#powerpunchurmarketingteaminnaface
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 May 2014 08:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
you shoulda smelled the subway pre-A/C
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ian, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 August 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
it is a funny funny poster. also it's this pile of names just jammed in all over the place.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 August 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 August 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
via a friend:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
hmm
cupcake youtube woman > head-tilty heart-gesture youtube woman
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 August 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10615507_10152203112917261_5786243552934752933_n.jpg
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Saturday, 23 August 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/CbSmAic
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CbSmAic.jpg?1
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Kind of wish I took a picture of the Boxed ad emblazoned with "#datfreemembershipdoe"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
i was in ny for a couple months last spring i think
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
btw i live p close to quebec but not nb
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah how they name their degrees weird non industry standard names "associate of technology specialist"
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
http://deadbutexcited.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/img_4037-1.jpg
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.monroe.com/images/header/english/header_logo.png
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
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."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
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