rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

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"

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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

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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

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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.

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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

no I mean I didn't remember any of the jokes from her standup set

she did standup, at the comedy cellar

ahhhhhhhhhh okay

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

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.

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these NY Post ads really hit their readers' grade level

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.

not a great picture, but these ads always make me laugh
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9mU5FIIYAA4zIz.jpg

jeez

Yeah, what are they doing in a $10,000/mo apartment!

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

this does not happen in other advanced countries

on the other hand, it runs all night so

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.

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

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

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

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?

nah, just a really good tindr profile

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every single time i see this i think, for a moment, that it's supposed to be a map of pennsylvania

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?!?!