05-07-2010, 06:52 PM
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Do you find this over the line or out of taste?
I am kind of creeped out by this commercial a friend sent me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8yqDVDJr8
It is a tax commercial from Pennsylvania State. Very Orwellian.....
Do you think open intimidation like this is crossing the line a bit?
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05-07-2010, 06:56 PM
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Big Brother
It is way over the line, Americans are even more sensitive than we are about "freedoms"
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05-07-2010, 06:57 PM
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doesn't seem like a huge departure from reality.
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05-07-2010, 07:01 PM
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evil of fart
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Seems fine to me.
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05-07-2010, 07:02 PM
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It's an accurate depiction of reality, but it's poorly thought out. As Pinner said, there's a definite big brother complex in the US and making it that blatant probably won't go over that well.
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05-07-2010, 07:06 PM
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^ ^ ^ Exactly!
What better way to get the Lemmings used to an Idea than to use it in commercial advertising, very few can escape it's clutches.
doesn't seem like a huge departure from reality.
....Well put
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05-07-2010, 07:09 PM
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Let me preface by saying I can see why it would be taken as creepy or over the line. That being said...
Holy freaking crap that was great. Brilliant. Its a satire, or is it??? It sure made me sit up and take notice!
Dark sci-fi in a tax commerical narrated by an evil chick-computer?
Awesome!
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05-07-2010, 07:31 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Let me preface by saying I can see why it would be taken as creepy or over the line. That being said...
Holy freaking crap that was great. Brilliant. Its a satire, or is it??? It sure made me sit up and take notice!
Dark sci-fi in a tax commerical narrated by an evil chick-computer?
Awesome!
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Not so awesome when you watch it at night in pitch darkness......it is creepy. Satire is not the word I would use....... 
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05-07-2010, 07:36 PM
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^ Stop eating the mushrooms off the side of your barn.
Real men use LSD.
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05-07-2010, 07:54 PM
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GOAT!
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While I agree that it's a pretty realistic concept... I'd imagine that in the real-life version of this commercial, it's just some under-paid lackey sitting inside a cubical who grabs your file from his inbox and calls you 6 times, before submitting a form with your phone number and address to an IRS Agent who arrives with an arrest warrant.
I think they save the GPS and computer surveillance for the big boys. You know, local terrorist groups and middle-eastern countries sitting on barrels of oil (whoops, I mean WMDs). 
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05-07-2010, 07:59 PM
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I think that is an awesome commercial.
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05-07-2010, 08:04 PM
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Skynet wrote, filmed, directored, produced and starred in that commercial.
Right now there is a room in the Pentagon going "WDF?!"
And a governer in California looking for his favourite shades..
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05-07-2010, 08:38 PM
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Seems a little harsh, but if it scares people into not evading taxes, then good. Maybe they should start playing these in Greece.
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05-07-2010, 09:35 PM
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Not the one...
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Yes, I am terrified of common knowledge set to ominous music.
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05-07-2010, 10:30 PM
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Definitely wouldn't respect any government shoving that type of crap down my throat. Comes across as a giant slap in the face to citizens from their government.
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05-07-2010, 10:45 PM
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Poor Tom.
Good thing they don't know me!
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05-07-2010, 11:08 PM
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I have no problem. If they want to direct a commercial at people that don't pay their taxes why would I care?
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05-07-2010, 11:10 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
I am kind of creeped out by this commercial a friend sent me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8yqDVDJr8
It is a tax commercial from Pennsylvania State. Very Orwellian.....
Do you think open intimidation like this is crossing the line a bit? |
If you find this in bad taste you'd likely be an emotional wreck every election campaign with those attack commercials that are made in way worse taste.
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05-07-2010, 11:14 PM
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I love this commercial.
So funny to just peel back one layer of the marketing of this to see what's going on.
Commercial is directed at people who don't pay taxes. Obviously a large swathe of people who don't pay taxes are the big brother fearing, tin foil hat wearing, indigent patriots who frequent gun shows and talk radio. This commercial is directed squarely at them. And in their pea-shaped brains they're probably shatting a brick believing this is real. I bet tax receipts from the taxidermy colleges and back yard mechanics will be significantly up this year.
Laugh. Good job marketers way to nail the demographic.
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05-08-2010, 12:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pastiche
I love this commercial.
So funny to just peel back one layer of the marketing of this to see what's going on.
Commercial is directed at people who don't pay taxes. Obviously a large swathe of people who don't pay taxes are the big brother fearing, tin foil hat wearing, indigent patriots who frequent gun shows and talk radio. This commercial is directed squarely at them. And in their pea-shaped brains they're probably shatting a brick believing this is real. I bet tax receipts from the taxidermy colleges and back yard mechanics will be significantly up this year.
Laugh. Good job marketers way to nail the demographic.
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I don't know about the indigent, But the big brother fearing, tin foil hat wearing folk might turn out to be the smart ones.
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