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    Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 1:42pm
A commercial I really dislike is for Netflix.  The premise is that there is a uiz show and the contestant is really samrt and knows the answer to every question, even the questions that the host doesn't ask:
 
Host: if you multiply...
Contestant:  the square root of 19
Host: Correct
 
If he's so smart, why doesn't he answer 4.359?  Obviously, because the dumb guy who wrote the commercial has no idea how to calculate a square root but thinks it sounds "intelligent".
 
And if you listen to the answers--besides the ones that say how many films Netflix delievrs or the free delivery--you will quickly learn they are all B.S.  If a rhombus has four sides then how many tigers are there in the zoo, or something like that.  One contestant I think says the opposite of purple is blue (that can't be right, the opposite of purple is red, on the other side of the spectrum).  I think I would be a better commercial if the contestant responded to a question "I don't know!" and the host still said "Correct".  Might wake up some people.
 
Anyway this one bothers me.
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Actually, the opposite of purple is yellow.
Like last week I was eating spaghetti, and I just couldn't believe I was actually eating spaghetti ! I was putting it in my MOUTH !
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Or answer in a way that is totally ridiculous and incongruous:

Q. What is the opposite of purple?
A. Turtle Wax.

Q. When you multiply ...
A. Candy corn!

They seemed to be at least trying to do that in the earlier spots, but they have gone away from it. I really despise these ads, now.


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I can't stand these commercials! I just heard two of them during the same commercial break - they played one, a different ad then ANOTHER Netflix ad. These ads get on my nerves because the "bonus round" questions are usually stupid and the answers are even stupider.
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There was a one Netflix commercial where the host asked what reason would someone have not to use Netflixs.  I am thinking, "because you don't like watching movies, because you don't have a television, because you live in a cave in Afganistan and you are plotting jihad", but the contestant say No reason and that was the correct answer!
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These are so stupid. They've been running for years. It's way past time to come up with a new campaign.
This is your brain on commercials.
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Originally posted by kat kat wrote:

Actually, the opposite of purple is yellow.
Yep, purple and yellow are complementary colors.  So are red & green and blue & orange.  Basically out of the primary and secondary colors, whichever primary color is not used to make that secondary is its complement.  Learned that in first year architecture studio.
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AMEN annoying as hell all of them
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I need to listen to a a bonus round like I need a hole in the head.
The ad I'd really love to see has the GEICO Gecko being run over and flattened by the Energizer bunny.
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I think I am in the minority on these commercials. I sorta like them.
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Originally posted by macpic70 macpic70 wrote:

Or answer in a way that is totally ridiculous and incongruous:

Q. What is the opposite of purple?
A. Turtle Wax.

Q. When you multiply ...
A. Candy corn!

They seemed to be at least trying to do that in the earlier spots, but they have gone away from it. I really despise these ads, now.





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I joined these forums JUST because I hate those f-cking Netflix commercials so much.

Really, I just spent 5 minutes signing up so I could tell an anonymous internet community how much I despise Netflix for those crap-terrible commercials.

I canceled my Netflix membership over the summer (with hordes of other consumers) when they f-cked their business model. If I had given any thought to returning to Netflix as a customer, the notion has been damned by this series of ads.

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Cry agree Cry - these are just plain stupid. Where did the whole concept even come from? OK I get it, a game show. Great. But then just random questions along with random answers? Why not just read from the dictionary? The same amount of creative effort is required.

When did talent and creativity stop being a requirement for advertising?

Sometimes I think we are getting very close to testing the absolute limit of the "dumbing down" effect which has been at work in the country for the last few decades...
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