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Title: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 10:41:18 pm
Some commercials are just so good (or so unbelievably bad) that they deserve a place in the Commercial Hall of Fame. Unfortunately that doesn't exist, so we'll have to stick to YouTube for now. Let's discuss our favorites here!

This is a continuation of a rather egregious derail of another thread. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=77350.msg1998944#msg1998944)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Max White on February 19, 2011, 10:43:11 pm
Back for round two, a croud favorite stands ready. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w2fi_f5OLY&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rn-1r-24-HM)


Remember, everything has a sequal. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 10:59:59 pm
Nintendo's marketing strategy in the 90's was to scare the shit out of all their potential customers by telling them that their products would mind-rape them. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbpBMzjE1A)

Might wanna watch that in 240p to get rid of the audio feedback...
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 19, 2011, 11:03:55 pm
Quote from: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 10:59:59 pm
Nintendo's marketing strategy in the 90's was to scare the shit out of all their potential customers by telling them that their products would mind-rape them. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbpBMzjE1A)

Might wanna watch that in 240p to get rid of the audio feedback...

Wait, was the punchline "It eats your eyes?"
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Max White on February 19, 2011, 11:05:25 pm
It's big. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6uJlI-t14)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 11:29:20 pm
Introducing the most exciting and action packed political ad in the history of advertisement and/or politics! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8)

Yes, they actually ran that ad.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Max White on February 19, 2011, 11:30:47 pm
Quote from: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 11:29:20 pm
Introducing the most exciting and action packed political ad in the history of advertisement and/or politics! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8)

Yes, they actually ran that ad.
*Currently having it play in another tab*
Well I feel like I'm missing nothing.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 19, 2011, 11:36:43 pm
Quote from: Gatleos on February 19, 2011, 11:29:20 pm
Introducing the most exciting and action packed political ad in the history of advertisement and/or politics! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8)

Yes, they actually ran that ad.

That must be the longest time a politician has gone without lying in an advertisement.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:05:57 am
I... what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmLcSeU2UY)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Max White on February 20, 2011, 12:10:25 am
Quote from: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:05:57 am
I... what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmLcSeU2UY)
Blood for Al Gore!
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 20, 2011, 12:17:29 am
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 19, 2011, 11:36:43 pm
That must be the longest time a politician has gone without lying in an advertisement.

Curses! It appears one of the commenters on Youtube reached through the fabric of time and space and stole my hilarious joke days before I'd even thought of it. DAMN YOU TIME THEIF!!
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:25:14 am
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 20, 2011, 12:17:29 am
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 19, 2011, 11:36:43 pm
That must be the longest time a politician has gone without lying in an advertisement.

Curses! It appears one of the commenters on Youtube reached through the fabric of time and space and stole my hilarious joke days before I'd even thought of it. DAMN YOU TIME THEIF!!
I wasn't going to say anything... a YouTube commenter beat you to your first joke too.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 20, 2011, 12:32:51 am
Quote from: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:25:14 am
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 20, 2011, 12:17:29 am
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 19, 2011, 11:36:43 pm
That must be the longest time a politician has gone without lying in an advertisement.

Curses! It appears one of the commenters on Youtube reached through the fabric of time and space and stole my hilarious joke days before I'd even thought of it. DAMN YOU TIME THEIF!!
I wasn't going to say anything... a YouTube commenter beat you to your first joke too.

You're kidding right?

EDIT: What exactly did I do to make Doc Brown hate me so?
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Max White on February 20, 2011, 12:43:58 am
The gorillaz did some fun things before they released a DvD with all there film clips on it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMS_xhBMdM)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Leafsnail on February 20, 2011, 10:13:42 am
Quote from: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:05:57 am
I... what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmLcSeU2UY)
Not exactly a great advert, but it's funny to see how seriously youtube takes it.  Wait a second...

Quote
I find it hilarious how people still believe in human caused global warming. I disproved it pretty easily for a thesis for my physics degree. We humans think we are so important that we can alter nature. The truth is FAR from this.
Uh... huh.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Vertigon on February 20, 2011, 01:33:48 pm
Quote from: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:05:57 am
I... what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmLcSeU2UY)

Okay, that was hilarious. Awesome. I don't care what anyone says, that was amazing.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Fayrik on February 20, 2011, 01:47:18 pm
Nothing on topic.. Just:
Quote from: Leafsnail on February 20, 2011, 10:13:42 am
Quote
I find it hilarious how people still believe in human caused global warming. I disproved it pretty easily for a thesis for my physics degree. We humans think we are so important that we can alter nature. The truth is FAR from this.
Uh... huh.
I'm guessing that's one degree they didn't get.
I'd love to see his equations though. I bet they'd be quite the giggle!
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Heliman on February 20, 2011, 01:51:16 pm
I'm just going to address the Elephant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE) In The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7e_igiPIUI&feature=relmfu) Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtF13U5t8xE) for best advertising ever so we can get it out of the way.
Only commercial that ever made me want to buy something, and by god is it good deodorant, I get compliments on it all the time.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Fayrik on February 20, 2011, 02:05:37 pm
Quote from: Heliman on February 20, 2011, 01:51:16 pm
I'm just going to address the Elephant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE) In The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7e_igiPIUI&feature=relmfu) Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtF13U5t8xE)
I have a new favourite advert.
This.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 09:25:48 pm
Quote from: Fayrik on February 20, 2011, 02:05:37 pm
Quote from: Heliman on February 20, 2011, 01:51:16 pm
I'm just going to address the Elephant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE) In The (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7e_igiPIUI&feature=relmfu) Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtF13U5t8xE)
I have a new favourite advert.
This.
Wait, you never heard about the Old Spice advertisements that absolutely SATURATED every form of media imaginable through memetic mutation? How is that possible?
Quote from: Leafsnail on February 20, 2011, 10:13:42 am
Quote from: Gatleos on February 20, 2011, 12:05:57 am
I... what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmLcSeU2UY)
Not exactly a great advert, but it's funny to see how seriously youtube takes it.  Wait a second...

Quote
I find it hilarious how people still believe in human caused global warming. I disproved it pretty easily for a thesis for my physics degree. We humans think we are so important that we can alter nature. The truth is FAR from this.
Uh... huh.
Not great, just notable. Why it was aired in the first place is an absolute mystery to me.

Korea laughs at your silly foreign copyright laws! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOoSe2K5DU)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: chewie on February 21, 2011, 06:02:15 pm
Not excactly an ad, but oh god (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI)

Backt to awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6nDyeV0i6w) Director is Tom Kuntz. Check his Wikipedia page and watch the other stuff he made.

Don't try this at home unless you live in a hospital. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6p5NLXxvY)

Edit: And of course, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8xuVnB-Pk) Japan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0r6LfjMYRE) Good stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhIyQvPE7I).
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 21, 2011, 06:13:11 pm
Quote from: chewie on February 21, 2011, 06:02:15 pm
Not excactly an ad, but oh god (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI)

That... That actually makes me want to install DOS-5.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Realmfighter on February 21, 2011, 06:41:53 pm
Quote from: chewie on February 21, 2011, 06:02:15 pm
Japan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0r6LfjMYRE)
This is the thing of legends.
Quote from: chewie on February 21, 2011, 06:02:15 pm
Good stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhIyQvPE7I).
I don't get it, but I'm not sure that I even need to.....
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 21, 2011, 07:13:48 pm
Quote from: Realmfighter on February 21, 2011, 06:41:53 pm
I don't get it, but I'm not sure that I even need to.....

The teacher asked the students to draw the first thing that came to them, the boy decided that he would put the rest of the class to shame and made a life sized drawing of a whale.

In a lot of ways that reminded me of a dwarf going into a fey mood.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Vertigon on February 23, 2011, 05:49:25 pm
Quote from: Stone Wera on February 21, 2011, 07:13:48 pm
Quote from: Realmfighter on February 21, 2011, 06:41:53 pm
I don't get it, but I'm not sure that I even need to.....
the boy decided that he would put the rest of the clas to shame and made a life sized drawing of a whale.

I wouldn't say it was a conscious decision. Pretty cool ad though.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: darkrider2 on February 23, 2011, 08:27:28 pm
I am not a mime, but this guy is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5SEwZoS38).

Use em. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPg4LbCzD3I&NR=1)

Also, last one, I'm profoundly amazed that this even exists at all...

Warning: This will destroy your innocence. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJfGGrUxog&feature=related)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Stone Wera on February 23, 2011, 08:55:27 pm
Quote from: darkrider2 on February 23, 2011, 08:27:28 pm
I am not a mime, but this guy is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5SEwZoS38).

Agressive mimes are best mimes.

Quote from: darkrider2 on February 23, 2011, 08:27:28 pm
Warning: This will destroy your innocence. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJfGGrUxog&feature=related)

Innocence? This is the Bay Twelve Forums, innocence doesn't come within a ten mile radius of the Bay Twelve Forums. That certainly didn't make me want to buy a sponge, though.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Lord Shonus on February 25, 2011, 11:25:52 am
Probably one of the least subtle campaign ads in history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zta34qFA60s&feature=fvst
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Zrk2 on February 25, 2011, 03:13:47 pm
The Dos Equis Guy.

Beats that Old SPice guy hands down. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 25, 2011, 03:17:12 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on February 25, 2011, 03:13:47 pm
The Dos Equis Guy.

Beats that Old SPice guy hands down. Just sayin'.
The other Old Spice Guy beats both of them.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Pnx on February 25, 2011, 03:30:31 pm
Can't believe nobody's mentioned the soni bravia color like no other adverts... god damn those things worked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOrV-5vh1A - BALLS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOrV-5vh1A - PAINT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJmBdZ9czO8&feature=related - BUNNIES, seriously BUNNIES

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGq4keRlrA- and then pyramids...

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llj1zpMBWHI - oh and dominoes I suppose
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Jopax on February 25, 2011, 03:57:18 pm
George Takei does them better :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4DK1Yx4R6k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y466m7I5cfM&feature=related

:D
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: darkrider2 on February 25, 2011, 04:30:09 pm
I was about to say, I can't see the color because my monitor is RGB, then I realized...
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Cecilff2 on February 25, 2011, 04:35:27 pm
Hooray Life Insurance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZ1SyKPk9U)

Oh wait...that's horrible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1hu7ZBHAqs).
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 25, 2011, 05:05:22 pm
"Okay, we have to sell this video game. It's about this kid, and he has three days to save the world before the moon obliterates everything. How do we sell this?"
"I say we make a dead-serious commercial that could be misinterpreted by young kids as actually talking about the end of the world and broadcast it on national television!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Mf2mp6fms&feature=related)
"BRILLIANT!"

Seriously, that commercial could freak you out if you had no idea what was going on.

...Except the guy at 1:43 in the video. Cracks me up every time.
Title: Re: The Best and Worst of Advertising
Post by: Gatleos on February 26, 2011, 06:35:51 pm
*ahem*

KILL IT  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzNEmqeIWo)WITH FIRE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVy6L99Q6tA&NR=1)