This is jist the latest in a l-o-o-o-n-g series of radio spots featuring Mark Down. The voices they use are rather distinctive…as soon as they started talking I knew what it was.
Of course, if it’s the first time you heard one it wouldn’t obviously be a commercial until the last 5 or 10 seconds.
Oh, yeah? Well, YOUR CHILDREN ARE DEAD!
Dead serious about drinking new Capri Sun, that is. Now with vitamin C. Buy some today!
You think this is funny? Are you trivializing people with snapped vertebrae?
:mad: 
:dubious: 
Enderw24, I’ve been reading this board for nearly 5 years now, and I put that in my top 10 funniest posts I’ve ever seen. Bravo.
Unfortunately, I was taking a break at work. Does anyone know the best way to clean these little bits of granola bar off the monitor?
I don’t think not finding ads parodying people being terrorized and killed by a co-worker funny is overly sensitive. Maybe you’re underly sensitive.
I don’t think practical jokes are funny either. I just think they’re mean.
I don’t think we really get to choose what’s funny. Something either strikes us funny or it doesn’t and then we either choose to admit it or we don’t.
Saying practical jokes are mean as a generalization is overly sensitive. Period.
Now…on to the important stuff. What market does Mark Down appear in? Does he have a website?
That and the walmart one… comedy gold.
[Obligatory South Park Reference] Simpsons did it! Simpsons did it! [/OSPR]
[Obligatory Simpsons Reference]
Baby-proofer: Your baby is dead! [horrified, Homer and Marge
scream] That’s what you’d hear if your baby fell
victim to the thousands of deathtraps lurking in the
average American home. [hands Marge a business
card]
Marge: Springfield Baby-proofing?
Homer: [panting] You, you really scared us.
Baby-proofer: Sorry about that. But the truth is … your baby,
Maggie Simpson, is dead! [Homer and Marge scream
once more] Dead tired of baby-proofers who don’t
provide a free estimate. Let’s start in the
kitchen. [walks in] [/OSR]
Yeah?
Well, pull my finger!
What makes the joke “practical”, anyways? :dubious:
I’ve checked about 4 online encyclopedias, which define what it is, but not why it’s practical.
snort
Good one!
“…underly sensitive…”
Ha!
Gee. And I’ve always thought car lot ads to be the pinnacle of what is good and creative advertising.
Practical in the sense of “concerned with actual use or practice” as opposed to theoretical. A practical joke is “a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said.” I don’t like them much either, but every once in a while there’s one that cracks me up, so I can’t really make a blanket indictment.
I probably would have been annoyed by the commercial in the OP if I had initially been scared that there really was an employee on the rampage. I hate being scared for no reason (listen up, local news sweeps promo writers!)
Of course, the real question here is whether or not there were any dead hookers in the trunks of the cars for sale.
:eek:
FB
Well, for one thing, pulling your finger wouldn’t be practical. Not for me, anyway.
Merci!
I read an Ann Landers or such where a lady was complaining about how adverts. use police and ambulance sirens. I understand the feeling! I hate being in traffic around such vehicles. I’m always concerned they will get an emergency and my dumb butt would muck things up trying to get out of the way. :rolleyes:
So when the radio plays such an ad, my heart jumps into my throat until I hit “mute” on the stereo and realize it’s a commercial.
“We’re going to burn all prices! Cassie Bernall prices!”
“We’re Dylan…deallllllyynnnnn!”
“We’re bold to cut prices by as much as 50%! Klebold to cut prices!”
Sorry, just had to.
Looks like our car lot has been taken over by Abu Ghraib MP’s! And they’re abusing high prices!
This thread suc ------ ceeds at making a valid point.
Just kidding. Lighten up, dude.
I’ve never seen so many dead hookers!