cGrant wrote:

2)  There is a certain pizza ad, voiced by a guy with a horrible Cockney accent, talking about his half-brother in a rainy day.  The current script has the same guy telling us about how he discovered he's 73% Italian and that's why he had chest-hair in grade 2.  Ummm, what the eff?

7 FREE SEX FREE SEX FREE SEX goes in one ear and out the other in 2018 so they had to try something new to get your attention instead.  
 

The ad that's making me cringe the last few days is the one that starts out with a cheerful mother talking about "Happy Healthy brand baby food" and turns into an ad for responsible gambling, or maybe a gambling help association.. It's clunky, awkward and totally fails.

The ad I am enjoying, and stopping to listen to every time I hear it, is the one with the talking tick selling an insecticide for pets. The writing is solid, the character voice is distinctive, and the ad's fun and well done. Curiously enough, there's another kind of talking tick on the radio, however this species of tick can only be found on certain panels and roundtables.

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ig wrote:

If you're talking about Greg Carrasco always referring to himself as @gregcarrasco I would have agreed a while back when he first started doing it, but now it honestly doesn't seem so strange.  I get it referring to yourself by your twitter handle is a bit out there, but if you think outside the box, there's probably more people will find him using that than his name.  

I thought it was bizarre when he first started it and still find it odd.  That said, the point of my thread starter was:

cGrant wrote:

There is a car guy that perpetually introduces himself with the "@"-sign shouting into the mic about -- if you've been following me, you know I never am on here talking about sales.  Ummm, excuse me?!  That's ALL you ever talk about!  Always! 

It's a bold-faced lie -- all he ever talks about is endless sales ad nauseum.  This is also my beef about certain mens' clothing stores where they have never-ending sales.  Under Ontario law, in order to call something a "sale", it MUST have been sold at regular price for a specific length of time.  Instead, both clothiers claim, "brand xyz just came in and it's already 80% off!"  That's just not right -- and why do those said clothiers have brands that nobody was ever heard of?  If I'm going to spend ridiculous amounts of scratch for a product, I, at least. want to wear something that has some cache.

Oh, and a certain former-screaming chain now has a claim that their bobbles will "fool even the professionals"!  Ummm... what? Are they selling counterfeit glass or are they implying that those "professionals" are stupid?

And, what's with all the Alexa and Google Home spots?  Why bother?  I can talk to my mobile already and they can do as I command.  Geez.  

 

With respect, SO?  What does the voice actor have to do with the absurd current copy of the ad?  Are you implying he wrote it, because I, for one, know he most certainly did not.

cGrant wrote:

With respect, SO?  What does the voice actor have to do with the absurd current copy of the ad?  Are you implying he wrote it, because I, for one, know he most certainly did not.

With respect, I found the post interesting.  Not everything in a thread has to be dead-centered on your target.