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The Weather Channel is particularly guilty of running these: Those damned maudlin ads for Humane Society and Children's Poverty organizations that drone on and on about abused, starving puppies and dying infants. I have no objection to people trying to help those in need, more power to them, but grim ads that try to guilt-trip me into parting with my $$ are just irritating.
 
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LostLassie said:
The Weather Channel is particularly guilty of running these: Those damned maudlin ads for Humane Society and Children's Poverty organizations that drone on and on about abused, starving puppies and dying infants. I have no objection to people trying to help those in need, more power to them, but grim ads that try to guilt-trip me into parting with my $$ are just irritating.
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speaking of those kind of commercials....is Sally Struthers still alive?
 
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Not feeling the new Gatorade commercial with all of the kid athletes singing some motivational song. Can't follow what the song is supposed to be and the 'singing' is so shouty and convoluted that I don't know what they're supposed to be saying.

Is this song something that 'the kids' would know but my old ass never heard?
 
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Usually, I block it out as soon as it's over, but always mean to post about it when it's on: The stupid talking box for--Progressive, is it?--some insurance company with zero imagination in their advertising staff. The thing has NO personality, no humor, nuthin'--really sad that's the best they can do.
 
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Now, I kind of like this commercial (with the movie/TV show spoofs/parodies)

AT&T Wireless TV Commercial, 'Everywhere'

The new AT&T commercial is named “Everywhere” and features actors David Hasselhoff, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, and Oklahoma Sooners. You’ll recognize scenes from movies and TV shows like Rocky, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Psycho, Cheers, Game of Thrones, Knight Rider, SportsCenter, Sex and the City, Sesame Street, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad.

There are nine songs in AT&T commercial: “Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)” by Bill Conti, “Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)” by Gary Portnoy, “Game of Thrones Main Title” by Ramin Djawadi, “Sex and the City Theme” by Tom Findlay composed by Douglas J. Cuomo, “The People In Your Neighborhood” by Bob McGrath, “Seinfeld Theme” by Jonathan Wolff, “The Murderer (Psycho: Shower Scene Theme)” by Bernard Herrmann, “Knight Rider (Main Theme)” by Glen Larson, Stu Phillips, “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AirC/at-and-t-wireless-everywhere
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Now, I kind of like this commercial (with the movie/TV show spoofs/parodies)

AT&T Wireless TV Commercial, 'Everywhere'

The new AT&T commercial is named “Everywhere” and features actors David Hasselhoff, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, and Oklahoma Sooners. You’ll recognize scenes from movies and TV shows like Rocky, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Psycho, Cheers, Game of Thrones, Knight Rider, SportsCenter, Sex and the City, Sesame Street, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad.

There are nine songs in AT&T commercial: “Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)” by Bill Conti, “Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)” by Gary Portnoy, “Game of Thrones Main Title” by Ramin Djawadi, “Sex and the City Theme” by Tom Findlay composed by Douglas J. Cuomo, “The People In Your Neighborhood” by Bob McGrath, “Seinfeld Theme” by Jonathan Wolff, “The Murderer (Psycho: Shower Scene Theme)” by Bernard Herrmann, “Knight Rider (Main Theme)” by Glen Larson, Stu Phillips, “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AirC/at-and-t-wireless-everywhere
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Might want to post that here instead...
 
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So, this is what happens when you hire an advertising firm that employs people with a bathroom-on-the-right level of lyric comprehension:

Ameritrade is running an ad streaming images of fathers with their sons--taking their first steps, cheering them on at their Little League baseball games, yada yada. And what song is playing in the background to all these warm and fuzzy images of devoted fathers investing their time building a loving relationship with their offspring? Cats in the Cradle. That's right: The famous song whose very title refers to a myth about cats suffocating unprotected infants, that focuses on parental neglect and the subsequent abandonment of the aging father by his equally too-preoccupied son. Golly. I'm all verklempt. :sad3:
 
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LostLassie said:
So, this is what happens when you hire an advertising firm that employs people with a bathroom-on-the-right level of lyric comprehension:

Ameritrade is running an ad streaming images of fathers with their sons--taking their first steps, cheering them on at their Little League baseball games, yada yada. And what song is playing in the background to all these warm and fuzzy images of devoted fathers investing their time building a loving relationship with their offspring? Cats in the Cradle. That's right: The famous song whose very title refers to a myth about cats suffocating unprotected infants, that focuses on parental neglect and the subsequent abandonment of the aging father by his equally too-preoccupied son. Golly. I'm all verklempt. :sad3:
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Like people who play "better man" at their wedding
 
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Two current peeves:

1) A couple different commercials (Masterpass & Progressive) have ads with minor celebrities where they address them by saying their entire name:
"Is that so, Jane Lynch?" "No, it's not, Susan Lucci."

Either you know who they are or you don't. But it sounds so damn stupid. When do you normally ever speak to someone and say their full name? Nobody does that. Give them a blasted name tag if they're so worried they won't be recognized.

2) That stupid Subaru commercial with the dad getting ready to pass his vehicle on to his daughter. He's sentimentally cleaning it out, and pulling crap up that has been there since she was five fricken' years old. Is this ad some crossover between Subaru and an episode of Hoarders? Who would want a car some slob has been cruising around in for the past decade without ever once stopping at a car wash to run a vacuum thru it? So stupid.
Forget Hoarders. It's a perfect crossover ad for Febreeze air fresheners and Lysol.
 
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LostLassie said:
Two current peeves:

1) A couple different commercials (Masterpass & Progressive) have ads with minor celebrities where they address them by saying their entire name:
"Is that so, Jane Lynch?" "No, it's not, Susan Lucci."

Either you know who they are or you don't. But it sounds so damn stupid. When do you normally ever speak to someone and say their full name? Nobody does that. Give them a blasted name tag if they're so worried they won't be recognized.
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On that note - woah, Robert Loggia!!

 
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