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#1 Posted on 9.7.02 0916.13
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Okay, I've watched them a million times and I still don't understand. A young guy and a middle-aged guy in the NEW~! TNN marketing department, sitting around bullshitting. WTF?
I know this may be some new high-brow form of comedy that I haven't been exposed to, but more than likely, these are just stupid.

The ones I understand:
1. The kid has a boner when he picks up the Pamela Anderson poster. I get it.
2. The "would you have sex with a Klingon chick" commercial. Got it.

The ones I find frustrating:
1. The kid's cell phone keeps ringing while they are talking. What is funny about this?
2. They are having a conference and some guy keeps coughing really loudly. What does this mean?

I guess I just demand too much from my commercials. I tend to hate things that don't make sense (at least comedic sense).
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#2 Posted on 9.7.02 0927.10
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I find the Klingon one funny, but some of the rest are dumb, "We are a good network because we only show Baywatch, wrestling, and ST: TNG!"
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#3 Posted on 9.7.02 1258.15
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I didn't notice the kid with the boner until the third time I saw that commercial-pretty risque.

Maybe they should just dump it all and bring back fishing and country music 24/7.
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#4 Posted on 9.7.02 1628.46
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Speaking of the ads...

It seems I can't ever get through to their 1-888-????-POP line. DOes anyone know what that line is about?
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#5 Posted on 9.7.02 1706.20
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It's their answering machine. You can leave a message like "Pamela Anderson is soooooooooo HAWT!!!" and get it played in the sound bites.

I called to complain about the nepotism in the first ad, but that's because I have a lot of free time.

No really, I did. I feel dirty.
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#6 Posted on 9.7.02 1732.32
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    Originally posted by Guru Zim
    It's their answering machine. You can leave a message like "Pamela Anderson is soooooooooo HAWT!!!" and get it played in the sound bites.

    I called to complain about the nepotism in the first ad, but that's because I have a lot of free time.

    No really, I did. I feel dirty.



What nepotism would that be?
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#7 Posted on 9.7.02 1929.25
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I think the young dude got hired because he's some TNN big-wig's nephew or something.
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#8 Posted on 9.7.02 1947.00
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...forever ago, when they showed the Godfather series, I called in to complain about the raver commercials. Just... bleh.

I also complained about the damn black bar with the show's title at the bottom of every show, as if we're watching some sort of perverted backwoods widescreen presentation in letterbox format... something we're thankfully spared of on Raw, but DAMNIT, don't FUCK with Three's Company.
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#9 Posted on 9.7.02 2321.16
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wait... They show Three's Company? I honestly don't know how they'd fit that in with 8 hours of MadTV, 4 hours of ST:TNG, and I don't know how many hours of Baywatch daily... damn!
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