting software crashed.
More proof of the Dr. Pepper ad’s winning power. You can’t tell me to stay off your page!
Good God. If I ever- EVER- post a Pit thread about something that actually matters, please hire a hitman to come take me from my misery. Could you imagine if I actually used an internet forum to discuss real problems of actual substance?! How pathetic. No, I think I’ll stick to bitching about sunglasses and elevators.
I must once again reference the “Drink Schlitz or I’ll Kill You” ad campaign, which is generally credited with having killed off the brand.
Schlitz had been skimping on quality in the years immediately preceding the ad campaign, and it was losing ground to Bud and Miller as a result, but the bad publicity of/from the ad campaign was completely unrelated to problems regarding the quality of the actual product.
EXACTLY! It’s advertising genius.
[hijack] Go to your favorite store, find the top manager, and ask them to stock it. I’ve done that for a couple of products, at a couple of stores. They stocked whatever it was, just on the basis of my request. If the first won’t do it, go to your second favorite, and repeat the process. Many of them are highly accommodating to specific customer requests. Try it. It can’t hurt, and may get you what you want. [/hijack]
Dude. You really are uptight. You should consider switching to decaf.
Dude, honest question: If it doesn’t matter, why did you write a letter to the company?
I seem to recall some radio ads for Coke Zero that made women sound like oversensitive bitches (Woman introduces her boyfriend/husband to Coke Zero, mentions it has zero calories, then has a ‘you think I’m fat!!!’ hissyfit when he says “That’s terrific!”
So, yeah…
No, you guys don’t get it. It’s really not for women. It has a CDD (cock detecting device) rigged to the can. If it doesn’t detect one, it electrocutes your vagina and your boobs explode.
My wife wrote the letter. Why? Two reasons: 1) Never underestimate the power of boredom. 2) Free shit.
ETA: The second didn’t pan out.
“Free shit” only happens if somebody puts out. A cranky letter aint gonna cut it.
Don’t throw her under the bus, man.
Yes, but if they sent you free Dr Pepper Ten, *your wife won’t be able to drink it.
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Silly ad, lame catchphrase. I enjoyed this ad much more, mostly for nostalgic reasons.
What is more perplexing about this is why 10 calories? What did they do differently to make such a miniscule difference between it and regular Diet Dr. Pepper (which I’m quite find of, btw)? Why should I choose TEN over diet?
I also have to second SmellMyWort’s sentiment. 1985 called and it wants it’s too macho to drink diet manly man stereotype back. That revolting girly man diet soda TAB died years ago. Grow up, Dr. Pepper. You can do better than this.
OP, if you don’t like DP, you don’t have to drink it, no matter what the ads tell you. But you also don’t have to drink the ads either, so if you like it, no biggie. It’s really not that offensive, just kind of dumb.
Probably because it still has aspartame or some shit in it, with just a little bit of sugar to help disguise the aftertaste. Because real men think diet tastes all icky!
The ad was lame. If they were going for the un-PC type humor, they failed in execution. Should’ve hired the agency that does the Old Spice ads. If they were trying to actually appeal to self-conscious, emasculated, male diet soda drinkers, then drinking out of a can painted in gunmetal and rivets just makes you look more like an idiot than you already must be.
Besides, this just makes the macho male stereotype look dumber than it effectively offends women.
The stuff might make for a great mixer, though.