SNY One Sentence Commercial Summaries, 2014

[Zvon]

Drill Sergeants cause deafness.

[Centerfield]

Have you guys heard the WOR commercial for NYC Corrections Officers? I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like:

We lock up da criminals of New York. Da guy dat raped yuh daughta. The guy that kidnapped yuh son. Dese are da guys we spend time wit every day. Make a donation to the Corrections Officers Benevolent Association. Because widout corrections officers, how safe are you?

It's like something out of a Ben Stiller movie.

[Edgy MD]

Or, in one-sentence summary form: "We just interrupted this ballgame to give you a mental image of your daughter being raped by a dangerous maniac --- please give us money."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And, if you're up for a career based on personally avenging wrongs in society by delivering lower-than-whaleshit people the daily punishments they deserve, consider the Corrections Bureau! We'll provide the bats!

[Lefty Specialist]

d'Kong76 wrote: That emphysema commercial sucks.

You know, I've listening to him lately and he sounds like he's getting a little better.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Have you guys heard the WOR commercial for NYC Corrections Officers? I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like: We lock up da criminals of New York. Da guy dat raped yuh daughta. The guy that kidnapped yuh son. Dese are da guys we spend time wit every day. Make a donation to the Corrections Officers Benevolent Association. Because widout corrections officers, how safe are you? It's like something out of a Ben Stiller movie.

Is that the one with, like, the hook from "In the Club" playing at the end? ("Do we have a quorum? All in favor of the circa-2000 throw-your-hands-up-fuck-yeah music for the ad, say 'aye.'")

[Lefty Specialist]

Even ordinary schlubs can score touchdowns against the Jets merely by donning a Patriots uniform.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm in a perfectly fine mood on the cusp of perhaps a
sweep and this guy coughs up a lung.

[Ceetar]

Lexus Guy from future spends time in past protecting his future car even though he clearly knows it's not going to get beat up or he never would've bought it.

[Guest themetfairy]

d'Kong76 wrote: I'm in a perfectly fine mood on the cusp of perhaps a sweep and this guy coughs up a lung.

I just sent this message to SNY -

Please - you have to stop showing the New York State Smokers Quitline commercials during Mets games. They aren't going to get anyone to stop smoking, but they are causing people to turn the channel away from your programming. They are unseemly, disgusting and unwatchable. It's tough enough being a Mets fan this season - stop making it tougher for us!

[Ceetar]

WOR edition: If you don't drive a Honda, your 3rd grader will be mercilessly mocked at school.

[Guest d'Kong76]

themetfairy wrote: I just sent this message to SNY

How do you send SNY a message? I'll gladly send one too.

[Guest themetfairy]

d'Kong76 wrote: themetfairy wrote: I just sent this message to SNY How do you send SNY a message? I'll gladly send one too.

Here

[Lefty Specialist]

Boy, Ickey Woods really needs to lay off the cold cuts.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Thanks, sent.

[Guest themetfairy]

Great!

I also just made a comment on their Facebook page.

If we have to watch their hacking ads, let them have to deal with some messages.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I think they censored you, I don't see your comment.

[Guest themetfairy]

I don't know whether they publish comments, but I'm sure they see them.

I did the same thing on the New York State Smokers Quitline's Facebook page. I'm on a roll.

[Zvon]

I find it ironic that Pete Rose seems to have a problem pronouncing the word "hall".

[Lefty Specialist]

70-year-old blue haired ladies distressed that they've been made guinea pigs to prove a point about upload speeds, something they have no concept of anyway.

[Zvon]

No joke here, the commercial with the little girl who sees the moon and says she can't reach it is supra adorable.

[Lefty Specialist]

Oy....have your Bar Mitzvah at Citi Field?

[Zvon]

I've been singing, " I Know you're mad Jake, but you got to get your own..", almost all day.

[Zvon]

This hot babe who is trying to help men who can't get erections might not have been a good choice for their business, cause just watching her talk, I got a woody, np.

[Zvon]

The commercial that has McCutchen making that great play at the wall-- I find it totally insane that fans right in front of the play were not looking at it with their own eyes, but through there devices--but this commercial thinks this is the proper way to experience life, so what do I know?

[Ceetar]

Zvon wrote: The commercial that has McCutchen making that great play at the wall-- I find it totally insane that fans right in front of the play were not looking at it with their own eyes, but through there devices--but this commercial thinks this is the proper way to experience life, so what do I know?

hmm. maybe. But what is so special about 'actual eyes' versus super-HD camera? When people say they "saw it with their own eyes" aren't they often just meaning they saw it live? This is seeing it live, with all the same crowd-energy and what not. It's just also recorded.

Anyway, I'm more concerned with how they got such crisp shots of a moving target from what appears to be angles they couldn't possible have been at.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Zvon wrote: The commercial that has McCutchen making that great play at the wall-- I find it totally insane that fans right in front of the play were not looking at it with their own eyes, but through there devices--but this commercial thinks this is the proper way to experience life, so what do I know? hmm. maybe. But what is so special about 'actual eyes' versus super-HD camera? When people say they "saw it with their own eyes" aren't they often just meaning they saw it live? This is seeing it live, with all the same crowd-energy and what not. It's just also recorded. Anyway, I'm more concerned with how they got such crisp shots of a moving target from what appears to be angles they couldn't possible have been at.

If you don't know the difference between watching something with your own eyes and watching something on a screen, I'm not going to explain it to you. But it seems, to the younger set, and like in the commercial, they are considered the same thing. I don't agree.

Those people saw it live in the same sense that I saw it live on TV.

Can't you take pics on those things w/o having to look thru them? I'd want to take pics but I would not want to take my eyes off that play.

[Ceetar]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: The commercial that has McCutchen making that great play at the wall-- I find it totally insane that fans right in front of the play were not looking at it with their own eyes, but through there devices--but this commercial thinks this is the proper way to experience life, so what do I know? hmm. maybe. But what is so special about 'actual eyes' versus super-HD camera? When people say they "saw it with their own eyes" aren't they often just meaning they saw it live? This is seeing it live, with all the same crowd-energy and what not. It's just also recorded. Anyway, I'm more concerned with how they got such crisp shots of a moving target from what appears to be angles they couldn't possible have been at. If you don't know the difference between watching something with your own eyes and watching something on a screen, I'm not going to explain it to you. But it seems, to the younger set, and like in the commercial, they are considered the same thing. I don't agree. Those people saw it live in the same sense that I saw it live on TV. Can't you take pics on those things w/o having to look thru them? I'd want to take pics but I would not want to take my eyes off that play.

well yes, you can take a picture without looking. it's not really hard. I do that a lot myself actually, because I enjoy taking pictures and enjoy documenting where I've been and what I've done. I find looking back at those pictures enlightening, and I find myself scrambling for a picture to try to remember what happened somewhere/sometime that I didn't take a picture of.

I don't think you CAN explain the difference, besides by definition, between seeing something through your own eyes and through the lens/screen of a camera. I suspect the differences are deeply sociological and personal. 'What does it mean to really 'see' something? Fodder for a rather intense philosophical debate.

That said, it's important not to get distracted and so focused on taking the perfect picture that you don't actually absorb the moment.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: That said, it's important not to get distracted and so focused on taking the perfect picture that you don't actually absorb the moment.

This would be my problem. For me it would be a trade-off. I want the perfect picture so I'll concentrate on that and "see" it later.

The whole thing might just be my problem. Because I don't think of a photographer looking thru a viewfinder (old style-not digital) the same as I do a person viewing something on a screen thru a device. And there's really not much of a difference.

Yikes, I'm such a dinosaur.

[dinosaur jesus]

Zvon wrote: Ceetar wrote: That said, it's important not to get distracted and so focused on taking the perfect picture that you don't actually absorb the moment. This would be my problem. For me it would be a trade-off. I want the perfect picture so I'll concentrate on that and "see" it later. The whole thing might just be my problem. Because I don't think of a photographer looking thru a viewfinder (old style-not digital) the same as I do a person viewing something on a screen thru a device. And there's really not much of a difference. Yikes, I'm such a dinosaur.

I'm the dinosaur here. This is one of those issues that puts me in full curmudgeon mode. People walking through a museum, for instance, stopping at each famous painting just long enough to snap a picture, then moving on to the next. I wish that were illegal. I realize a ball game is different, because you can see as much or more through your viewfinder, and look at it again (and share it) later. But to me, the difference between watching with your own eyes and watching through a camera is the difference between actually being there, part of the experience, and standing apart from it, like a tourist.