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PYF marketing silliness

Post by Jill (?) » Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:54 am

to someone like me who overthinks things to death, marketing is often its own form of comedy. there is something about the overly enthusiastic and often absent-minded nature of people's efforts to sell things that i just keep finding fucking hilarious

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earlier today i noticed the "You can taste the quality" slogan on this box of microwave trash food and i just laughed for a good ~10 minutes thinking about it. there are so many ways to interpret that statement. "quality" as a noun doesn't necessarily mean "high quality" or "good quality" so uh, is this a "water is wet" kind of statement or are they like giving me permission to judge for myself or???

also:

this is my favorite commercial for reasons i don't even really understand. it's just like, bam. ring pop. you're cool now. forget hands-free candy, i want to visit a world where it's this easy to fascinate and hype up a crowd with my mundane belongings

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Daikatuna (?) » Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:41 am

i maintain that marketing is made by aliens trying to understand humans and failing

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Post by Jill (?) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 5:57 am

hey i didn't give this thread permission to die



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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:30 am

How about this nonsense:


The clunky corporate metaphor was the brainchild of Hyatt Hotels diversity and inclusion executive Tyronne Stoudemire, who appeared alongside Rauner on Wednesday at the downtown Chicago Thompson Center to discuss workplace diversity at a Black History Month event.

Enlisting Rauner as his lanky magician’s assistant, Stoudemire, who is black, poured a glass of milk to represent the white men who lead most organizations (including, um, the state of Illinois).


“This chocolate syrup represents diversity,” Stoudemire said, before squirting a healthy dash of brown syrup that immediately sank to the bottom of the glass.

“When you look at most organizations, diversity sits at the bottom of the organization,” Stoudemire continued. “You don’t get inclusion until you actually stir it up.”

Rauner then stirred the syrup into the milk, turning it brown, and he took a sip and pronounced it good.

“Diversity is the mix, and inclusion is making the mix work,” Stoudemire said, concluding his analogy.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:37 am

I'll be helping vote out Rauner in November. Unfortunately his opponent is most likely gonna be another stereotypical corrupt Illinois politician soooo...

Here's an unnecessarily gendered product:

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:46 am

I think everybody's seen this by now, but I'm always fascinated by the Winstons cigarette commercials featuring the Flintstones. The show was aimed at adults, so it's no surprise it was sponsored by a company making an adult product, but it's still a fascinating relic to me, from a time when cigarettes were much more accepted:


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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 28, 2018 2:03 pm

Here's a local favorite from my childhood

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by West Filly (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:34 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
Wed Feb 28, 2018 7:30 am
How about this nonsense:

Diversity is like chocolate milk: it's approved insofar as it tastes good to white men in power.
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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:20 pm

holy shit

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:11 pm

This commercial screams 1990s:


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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:48 pm

I just saw some razors. They were topcare triple blade.

The thing is, they had one for men and one for women

the difference was the one for women was purple and had the words "triple blade" in cursive.

Otherwise they were exactly the same, I checked the back of the packages just to make sure.
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Gloomy Rube wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:48 pm
Otherwise they were exactly the same
Even down to the price? :ponder:
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mir (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:12 pm

Growing up near the Cleveland area, we had Mark.
I will let the quality of Mark's advertisements speak for themselves.



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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:24 pm

Is Mark a serial killer? :starity:

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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:25 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:55 pm
Even down to the price? :ponder:

Yes. :-I
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Post by Mir (?) » Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:32 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
Thu Mar 01, 2018 9:24 pm
Is Mark a serial killer? :starity:
I mean... I don't actually know anyone who visited that store and ever returned, so it's a definite maybe?

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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:24 pm

Razors are stupidly expensive. Get yourself a safety razor handle like your granddad had, cause you can buy 100 good replacement blades for like £10. It's a good compromise where it's cheaper than whole disposable razors but also you don't have to continually sharpen and strop the edge like you would with a cut-throat razor.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Daikatuna (?) » Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:34 pm

what are the chances of cutting yourself with one of those

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West Filly wrote:
Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:24 pm
Razors are stupidly expensive. Get yourself a safety razor handle like your granddad had, cause you can buy 100 good replacement blades for like £10. It's a good compromise where it's cheaper than whole disposable razors but also you don't have to continually sharpen and strop the edge like you would with a cut-throat razor.
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Daikatuna wrote:
Fri Mar 02, 2018 9:34 pm
what are the chances of cutting yourself with one of those


Will draw blood guaranteed. If you've shaved with our razor and you're not even razor burned, we'll give you your money back and a new set of replacement heads. If you don't want to shave with them, why not sew them into your favourite black trenchcoat to show everyone how literally edgy you now are!
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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Mar 02, 2018 10:16 pm

In actuality the chances decrease with practice until they reach a negligible amount.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:12 pm

Do PSAs count here, or should that be its own thread?

In any event, I found a bunch of anti-smoking plugs that the National Film Board of Canada did. They're pretty trippy, as you'd expect:



When I shared this one on Facebook, somebody who works for a radio station in Canada told me that he knows the guy who narrated the tag at the end. He's a smoker himself :-I




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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Mar 26, 2018 12:42 am

Compared to the lady with the tracheotomy, I'm not sure any of these goofy cartoons are really getting the message across...

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SlateSlabrock wrote:
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Compared to the lady with the tracheotomy, I'm not sure any of these goofy cartoons are really getting the message across...
The second one feels like it's actually glorifying cigarettes, with the guy willing to blow himself up to get a puff. :v:

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by minty (?) » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:48 pm

They're not so much saying "smoking can kill you" as "smokers deserve to die".

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In all fairness, these were made by the NFB. It was guaranteed to be twisted :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:37 am

This one just baffles me:


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Post by Jill (?) » Tue Mar 27, 2018 5:18 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:12 pm
When I shared this one on Facebook, somebody who works for a radio station in Canada told me that he knows the guy who narrated the tag at the end. He's a smoker himself :-I
perhaps they wanted a narrator who could speak from experience :v:

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Post by Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:57 am

Smoking gave him the rugged, gravelly voice that this anti-smoking PSA needs!

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:11 pm

This one wins the award for the most bizarre:



The message is that you can cheat your government of tax money by not smoking...in a commercial that was paid for with tax money :-I

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Post by West Filly (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:24 pm

Or you can just smuggle em in from other countries.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Auxiliatrix (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:35 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:37 am
This one just baffles me:

I love these sorts of commercials. I always try to put myself in the mindset of whoever developed it and wonder if they had fun making it, because sometimes they're just so oddly surreal that I can't help but feel like someone put an awful lot of (potentially unneeded) time into the end result.

These two are among my favorites:



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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:48 pm

Auxiliatrix wrote:
Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:35 pm
I love these sorts of commercials. I always try to put myself in the mindset of whoever developed it and wonder if they had fun making it, because sometimes they're just so oddly surreal that I can't help but feel like someone put an awful lot of (potentially unneeded) time into the end result.
Oh yeah, definitely agree! :anticipation: I wouldn't be surprised if the animators were allowed to do whatever they wanted, as long as the message was "don't smoke".

This one also stands out. Part of me wonders if this was part of his community service for his arrest:


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Mr. Big wrote:
Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:48 pm
This one also stands out. Part of me wonders if this was part of his community service for his arrest:
It was.
NYT wrote:The centerpiece of the plea agreement between prosecutors and Mr. Reubens's lawyers is the actor's pledge to devote at least 75 hours to community service, making an anti-drug videotape that will be made available to television stations and schools. Mr. Reubens agreed to write and produce the program and to pay its costs out of his own pocket.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:13 pm

I never seen this series of commercials from Pizza Hut before, called "The Pizza Head Show"



I looked it up, and yes, this was made by the same guy who did those "Mr. Bill" segments for Saturday Night Live :-I

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