Sunday, December 10, 2006

Bad Ads II

After coming in late on the Sean Payton showing up his mentor, Bill Parcels, I get the Nissan truck ad twice in the same commercial break. You might have seen it, the TV screen is supposed to represent your TV screen. Two guys fast-forward a Tivo through a Canadian Football game and one says, "this is boring, let me get to the good part."

The other guy goes, "yeah, there it is!" The truck charges and sloshes through mud while big letters extoll its performance. Cue Black Sabbath-

"I-am-Iron Man!"

Patrick Crayton doesn't run his route in the redzone and Grammatica kicks a field goal. Then NBC runs the damn ad twice in the same ad break again!

Ad: I-am-
Me: -mute button!

6 Comments:

Blogger haahnster said...

I am mute button

That's pretty freakin' funny. Terrible, terrible ad.

Tue Dec 12, 09:55:00 AM PST  
Blogger Writeprocrastinator said...

"Terrible, terrible ad."

Haahnster,

Don't you get the impression that they're not even trying?

Tue Dec 12, 08:23:00 PM PST  
Blogger haahnster said...

I would almost hope not. If that's the result of real effort, it almost makes it worse.

Wed Dec 13, 08:00:00 AM PST  
Blogger Writeprocrastinator said...

"I would almost hope not. If that's the result of real effort, it almost makes it worse."

If it's the only thing that Nancy Reagan and I agree on, it's just say "no" to writing commercials on drugs.

Wed Dec 13, 08:35:00 PM PST  
Blogger AngelConradie said...

i dunno how anyone could fast forward tv to see the ads! thats just wrong!

Sun Dec 17, 04:56:00 AM PST  
Blogger Writeprocrastinator said...

"i dunno how anyone could fast forward tv to see the ads! thats just wrong!"

Angela,

Neither do I and it doesn't do anything in terms of the truck's credibility.

We're the truck favored by nutjobs who love to watch nothing but commercials!

Sun Dec 17, 03:06:00 PM PST  

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