I Pit Thee: dumb ass marketing commercial assholes!

[Philster]

Hmmm… the music is such that in can be inserted into a variety of shows, ads, etc, very, very effectively.

I mean, it really works for the Bad News Bears, the Lone Ranger (sort of) and for button-busting, chair-breaking sandwich company ad campaigns it really does work… just to name a few.

Apologies, but who is to blame for that music again? I mean, even Wagner’s stuff has been used. It’s just what happens when something becomes very popular.

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[curlcoat]

@kaylasdad99

I’m afraid you’re misremembering that commercial, my dear. Gino’s Pizza Rolls was running the Wm. Tell, and they were accosted by a Lark spokesman over the use of the music*. Then Clayton Moore showed up in his domino to remind the cigarette guy that he hardly had the moral high ground. To have inserted Rossini into the spot would have been anti-climactic and confusing to the viewer.

It was a funny spot, though.

Are you sure? Gawd my memory is getting bad… Would be cool to see that one again tho.

[Belrix]

@h.sapiens

Thanks to P.D.Q. Bach, I can’t listen to the 1812 overture without thinking of “Pop Goes the Weasel” and “Yankee Doodle”.

Ba Ba Ba Bummm

“And they’re off!!”

[Kalypso]

I can’t listen to Für Elise without mentally singing the words to this commercial: 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.

[BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed]

@Enderw24

Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster.

Oh sorry for interrupting. Were you finished informing everyone how cultured you are?

He said it was a “Frankenstein composition,” ie a composition put together by (Dr.) Frankenstein. The monster didn’t compose anything.

[Yllaria]

@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.

I remember the commercial, but when I hear The Overture, I think of Muppets blowing things up. I think that’s from a bit on their 30th Anniversary Special, which I taped and which my kids watch over and over. Exploding Muppets go quite will with that music.

[Bryan_Ekers]

That’s not breakast,
That’s not breakfast,
That’s not breakfast,
Nor is that.
-Beethoven’s Ninth, as featured in a Kellogg’s commercial indelibly imprinted in my childhood. Fuck.

[Smeghead]

@belrix

ba ba ba bummm

“and they’re off!!”

“he thinks it’s an oboe solo!!!”

[fjs1fs]

@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.

I’m only 45, and I was sure that music originated with “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down!”

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Bill_Door

“Quaker’s the cereal that’s shot from guns!”

All the best things are, you know.

[Swords_to_Plowshares]

That Subway commercial has been on the air for like, 6 months. A weak pitting indeed.

[gazpacho]

@Swords_to_Plowshares

That Subway commercial has been on the air for like, 6 months. A weak pitting indeed.

And it is a great commercial. What should be pitted is the really stupid light beer commercials currently running. The one where people say just any light beer is fine. I hate those with a passion that leads me to complain to people on the internet about it and mute the TV.

[Swords_to_Plowshares]

@gazpacho

And it is a great commercial. What should be pitted is the really stupid light beer commercials currently running. The one where people say just any light beer is fine. I hate those with a passion that leads me to complain to people on the internet about it and mute the TV.

I hate them too. “My diet beer has more taste than your diet beer!” “My diet beer is more drinkable than your diet beer!”

[Bill_Door]

How about thisone? Pagliacci selling Rice Krispies. It makes me want to eat cereal.

[mrklutz]

@Yllaria

Exploding Muppets go quite well with that music.

Now there is a wonderful phrase that should be used often.

[Saltire]

Saw that Subway commercial recently and said to the person watching it with me, “So what they’re telling me is, ‘If you don’t eat our sandwiches, you’re likely to explode.’”

[curlcoat]

@Bill_Door

How about thisone? Pagliacci selling Rice Krispies. It makes me want to eat cereal.

ooh, another classic! Love that one.

[saoirse]

@Swords_to_Plowshares

I hate them too. “My diet beer has more taste than your diet beer!” “My diet beer is more drinkable than your diet beer!”

Now I’m on board.

Drinkablilty: it can be drunk. And so can you, if you have enough!

[Gedd]

@h.sapiens

Thanks to P.D.Q. Bach, I can’t listen to the 1812 overture without thinking of “Pop Goes the Weasel” and “Yankee Doodle”.

Great, at the mention of P.D.Q. Bach I now also have Victor Borge’s voice in my head. Thanks a bunch.

[corkboard]

@Yllaria

I remember the commercial, but when I hear The Overture, I think of Muppets blowing things up. I think that’s from a bit on their 30th Anniversary Special, which I taped and which my kids watch over and over. Exploding Muppets go quite will with that music.

And I think of the Brady kids running through the amusement park with cardboard tubes that look identical but contain vastly different contents for great comic effect.