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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 30, 2022 23:20:54 GMT
But as a Jew, I get a little bothered by this commercial where Cecily Strong (who I've had a crush on for years) says to Albert Einstein, "You tried to save a buck on it."
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Dec 30, 2022 23:25:58 GMT
Einstein's Jewishness doesn't seem to be a factor here, unless I'm missing something.
EDIT -- Okay, never mind. I get it now. The stereotype.
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Post by Isapop on Dec 30, 2022 23:28:48 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 30, 2022 23:31:47 GMT
imo ...
Smart not money is the focus of "You tried to save a buck on it."
"Reads" to me as a "you are a genius ... but you did something dumb" thing ... Jewishness not a factor.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 30, 2022 23:34:35 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein. seems he has been in more than one Verizan ad Link |
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Post by Vegas on Dec 30, 2022 23:47:38 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein.Yeah... He's been doing commercials with Cecily Strong for them for a while.. He was Ebenezer Scrooge in the last set. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2022 1:01:18 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein. Paul Giamatti |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 31, 2022 1:02:32 GMT
In the still picture he looks like Tim Conway !
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 31, 2022 1:47:31 GMT
imo ... Smart not money is the focus of "You tried to save a buck on it." "Reads" to me as a "you are a genius ... but you did something dumb" thing ... Jewishness not a factor. Sure, but somehow making it "a buck" makes it sound like penny pinching. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Dec 31, 2022 3:18:26 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Dec 31, 2022 3:57:36 GMT
I guess if Christopher Walken can play an animated squirrel in TV ads, Paul Giamatti can do this. It's not like the movie industry is doing all that great anymore.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 31, 2022 3:59:36 GMT
imo ... Smart not money is the focus of "You tried to save a buck on it." "Reads" to me as a "you are a genius ... but you did something dumb" thing ... Jewishness not a factor. Sure, but somehow making it "a buck" makes it sound like penny pinching. maybe they think he was a scot  imo you're reading more into it than was intended the main focus is on "not a smart move" |
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 31, 2022 4:12:54 GMT
Sure, but somehow making it "a buck" makes it sound like penny pinching. maybe they think he was a scot imo you're reading more into it than was intended the main focus is on "not a smart move" I know that was the main focus but it's a bit tone deaf to have no one in the ad agency or company to notice. Wish my sister was still alive so we could talk about it. |
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Post by paulslaugh on Dec 31, 2022 5:10:44 GMT
I doubt they realized how it comes off.
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Post by paulslaugh on Dec 31, 2022 5:11:20 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein. He could play Einstein in a movie. |
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 31, 2022 5:13:06 GMT
I'm just caught by surprise at who is playing Einstein. He could play Einstein in a movie. Matthau was great was Einstein in I.Q. |
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Post by paulslaugh on Dec 31, 2022 5:13:59 GMT
I guess if Christopher Walken can play an animated squirrel in TV ads, Paul Giamatti can do this. It's not like the movie industry is doing all that great anymore. I saw some commercial with Matthew McConaughey in a laundromat. I can see him driving a Lincoln, but not doing his own laundry in public. But yeah, actors got eat. |
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Post by paulslaugh on Dec 31, 2022 5:15:53 GMT
He could play Einstein in a movie. Matthau was great was Einstein in I.Q. Andy Serkis plays him in Einstein and Eddington.  |
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Post by ShadowSouL: Padawan of Yoda on Mar 13, 2023 0:42:14 GMT
Run it by SciFive.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 16, 2023 0:48:53 GMT
Definitely reading too much into it. Snowflake culture has everyone, snowflake or not, looking for offensive content all the time.
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