2022 Brevity In Understanding Local Or National Basic Cable Commercials

[Ceetar]

at about 7:46 of effectively wild they do a deep dive in the CarShield commercial universe, featuring Pete Alonso



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[kcmets]

"I'm agreeing with you!"

"I'm agreeing with you more!"

[MFS62]

A SUBWAY commercial says their Italian sub sandwich has "Italian Style Capicola".

To translate, to Tony Soprano, that was just Gabagool.



Later

[Edgy MD]

Goofing-off black employees make white employees do all the work at Wendy's.

[MFS62]

Only opera singers need cash now.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

For some reason, cars sold to tri-state residents to make Home Depot runs or buy groceries are continually shown doing high-speed donuts in the desert.

[whippoorwill]

Reminds me of the weirdness of the ‘local California Ford dealers' ads we watch when we're watching Restaurant Impossible On Demand

[MFS62]

Lefty Specialist wrote: For some reason, cars sold to tri-state residents to make Home Depot runs or buy groceries are continually shown doing high-speed donuts in the desert.

That use of "tri-state" ticks me off.

If you go into a NY dealership and ask him the states in his tri-state, they'll probably say NY, NJ, CT.

If you go into one in Western CT and ask the same, they'll probably say CT, NY , Mass. ( In Eastern CT, it might be CT,RI, Mass.)

C'mon NY dealers. Which Tr-state association are you in?

Of course, it is all BS.

The IS no "tri-state" association of dealers.

They're too cheap to have individual state commercials, so they made that stuff up to save money (and to make you think they're part of something big).

Poor babies. Someone please buy them a security blanket.

feh!

Later

[Ceetar]

I mean, radio signals from the top of the ESB probably only reach the three states. I'd argue they don't even mean like, Mystic or Camden (or hell, Montauk) when they say tri-state.





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[kcmets]

I was watching Mets Fast Forward this morning and Pillow Guy commercial

started for two seconds only to be zapped by a regional commercial.



Made me laugh. Need more zapping.

[Lefty Specialist]

Lots of tri-states.

Chicago area (WI, IL, IN)

Philly (PA, NJ. DE)

Boston ( MA, NH, RI)

Cincinnati (OH, KY, IN)

Pittsburgh (PA, OH, WV)

Washington just calls it the DMV

[MFS62]

And I bet if you walked into a dealership in any of those states and asked them to show you proof of their "tri-state" membership, they'd change the subject.

And, Boston, keep your mitts off of Rhode Island!

They're part of our (Eastern) CT tri-state.



Later

[kcmets]

Cold and soggy pizza slices fly out of a pond, morons eat it.

[Edgy MD]

Although their commercial on Mets radio is just as ambiguous as Kars4Kids, https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/020554654The Tunnels to Towers Foundation is highly rated and respected.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Although their commercial on Mets radio is just as ambiguous as Kars4Kids, https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/020554654The Tunnels to Towers Foundation is highly rated and respected.

One of the founders of Tunnels to Towers lives in my town and owns my lawn service company.

Later

[Edgy MD]

There you go.



It's nice to hear a charity advertising during a Mets radiocast that isn't as questionable, even if, again, they say virtually nothing about their programming in the ad, so it kind of feels suspicious.

[kcmets]

Also, I kinda need a ride to the game. Would you mind taking me?

[kcmets]

I'm Zachariah Reitano, and I'm having a really bad wig day.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm confused by the commercials for "Lemonade Renters Insurance."



Why would anyone need to rent lemonade?

[Frayed Knot]

Subway must be really raking in the cash to afford all the (mostly sports) celebrities in their ads.

Although I guess that beats having a child molester as your go-to pitch man.



None of that cash is mine though. Haven't been to one in decades.

[Lefty Specialist]

Coors Light, the official beer of gross sweaty guys sticking their head in the beer cooler.

[MFS62]

Here's a summary of every commercial now being shown:



Kevin Hart



Later

[Ceetar]

via CBS:



"Homeless? Have you tried THINKING?"

[Lefty Specialist]

Couple, wordlessly, suddenly decide to take Amtrak to a baseball game in Washington/Philadelphia/Boston rather than just watching it from their comfy couch.

[kcmets]

Nicely-groomed handsome man parlays on toilet.

[Edgy MD]

John Deere — penis penis, penis penis.

[Edgy MD]

Life isn't unsettling enough, so here's a woman's thumb sprouting a mouth and giving her shit.



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[bmfc1]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Couple, wordlessly, suddenly decide to take Amtrak to a baseball game in Washington/Philadelphia/Boston rather than just watching it from their comfy couch.

That commercial is on mlb.tv at least 5X a game if not more. The guy holds his coffee cup so strangely and then she puts popcorn in his mouth. Did they buy the tickets while sitting on the couch? When is that game because there is red, white, and blue bunting behind them but they don't have coats on? I've thought about this way too much.

[Edgy MD]

1. The entire audience around them also have flat stomachs.



2. Nobody wears masks on public transit (despite Amtrak's previous ad being totally masky-masky).



3. The basketball players appear to be on the same train as the couple, throwing high fives.



Also, yeah, I don't like how he drinks his Amtrak-branded coffee.

[bmfc1]

Those are good points. I ass-umed it was a baseball game as I'm inundated with it during baseball games.