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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Momo (?) » Mon Apr 02, 2018 1:37 am

Converse had some really weird ads in the 90s.





And here's one by the guy who did Ed Edd n Eddy

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Apr 02, 2018 1:42 am

Oooh, I love those weird commercials!

That "Too Much Coffee Man" commercial was also animated by the "Ed, Edd n Eddy" guy. It's based on a comic strip that runs in the 'States

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:45 am

Meet Crazy Eddie (a.k.a. Jerry Carroll):



Now meet “Crazy” Eddie Antar, who served time in prison for fraud :-I

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Post by Jill (?) » Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:08 am

that rules :allears:

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed May 09, 2018 1:00 am

Okay, so I saw this commercial for an amusement park in Canada, featuring Garfield:



I'm having questions about the animation. Early on, we see Garfield gobbling down food. That's in-character, fine, but look closely:

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Where is he getting the food? Did the animator forget to draw a box of food next to him?

It's one thing if they did this once, but they did this again:

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And AGAIN, but this time with Nermal:

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Is there a portal to another dimension where they store food? And it can only be opened at this particular amusement park?

The Garfield lore is weird.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed May 09, 2018 2:05 am

The animation is on cycles, meaning that it looks like Garfield and Nermal are eating the same food over and over again :wat:

Perhaps Garfield is the true master of the Reality Stone, and this is what he seeks to do with it: generate food from nothing :thunk:

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

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Mr. Big wrote:
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And AGAIN, but this time with Nermal:

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Nermal...?

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Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Wed May 09, 2018 3:52 pm

While I don't particularly care for the product, I was always a fan of the Orlando Jones "Make 7 Up Yours" commercials.



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Post by West Filly (?) » Wed May 09, 2018 4:05 pm

That reminds me of Coldseal's BOGOF advert, which I can't find.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Aramek (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 8:07 am

Anti smoking ad with THE OPPOSITE EFFECT!

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Jill (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 10:48 am

ngl if the watermark didn't hit the bunny so hard i would be using it as an av right about now

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed May 16, 2018 5:10 pm

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Saw this in the grocery store today. I'm just glad I won't need to buy an adapter in order to make it.
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed May 16, 2018 6:34 pm

Jill wrote:
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ngl if the watermark didn't hit the bunny so hard i would be using it as an av right about now
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This one's at a weird angle but the reflection isn't on the bunny so it might be better for getting an avatar from? :-I
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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 19, 2018 3:48 pm

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 19, 2018 3:50 pm

I mean, monster is a coca-cola brand right

how do they have the gall to pretend to be in an underdog situation
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Post by Jill (?) » Sat May 19, 2018 4:38 pm

pretending to be centrist is the most corporation-y thing you can do to minimize the risk of bad PR from one side or the other

in actuality i don't think there are many corporations that wouldn't buy every vote they can afford pertaining to their ability to make money

e: pretending to be an underdog on the other hand is truly perplexing. i wonder how many people actually think they're sticking it to the man when they buy a product as recognized as MONSTE® ENE®GY

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e: pretending to be an underdog on the other hand is truly perplexing. i wonder how many people actually think they're sticking it to the man when they buy a product as recognized as MONSTE® ENE®GY
Enough that they make decent profit out of it, I'm going to guess.

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Post by Jill (?) » Sat Aug 04, 2018 1:26 pm

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 04, 2018 2:04 pm

I know I shared these before, but screw it, it needs to be posted in this thread. Early commercials by Jim Henson for a regional coffee brand:



"Buy our product or we'll kill you" is certainly a marketing campaign :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:59 pm



I legit like those old Jim Henson commercials. Here's one he did featuring an inconsiderate dragon.

Anyone notice that Jim Henson's commercials tend to feature a spokescreature intimidating others to buy the product, whether it's proto-Kermit or a dragon? :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:49 pm



They intentionally wrote "the colors and bright and gay" because they knew Charles Nelson Reilly was going to sing it, huh? :-I

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Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Aug 10, 2018 12:53 am

Jill wrote:
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I don’t know what I expected

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:45 pm

Here's one from Japan. For Mister Donuts, a donut chain:



Lion manes are edible, apparently :-I

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:27 pm

Stop-motion animator Will Vinton passed away at age 70. In his honor, here's a collection of commercials Vinton made featuring The Noid.


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Post by Pocket (?) » Fri Oct 05, 2018 12:32 am

And they made a video game about him, called Yo! Noid. It's about what you'd expect from a licensed game in the late '80s. But last year, some crazy mofos made a fan sequel that's supposed to look like a PlayStation game. I didn't realize until I watched this, the hub level (the "Noid Void") is based on that wide-open landscape that he lives in. It even has the pyramid.
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But last year, some crazy mofos made a fan sequel that's supposed to look like a PlayStation game.
This would've been perfect if only it kept the pizza eating contest.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:56 pm

Want something that's incredibly nineties?


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Mr. Big wrote:
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Want something that's incredibly nineties?

man i'd almost forgotten about this ad

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Post by West Filly (?) » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:09 pm

you can even play fantasy football :jingo:
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Thu May 30, 2019 9:26 pm



A series of Japanese tokusatsu commercials for vacuum cleaners (done by Tsuburaya Production, the company that did "Ultraman" and other related shows), where a costumed superhero defeats a Godzilla-expy (called "Gomira", "gomi" meaning "garbage") by literally vacuuming them up.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:05 pm



I remember seeing this commercial as a kid back in 1999. I think this was my introduction to the BeeGees.

The editing in this commercial is amazing.

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Re: PYF marketing silliness

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 2:39 am

"Every night you can call all night at the time that's best for you without having to dial all those extra PIN numbers."

Something kids these days won't understand (thank goodness).

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:02 am

I mean, I was around when that ad aired, and I don't remember having to dial PINs at all.

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Post by diribigal (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:29 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:
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"Every night you can call all night at the time that's best for you without having to dial all those extra PIN numbers."

Something kids these days won't understand (thank goodness).
Now I'm confused because I don't think I know what PIN numbers you're talking about (because I'm too young?), but I know about the "10-10 numbers" they're referring to. They're referenced in this article from 20 years ago: https://money.cnn.com/1999/06/10/life/q_1010numbers/
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:15 am

I'm guessing it referred to prepaid phone cards you could buy that were usually cheaper than the usual rates. To use them you had to call an 800 number on the back of a card, navigate a brief menu, enter a PIN off the back of the card, then dial the number you actually wanted to call. If you talked a lot during the day on weekdays and/or long distance then they helped, but it was annoying to do all that only to possibly get someone's answering machine or just not have the person on the other end pick up.

Next time I go to the grocery store I'll have to stop at the gift card display and see if you can still get those things.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:59 pm



Milkshake Candy Bar was apparently a thing back in the 1970s, and I kinda wish it's still around.

Although somebody commented on a Facebook group for old commercials that he bought one back then. He said it was delicious, but he "got a bellyache later".



Another commercial for a different candy the same company put out.

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