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More TV ads, good/bad

9 months ago

Thought of a couple more to recent post.

GOOD...Tom Brady is a delivery guy for pizza hut. Hands it over.."Pizza HUT". Cute and clever. I like it.

BAD.. The disgusting, over the top, in your face, overblown foodp**n, starring a huge hamburger, obscenely dripping with gobs of fat and cheese all over. The vulgar thing is stuffed to the hilt with bacon, avocado, ortega chilies, onion rings, fried onions, tater tots, watermelon, you name it. And then the mess is stuffed in your face, so whatever massive amount of sauce there, feels like it's running down your own poor chin. Just awful. Please spare us all.

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vgkg Z-7 Va

9 months ago

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A new ad here is a hoot, it shows a hubby setting up a drilling rig in his backyard and he hits oil which is spewing out like a gusher. While he's celebrating with his wife jumping around getting soaked his next door neighbor informs him that he tapped into his septic tank........and as with many commercials, I have no idea what they were selling.

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petalique
9 months ago
last modified: 9 months ago
Oh, so I’m not alone in not always getting what’sbwing sold.

Notice how a lot of ads expect the viewer to find out about the product by using the web. Oh, yeah, for sure ;/
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I'm turned off by anything with gobs of fat and cheese, on TV or in person.

But I'm amused by the "Dog Park" commercial from Progressive Insurance.
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foodonastump
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@Alisande - Dog Park is the best song, except too bad it’s not an actual song. I looked it up. A lot of people look it up. I was singing it and over for a while, couldn’t lose the earworm. Drove my wife nuts. Hopefully this doesn’t trigger another event.
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Indigo Rose
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Chisue, I wanted to post ^^^ on the other thread but was having a senior moment and just could not remember that commercial, but it's the only one in years that I look forward to watching when it come on. Thanks for posting that!
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HU-949980546
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vgkg Z-7 Va , "----- hubby setting up a drilling rig ----", that reminds me of one of my favorite movies, especially the ending. very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH72ZaVbGW4

What A Way To Go (1964). Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Dean Martin. Classic Film.

dcarch
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