rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

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.

it is a funny funny poster. also it's this pile of names just jammed in all over the place.

Oh yeah, my girlfriend told me she saw one where someone had taken a Sharpie and added key numbers to match the names up with the people since they're all in random order and it's a fuckton of people/names. My kind of ad vandalism, right there.

via a friend:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1

hmm

cupcake youtube woman > head-tilty heart-gesture youtube woman

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10615507_10152203112917261_5786243552934752933_n.jpg

http://imgur.com/CbSmAic

http://i.imgur.com/CbSmAic.jpg?1

Kind of wish I took a picture of the Boxed ad emblazoned with "#datfreemembershipdoe"

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"

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:12 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah yes i told myself many stories about everyone in this ad

there was one girl who was so much more confident than everyone else i was kinda embarrassed for them

don't u live in new brunswick or something

i was in ny for a couple months last spring i think

and i commuted on the subway every day! something i m/l never did for the ~10 yrs i lived in ny, kinda sux tbh

btw i live p close to quebec but not nb

i have driven all the way across nb a number of times tho and let me tell u not a whole lot to see on that drive

Some of the other college ads (not so much the city college ads) make me feel kinda bad for the people in them, like where even the person they selected for the ad is probably not getting far with their Monroe College degree

yeah how they name their degrees weird non industry standard names "associate of technology specialist"

http://deadbutexcited.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/img_4037-1.jpg

http://4044walnut.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tech-bubble.jpg

They couldn't even come up with an actual alum success story, they had to make one up

http://www.monroe.com/images/header/english/header_logo.png

Yeah, those "how a..." ones are terrible. I can't remember what it was but there was one where it was like, did they actually do anything? Or is it just that the structure of the sentence vaguely implies changes and momentum, even if you say "How a poor farmhand from Missouri earned a degree in service technology, millked some cows, and brought in the harvest."

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

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

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

the one w veronica mars gnawing on don cheadle's ear is very unpleasant

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--f0ki7Ejzxg/VLUs6x2kSBI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/0FOXoO5W9Ts/s1600/test_photo_house_of_lies.JPG

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

http://thebacklot.mtvnimages.com/uploads/2014/01/Sean-Saves-the-World.jpg

never forget

Don Cheadle looks very uncertain how he feels about that ear nibble

...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, 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.

http://1069thefox.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2015/01/webKROLL-600-FINAL-620x400.jpg

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.

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.

OTOH "Final Season" I guess there is some justice in the world

no argument on kroll but amy schumer is awesome

i heard an Amy Schumer joke on NPR last weekend about how to spot a Jewish child molester

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.

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.

maybe you would have better luck remembering any of her jokes if you saw her show, just an idea though