# I Pit Thee: dumb ass marketing commercial assholes! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 9, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025 "2011-01-09T21:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/41 "2011-01-12T16:42:04Z")
> [@Kalypso](#): > > I can’t listen to Für Elise without mentally singing the words to this commercial: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yklZeEbFE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yklZeEbFE) I swear it was played a million times when I was around 10, and is now indelibly burned into my brain, ruining the song. Für Elise was written by Benny Hill as sketch music. That’s the first time I ever heard it, anyway, and is what I will forever associate it with. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/42 "2011-01-12T21:05:39Z")
What I find hilarious about the Subway commercial is the disclaimer flashed across the bottom of the screen saying that the shots of people falling were done with professional stunt people. No shit Sherlock. I thought it was all for real. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/43 "2011-01-12T21:13:52Z")
America: Land of the Litigious, Home of the CYA. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/44 "2011-01-12T22:43:16Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Are you sure? Gawd my memory is getting bad… Would be cool to see that one again tho. [Your wish, my command; you know the drill.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo) Enjoy. Oh, and P.S.: Jeno’s, not Gino’s. Boy, is my face red. :o Orange. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/45 "2011-01-12T22:47:55Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > “he thinks it’s an oboe solo!!!” Oboe _concerto_. Funnier that way. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/46 "2011-01-14T00:28:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > [Your wish, my command; you know the drill.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo) > > Enjoy. Oh, and P.S.: Jeno’s, not Gino’s. Boy, is my face red. :o Orange. Cool! Thanks much!! Boy they have everything on Youtube don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/47 "2011-01-14T00:37:21Z")
I don’t know about that. Just yesterday I tried to find a clip of Harvey Korman watching a movie of Cleavon Little walking into the theater that Harvey was sitting in, and I couldn’t find a thing. Well, I _did_ find [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYN27_JDDMU) of Charles Boyer offering to take some frail to the Casbah, but it just ain’t the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/48 "2011-01-14T03:57:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I don’t know about that. Just yesterday I tried to find a clip of Harvey Korman watching a movie of Cleavon Little walking into the theater that Harvey was sitting in, and I couldn’t find a thing. [This one?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSjg5bV4cM&feature) Starts at about 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/49 "2011-01-14T08:57:45Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Yeah, but is there anyone over the age of 50 who can hear that overture without thinking “Quaker’s the cereal that’s shot from guns!”. That one’s already been ruined. Running roughshod over the classics is what marketers have done for centuries. People in, oh, about 190 countries, give or take. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/50 "2011-01-14T12:30:57Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > My dad had the Mercury "Living Presence"LP of the 1812 Overture. It featured real canons and a commentary on how the recordings were made. My dad would put that record on and crank the Heathkit all the way up; my brother and I loved it. Our mother was not quite as enthusiastic. Did you live in my house??? :eek::eek: We don’t have the Heathkit anymore, but I still have the LP. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bulkington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@bulkington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bulkington)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/51 "2012-01-27T23:26:52Z")
What’s funny is that Niply Elder is actually wrong. The piece of music used in the current Subway ad is from Bizet’s Carmen Overture. The 1812 Overture was used in a very similar commercial about three years ago. Don’t believe me? I can’t find a link to a recording of the ad currently being run, only the old one. But I am %100 certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I am correct. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/52 "2012-01-27T23:36:38Z")
Pssst: check out the date of the original post! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/53 "2012-01-28T03:09:20Z")
> [@The\_Niply\_Elder](#): > > I was most outraged at their vulgar slaughtering of one of history’s greatest classical compositions: Tchaikovsky’s Overture 1812. My, what a way to disrespect a classic that develops and crescendos over a period of 17 minutes to end in an orgasmic culmination of ass-kickery by cutting and splicing the best parts into a Frankenstein composition lasting all of 20 seconds (and tacitly making it about sandwiches). _This is the cereal that’s shot from guns! The only cereal that’s shot from guns!_ Not that being raped in the public domain is a GOOD thing, but in this case it’s not a NEW thing. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/54 "2012-01-28T05:04:40Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Für Elise was written by Benny Hill as sketch music. That’s the first time I ever heard it, anyway, and is what I will forever associate it with. I associate it with _A Charlie Brown Christmas._ ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/55 "2012-01-28T10:01:00Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > He said it was a “Frankenstein composition,” ie a composition put together by (Dr.) Frankenstein. The monster didn’t compose anything. He tended to decompose, IIRC 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snow\_Pea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Snow\_Pea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snow_Pea)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025/56 "2012-01-29T04:04:13Z")
Solution: Get rid of the idiot box. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-thee-dumb-ass-marketing-commercial-assholes/567025.md?page=2)