http://www.commercialsihate.com/ This is an XML content feed of; Commercials I Hate! : 2009 Superbowl XLIII AD REVIEW : General Electric: Scarecrow Fri, 24 May 2013 01:48:33 +0000 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:58:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.11 360 www.commercialsihate.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=3642 http://www.commercialsihate.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://www.commercialsihate.com/ http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post65903.html#65903 Author: PaWolf
Subject: 3642
Posted: 24 Feb 2009 at 7:58pm

So much for the 'Tesla Coil Effect'...(oops...'scuse me - wrong current management methodology!) ]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:58:15 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post65903.html#65903 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60560.html#60560 Author: N-Dizzle
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Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 9:29pm

I liked this one.    Good animation and better than the recycled ad.    Yes, the GE ad with the little boy "capturing the wind" in the jar is an old ad, just with different(and worse) music.]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:29:18 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60560.html#60560 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60540.html#60540 Author: Pirate Alyx
Subject: 3642
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 8:49pm

This one could have been good if they worked on it some more I thought...took a while to put it together in my head what they where trying to advertise.]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:49:49 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60540.html#60540 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60455.html#60455 Author: Ad nauseous
Subject: 3642
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 5:33pm

regulus wrote: It would have been a lot better (and funnier) if at the point when the Scarecrow reached out and grasped both elements ZZZZZZZZZZZZAP!!!! (And the Scarecrow's TOAST!)

"If I only had a BRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP*



THIS ONE indeed SUCKS as a superbowl ad.

good catch on the disappearing wire and the badly designed electricity towers pslawinski, I never noticed that before.








]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:33:17 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60455.html#60455 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60409.html#60409 Author: regulus
Subject: 3642
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 3:19pm

It would have been a lot better (and funnier) if at the point when the Scarecrow reached out and grasped both elements ZZZZZZZZZZZZAP!!!! (And the Scarecrow's TOAST!)]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:19:36 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60409.html#60409 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60408.html#60408 Author: pslawinski
Subject: 3642
Posted: 02 Feb 2009 at 3:03pm

Looks like a public relations ad to me.

It's pretty clear that whoever made this ad knows very little about electrical engineering.  I love the station post insulators just sitting on top of that truss, doing nothing useful at all.  I'll give the animators that one, nobody expects them to know anything about electrical engineering.  What I won't give them is the disappearing wire.  Overall, the idea of a scarecrow in a substation (if that's what they're trying to make it look like) is an awful idea.  The scarecrow is conductive and flammable, so if you ask me, "if he only had a brain," he'd stay the heck away from all this high voltage.




]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:03:12 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60408.html#60408 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60038.html#60038 Author: Wild Starchild
Subject: 3642
Posted: 01 Feb 2009 at 6:57am

Yep, and from what I've heard GE has lost a HELLUVALOTTA money the past few years. I wonder where they are getting the funds to run ads during the Super Bowl! OH  WAIT, they own the station.....hmmmm seems kind of odd don't ya think?? LOL ]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:57:12 +0000 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post60038.html#60038 http://www.commercialsihate.com/general-electric-scarecrow_topic3642_post59499.html#59499 Author: ForumAdmin
Subject: 3642
Posted: 29 Jan 2009 at 4:23am

Ad with a scarecrow promoting "Smart Grid" technology.

By the way, GE owns NBC, the network the Super Bowl is on this year.

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