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Pepsi's Deaf commecial
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:36 pm
by gsabc
Scheduled to broadcast during the Super Bowl pre-game nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrq6cUoE5A
I'm normally a Coke drinker, but I'll probably buy a case or two of Pepsi products because of this. Truly excellent commercial.
BTW, do not adjust your speaker volume. It really is silent.
Re: Pepsi's Deaf commecial
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:49 pm
by earendel
gsabc wrote:Scheduled to broadcast during the Super Bowl pre-game nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrq6cUoE5A
I'm normally a Coke drinker, but I'll probably buy a case or two of Pepsi products because of this. Truly excellent commercial.
BTW, do not adjust your speaker volume. It really is silent.
Very nice indeed. It won't make me go out and buy Pepsi products (although elwing is a big fan of Code Red Mountain Dew), but I think it's very thoughtful of Pepsico to do this. And it's funny, too.
Re: Pepsi's Deaf commecial
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:36 pm
by fuzzywuzzy
gsabc wrote:Scheduled to broadcast during the Super Bowl pre-game nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrq6cUoE5A
I'm normally a Coke drinker, but I'll probably buy a case or two of Pepsi products because of this. Truly excellent commercial.
BTW, do not adjust your speaker volume. It really is silent.
gsabc...its about frippin time the Madison Ave yahoos figured out they were losing an important demographic!
fuzzy
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:42 pm
by T_Bone0806
Cool! I'm already a Pepsi guy (sugar free, natch), so yay for my team!
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:44 pm
by littlebeast13
Deaf people shouldn't be left out of the wonderful world of kidney stones....
lb13
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:09 pm
by silvercamaro
Super commercial -- and Pepsi will win the next-morning competition for "Commercials Talked About Most."
I'd say that's a win-win.
(It will not replace the all-time favorite in my heart, though. That spot still belongs to the cat herders of several seasons ago.)
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:43 pm
by tanstaafl2
I still have a fondness for some of the early budweiser "horses playing football" commercials.
For a series of commercials there have been a number of good ones.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:39 pm
by lilclyde54
I read about this commercial today and was curious how it would turn out. I think they nailed it. Thanks for the link.
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:30 pm
by geoffil
My husband works in the same building with that guy.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:43 am
by fantine33
Okay, I get the concept. But stuff like this bugs me. It's not like kickoff is at midnight, so why is every house on the block pitch dark? Especially a house where there's a Super Bowl party going on?
It's a very cool idea, but the framework and implementation of it could have been handled better.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:58 pm
by T_Bone0806
silvercamaro wrote:
(It will not replace the all-time favorite in my heart, though. That spot still belongs to the cat herders of several seasons ago.)
Oh, that was a great one. I got huge chuckles from it.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:18 am
by earendel
Did I miss this commercial? I don't remember seeing it last night at all.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:34 am
by peacock2121
I did not see it.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:35 am
by peacock2121
I did not see it.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:23 am
by gsabc
earendel wrote:Did I miss this commercial? I don't remember seeing it last night at all.
It was shown during the pre-game, somewhere around 4:10 Eastern time.
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:35 am
by minimetoo26
earendel wrote:Did I miss this commercial? I don't remember seeing it last night at all.
It had been on ABC news last week. They showed the whole commercial and had interviews with people who represent the Deaf community explaining that it's an old joke among the deaf. So maybe it was lacking a bit in logic, but the idea came from the right place...
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:44 am
by Bixby17
silvercamaro wrote:Super commercial -- and Pepsi will win the next-morning competition for "Commercials Talked About Most."
I'd say that's a win-win.
(It will not replace the all-time favorite in my heart, though. That spot still belongs to the cat herders of several seasons ago.)
My vote for best Super Bowl spot goes to the Jackie Moon Bud Light ad:
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/02/ ... e-moon-ad/
In part:
A great commercial is memorable, not corny or sappy, actually funny when it is trying to be funny, appeals to a broad audience, product focused and has people talking about it afterwards, and not in a bad way like the Sales Genie ads. I think out of all this year's crop of commercials, the Jackie Moon commercial does this the best.
Out of all the ads, which one would you want to see on a YouTube? Or send to a friend?
So many of the commercials this year were pretty tired.