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PrinceJ
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Topic: Netflix "quiz show"Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 1:42pm |
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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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kat
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Posted: 23 Oct 2008 at 8:48pm |
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Actually, the opposite of purple is yellow.
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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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macpic70
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Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 4:31pm |
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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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Moochamoocha
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Posted: 13 Jan 2010 at 6:31pm |
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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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PrinceJ
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Posted: 18 Jan 2010 at 11:01pm |
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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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keyboardplayer
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Posted: 02 Feb 2010 at 7:01pm |
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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.
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This is your brain on commercials.
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msmith
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Posted: 10 Mar 2010 at 12:06am |
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kicket
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010 at 4:27pm |
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AMEN annoying as hell all of them
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parrotheada1a
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Posted: 24 Apr 2010 at 2:41pm |
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I need to listen to a a bonus round like I need a hole in the head.
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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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Ebola Guy
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Posted: 10 May 2010 at 2:14pm |
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I think I am in the minority on these commercials. I sorta like them.
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Posted: 11 May 2010 at 12:09pm |
Yup. An endless series of "non sequitors". ![]()
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