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bobjr posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPwAXlRMggE My neck of the woods aired this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3XEosZVjc There was a second ad, starring the female of this one, but it's not on YouTube.
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Phalanx for SNES has probably been mentioned at some time. I wish I could find the commercial that ran on television for it, because it was even more out there than the box art. The ad ended with the banjo playing and I think it only had a couple of brief scenes showing that it was a space shooter. It might not be a dumb move, though, because 15 years later I bought a copy of it used based solely on the memories of the ad campaign.
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Morton Harket posted:Jesus, Mike Hostilo. (Hello fellow local.) He went through a few different styles of music, like a country music theme song, and he seems to have settled on rap. Unfortunately I drive past his Derenne Ave office twice a day back and forth to my daughter's school, so that poo poo is my head all the drat time. Yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2gdPY-88w
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Karma Monkey posted:
 Apparently it still exists. hyperhazard posted:A little something for the men as well Indeed. 
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Mu Zeta posted:Q: What was the deal with that old dude on the cover of the SNES shooter Phalanx? There was also a Phalanx commercial featuring the banjo strummer, but I sure can't find it on YouTube.
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I was going through some 1950s newspaper archives today. A paragraph from an ad for Sentinel TV sets just stood out to me. 1952 posted:And looks are an imporant part of your Sentinel set - the eye-capturing looks of the beautiful Mahogany or colorfast blond Korina wood cabinet - the eye-resting looks of Sentinel Living Pictures on the hugh 17", 21" or 27" screen - the envious looks of your friends and neighbors, the delighted looks on your family's happy faces when you announce "At last, we've bought a Sentinel!" Suggested retail price was $340. Inflation puts that to be over $3,000 in today's money. That said, television was enough of a status symbol that my grandparents specifically took a picture of their first TV. I found it in a box of other family photos.
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Coca-Cola is doing a lot of similar poo poo with their rewards program. It used to be just one big list of things you could earn with bottle cap codes. Now, there are different tiers and the only way to hit the gold tier is to participate in various activities. You can enter one of their contests (at the cost of already earned points) or you can shill their products and spam up your Twitter and/or Facebook, which you must have linked to the rewards program. For example, "Read about Jimmy Wayne - country music singer, author and speaker. Share with #JimmyWayneJourney & get +3 Status."
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Jaguars! posted:What are some ads that actively drove consumers away the product? On a personal level, I can think of two ads that caused me to switch away to another brand, although they were both for successful products. 
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I'm scared to remember that way back in the day, IE was the superior browser, if only because it was free to upgrade. Netscape wasn't free.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves that's a SAG thing. You aren't allowed to have the same screen name as anybody else, ever. That's why we have Michael J. Fox; Michael Fox was already taken but if you toss a J in there... IIRC, he thought Michael A. Fox looked and sounded stupid. Pause and it's Michael, A. Fox. CCR's label sued John Fogerty for sounding like John Fogerty on a solo release.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Wow, really? Here they didn't do anything that legally closed everything down but the state was like "hey restaurants and bars, could you do us a solid and close? Thanks, guys. You can still do takeout but close the dining room." A lot of pace just shut down entirely, the ones that do takeout mostly have you call and won't let you walk in to order, and nobody has an open dining room. No arm twisting just "hey guys, we got a plague going on. It'd be great if you could help with that." They went "no problem" and that was that. I looked up all of the local chain restaurants last week to see their status. The fast food places were quick. Chick-fil-A and McDonald's were oddly the most proactive, closing dining rooms nationwide early last week. The holdouts? Golden Corral and Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel still doesn't have any COVID notices on their website or social media. They've finally had to close dining this week under city proclamation. If we weren't shelter-in-place, I'd go sit in my car in the parking lot of Cracker Barrel and watch old people get pissed off they can't sit in a miasma of disease.
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I have a YouTube channel with old commercials. I only open that account in a private window in Opera and don't do anything else during the session. The YouTube recommendations are weird. I got rid of all the right wing political ones that immediately popped up, despite there not being anything political in the uploads. The car ones were at least understandable because of car commercials. Now it seems to think I want relaxing music from waterfalls. I don't know what made it think that, either.
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Doggles posted:Never heard of Rax before. If someone told me this was viral marketing for a fictional food chain showing up in the next season of Stranger Things, I'd believe them. Reminds me of the Wendy's SuperBar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTNsB4dQhcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2pzL_mysBI I saw something that said it lasted until 1998. I remember eating off the SuperBar a handful of times, but don't remember it lasting that long. Wendy's was the more upscale fast food growing up. They had the fancier tables with the surface that resembled old newsprint and would clear your table after you finished.
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1redflag posted:When I used to drive down I75 to see family I’d see this billboard regularly (and worse) It's about 20 miles from the Nut Milk billboard. Years ago, there was a billboard for vasectomy reversal in roughly that area. Kinda quaint now with all the weirdo stuff that's being advertised. And Buc-ees. Lots of ads for the Buc-ees in Warner Robins.
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HopperUK posted:Reading around I found out that Pepsi once used 'Brown Sugar'. Amazing. The two worst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ueDHn2HTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITdiptTiFyc
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GrandpaPants posted:I assume this thread is where dumb NFT poo poo goes: This is the epitome of NFTs, right here. Because there's no way that you own the final rights to that photo. Everybody will still be able to purchase publishing rights to it. I am curious about the NFTs cost. Because as it is, a good many small papers don't use wire image services because it's expensive as hell, even with package plans.
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Read After Burning posted:I don't even think this was a "local" commercial per se, but I remember this lady's commercials from high school. The aggressive way she says her name always stuck with me, ha. Her commercials still pop up from time to time. The legendary local commercial of my area is this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZ5wGadW-s He appeared in a ton of area commercials for just about every business at one point, but I haven't seen him in years. There were at least two for this venture, which he may have owned. Nothing else he did was anything close to this yikes, but all of his ads were that slightly wacky overly excited vibe.
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Hooters Remembers: Let Freedom Wing was first
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Beachcomber posted:Bud-weis-er was probably the zenith. That was like 30 years ago. Dude.
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