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Mierenneuker posted:One of the more infamous examples being The Towering Inferno. Notice how Newman('s name) is positioned higher than McQueen? But McQueen is to the left of Newman, so you see him first? It is all very much intentional. Something similar occurred for the 1987 movie Outrageous Fortune. According to IMDB: IDDB posted:Both Shelley Long and Bette Midler were promised top billing when they signed to do the film. Neither one wanted to give up top billing to the other. So west of the Mississippi River, Long got top billing and Midler got top billing east of the Mississippi.
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food court bailiff posted:That would be very impressive as Which Wich was founded less than a decade and a half ago, and the song sounded like a recent summer party jam. this was a little while back, but I've been thinking: are you sure it's actually a branded song and not just mishearing katy perry's swish swish?
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Dove makes its bi-annual marketing cock-up: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/08/dove-apologises-for-ad-showing-black-woman-turning-into-white-one 
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Dove makes its bi-annual marketing cock-up: Please, semi‐annual.
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So this went about as well as I thought , wonder how many McDonald's managers were confused as to what the hell is Rick and Morty https://io9.gizmodo.com/mcdonalds-rick-and-morty-promotion-did-not-go-well-1819261978
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What’s special about McDonald’s Szechuan sauce that cannot be experienced by buying a bottle at any good grocer?
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Platystemon posted:What’s special about McDonald’s Szechuan sauce that cannot be experienced by buying a bottle at any good grocer? A TV show that's popular among antisocial nerds played up how awesome a discontinued sauce was back in the 90s.
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Oct 9, 2017 00:20
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chitoryu12 posted:A TV show that's popular among antisocial nerds played up how awesome a discontinued sauce was back in the 90s. The appeal of the sauce was never the flavour. It was the shared trauma of the loss of the sauce. McDonald’s have outdone themselves. Their promotion was a masterstroke of performance art.
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Mierenneuker posted:One of the more infamous examples being The Towering Inferno. Notice how Newman('s name) is positioned higher than McQueen? But McQueen is to the left of Newman, so you see him first? It is all very much intentional. Newman is the higher-ranking actor in both aspects. Your eye doesn't see McQueen's first, it sees Newman's first, because our culture reads right to left.
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Oct 9, 2017 02:22
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The Dove ad is disgusting and inexcusable since the image of black people being "dirty" and becoming clean and white is old as hell. I can't find it now but there's an excellent essay demonstrating how advertising for mundane hygiene products was and still is rife with racism and colonialism. Pears Soap comes to mind, but they were hardly alone. Also I saw that McDs is now going to bring back the gross sauce since all the boys got their fee-fees hurt after being lovely to employees online and in-person. I wish they'd never bring back anything like it again.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Newman is the higher-ranking actor in both aspects. Your eye doesn't see McQueen's first, it sees Newman's first, because our culture reads right to left. That is immaterial to the fact that that poster's design was due to those contractual constraints.
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Platystemon posted:What’s special about McDonald’s Szechuan sauce that cannot be experienced by buying a bottle at any good grocer? Perceived rarity perhaps, as well as meme potential. Parallels with the Mcrib maybe?
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Grassy Knowles posted:That is immaterial to the fact that that poster's design was due to those contractual constraints. I think you're misreading that. It specifically makes note of Newman's picture being higher and to the right.
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Movie posters don't really do that thing of explaining what roles the actors in this film play anymore do they? I think I maybe remember seeing one modern example in some lovely Jason Bateman movie but that's it.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I think you're misreading that. It specifically makes note of Newman's picture being higher and to the right. I'm not disputing your point, just that it doesn't conflict with Mierenneuker's point either that the posters design was 'intentional' and that sating the needs of two conflicting parties (Newman and McQueen) was part of that intent.
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jojoinnit posted:Movie posters don't really do that thing of explaining what roles the actors in this film play anymore do they? I think I maybe remember seeing one modern example in some lovely Jason Bateman movie but that's it. Yeah, only if they're trying to be retro these days. IMDb pretty much covers that now.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The Dove ad is disgusting and inexcusable since the image of black people being "dirty" and becoming clean and white is old as hell. I can't find it now but there's an excellent essay demonstrating how advertising for mundane hygiene products was and still is rife with racism and colonialism. Pears Soap comes to mind, but they were hardly alone. It seems so unlikely that no one, no one at Dove's marketing didn't at one point say "guys, this could be problematic," that I have to wonder if they didn't think they could spin the controversy in their favor.
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For some reason a pile of newspapers targeted at over 60's arrived on our floor at work, the production values are just amazing. This is on the front page When I am looking for a plumper/plomper, they better be cusomer focused I think about one third of this paper is about organ donation Edit: removed the guys identifying details, don't want him getting spammed or some poo poo EMC has a new favorite as of 08:10 on Oct 9, 2017 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Also I saw that McDs is now going to bring back the gross sauce since all the boys got their fee-fees hurt after being lovely to employees online and in-person. I wish they'd never bring back anything like it again. I mean it's dumb but nerds are gonna get super butt hurt if you gently caress with their poo poo and mcdonalds clearly had no idea what they were doing. hundreds of people showed up at locations where only like 40 got the sauce and some of the places that advertised for it didn't even have it at all. It was legitimately insanely bad planning and marketing and although I can't imagine standing in line at a mcdonalds for hours to try some random sauce I don't think it's crazy to be pissed if you do that and don't get what you're waiting for it's equally dumb to bring the sauce back to every place if that's what they're doing cause Rick and Morty is popular but not like to the extent that probably even 10% of people who eat at McDonalds would get the reference or reason for it
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I remember there being some "asian" McD's deal when I was a kid in the late 80's maybe? There was a special nugget sauce that I only remember because it was close in color to the little packs of spicy mustard lovely Chinese places give out and this led to a beloved family story where in little bongwiz ate an entire packet and ran around a Chinese restaurant yelling "Spicy!" because he though it was the special nugget sauce.
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I'm not so sure this sauce business was a misstep on corporate, but a calculation. Like as soon as I heard it was one day only I thought it would be artificially creating demand so the full rollout would be gangbusters. Then they announced how small a release it would actually be--a media blitz for only 20 packets per store? After sending Dan Harmon a gallon jug? Suuuure they only planned on releasing it on that day...
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The thing I don't understand about the McDonalds sauce thing is people complaining that they drove for hours and went to dozens of McDonalds to try to find it but it was all out. Can't you look up the number of any McDonalds? Why not try to call all the nearby ones and ask if they have the sauce instead of spending time, effort and gas on a bizarre nerd-inspired scavenger hunt?
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King of Foolians posted:The thing I don't understand about the McDonalds sauce thing is people complaining that they drove for hours and went to dozens of McDonalds to try to find it but it was all out. Can't you look up the number of any McDonalds? Why not try to call all the nearby ones and ask if they have the sauce instead of spending time, effort and gas on a bizarre nerd-inspired scavenger hunt? Because people in general have poor problem-solving skills? Or they are just Lying on the Internet.
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It must suck working at McDonald's while all this mcnugget sauce hype is going on.
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Panfilo posted:It must suck working at McDonald's while all this mcnugget sauce hype is going on. Or ever
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King of Foolians posted:The thing I don't understand about the McDonalds sauce thing is people complaining that they drove for hours and went to dozens of McDonalds to try to find it but it was all out. Can't you look up the number of any McDonalds? Why not try to call all the nearby ones and ask if they have the sauce instead of spending time, effort and gas on a bizarre nerd-inspired scavenger hunt? Part of it, I have to imagine, is that most of these people heard about the promotion secondhand, so instead of seeing "McDonald's is doing a one-day promotion where they're giving out 20 packets of szechuan sauce at select locations, so you should find out ahead of time if your location's going to have it", they just saw "McDonald's is passing out szechuan sauce on Saturday!!!". The other part of it is that many Rick and Morty fans are the kind of not-clever that believes itself to be the cleverest of all, and as such is incapable of acknowledging the sunk cost fallacy or admitting that one of their plans might be a bad idea.
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King of Foolians posted:The thing I don't understand about the McDonalds sauce thing is people complaining that they drove for hours and went to dozens of McDonalds to try to find it but it was all out. Can't you look up the number of any McDonalds? Why not try to call all the nearby ones and ask if they have the sauce instead of spending time, effort and gas on a bizarre nerd-inspired scavenger hunt? Neither side is enviable in this debacle, least of all you, because this information already exists and on this page. Aesop Poprock posted:I mean it's dumb but nerds are gonna get super butt hurt if you gently caress with their poo poo and mcdonalds clearly had no idea what they were doing. hundreds of people showed up at locations where only like 40 got the sauce and some of the places that advertised for it didn't even have it at all. It was legitimately insanely bad planning and marketing and although I can't imagine standing in line at a mcdonalds for hours to try some random sauce I don't think it's crazy to be pissed if you do that and don't get what you're waiting for Two posts back.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Because McDonalds had a website you could use to search for participating restaurants, and many of those, despite being listed and having promotional materials up, didn't get any/enough.
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Panfilo posted:It must suck working at McDonald's while all this mcnugget sauce hype is going on. Imagine what it was like working there during the Teenie Beanie Babies promotion. 
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King of Foolians posted:The thing I don't understand about the McDonalds sauce thing is people complaining that they drove for hours and went to dozens of McDonalds to try to find it but it was all out. Can't you look up the number of any McDonalds? Why not try to call all the nearby ones and ask if they have the sauce instead of spending time, effort and gas on a bizarre nerd-inspired scavenger hunt? Imagine being a shut in that would care enough to do any of this poo poo, and having to use a phone to actually talk to someone using sound
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Mu Zeta posted:
So you don't think they're seal-burgers. Like my girlfriend just did after misreading the sign.
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Besesoth posted:The other part of it is that many Rick and Morty fans are the kind of not-clever that believes itself to be the cleverest of all, and as such is incapable of acknowledging the sunk cost fallacy or admitting that one of their plans might be a bad idea. fans of the show turning into the shows main character, whoa
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Dove makes its bi-annual marketing cock-up: Can anybody play devil's advocate here and tell me what they were going for?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Dove makes its bi-annual marketing cock-up: I feel like this exact same gently caress up has happened multiple times from different companies in the past couple of years.
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SkunkDuster posted:Can anybody play devil's advocate here and tell me what they were going for? Strudel Man has a new favorite as of 03:19 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:it's equally dumb to bring the sauce back to every place if that's what they're doing cause Rick and Morty is popular but not like to the extent that probably even 10% of people who eat at McDonalds would get the reference or reason for it
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The cool thing was that Adult Swim wasn't involved at all in the sauce thing and didn't know it was happening. If you'll notice, McD's statements regarding the sauce are as vague as they can be while still being recognizably about Rick and Morty.
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Waffleman_ posted:The cool thing was that Adult Swim wasn't involved at all in the sauce thing and didn't know it was happening. If you'll notice, McD's statements regarding the sauce are as vague as they can be while still being recognizably about Rick and Morty.  No loving mention of or art from manbaby show. Right now, there are people unironically hanging up a McDonalds poster because the cartoon man told them to.
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SkunkDuster posted:Can anybody play devil's advocate here and tell me what they were going for? It's an incomplete image. The full ad is actually an animation where the white girl then turns Asian, who turns Hispanic. It's just cycling through all the nude shades. Dove is actually fine here.
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chitoryu12 posted:It's an incomplete image. The full ad is actually an animation where the white girl then turns Asian, who turns Hispanic. It's just cycling through all the nude shades. Not quite fine: 
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