# Whose the man-- YODAMAN! Oy. Stupid DVD Ad. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569 "2002-11-06T16:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/21 "2002-11-07T23:54:23Z")
The man most likely to be responsible for the ad would be Jim Ward, the head of marketing at Lucasfilm Ltd. (not LucasArts). You can see the horror here: [http://cgi.theforce.net/theforce/tfn.cgi?storyID=18598](http://cgi.theforce.net/theforce/tfn.cgi?storyID=18598) (I didn’t think it was bad at all, but I’ve only seen it once, not fifty times.) ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/22 "2002-11-08T13:30:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobot \* > \*\*The man most likely to be responsible for the ad would be Jim Ward, the head of marketing at Lucasfilm Ltd. (not LucasArts). > > You can see the horror here: > > [TheForce.net: Home Page](http://cgi.theforce.net/theforce/tfn.cgi?storyID=18598) > > (I didn’t think it was bad at all, but I’ve only seen it once, not fifty times.) \*\* Thanks **Lobot**! And quite frankly, this might be the worst TV ad for a DVD _ever_. Also given the size of the campaign and the controlling nature of George Lucas it is hard to imagine that his grubbly little fingerprints were not on this. **Zette** - the ewoks? The horror, the horror. . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/23 "2002-11-08T13:36:24Z")
I haven’t gone to watch it yet, but **BraheSilver** ’s description is enough to make me agree with the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/24 "2002-11-08T14:11:51Z")
Wow, that was horrible. What’s worse, I got Mr. Sea a card once (about 6 years ago) that had a picture of Yoda on the outside, and on the inside it said “Yoda man.” ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/25 "2002-11-08T14:53:13Z")
Is Skywalker Ranch a completely hermetically sealed environment? Good grief. It’s like reading one of those 60’s Bob Haney comics where he’s trying to sound like what he thinks a teenager sounds like. And I’m a big Star Wars fan as well. So I like to think. It gets harder every day to remain one. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/26 "2002-11-08T19:46:49Z")
Seems like it’s targeted at 1 year olds. ---
**Author:** ![Jules4love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jules4love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules4love)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/27 "2002-11-08T23:28:24Z")
I thought the ad was some kind of joke too! LOL I am glad I am not the only one! I would think that with all the money they have made from Star Wars years ago that they would come up with something better - not to mention the money they have all made recently off of the 2 new movies - come on!!! you’re ruining a legend cuz YODA is the man!! but damn give me a break that is the stupidist ad I have seen in years!!! :smack: 🆒 okay I feel better now!!! WHEW!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/28 "2002-11-09T06:37:54Z")
I read it here before I saw the thing. To quote the [bard](http://www.neomonsterisland.com/), “Sweet Monkey Jesus! I close my eyes and I can **still** see it!” I feel a little odd finally admitting this in public. I mean, I’ve criticized Captain-Out-of-Touch before (thanks, **elf6c** , perfect that was) but, not to this extent… The best Star Wars related stuff is _all_ the result of someone besides Lucas. The movie he had the most creative trouble with is generally regarded as the best of the bunch… The non-canon novels, specifically Zahn and Stackpole, IMHO, are far and away a lot more fun to read than the ‘official novelizations’ of the films, or approved stuff like Shadows of the Empire. It’s like he burned out his imagination on the setting and the first batch of characters, and now that the emperor’s buck-ass-nekkid, no one around him has the guts to tell him his ass is scaring the kids. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/29 "2002-11-10T23:44:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\*Someday people will marvel at the notion that Star Wars was ever cool. \*\* I used to think Star Wars was cool. Then I watched the first three movies. Huh. Guess I had to be around in 1977 to get it. And yes, that was without a doubt the stupidest ad for anything I ever saw. I couldn’t decide whether to sit there with my mouth hanging open or start laughing. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/30 "2002-11-11T00:39:07Z")
Not only was it a bad slogan, it looks like the whole commercial was though up and produced in 10 minutes, for $5. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/31 "2002-11-11T00:40:42Z")
thought\* ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/32 "2002-11-11T02:07:47Z")
**Skeezix** , the novels ARE canon! It’s the policy of LFL. Go to [theforce.net](http://theforce.net) I saw the commercial-yes, it was stupid. And besides, shouldn’t it be, “Yoda the man is!” ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/33 "2002-11-11T03:43:33Z")
Well… Maybe, but you do realize it’s a play on words? “Yo The Man” = “You’re The Man” I’m sure you knew this… but just to make sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/34 "2002-11-11T09:02:32Z")
Yeah, we get it, **Diff T** , the problem is that, aside from being the kind of slogan that even a used car dealer would have qualms about using, it just doesn’t even remotely fit the character or the movie. It’s kind of like advertising _The Godfather_ with hip-hop music, running the film back-and-forth to make Al Pacino look like he’s dancing while some announcer shouts “Mickey C in the house!” ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/35 "2002-11-11T16:14:46Z")
I finally saw the ad. Ad Nauseum this weekend. It’s worse than I imagined. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/36 "2002-11-11T18:07:33Z")
I’ve seen the ad, and it hasn’t made me lose **any** repect for Lucas. On the other hand, I: hate all three of the movies in the orginal trilogy; was able to sit through Phantom Menace without screaming(an improvement over the 1st 3!) but 90% of the reason I could bear to watch it was due solely to me liking the cast; and skipped this latest craptastic movie. Putting my dislike of the series aside, it still makes me sad that it’s taken 25 years to release 5 movies. Does that make Lucas a slacker icon? ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569/37 "2002-11-11T22:20:52Z")
I saw the ad (and several related AOTC ads) this weekend as well. So much for it getting pulled. _sigh_ Though the **Yodaman** ad has to be the worst of the bunch, _all_ of the TV ads for the AOTC DVD are pretty damn horrid. Same style, just without the stoo-pid slogan. And yeah, **Diff T** I think one would have to be pretty dim not to get the “play on words” there. The fact that it’s so painfully obvious is what makes it so _bad!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-the-man-yodaman-oy-stupid-dvd-ad/135569.md?page=1)