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    Posted: 14 May 2012 at 4:57pm
It's after Mother's Day. We can come out now. It's safe.
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Hey kat! Long time.

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Originally posted by MrsTrackman MrsTrackman wrote:

Originally posted by Geezer Geezer wrote:

OK, you guys are MISSING A CLUE HERE.... these latest series of Verizon ads are re-cycled ideas from other sources. The "bad idea" one is a direct rip-off of a Saturday Night Live sketch from about 20 years ago...
 
The "crying girls" commercial is a take off/parody of the this viral video. Notice how they chose an actress for the Verizon ad that resembles this young lady. 
 
 
 
 
My cat just ran away from this video. I can't blame her. I would too if I could.

lmao I've never seen this video before it's fantastic. "I just really love cats"
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As much as I hope these ads will not survive past tomorrow, I don't have a good feeling. They might try to repurpose them or run them for Mother's Day next year.

I hope they don't have anything planned for Father's Day Shocked
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The way the daughter says "Skype" in the new version is sort of cute. But I have a feeling both actresses will find it just slightly harder to find more roles thanks to this. Some casting person is going to think "Eww, I don't want people relating our product to that Verizon mess". 
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Apparently they did test it out before airing it.  They seem to have tested it out on NY moms and daughters, which would explain why the rest of the country finds it so annoying.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 May 2012 at 10:41pm
I would had put on my best crying act while sending the daughter off to college. Then immediately changed my phone number and door locks so she wouldn't dump dirty laundry at the house or call me for money.

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This is the most horrible, stupidest commercial ever.  Well, maybe not but it is vying for the worst commercial. Is it really that hard to find new material for a commercial?  Why don't you do a test of people on the street before you subject TV viewers with something so horrible that it leaves a bad taste with them for your company.  I can come up with several funnier commercial possibilities that are better than this and I am no professional but I know what is funny and WHAT IS NOT.  
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First let me say I happen to already be a Verizon customer, and a Mom with a 22 year old daughter who has moved away (approx 6.2 mi). Both my daughter and I found the initial ad "cute". Why did Verizon drop the sub-titles, change the 6.2 miles to 15 miles and clarify the speech? It completely ruined the original ad which, I thought, conveyed the fact that with all of this "new
 technology, this mother and daughter would still be able to continue to "communicate" with each other in a way MOST people can't relate to or aren't fortunate enough to have such a close bond with their mothers. As for just the daughter's tears being fake, obviously so were the mother's! 

Personally, I think getting rid of the sub-titles had something to do with not also being translated into Spanish. 
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I came back after a long while away from here just to find posts about this ad. I knew you guys would have something to say about. God, this ad seriously gets on my nerves, my parents watch hockey a lot and when I'm in the room I hear this ad come on like six freaking times a game, at least. My mom hates it too. I can't BELIEVE this ad is even real! 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triple J Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 May 2012 at 9:34pm
Originally posted by Buckeye001 Buckeye001 wrote:

I like to imagine they didn't shoot the alternate version the same day, and instead called everyone back, put them in the same clothes, and shot a new commercial at a completely separate time and place. I do hope someone paid for this with their job though.
I played the two versions side by side, and they are almost exactly identical, right down to the same walk-on actors in the background. LOL
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Originally posted by Geezer Geezer wrote:

OK, you guys are MISSING A CLUE HERE.... these latest series of Verizon ads are re-cycled ideas from other sources. The "bad idea" one is a direct rip-off of a Saturday Night Live sketch from about 20 years ago...
 
The "crying girls" commercial is a take off/parody of the this viral video. Notice how they chose an actress for the Verizon ad that resembles this young lady. 
 
 
 
 
My cat just ran away from this video. I can't blame her. I would too if I could.
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Here's the remake.
 
 
 
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I like to imagine they didn't shoot the alternate version the same day, and instead called everyone back, put them in the same clothes, and shot a new commercial at a completely separate time and place. I do hope someone paid for this with their job though.
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Originally posted by Pervis Pervis wrote:

There is another version now where there are no subtitles and you can understand what they are saying.

It is still annoying.


If anything it's worse. It takes away any of the little charm and humor the first one had and ends up just two people crying. It's depressing. Not in a "this is so sad, it's really pulling the strings" kinda way... it's just sad.
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Originally posted by Pervis Pervis wrote:

There is another version now where there are no subtitles and you can understand what they are saying.

It is still annoying.
Cripes. I think that's even worse. Mostly because they were prepared for a backlash from the first version, so they went ahead and shot two versions of the same ad at the same moment. And now, instead of pulling the ad altogether, they slip in the alternate one. So we're still tortured with that vision of the blubbering woman with the veins popping out of her neck, whether she's coherent or not. Dead
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I'd love to know the feeling the green lighters have.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hezadancer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2012 at 3:01pm
I bet they were originally going to go with a less whiny ad an someone stepped in saying WE NEED MORE CRYING. I bet said person got their ass chewed out good. Why can't all crappy ads get needed backlash?
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I noticed tonight that they've done a new version, with less crying/squealing, somewhat more intelligible dialogue, and no subtitles. Too bad the damage has been done.
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Oh crap, I wish I saw this, I posted over in Commercial Talk. This has been crazy fun to read. Here is our video response of the ad. released today. Did you notice that Verizon took down the horrible crying one and replaced it with a not so whiny ad, although it's still horrible.


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Originally posted by MrTim MrTim wrote:

Originally posted by Zach6848 Zach6848 wrote:

Dreamboat said it better than I ever could, I have to say. I can't even imagine the massive chasm of contempt that these advertising agencies have for the TV-watching public. Infact, I can't even begin to comprehend how stupid they think we REALLY are. Commercials like this make me promise myself and everyone around me that I will NEVER own a smart-phone, and that I will NEVER get attached to my 'gadgets' and technological drivel.

I thank God that this communication/technological overload bullsh*t didn't start until recently, because nothing would have been accomplished. Christopher Columbus would have been too busy playing Angry Birds to set sail, George Washington would have been busy sending shirtless pictures to Betsy Ross, Abe Lincoln would have been posting passive-aggressive status updates on Robert E. Lee's Facebook Wall. My God, the vapid idiocy. It's almost too much to handle.
 
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There is another version now where there are no subtitles and you can understand what they are saying.

It is still annoying.
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Originally posted by jeroboam jeroboam wrote:

NO! This ad does not exist!!
 
That's right. It doesn't! I didn't know it was a mother and daughter or what the product was. I click it off too fast, like in a panic. For me it has replaced the bro' stash and friends wallowing on a desk wearing door-to-door religious tract delivery outfits and haircuts planning "da weekend" as the most atrocious intrusion ever created, tv commercial-wise. Dead Yeah, it goes way beyond "stupid." Or would, if it existed. But it doesn't.
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This is currently one of the top 3 most annoying and stupid commercials on the air in my book.  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote NJtoTX Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 May 2012 at 1:29am
Originally posted by WalpurgisQuill WalpurgisQuill wrote:

To be fair, its kind of funny the first time around. Consecutive viewings make it more annoying.


To be fair, the first time I saw it, I was starting to get annoyed, got a quick smile over the concept of the subtitling, but it immediately got more annoying.
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