Maybe someone has already brought this up, but am I the only one who finds the Pepsi commercial with Einstein to be grossly inappropriate?
-Ben
Being a coke drinker, and someone who has built a relationship with a poster of the man, yes.
I should think that someone of Einstein’s intellect would steer clear of soda pop.
Yes, I do find the idea of a dead physicist promoting a soft drink pretty disgusting.
Yep, absolutely repugnant. If I drank Pepsi, I would stop.
I really don’t have a problem with it other than it’s just a stupid commercial. I don’t recall them ever saying it’s supposed to be Einstein. The actor is just made to look like Einstein and we make that leap ourselves.
The one I have a problem with is the beer commercial with Howie Long and John Wayne when they’re coaching a football team. This is not an actor doing a John Wayne impression (like the Einstein thing), this is actually the deceased John Wayne hawking beer by using scenes from a film he did.
Know what I hate? The expression “Duh-uh!” Boy, I’d like to smack that kid…
Tell me about it. I want her image erased from the human conciousness. Our local multiplex replaced the old “no smoking, no talking, buy our snacks blah blah blah” trailer with one featuring the Annoying Pepsi Brat in a pseudo-western thingie where she “talks” in a gruff/tough/“cowboy” voice. I’m not going to the movies until it’s gone.
Okay, I lied. I’ll still go, but every time I see her use a water pistol to shoot out that hombre’s cigarette, part of my soul will die.
The thing I hate is the way he says “Coke or Pepsi…ah a paradox!” Uh, how is the fact that he has a choice between two sodas a “a statement essentially absurd and false?” (According to my dictionary.) I think they just pulled a “scientific” sounding word out of their ass and didn’t even bother to have it make sense. Everything about that commercial is offensive to anyone with a brain.
Now I’m feeling old. I hardly ever watch TV, so I’ve not seen this particular commercial.
Way back in the late '70s during that particular gas crises, there was a commercial on TV, in the So. Calif. area where I was stationed whilst in the Navy, with an Einstein clone going around saying “It’s all relative, gas prices go up, Toyota sales go up!”
This was during the crises when gas prices finally broke the $1. a gallon barrier.
As best I can tell, they use real footage of Einstein during the descent into his brain.
-Ben
I never noticed that Ben, of course after seeing that commericial for the first time, I stopped paying attention to it every time afterwards that it came on.
Wait. Maybe not.
A bottle of carbonated water, sugar, caffeine and coloring.
Or…
A bottle of carbonated water, sugar, caffeine and coloring.
To consider that a “choice” would indeed be an absurd or false statment.
Not that I think that’s the idea the ad intended. Unless there’s a lone copywriter somewhere, laughing his ass off.
I hate it when they throw out words and phrases on television to comedically look “smart”. What they are saying is usually complete nonsense–and I always think that since I am educated enough to know that, I’m the one being made fun of.
My GF, whose hatred for the Pepsi Girl somehow exceeds my own says that she and her “Duh-uh!” are not even the most offensive part of the commercial–rather, it’s Einstein’s reference to the choice as a “no-brainer”. Part of Einstein’s genius, she says, was that he considered everything to be worthy of serious thought, and he would never have called anything a “no-brainer”. (Then again, I hate to think that he would have committed any of his intellect to the choice between Coke and Pepsi.)
Dr. J
While I dislike the idea of Einstein’s image being used to shill soda, I have to admit that his image is the universally recognized icon for “really smart guy,” so it makes sense to use him if you wish to show the Great Unwashed that intelligent folks like Pepsi(shudder).
Hallie Eisenberg is, I’m sure, a very nice little girl in real life, but as a performer, she irritates the living daylights out of me.
OTOH, I get a little frisson of self-satisfaction knowing that I am one of the minority of the TV audience that recognizes the background music as an excerpt from Philip Glass’s “Einstein on the Beach”
It could be fresh and Charlie…
Now I have three reasons to hate that damn commercial.
What I dislike is the use of dead folks in commercials, period. While I doubt it bugs the dead folks any, it just seems so callous to me. Not that I have a particular reverence for the dead, (or for much else, for that matter), I think if someone’s image is going to be used to sell something, the holder of that image should have a say in how it’s used. And since they can’t if they’re dead, the image should not be used at all.
Hell, they shouldn’t have even had the two machines together. I love Coke, and I wouldn’t want it to be contaminated by that other shit. Gay by diffusion is not how I want Coke to go out.
I agree with everyone against the commercial here. What gets me most is that it sortof drwas you in (if you’re a fan of relativity and the like, like me) and then it’s all completely ruined with that girl.
Random side note: Her last name is Eisenberg, huh? Kind of like Heisenberg, known for his famous uncertainty principle, which is very important in quantum physics, which is something that Einstein couldn’t ever really come to grips with… Interesting…
Sir Dirx, your wierd… we like that.