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One Of The Funniest S#*$r B$@l Ads You'll See This Year Makes Fun Of NFL Trademarks
from the big-game-or-whatever dept
It's almost that time of year again, when many of us lesser beings will gather together to watch super-human men on all manner of PEDs and deer antler urine sprays smack each other around while an oblong leather ball sits somewhere in the background. We'll leap for the pizza and chili like salmon during mating season while, between whistles, obligatory commercials with Avatar-like production budgets glow at us. That's right sports fans, it's [editor redacted] time!
Wait, hey! What the hell? I said it's [editor redacted] time! Oh, come on. I can't say [editor redacted]? Fine, what about a euphemism, like [editor redacted]? No, can't say that either? Maybe [editor redacted]? Damn it, this is stupid. I'm talking about something that rhymes with "Pooper Hole" (heh, got you, editor!).
Fortunately for our entertainment sensibilities, Samsung decided this year to combine a distaste for trademark stupidity and our concept of advertising being content in this gem of a spot.
Wait, hey! What the hell? I said it's [editor redacted] time! Oh, come on. I can't say [editor redacted]? Fine, what about a euphemism, like [editor redacted]? No, can't say that either? Maybe [editor redacted]? Damn it, this is stupid. I'm talking about something that rhymes with "Pooper Hole" (heh, got you, editor!).
Fortunately for our entertainment sensibilities, Samsung decided this year to combine a distaste for trademark stupidity and our concept of advertising being content in this gem of a spot.
Pictured: million dollar passive aggression
Yes, Samsung has decided to do a game-that-shan't-be-named commercial making fun of how the NFL is overly aggressive with their trademarks. I'd call Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd's delivery "brilliant", but that'd be like referring to Natalie Portman as "mildly attractive", and even I have some damned sense, people. The NFL likes to toss around a great deal of words and pretend like they're true even when they're not, especially when it comes to trademarks. This spot uses the absurdity of it all to highlight how aggressive they are. Maybe it will even open up an eye or two to the silliness of the ever-growing permission culture.
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I admit, that is fun.
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Super Bowl.
Super Bowl.
Oh science, the lawyer just appeared behind me! *crash *garble
He's beating me with a C&D order! UGHH. UGHH. UMPH.
[transmission terminated]
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NFL pulls ad...
Samsung makes another commercial about that senario, everyone else laughs again.
It is sad that's a possible senario.
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Best description of American Football I've ever read.
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Oh no...
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But it isn't a Samsung phone. Let's hope it isn't a Samsung table either, otherwise Samsung may be on the hook for another billion.
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She will be mine. Oh yes, she will be mine :)
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No this is not funny
The lengths to which the NFL goes, similar to the lengths the Olympics governing bodies go, makes me want to vomit. That's how much I get outraged over their abusive tactics. So when I watched the commercial just now, all it did was infuriate me even more...
I'm so fed up with the bullshit.
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is 'euphamism'...
just askin'...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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Reminds me of the world soccer cup
The amount of free exposure they got when that group got arrested for showing that logo on T.V. during the match.
Ambush marketing, maybe not that ethical but damn fun to watch (if properly executed).
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Nevermore!!!!
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and what's this britishism thou speak of? It is The Queens English that must colour thou speech and none other. ;)
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Then you haven't heard Andy Griffith's sketch:
"What It Was, Was Football".
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As a rabid Bears fan, this is the funniest comment I've read in a long time. Your response proves that football in America is religion, since only religion sparks such responses....
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If you ever wondered what a young Andy Griffith did to merit having a TV show named for him, this is one of two things that made him famous (the other was a dark movie role of a smooth southern con man in the big city).
The routine is every bit as good as George Carlin's comparison of football to baseball.
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If you ever wondered what a young Andy Griffith did to merit having a TV show named for him, this is one of two things that made him famous (the other was a dark movie role of a smooth southern con man in the big city).
The routine is every bit as good as George Carlin's comparison of football to baseball.
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In not this in a follow on comment as multi-tasking sucks on my iPad. I'd have lost my comment draft had I tried. Which, I guess is indirectly a testimonial for the Galaxy Pad--the object behind this whole [redacted by editor] commercial post.
/not that Mike ever really redacts anything.
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Piracy!i!
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Mtv get off the air, part 2
"I wanted to get in a pooper hole one day
so I invited girls over on Super Bowl Sunday"
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;)
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All Americans should be proud of their Pooper Hole.
I gather there is nothing quite like getting together with several burly men, to celebrate and watch a Pooper Hole.
I know Americans get very excited about their Pooper Hole, is very important to them and they like the idea of sharing their Pooper Hole with all their friends and family.
I understand that a lot of people put a lot of things into the Pooper Hole in order to make it wide and accessible to a large audience. A lot of money is also put in the Pooper Hole. Let's hope all that cash doesn't make it a dirty Pooper Hole game.
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Funny Until I Realized...
I wonder if they would have dared run this ad if they hadn't paid the rights fee?
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natalie portman?
Ahh, so calling the delivery brilliant is an entirely accurate statement?
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