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post #61 of 68
10/9/10 at 6:48pm
I particularly hate commercials for elections, especially mayoral and governor elections.
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post #62 of 68
10/10/10 at 2:30pm
The Chevy commercial with Howie Long where they talk about how unmanly it is to have a built-in step in the tailgate.

Hernias are the mark of a REAL MAN, I guess
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post #63 of 68
10/10/10 at 2:32pm
^ Those hungry man shit food commercials that make fun of eating small, non-fatass, portions.
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post #64 of 68
10/10/10 at 2:54pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvu2QPQLlYA


The Vivitar Film Camera


The pitch is, if you're too dumb to figure out how to use a digital camera, then buy one of these.
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post #65 of 68
10/10/10 at 9:13pm
^ That Vivitar ad is actually smart marketing. I'm sure they have a warehouse of 50,000 of those things that have been sitting somewhere for years just taking up space, until they found out how to make it obsoleteness into an advantage - nostalgia! I doubt they're making a profit on 10 year old cameras @ $10 each, but at least they are recouping some money. I could see lots of seniors going for that, there are still people in the world who don't like using computers.
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post #66 of 68
10/10/10 at 9:58pm
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I keep wondering how much Sketchers paid Joe Montana for his dignity.


For a moment I thought that was Pat Sajak.
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post #67 of 68
10/14/10 at 12:14am
I just saw a commercial for a brand of cookies called "praventia" which are made to sound vaguely like health food featuring a overprotective mom and her daughter. Apparently these cookies are an essential source of something called "well-mune"
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post #68 of 68
10/14/10 at 1:30am
I just saw a pretty disingenuous spot from V8. They were making claims about veggies being a filling and light-calorie snack, and somehow expected the customer to make the leap into thinking their bottled sugar shares either of those two qualities...
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