keep weighing a thread entitled "comedy means brightly-lit people face the camera and grimace; drama means shadowed people look sideways suspiciously"
https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/shameless-season-5-poster2.jpg?w=400
http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/nbc-fall-allegiance.jpg
...but i can't find a jpeg online of that ghastly one for "THE KROLL SHOW" and i can't remember the other generic-looking drama hyped at 14th street that sparks this thought once or twice a week
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
who the fuck at the CIA would assign someone's first case to his own family? that's messed up!
i gotta watch this show
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
would be cool if the villain turns out to just be a bumbling assistant manager who only skimmed the paperwork from HR and made a bad judgment call
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
the one w veronica mars gnawing on don cheadle's ear is very unpleasant
― adam, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--f0ki7Ejzxg/VLUs6x2kSBI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/0FOXoO5W9Ts/s1600/test_photo_house_of_lies.JPG
― adam, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
i'll take all of those over ads showing all the sitcom's actors looking variously smug, wacky, annoyed and welp on a white background
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
http://thebacklot.mtvnimages.com/uploads/2014/01/Sean-Saves-the-World.jpg
never forget
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Don Cheadle looks very uncertain how he feels about that ear nibble
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, January 16, 2015 10:54 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is it the one where he's doing his "man of a thousand faces" schtick and he's all the people in the ad? I fucking hate that guy's mug.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://1069thefox.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2015/01/webKROLL-600-FINAL-620x400.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
and the other one I was thinking about for shadowy dramas was "Empire," but it's kinda too blah and airbrushed to even post here.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
That's the one I meant, xp. That and the Amy Schumer ads are constant annoying reminders that not-very-good people manage to get TV shows somehow.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
OTOH "Final Season" I guess there is some justice in the world
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
no argument on kroll but amy schumer is awesome
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 January 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i heard an Amy Schumer joke on NPR last weekend about how to spot a Jewish child molester
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Incidentally re: "Sean," the irony is that despite that poster's fundamental generic awfulness, its discussion here has firmly cemented that exact image in my brain as a shorthand for exactly that type of seemingly made-up sitcom. It does for sitcoms what Seinfeld's "Sack Lunch" did for throwaway film comedies.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
I saw Amy Schumer at the comedy cellar once. She had a better persona than I expected but I didn't remember any of her jokes after. Haven't actually seen her show.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
maybe you would have better luck remembering any of her jokes if you saw her show, just an idea though
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
no I mean I didn't remember any of the jokes from her standup set
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
she did standup, at the comedy cellar
ahhhhhhhhhh okay
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
lol it would be pretty funny if I literally just saw her sitting at a table and then afterward didn't understand why I hadn't absorbed her jokes by osmosis
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
haha, i was just reading "show" as in, like, you go see a show...kinda forgot we were talking about posters for TV shows... oops.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8m2olZIcAEVjs8.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
these NY Post ads really hit their readers' grade level
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I REALLY have to fight the urge to deface those, ideally by gluing on codas in the same font, etc., laying bare all the evil.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
not a great picture, but these ads always make me laughhttp://i.imgur.com/gACASuC.jpg
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9mU5FIIYAA4zIz.jpg
jeez
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, what are they doing in a $10,000/mo apartment!
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 27 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
for real though, stark
the talkspace ad confused the hell out of me for a while i just cldnt come to grips with the fact that theres a service where u pay to txt therapists
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
this does not happen in other advanced countries
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 June 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
on the other hand, it runs all night so
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 June 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
am i the only one grossed out by those mattress ads with the cutesy cartoons that are all like "the perfect mattress for - - - party animals!" and it shows a bunch of like rats hanging out on your mattress? like great, that's what i want to think about, rats shitting on my mattress. and then it's like "the perfect mattress for - - - cleansers!" and it's people chugging stuff from a blender and it's like, you know cleanses are fundamentally about excretion also right? like are these the associations you want? at least those gross top-down perspective views of hypothetical apartments you could have feel like they were drawn by a human being.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
those mattresses are too soft but they give you cucumber water and choc chip cookies at their "showroom," which is just a loft on bond st
― adam, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
also there's just one mattress in a bedroom, that's the showroom, and in the bathroom there's like shampoo and shit in the shower so someone clearly lives there, so the whole thing is creepy af
hahahahaha
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
i kinda wanna go now, and bring a bunch of rats
i am pretty sure you were not at a showroom but at my friend gary's apartment
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
oh and we were like "the mattress is too soft" and the girl told us that the mattress is awesome but it we really really really thought it was too soft but bought it anyway they would send us a firmer mattress pad at some undetermined point in the future.
is your friend gary approachably attractive but possessed of a creepy quiet cultlike low-level startup employee enthusiasm?
― adam, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
nah, just a really good tindr profile
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
http://web.mta.info/siteimages/pth-logo.png
every single time i see this i think, for a moment, that it's supposed to be a map of pennsylvania
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
current vitamin water ads are pulling some really weak "omg lol we're new yorkers amirite?" material in trying to, i guess, describe situations where you'd need a vitamin water. uptown date... downtown meeting?!?!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 11 September 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
like wow you've really captured the spirit of living here, 20 things only a native new yorker will understand
Is there some specific ad agency that does subway ads with that schtick? Because I feel like there have been so many bad campaigns with that exact vibe -- Seamless, various storage companies, etc.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
I hate when ads try to get all in-the-know with you like that, it feels like a stranger showing up at your party and reminiscing about old times they weren't actually there for.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:02 (nine years ago) link
replace the new yorkisms with, say, a white upper middle class suburban milieu and I think you'll find those ads to be a pretty standard form--except there's an extra layer of new yorker self-regard being called upon that's particularly creepy.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
I hate all these "in the know new yorker" ads for seamless and flatrate and that other storage company. Really, really hate.
And also I agree about that roast chicken and red wine poem.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
i admit to finding those ads pretty fascinating...like how they almost always insist on the quotidian new york experience (take out, walk ups, cabs) rather than anything like the "making it in the big city" narrative. almost as if the highest aspiration that you can appeal to in an ad is the *desire to be a new yorker* rather than anything new york might be a means to.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/10/02/subway-poster_custom-780357a2b706d94d8263cdafcc35a3d0dd1cbfdd-s900-c85.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link