rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

This lucas guy needs to fuck off

yeah so watched a couple Kroll Show clips, it's even less funny than the ads

I spent half of this week's subway rides trying to get "Lucas With The Lid Off" out of my head. Wonder how many others are suffering from the same.

well one more now

Kroll guy seems real cutting edge, he has a character named Bobby Bottleservice

Almost every Kroll Show sketch seems to be a completely on-the-nose parody of some genre of reality show, and the humor of a lot of them revolves around Kroll doing bad ethnic or drag schtick.

sets dvr

Kroll is desperately unfunny and proportionately popular

http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/French-Aristocracy_f1.jpg

idgi

glad I'm not the only one

apparently those storage peeps have the inside word about the sans-culottes rising up against the corporatist Republicrats.

i read that as them suggesting that there's likely gonna be a CULTURE WAR (or RACE WAR, i dunno) so you should put your stuff in storage so it doesn't get damaged in the forthcoming riots
those fucking ads tend to be very knowing and batshit

I just thought that meant that you, the reader, never saw [your massive accumulation of junk] coming, but now here you are.

they tend to be very "msnbc" imho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Mini_Storage#Marketing

forks has got it i think

saw another one of those anxious "you're a real new yorker" ones from grubhub the other day. something like "calling the restaurant is like walking behind slow tourists."

spending less than $30 on brunch is like having an actual conversation with a stranger

im not sure what's worse, that or the equally anxious "im just too *real* to buy into the new york thing so i'm leaving" essays that pop up once in a while.

I think the former is worse. It's 10x more pervasive anyway.

God, I hate the storage ones (not typically on subway tho) that are like ''trying to raise kids in an NYC apartment is like trying to grow a tree in a thimble!'' Which maybe is supposed to be a chuckle for all us folks struggling to raise kids but it just seems like snobbery from people raised in giant suburban homes. Like, no, dickhead, growing a tree in a thimble is an absurdity, and raising kids in a New York apartment is something that happens all the time.

I assumed the French Aristocracy one was just like ''we're a REVOLUTION in storage!'' but I'm now leaning towards the forks reading.

wait the French Aristocracy one isn't an oblique uranium backpack 9/11/17 premonition?

God, I hate the storage ones (not typically on subway tho) that are like ''trying to raise kids in an NYC apartment is like trying to grow a tree in a thimble!'' Which maybe is supposed to be a chuckle for all us folks struggling to raise kids but it just seems like snobbery from people raised in giant suburban homes. Like, no, dickhead, growing a tree in a thimble is an absurdity, and raising kids in a New York apartment is something that happens all the time.

When I saw this one I honestly thought they were suggesting you raise your kids in a storage box rather than an apartment, because their storage is so big.

I knew what they meant but I didn't think it was very well thought out -- it sounds like an ad for moving to the suburbs rather than for storage.

I think it means "you have all this kid junk filling your apartment now so you'll need to store some things to make room" but it vaguely pisses me off when I see it

the French Aristocracy one is just incoherent

i like it.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d38724a43272082203fe50d24f01f123/tumblr_mzefawF9YW1qhg6i3o1_400.gif

oh, lucas.
you are just a man.

hahaha, good gif

the hate for those ads is thoroughly justified

why is youtube advertising in the subway

because they're FAMOUS

I hate those ads

especially the smirky duckface cupcake

But yeah it's hard to understand who it's aimed at or what the purpose is. Youtube is like a near monopoly on internet video content as it is, is it not?

Again, they're informing us that youtube stars are FAMOUS. it's a publicity campaign for "what youtube can do" to get kids to post content in the hopes that they too will become FAMOUS

God the smirky duckface cupcake is the worst. The only thing that cancels that out is the arid unrelenting blankness of Lucas, evading her gaze, shutting down the whole situation by his casual relationship to his own totalitarian presence.

http://www.cuny.edu/news/features/all-stars/members-2013/AlekseyRuditskiy.jpg

totally fascinated by this dude

vaguely reminiscent of the inner sleeve of trans am's "ta"

http://www.colombia.travel/en/components/com_fpslideshow/images/Icolombiatravel_Cartagena_03.jpg

this is kinda nerdy copy editor shit but the "amongst" and "which" in this one drive me nuts

I mean it's supposed to be inspired by great literature ffs, just reads so awkward

also what is "The Answer Is Co" supposed to mean

lol @ "lucas touched the crystal"

especially the smirky duckface cupcake

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, May 5, 2014 9:03 PM (Yesterday)

ugh i want to fucking burn those.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoGbQH-IQAM0ZFA.jpg

ffs

revolting

#powerpunchurmarketingteaminnaface

I kinda love how shitty the CG/photoshop is on the poster for the Six Flags ZUMANJARO ride. If you look at it up close it looks like a 90s rave video.

Current lamest: Febreze ads with a bunch of lame scenarios where you might want Febreze ("The guy in 3A ordered takeout!") and yet not one of them is about the fairly obvious angle of the subway itself smelling bad, as if the ad campaign started around that joke, but it got vetoed by MTA very far down the line, forcing last minute rewrites. The Paypal ads with cutesy everyday people and painfully obvious high school composition book font are also a pale shadow of Lucas's implacable, dictatorial confidence at Venmo.

you shoulda smelled the subway pre-A/C

Oh, I don't have a huge problem with the smell - it's just, if you're gonna make lame jokes about odors on a subway, make one *about the subway*. Hackwork worth doing is worth doing well.

my assumption was that the "takeout" one was originally about ethnic minorities cooking 'weird' food but was changed to be more P.C. but your scenario seems just as likely.

This is a little late, but that Expendables 3 poster is so silly. Even by the standards of these things, it is painfully obvious that nobody was ever together in the same room, the light's coming from different directions, you can see the Photoshop lasso-cut lines on Wesley Snipes's face, and I swear the number of feet just doesn't match up with the number of people. Also Arnold Schwarzenegger looks about five foot seven.