Thursday, January 21, 2010

Time Warner Cable: Rule Your Kingdom and Mike O'Malley



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This is the newest commercial in this campaign, and I think it’s the best so far. The writing is remarkably clever, especially given some of TWC’s other campaigns, such as...

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I suppose Mike O’Malley is the quintessential average Joe. But just because he’s the kind of constituent Sarah Palin would hurdle a dead moose to blow, doesn’t qualify him as a cable pitchman. Seriously, in-law jokes?

See more of the Rule Your Kingdom campaign here, and here.
And if you want to ruin your day, watch more O’Malley here, here, and here, for starters.

5 comments:

  1. In law? Does he infer that his wifes best friend is her sister?
    I think they're both pretty funny.
    You should see the shit we have on tv here.

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  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXZ5rTrXTg
    Also: who laughs at Watchmen?

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  3. Ankhwatcher, the in-laws thing was more a comment about the campaign in general. But "wife's best-friend" is equivalent. Careless writing on my part, but not wholly inaccurate. Next he'll be making jokes about airplane peanuts.

    And yes, no one laughs at Watchmen... clearly TWC superimposed the pay-per-view offering du jour onto the tv screen, much to the ad agency's (or at least the writer's) chagrin I'm sure.

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  4. what women like is dumb and boring, what men like is sports and..not talking to women, i guess.

    ha ha! misogyny is funny!

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  5. They have those awful little pretzels now.

    That would explain why they appear to be watching a movie with the sound down so low you could hear a pin drop.

    laura: identifying the gap between genders is not misogyny on its own.

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