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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 28, 2023 21:24:50 GMT
For some reason, I love those Wendy's commercials. The entire crew cracks me up. This can't be true. I can't explain it, but it's true. They get a chuckle out of me, even after the 358,000,000th viewing.
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 28, 2023 22:31:41 GMT
For some reason, most of the FF food commercials I see on sports stations are Wendy's, or maybe they annoy me th most. Never saw that McDonalds ad, I see a few Taco Bell, Chick Fil A, DQ, Sonic, Whataburger, I think, but not seeing much McDonalds, KFC, or BK. For some reason, I love those Wendy's commercials. The entire crew cracks me up. That Wendy commercial crew is pretty good. I like more than the Progressive crew.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 29, 2023 3:13:37 GMT
For some reason, I love those Wendy's commercials. The entire crew cracks me up. That Wendy commercial crew is pretty good. I like more than the Progressive crew. The lowest of bars.
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Post by NJtoTX on Sept 17, 2023 13:13:29 GMT
This ran 4 times in the break after the Alabama game ended. I couldn't hold my ears hard enough. I reported it to the FCC.
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Post by Surly on Sept 17, 2023 17:10:12 GMT
This ran 4 times in the break after the Alabama game ended. I couldn't hold my ears hard enough. I reported it to the FCC. I hate when commercials think that if they’re overwhelmingly loud and obnoxious that it’s going to brainwash you into to submitting to the message of the commercial. “Yeah hey, how’s it going? Yeah I just came down here to your Boost Mobile store right away. I just gotta buy one of your iPhones after watching that commercial over and over that kept screaming at me about the latest phones! Just… sell me one of your latest iPhones! Like, right now!” Uhh… no! That’s not gonna happen. I’m just gonna get pissed off over the annoying commercial and it might give me a reason not to buy the product.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Dec 18, 2023 16:29:56 GMT
Or any cologne commercial for that matter. They're always some bizarre dream sequence that doesn't come remotely close to explaining why you would buy or use their product.
As an aside, I don't understand cologne. If you're an asshole or look like a mutant, is the cologne going to make the difference? Has anyone in history ever worn an appropriate level of cologne? Men wearing this shit always smell like they just took a bath in it, you can smell them 20 feet away and 30 minutes after they've left the room.
Also, it just feels like the ultimate f-ck you gift. "I don't know, here's some cologne." I guess that explains the mind-numbing commercials put out by these companies. "You didn't know what to buy, do you really need an explanation? Play guitar and hang out with some wolves."
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 18, 2023 16:41:41 GMT
These damned commercials with Stifler's Mom (Jennifer Cooledge) are getting on my nerves. First, the seem to be 3 hours long. And what id wrong with her? She talks like she's either higher than fucking Neptune or just had a lobotomy.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 4, 2024 14:58:47 GMT
These damned commercials with Stifler's Mom (Jennifer Cooledge) are getting on my nerves. First, the seem to be 3 hours long. And what id wrong with her? She talks like she's either higher than fucking Neptune or just had a lobotomy. Her schtick was pretty much funny once in Best in Show when it wasn't so over-the-top, and she's just been doing a less subtle and more annoying version of that since. Legally Blonde was a hit and she just kept playing it up since then. She's less annoying in White Lotus, but she's still doing the same thing.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 4, 2024 15:16:45 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea).
The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here.
But it gets worse. Since then they've moved on to this nonsensical approach with the 'Li-Mu Emu and Doug' where they are like a 70s cop show duo or something..? It's so fucking stupid, not funny from any angle, and the deeper they go with it the worse and less funny it gets.
Then... they called back to that horrifically unfunny past commercial, and combined it with the new one. The bad actor guy from the new one is called in to replace the mustache cop guy, and reads his lines; 'Save with liberty biberty.' That's right. They called back to the ultimate horrible joke from that past commercial that was aggressively unfunny to begin with... but that's not all. They took it a step further. This idiot sees that terrible, unfunny joke personified that is the 'limu' Emu and he says in his stupid mostly brain dead voice, 'Oh look. A Bee Boo.'
Yeah. That's the joke. That he thinks all syllables start with 'B.'
Someone got paid to write that. And it was approved. And performed and shot and edited and put on broadcast tv and the internet. This actually exists and nobody got fired for it.
It may be the single worst joke, for a layered number of reasons, that I have ever witnessed.
I suppose that's something of an accomplishment.
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Post by Shane Falco on Jan 4, 2024 22:08:37 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea). The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here. But it gets worse. Since then they've moved on to this nonsensical approach with the 'Li-Mu Emu and Doug' where they are like a 70s cop show duo or something..? It's so fucking stupid, not funny from any angle, and the deeper they go with it the worse and less funny it gets. Then... they called back to that horrifically unfunny past commercial, and combined it with the new one. The bad actor guy from the new one is called in to replace the mustache cop guy, and reads his lines; 'Save with liberty biberty.' That's right. They called back to the ultimate horrible joke from that past commercial that was aggressively unfunny to begin with... but that's not all. They took it a step further. This idiot sees that terrible, unfunny joke personified that is the 'limu' Emu and he says in his stupid mostly brain dead voice, 'Oh look. A Bee Boo.' Yeah. That's the joke. That he thinks all syllables start with 'B.' Someone got paid to write that. And it was approved. And performed and shot and edited and put on broadcast tv and the internet. This actually exists and nobody got fired for it. It may be the single worst joke, for a layered number of reasons, that I have ever witnessed. I suppose that's something of an accomplishment. Those fucking Emu commercials are awful. I agree on the insurance ones mostly but I do like the "avoid mayhem like me" ones. Forget what company they are used for.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jan 4, 2024 23:48:08 GMT
This one is now running constantly.
And this deceptive piece of tripe.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 5, 2024 2:27:07 GMT
This one is now running constantly. And this deceptive piece of tripe. That first one is super creepy. Seems like a Texas thing. I haven't seen it. The second one I haven't seen specifically, but I know those commercials in general. They're weird and annoying, but they're much more professional than that small time cult one that you posted first.
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Post by sdm3 on Jan 5, 2024 7:52:56 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea). The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here. I'm not sure why every ad has to be framed as a sitcom gag. Why are these professional companies happy for their brand to be represented by buffoonery? Sure, if I'm looking for insurance, I'm definitely going with the guys who make me think of "Liberty Biberty Bebu." I really want my insurance providers to be goofing around with me like life is just a long episode of Scrubs. Home, car insurance, these are definitely things that shouldn't be taken seriously... right?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 5, 2024 13:18:39 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea). The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here. But it gets worse. Since then they've moved on to this nonsensical approach with the 'Li-Mu Emu and Doug' where they are like a 70s cop show duo or something..? It's so fucking stupid, not funny from any angle, and the deeper they go with it the worse and less funny it gets. Then... they called back to that horrifically unfunny past commercial, and combined it with the new one. The bad actor guy from the new one is called in to replace the mustache cop guy, and reads his lines; 'Save with liberty biberty.' That's right. They called back to the ultimate horrible joke from that past commercial that was aggressively unfunny to begin with... but that's not all. They took it a step further. This idiot sees that terrible, unfunny joke personified that is the 'limu' Emu and he says in his stupid mostly brain dead voice, 'Oh look. A Bee Boo.' Yeah. That's the joke. That he thinks all syllables start with 'B.' Someone got paid to write that. And it was approved. And performed and shot and edited and put on broadcast tv and the internet. This actually exists and nobody got fired for it. It may be the single worst joke, for a layered number of reasons, that I have ever witnessed. I suppose that's something of an accomplishment. I was going to call out the 'not becoming your parents' as an exception. I think the original commercial with that premise was brilliant, and they've built on it over time. It was a support group about not becoming your dad with people saying things like, "Defense wins championships," "I guess we're air conditioning the neighborhood now?" and, "This hat was free. What am I supposed to do, not wear it?" All things I have surely said in my life. On a related note, my wife is an insurance exec (obviously not going to reveal the company), and one time when a commercial for her company came on, I said, "Your marketing department kind of sucks." She looked at me and said, "I am the marketing department." (Technically speaking, her group works with the marketing department, where product development and rollout meet. But I suppose I still should've chosen my words better.) My best attempt at a recovery? "Well, they should've consulted you on this one, they needed your insight." *Pulls at collar*
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 5, 2024 13:20:01 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea). The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here. But it gets worse. Since then they've moved on to this nonsensical approach with the 'Li-Mu Emu and Doug' where they are like a 70s cop show duo or something..? It's so fucking stupid, not funny from any angle, and the deeper they go with it the worse and less funny it gets. Then... they called back to that horrifically unfunny past commercial, and combined it with the new one. The bad actor guy from the new one is called in to replace the mustache cop guy, and reads his lines; 'Save with liberty biberty.' That's right. They called back to the ultimate horrible joke from that past commercial that was aggressively unfunny to begin with... but that's not all. They took it a step further. This idiot sees that terrible, unfunny joke personified that is the 'limu' Emu and he says in his stupid mostly brain dead voice, 'Oh look. A Bee Boo.' Yeah. That's the joke. That he thinks all syllables start with 'B.' Someone got paid to write that. And it was approved. And performed and shot and edited and put on broadcast tv and the internet. This actually exists and nobody got fired for it. It may be the single worst joke, for a layered number of reasons, that I have ever witnessed. I suppose that's something of an accomplishment. Those fucking Emu commercials are awful. I agree on the insurance ones mostly but I do like the "avoid mayhem like me" ones. Forget what company they are used for. Mayhem is another great one. Though it kind of says it all that we can't even remember what company they're advertising with these spots.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Jan 5, 2024 15:35:31 GMT
Those fucking Emu commercials are awful. I agree on the insurance ones mostly but I do like the "avoid mayhem like me" ones. Forget what company they are used for. Mayhem is another great one. Though it kind of says it all that we can't even remember what company they're advertising with these spots. Reminds me of the pandemic era commercials from the insurance companies, Target, Starbucks, etc. that offer the soul-lifting platitude of "we're here for you." Our shit isn't going to be free, but we're still here if you want to order our stuff. Thanks Target! You're my best friend!
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 5, 2024 17:06:52 GMT
It certainly seems that insurance commercials are the worst offenders. Mostly because they run these long running campaigns with storylines and recurring characters that are never funny, but they think if you see them again and again and again they can brain wash you into thinking that you care about them (the 'homeowners who turn into their parents' commercials are actually an exception. It's a funny premise and you can keep coming up with new jokes that work for that idea). The worst are the Liberty Mutual ads. They used to do these commercials where it was some person standing on a green screen pier talking at you. One of them was a 'dumb actor' who kept messing up his lines. The ultimate punchline was the guy referring to 'Liberty Mutual' as ' Liberty Biberty' ... yeah.. that's the level of joke writing we are dealing with here. But it gets worse. Since then they've moved on to this nonsensical approach with the 'Li-Mu Emu and Doug' where they are like a 70s cop show duo or something..? It's so fucking stupid, not funny from any angle, and the deeper they go with it the worse and less funny it gets. Then... they called back to that horrifically unfunny past commercial, and combined it with the new one. The bad actor guy from the new one is called in to replace the mustache cop guy, and reads his lines; 'Save with liberty biberty.' That's right. They called back to the ultimate horrible joke from that past commercial that was aggressively unfunny to begin with... but that's not all. They took it a step further. This idiot sees that terrible, unfunny joke personified that is the 'limu' Emu and he says in his stupid mostly brain dead voice, 'Oh look. A Bee Boo.' Yeah. That's the joke. That he thinks all syllables start with 'B.' Someone got paid to write that. And it was approved. And performed and shot and edited and put on broadcast tv and the internet. This actually exists and nobody got fired for it. It may be the single worst joke, for a layered number of reasons, that I have ever witnessed. I suppose that's something of an accomplishment. I was going to call out the 'not becoming your parents' as an exception. I think the original commercial with that premise was brilliant, and they've built on it over time. It was a support group about not becoming your dad with people saying things like, "Defense wins championships," "I guess we're air conditioning the neighborhood now?" and, "This hat was free. What am I supposed to do, not wear it?" All things I have surely said in my life. On a related note, my wife is an insurance exec (obviously not going to reveal the company), and one time when a commercial for her company came on, I said, "Your marketing department kind of sucks." She looked at me and said, "I am the marketing department." (Technically speaking, her group works with the marketing department, where product development and rollout meet. But I suppose I still should've chosen my words better.) My best attempt at a recovery? "Well, they should've consulted you on this one, they needed your insight." *Pulls at collar* I am not a marketing person for a big company, but I regularly work with corporate marketing people, and as much as they care about and want to make something memorable and good, the most important thing is just simply brand awareness. While you may not know which shitty commercial belongs to which insurance company, the fact that you've heard of the company is really the goal above all else. So terrible commercials are successful a lot of the time. And even though there are people like those of us on this board who will boycott a company because we hate their ads, that's clearly a minority position. For most people who are looking for insurance they'll generally gravitate towards on of the names they recognize. A good friend of mine is a marketing exec, formerly at Dannon (Danone), the yogurt people, and now at a different giant corporation in a completely unrelated field that I won't mention, and she was all excited about some new commercial campaign they were launching. They expected that they were gonna win awards and have people quoting the series they were bout to broadcast... then the first one came out and nobody remembered it, and no more were ever produced. Sometimes the best intentions just don't pan out. Sadly, if the commercial had been more annoying it may have gotten some more attention.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 5, 2024 17:33:34 GMT
I was going to call out the 'not becoming your parents' as an exception. I think the original commercial with that premise was brilliant, and they've built on it over time. It was a support group about not becoming your dad with people saying things like, "Defense wins championships," "I guess we're air conditioning the neighborhood now?" and, "This hat was free. What am I supposed to do, not wear it?" All things I have surely said in my life. On a related note, my wife is an insurance exec (obviously not going to reveal the company), and one time when a commercial for her company came on, I said, "Your marketing department kind of sucks." She looked at me and said, "I am the marketing department." (Technically speaking, her group works with the marketing department, where product development and rollout meet. But I suppose I still should've chosen my words better.) My best attempt at a recovery? "Well, they should've consulted you on this one, they needed your insight." *Pulls at collar* I am not a marketing person for a big company, but I regularly work with corporate marketing people, and as much as they care about and want to make something memorable and good, the most important thing is just simply brand awareness. While you may not know which shitty commercial belongs to which insurance company, the fact that you've heard of the company is really the goal above all else. So terrible commercials are successful a lot of the time. And even though there are people like those of us on this board who will boycott a company because we hate their ads, that's clearly a minority position. For most people who are looking for insurance they'll generally gravitate towards on of the names they recognize. A good friend of mine is a marketing exec, formerly at Dannon (Danone), the yogurt people, and now at a different giant corporation in a completely unrelated field that I won't mention, and she was all excited about some new commercial campaign they were launching. They expected that they were gonna win awards and have people quoting the series they were bout to broadcast... then the first one came out and nobody remembered it, and no more were ever produced. Sometimes the best intentions just don't pan out. Sadly, if the commercial had been more annoying it may have gotten some more attention. She pointed out it's all about brand recognition, anyway. In that regard this particular commercial accomplished its task I suppose, I just thought it wasn't very creative. To be fair, I'm not sure how you make insurance into something exciting or compelling, so I guess we should cut all of these companies some slack. Except the Liberty Biberty guy. Fuck him.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 5, 2024 17:51:39 GMT
I am not a marketing person for a big company, but I regularly work with corporate marketing people, and as much as they care about and want to make something memorable and good, the most important thing is just simply brand awareness. While you may not know which shitty commercial belongs to which insurance company, the fact that you've heard of the company is really the goal above all else. So terrible commercials are successful a lot of the time. And even though there are people like those of us on this board who will boycott a company because we hate their ads, that's clearly a minority position. For most people who are looking for insurance they'll generally gravitate towards on of the names they recognize. A good friend of mine is a marketing exec, formerly at Dannon (Danone), the yogurt people, and now at a different giant corporation in a completely unrelated field that I won't mention, and she was all excited about some new commercial campaign they were launching. They expected that they were gonna win awards and have people quoting the series they were bout to broadcast... then the first one came out and nobody remembered it, and no more were ever produced. Sometimes the best intentions just don't pan out. Sadly, if the commercial had been more annoying it may have gotten some more attention. She pointed out it's all about brand recognition, anyway. In that regard this particular commercial accomplished its task I suppose, I just thought it wasn't very creative. To be fair, I'm not sure how you make insurance into something exciting or compelling, so I guess we should cut all of these companies some slack. Except the Liberty Biberty guy. Fuck him. Yeah. Fuck that fucking guy right in his stupid fucking face. I also happen to know that these ad companies hire comedians to come up with some of the jokes for these things. And yet they still went with 'Look, a bebu.'
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Post by sdm3 on Jan 5, 2024 17:55:33 GMT
I was going to call out the 'not becoming your parents' as an exception. I think the original commercial with that premise was brilliant, and they've built on it over time. It was a support group about not becoming your dad with people saying things like, "Defense wins championships," "I guess we're air conditioning the neighborhood now?" and, "This hat was free. What am I supposed to do, not wear it?" All things I have surely said in my life. On a related note, my wife is an insurance exec (obviously not going to reveal the company), and one time when a commercial for her company came on, I said, "Your marketing department kind of sucks." She looked at me and said, "I am the marketing department." (Technically speaking, her group works with the marketing department, where product development and rollout meet. But I suppose I still should've chosen my words better.) My best attempt at a recovery? "Well, they should've consulted you on this one, they needed your insight." *Pulls at collar* I am not a marketing person for a big company, but I regularly work with corporate marketing people, and as much as they care about and want to make something memorable and good, the most important thing is just simply brand awareness. While you may not know which shitty commercial belongs to which insurance company, the fact that you've heard of the company is really the goal above all else. So terrible commercials are successful a lot of the time. And even though there are people like those of us on this board who will boycott a company because we hate their ads, that's clearly a minority position. For most people who are looking for insurance they'll generally gravitate towards on of the names they recognize. A good friend of mine is a marketing exec, formerly at Dannon (Danone), the yogurt people, and now at a different giant corporation in a completely unrelated field that I won't mention, and she was all excited about some new commercial campaign they were launching. They expected that they were gonna win awards and have people quoting the series they were bout to broadcast... then the first one came out and nobody remembered it, and no more were ever produced. Sometimes the best intentions just don't pan out. Sadly, if the commercial had been more annoying it may have gotten some more attention. I write marketing copy for businesses and while a few would certainly be open to silly, lighthearted stuff, a good many would not take kindly to material that clowns around with their brand name. Let's just say if I pitched "Liberty Biberty" I'd expect a very confused response and request for a change from the client. Of course, it all depends on the individual - maybe someone would actually like it - but most are concerned with making their brand seem authoritative and high-profile. Not like a group of people who look at emus and say "look, a bebu."
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