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05-07-2009, 08:11 PM
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Favorite Commercials
Our lives are filled with billboards, ads, commercials, and many other ways for companies to take advantage of our like of shiny objects. Big brands tend to push out the most, and some of them are terrible and other's fantastic.
My guilty pleasure is the "I'm a Mac" commercials. While I hate Apple, they have one of the best ad campaigns and one of the few commercial lines that's made me laugh.
US ads:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
UK Ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfqgK7izc4g
"So when you see the ads, you think, 'PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers.'" -Charlie Brooker
"Mean spirited. Isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?" -Seth Stevenson
Some points are made, some BS is thrown in, but its all fine because they have John Hodgman. I like them because they are funny, and how much balls it takes to be that much of a douche in your ad campaigns. Some have me fall into a fit of laughter though; the one where PC is carting around dead PC's and especially the one when PC is counting how much money to put into advertising (because, lets be honest, Microsoft way overdid it in their response campaign).
Bravo Apple. You did something right.
So, what is your favorite line of Brand commercials or commercials in general? |
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05-07-2009, 08:22 PM
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^^^
The Apple commercials are great, because they're usually true when it comes to pointing out the flaws of Windows. Except the one saying "Macs don't get viruses". Well, that's because non one uses Macs, so why bother writing a virus that will affect minorities, when you can go for the more abundant fish in the pond?
Other than that, the Heineken ad with the beer room is great.
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05-07-2009, 08:25 PM
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Clicky and scroll down to the General Prize winner titled "Boyfriend" at the bottom of the left column.
Best. Radio. Ad. Ever.
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05-07-2009, 09:58 PM
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Now hang on, those mac commercials about viruses are USELESS NOW!
MAC HAS A VIRUS!
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
My favorite commercial is hard to choose, but I'd say any budweiser commercial with the "WAZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUUUP!?!?!" guys in it.
I never really was on your side.
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05-07-2009, 11:12 PM
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F to the R to the E to the E... credit report.com
I'm shamefully proud to say I have them all on my ipod.
Despite being a really bad game Mercenaries 2 had pretty awesome ads too
"Everyone that posts here is aware of the game, thanks though." ET
Chad Dumeer, Deus Ex: "When government surveillance and intimidation is called "freedom from terrorism" or "liberation from crime", freedom and liberty have become words without meanings."
"Es lebe die Freiheit!"(Freedom lives)
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05-07-2009, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by jawathehutt
F to the R to the E to the E... credit report.com
I'm shamefully proud to say I have them all on my ipod.
Despite being a really bad game Mercenaries 2 had pretty awesome ads too
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That reminds me of the Mercs 2 song ....."Oh no you didn't!"
 you very much
If a tree would fall in the woods.....would the other trees laugh at it?
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05-07-2009, 11:24 PM
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Oh--this is one of my favorites too.
"There's no trucks in World of Warcraft!!!" 
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05-08-2009, 01:24 AM
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Old school:
First anti hero character I ever wanted to play as:
Too bad he was the villain...
But wait...
Then a side story
My junior year in HS, this was a highlight
Yeah, so what I'm megaman fan?
Love me, I win.
Hate me, I win.
Ignore me, I've got exactly what I wanted.
Love me or hate me, you're still thinking of me either way.
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05-08-2009, 08:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GTA:SWcity
Old school:
First anti hero character I ever wanted to play as:
Too bad he was the villain...
But wait...
Then a side story
My junior year in HS, this was a highlight
Yeah, so what I'm megaman fan? |
Seeing those two videosm of Wario made me think of a question:
Why does everyone hate mario so much!?
Is he the worst people person or something?
I never really was on your side.
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05-08-2009, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Church
Seeing those two videosm of Wario made me think of a question:
Why does everyone hate mario so much!?
Is he the worst people person or something?
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WTF? I don't hate Mario. In fact I like to play those insane rom hacks of SMB1 every now and again. As well as the original and all the other classics.
I guess it's his funny voice and that he is a short little italian brooklyn plumber. Kind of easy to pick on.
Love me, I win.
Hate me, I win.
Ignore me, I've got exactly what I wanted.
Love me or hate me, you're still thinking of me either way.
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06-04-2009, 09:31 AM
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Personal favorite is when Microsoft started firing back with there own commercials. It was like a big, *smack* stfu, to mac.
Oh, and the commercial where the co-inventor of the USB walks into a room and is treated like a rock star is wayyyyyy too funny.
Quote:
528) ... and you make her do it half naked, in undies only. o.O ... and you extend this to your female boss
583 - Your female boss agrees
530) Your boss thinks you nuts for trying to wield a lightsaber
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06-04-2009, 10:22 AM
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^ = Thread Revival?
Anywho, I was just thinking last night about a commercial that always got stuck in my head, and apperantly is still in there somewhere
R E S P E C T
Find out what it means to me!
At least that's how I think it goes
I never really was on your side.
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06-04-2009, 11:57 AM
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06-04-2009, 12:04 PM
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I wish I could post my fav's but they are all on spanish 
"Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The dark side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual."
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06-04-2009, 12:54 PM
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Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry advertising for the (then) building society, Alliance and Leicester in 1994.
I initially found the Renault Clio advert from a few years ago amusing but it's incredible smugness began to grate on my nerves after about five advert breaks; plus it always interrupted Friends on E4...
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I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
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06-04-2009, 02:46 PM
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I'm always fond of the cartoony animal-people on the Glade plug-ins commercials. The Ant and the Chameleon ones are my favorites. Also Flo, the Progressive Auto Insurance girl has grown on me quite a bit 
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06-04-2009, 02:49 PM
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Oh yeah, sooooooo mid 1990s.
I actually have the protoman figure. Anybody else remember these? |
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06-05-2009, 07:28 AM
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Oh YEAH!!!! Our friend is kool. Our friend is kool aid! Damn i laughed myself a couple more years when i saw that first time.
This aint really a commercial but a fake one, but its the best:
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06-05-2009, 10:41 AM
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Carrerbuilder.com Superbowl commercial. Do you dream of punching small animals in the face?
Doritos Superbowl commercial
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06-06-2009, 12:56 AM
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A pinnacle of my LF identity:
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06-06-2009, 11:39 AM
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Well, I can't find it, but there's this old Samsonite luggage commercial where the camera pans down through the decks of a jumbo jet and stops briefly on a level where galley slaves are rowing the plane ala Ben-Hur. 
"Mind your wants, 'cause someone wants your mind." -George Clinton
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06-11-2009, 01:29 PM
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My favorite commercial is the one where they're not trying to sell you something... that eliminates virtually all of them.
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06-11-2009, 01:35 PM
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I love the comparethemearcats.com ;D
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From MST3K's spoof of "Hercules Unchained"--heard as Roman medic soldiers carry off an unconscious Greek Hercules on a 1950's Army green canvas stretcher: "Hi, we're IX-I-I. Did somebody dial IX-I-I?"
