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Reminds me of Steve Martin's "The Great Flydini."

 

There are two Little Baby's shops in Philadelphia. I'm planning my summer road trip to go to Philly, so I put them on my itinerary.  If I happen to be near one of the neighborhoods, I'll check 'em out - but not because of The Great Flydini.  I, too, prefer eating ice cream out of my skull.

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I guess I have a twisted sense of humor, because that totally cracked me up.

 

Me too. What made it work for me was the sheer volume. It just went on and on and on until I was more fascinated with how they were doing it than anything else, though I admit I ended up really, really wanting ice cream. Yup.

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Me, three. At first, it was "Eww!", but as the ice cream just kept going, it got more and more absurd and I had to laugh. And yes, I was wondering how they did it, was it really ice cream, and if so, damn - that couldn't have been comfortable.

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What's the point of the Wendy's ad with bacon and cheese personified by football players and everyone acting shocked by them together? "Cheese? AND bacon? On a hamburger? OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!" Ummm, they've been making those for a long time, Wendy's!

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What's the point of the Wendy's ad with bacon and cheese personified by football players and everyone acting shocked by them together? "Cheese? AND bacon? On a hamburger? OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!" Ummm, they've been making those for a long time, Wendy's!

They've been making them at Wendy's for a long time - I've been noshing those Jr. Bacon cheeseburgers for what feels like decades.

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 So some lame perfume commercial has basterdized You're The One That I Want from Grease into some pretentious, breathless, "haunting" melody (I you watched Stalker on CBS last year this would have been one of the songs over the final moments of the show).  What makes this more confusing than annoying, though, is they have a guy singing ONJs part:  "You need a man and my heart is set on you."   Um, the hell?  That makes absolutely no sense, either standalone or in the context of the song.   Who approves this shit?

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Um.

 

 

I'm the most confused about WTF Janis Joplin's Piece of My Heart has to do with this ad, since Natalie actually runs away from the wedding.

 

The hell?

 

Actually, I love that ad.  And I love that it's in black and white when she's about to get married and switches to color when she runs away.  No, I don't feel sorry for the groom because I can't even see him.  Yeah, she's probably in love with the guy driving the helicopter but SFW?

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Omg, that guy jizzing ice cream is like the best thing ever. I love it.

Yeah, this is going to work for me -  It is coming up on the time of year that I regret all the Christmas cookies and liquor and ice cream, all the extra calories I've consumed..  

After that ad, I think I can give up ice cream for a while. 

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So is Fred Willard really about to go down on Jennifer Coolidge?

 

Okay, what part of his commentary is actually some hip, new lingo referring to cunnilingus?  I get the whole "box" as slang for vagina thing, of course, but I'm not getting an allusion to oral sex from the context in which it's said.  Is "I'll take some of that schmotch" it?  If so, that's a new one to me.

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Okay, what part of his commentary is actually some hip, new lingo referring to cunnilingus?  I get the whole "box" as slang for vagina thing, of course, but I'm not getting an allusion to oral sex from the context in which it's said.  Is "I'll take some of that schmotch" it?  If so, that's a new one to me.

 

It's not some new slang, just how I see the ad.

 

In their pidgin language Coolidge's character actually transforms "scotch" into "smotch". But when I see her attitude and the way she is sitting (and the fact that one guy is talking about cold sores), I hear "crotch, smotch". And then Fred talks about wanting some of that "smotch".

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There's this new men's health ad that has nothing standing out except that it features someone described as an 'anti-aging specialist' - and he's a white haired old man! LOL

  I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to have someone who looks decades off his actual age so folks get the idea he knows what he's talking about?

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There's this new men's health ad that has nothing standing out except that it features someone described as an 'anti-aging specialist' - and he's a white haired old man! LOL

I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to have someone who looks decades off his actual age so folks get the idea he knows what he's talking about?

Are you talking about Jeff Life of Cenegenics? That whole thing creeps me out.
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revbfc and Brattinella,

 

 No, I'm not referering to either of these individuals. This person just seemed to be a generic older doc helping to pitch an otherwise unmemorable men's health product who was touted as an 'anti-aging specialist' yet didn't seemed to have sipped the Fountain of Youth himself. 

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Fellow commercial commenting humans: help me out. I feel a little like I might be going insane. It doesn't help that I've been watching the Twilight Zone marathon this weekend. Admist said marathon, I have seen the Little Ceasar's ad approximately 100 times. The one with the dude giving a grand speech on hot and ready Deep Deep and Regular pizzas. I believe I have observed the following:

Approximately half the time, the Deep Deep image he gestures to is behind him on the LEFT, with the regular pizza on the right. The other half, they are reversed. What makes it more disorienting is his stupid "you can walk" robot pair of legs is always on the same side, right. So I don't think there's some mysterious, totally mirrored version of this ad out there. But he DOES gesture to the images, as one might when doing a presentation. And I remember thinking it looked weird in one when he gestures to his left first (because the audio doesn't change), because to an American viewing audience, going (house) right to left looks odd. Not that one can't point at either photo, but it just looked a little weird going right to left. But it became much much more weird when the next time I saw the ad this didn't happen, because the photos were reversed.

Like I said, I've seen this add dozens of times now, so I don't think it was a one-time brain trick. Somebody else tell me you've noticed this.

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Mondegreen time, from separate ads: "We live in a pikachu world" and "Watching in a wishless wonderland". I do not envy anyone who has to try to sing all the consecutive consonants in "wish list wonderland", but the pick-and-choose guy has no excuse.

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Fellow commercial commenting humans: help me out. I feel a little like I might be going insane. It doesn't help that I've been watching the Twilight Zone marathon this weekend. Admist said marathon, I have seen the Little Ceasar's ad approximately 100 times. The one with the dude giving a grand speech on hot and ready Deep Deep and Regular pizzas. I believe I have observed the following:

Approximately half the time, the Deep Deep image he gestures to is behind him on the LEFT, with the regular pizza on the right. The other half, they are reversed. What makes it more disorienting is his stupid "you can walk" robot pair of legs is always on the same side, right. So I don't think there's some mysterious, totally mirrored version of this ad out there. But he DOES gesture to the images, as one might when doing a presentation. And I remember thinking it looked weird in one when he gestures to his left first (because the audio doesn't change), because to an American viewing audience, going (house) right to left looks odd. Not that one can't point at either photo, but it just looked a little weird going right to left. But it became much much more weird when the next time I saw the ad this didn't happen, because the photos were reversed.

Like I said, I've seen this add dozens of times now, so I don't think it was a one-time brain trick. Somebody else tell me you've noticed this.

I never noticed the motivational weasel's PowerPoint slides being reversed, because I am distracted by the guy in the audience getting WAY too excited about what's being said and by the speaker leaving on the robo-legs.

 

Didn't motivational speakers become uncool after the 1990's?

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We could probably have a separate topic just for Liberty Mutual.

 

I watched an ad where the guy in the suit with the coffee mug backs out of the garage and hits his wife's car. Then the voiceover talks about New Car Replacement. I thought, how do you back out of a garage and total a car? Whoever produced the ad didn't match things up very well.

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Then the voiceover talks about New Car Replacement. I thought, how do you back out of a garage and total a car? Whoever produced the ad didn't match things up very well.

 

Maybe he hit the gas the way the guy in another commercial did, slammed through the garage door doing about forty miles an hour, and wrecked the car that way. Because that's how everyone backs out of their driveway, without looking behind them.

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Didn't motivational speakers become uncool after the 1990's?

Yes, but I think there, they're trying to invoke TED talks rather than 90s style motivational speakers. Or, if not TED, then some other sort of giant conference announcement type spiel, like one might see at E3, which of course has nothing to do with pizza...but I suppose fits with robotic legs.
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We could probably have a separate topic just for Liberty Mutual.

 

I watched an ad where the guy in the suit with the coffee mug backs out of the garage and hits his wife's car. Then the voiceover talks about New Car Replacement. I thought, how do you back out of a garage and total a car? Whoever produced the ad didn't match things up very well.

Could've been a Pinto :)

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Maybe he hit the gas the way the guy in another commercial did, slammed through the garage door doing about forty miles an hour, and wrecked the car that way. Because that's how everyone backs out of their driveway, without looking behind them.

That would be an interesting car commercial. "So much power, you can hit 40 mph while you're still in the garage." 

 

Didn't motivational speakers become uncool after the 1990's?

 

Several of today's televangelists are more like motivational speakers than Bible educators.

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Heh! Although I'm not sure a Pinto could total another car, since don't they just kind of randomly explode?

I think that's the Corvair.

A big, honking Ford Ltd will do the trick at demolishing a modern car. Those things were gigantic and damn near indestructible.

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Pintos exploded when hit hard from behind.  This was solved by placing a thick piece of plastic on the back of the gas tank.  Corvairs were known for flipping over at high speeds or when cornering at moderate to high speeds; i.e., take a freeway exit ramp too fast and enjoy your flight.  As to the Liberty Mutual idiots, regardless of what type of car they are driving it would take some serious effort to total another car when backing out of your driveway unless they were speeding and t-boned you. Then again, with how profoundly stupid many of the people in these ads are, maybe they backed out of the garage in a monster truck, hit another car, then revved up the engine and drove over top of it, crushing it in the process.  They then jumped out of the truck, chugged a beer, belched loudly and yelled, "Woohoo!  Look what I done did!"  Of course the driver of the car they crushed probably called their insurance company expecting sympathy and a health diagnosis rather than calling 911 for an ambulance and fire fighters with the jaws of life.  And somewhere someone was crying about Brad, poor Brad, that was now a pile of scrap metal.  

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Pintos exploded when hit hard from behind.  This was solved by placing a thick piece of plastic on the back of the gas tank.  Corvairs were known for flipping over at high speeds or when cornering at moderate to high speeds; i.e., take a freeway exit ramp too fast and enjoy your flight.  As to the Liberty Mutual idiots, regardless of what type of car they are driving it would take some serious effort to total another car when backing out of your driveway unless they were speeding and t-boned you. Then again, with how profoundly stupid many of the people in these ads are, maybe they backed out of the garage in a monster truck, hit another car, then revved up the engine and drove over top of it, crushing it in the process.  They then jumped out of the truck, chugged a beer, belched loudly and yelled, "Woohoo!  Look what I done did!"  Of course the driver of the car they crushed probably called their insurance company expecting sympathy and a health diagnosis rather than calling 911 for an ambulance and fire fighters with the jaws of life.  And somewhere someone was crying about Brad, poor Brad, that was now a pile of scrap metal.  

 

This is a hilarious post, Muffyn, but don't you mean moderate to severe speeds? XD

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When I was in college my Dad forgot I was home for the weekend and backed out of our garage and into the side of my car (we had an l-shaped driveway). On two separate occasions. He never paid to get it fixed do I would have to hold the drivers side door when I went around a curve or else it would open. My Dad sold car insurance for a living.

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