Pahonu wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 10:48 pm
Pahonu,
Could you explain to me the idea behind the commercial with Jimmy "dyn-o-mite" Walker that literally run 4 times an hour, every hour? He is deliberately LOUD and obnoxious.
I know there must be calculation behind using a one trick pony, no talent oaf like Walker, when they could have used a dignified spokesman such as Walker's co-star John Amos.
The commercial totally alienates me, I'd rather be in a isolation room with the Meow Mix commercial of legend continually piped in instead, the one that just goes
"Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow" on and on, till one is compelled to cough up a fur ball.
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Pahonu wrote:
I’m no expert, but I think that’s a Medicare supplement ad which is not about branding like major labels. It’s a repeat it over and over again, beat people over the head, kind of ad aimed at senior citizens. They also typically aren’t on networks or in primetime because it’s too expensive. I’ve noticed over the years that many adds aimed at seniors often have very loud, repetitious audio, which I can understand at a basic level. I feel qualified to say that at someone who has started receiving AARP materials!
I don’t actually have any noticeable hearing loss, but my wife does.
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Pahonu,
Yes, it's the Medicare supplement ad, they run it over and over on MeTV Plus during Hawaiian Eye and Hawaii Five - 0. This is adding insult to injury as right now I am sitting thru season 11
of Hawaii Five - 0 and it's even worse than Ivan described it. Tonight was a real stinker, "A Very Personal Matter" that wasted Cameron Mitchell but did feature the striking beauty Simone
Griffeth.
Chris109 wrote: Aren't you forgetting the same commercial except with THE GREATEST QUARTERBACK OF ALLLLLLL TIME Joe (I wanna kiss you (Suzy Kolber even if you're a lesbian)) Namath? They usually alternate slots. First it's Namath, then it JJ, then it's JJ, then it's Namath.
Chris,
You are right, they pair the Walker/Nameth ads. A few years ago Nameth was sitting in on a football game and was stupid drunk, come the next commercial he was gone and no one even
mentioned his absence. And recently I saw him on a Dick Cavett rerun when he was promoting a biker movie with Ann Margret and he was a arrogant smirking ass, clearly high and loving himself.
This mutt is all fake image, look at his numbers and he must be the worst qualified person ever to get in to Canton.
Hmm, sorry to go off topic, I have a habit of doing so.