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 Post subject: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:11 pm 
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Hilarious and clever condom commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryLwyk7vTNg

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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:19 pm 
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Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me

[shrug]

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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:20 pm 
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peregrinus wrote:
Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me

[shrug]

That and it seems like all the guys are getting hit in the stick & giggleberries. It seems like a message of emasculating men who don't wear condoms lose their freedom and are nest slaves to the wife and kids. :|

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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
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peregrinus wrote:
Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me

[shrug]
+1
but oh that ending... ouch

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:56 pm 
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Peregrinus :ugeek:
Prodigy :ugeek:
...But I found extremely funny, the slow motion + music piano music + the guy in a suit getting hit in his balls stepping on some gardening tool :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:39 am 
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Resonance wrote:
peregrinus wrote:
Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me

[shrug]

That and it seems like all the guys are getting hit in the stick & giggleberries. It seems like a message of emasculating men who don't wear condoms lose their freedom and are nest slaves to the wife and kids. :|
That is what happens, that's how they catch you :|

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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:09 pm 
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Resonance wrote:
peregrinus wrote:
Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me

[shrug]

That and it seems like all the guys are getting hit in the stick & giggleberries. It seems like a message of emasculating men who don't wear condoms lose their freedom and are nest slaves to the wife and kids. :|
Well, at least in that one, men are still considered human.

This one parallels men who don't use condoms with pigs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8X-I-cXEo

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 Post subject: Re: Protect yourself
PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:10 pm 
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Grinus wrote:
Seems more related to bad parenting than condoms to me
Agreed. But thats part of the cleverness of the commercial - it ties two more or less unrelated things together and sends the message that one causes the other.
GoldenBoy wrote:
but oh that ending... ouch
Advertising is all about evoking an emotional reaction (positive or negative), and then tying that emotional reaction to the product. So in this case, they were able to take the negative emotional reaction to getting hit in the nuts (which is something that every guy can relate to), and tie it pretty powerfully to something that really is almost entirely unrelated.

Agree or disagree with the connection they are making, you cannot deny the emotional charge it has, and therefore its both clever and effective.

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