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Dancing Milkcarton
02/01/09

In reply to MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'
That was the most un-funny collection of videos I've seen in a long time.

Every SNL has ~ 8 minutes of genuinely funny stuff in it. These clips do not belong in those 8 minutes.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/01/09

@Dancing Milkcarton: There's a reason they keep moving around when "Weekend Update" is aired. And why all the truly horrible sketches get aired after the second musical performance.

For over a decade, I've sort of imagined Lorne Michaels standing by the camera giving the "cut" sign to every sketch. Personally, I think that every sketch should have a hard limit of 2.5 minutes and the order of performance should be randomly drawn from a hat.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/01/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Honestly, the funniest thing I saw on SNL was when I tuned in and Amy Poehler was saying goodbye. Not her saying goodbye, but that whole Weekend Update was chock full o' funny. Especially the Patterson sketch. I'm so pissed they got yelled at for that, b/c I still laugh when I think about it. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go pay for 50 dollars worth of circus tickets.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/01/09

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So what's the alternative?

Thanks to DVRs, people fast-forward through commercials. Thanks to YouTube, many people don't even watch the show when and where it's originally shown.

The shows still cost money to make but because people viewing habits have radically changed, the ability to sell commercial airtime through traditional means has waned. And no, smirking referential product placement is not funny. It was a cute gag in Wayne's World. It was overhyped and mistaken for clever writing on 30 Rock. It's an old gag and proof of weak writing.

Keep laughing, keep whining. It won't be long until the annoying TNT-style bottom-third popup ads become the norm.
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HDC
02/01/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Those Outback Steakhouse references in 30 Rock this week were disgusting. NBC is the biggest culprit of this kind of sellout. And network television wonders why they're losing viewership. I'll take the TNT style lower pop-ups any day as they're easy to ignore. Stitching that effluvium into show dialogue is however not easy to ignore and only serves to aggravate.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/01/09

@HDC: That's the vicious cycle. They throw in product placement and drive away viewers. Which lowers ad rates. Which leads to more product placement. And worse writing. And worse viewership.

The solution to getting people to watch ads is simple - make better ads. Here's one of my favorites, with Peyton Manning, who is consistently in well-written ads.

And here is another ad, from Verizon, also funny.

Make good ads and people will watch them.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/01/09

@HDC: Well, since NBC is eliminating their 10pm shows/dramas due to cost, they should be good money wise for a little bit longer.
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Franknbeans
02/01/09

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Anyone besides me think that Richard Dean Anderson got way fat since the last time we saw him on television?
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OMG! Ponies!
02/01/09

@Franknbeans: The "last time"? He's been on Stargate: Atlantis for years.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/01/09

@Franknbeans: Yeah, unlike Adam Savage who has gotten a little chunkier since he got the Mythterns(Dump Grant and Torry, just leave me Kari), RDA seems to have relaxed a little too much by his pond with no fish with some six packs.
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Rick Austin Grime
02/01/09

@2Legit2Quit_GitEmSteveDave:

I curse you all to a retirement age of constant angst over your naturally aging, fattening bodies. He's one year shy of 60 for chrissakes.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/01/09

@Rick Austin Grime: Mine was a Stargate reference!
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NightBlade
02/01/09

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Oh, my stomach, it's aching...
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BeautifulAgony
02/01/09

@NightBlade: Soothe it with a Pepsi.

;)
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ERIFNOMI
02/01/09

@BeautifulAgony: Pepsi isn't even good.
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BeautifulAgony
02/02/09

@ERIFNOMI: Pepsuber's gonna kick your ass for saying that...
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