What the hell????

[patgund]

Granted, I'm NOT a coffee drinker, prefering my morning caffine as tea or diet coke. But this new Folger's commercial doesn't make me want to buy their coffee. It makes me want to buy a few more weapons to keep these things at bay...

Video at:

Folgers - Happy Mornings

also: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GQI2KlAurOg

And I thought the Burger King dude was scary........

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I saw it. I will not go see it again. If Folgers makes you tolerate that, I think it's an excellent argument to avoid the stuff.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Can I steal that icon??? :-)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Go for it, I made that one. I have two icons from that comic.

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

All right, who opened the veil between Earth and the Dead Happy Stoner People From the 60s and 70s?

[patgund.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but it makes me wonder about the reload time on my 9mm......

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

In my house, if weird glowing yellow people entered, they'd get assaulted. If they were singing like that, they'd get assaulted repeatedly, because that would wake up my son and make me a very cranky bahr.

Bleah.

WTF!!!

[ismarc.livejournal.com]

I'm never buying Folgers again! They can take their shiny, happy people and shove them!!


Did they summon those assholes out of some Lovecraftian grimoire? This makes a sniper rifle look real attractive. And if those damn yellow-ass... things invaded my home I'd start my morning on a twelve state killing spree.

Steve Ayson, the creator of this abomination, is due a serious ass kicking, beating, bludgeoning, bashing, mauling, mangling, destroying, decimating, nuking, and many other horrible, unspeakable punishments... some involving bull mastodons and viagra.

"Happy morning" my ass! I hope he gets gang sodomized by all those shiny, happy, yellow people.

Re: WTF!!!

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Personal opinion on that commercial: If there *were* any friendly ETs, they've just joined the "annihilate humanity" camp as well, just on the strength of that commercial

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

user posted that to his LJ. Seeing rapper Ice T being pursued by the relentless ghosts of white people past as a coffee ad? Makes me glad I drink Yuban.

Folgers' *UNDERSTANDS*!!!!!

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

Mornings SUCK. It's not Folgers' that's all HappyHAPPYhappyLOUD, it's the rest of the world. And the morning in general.

Coffee makes it so you can *tolerate* the obnoxiousness of it all.

The creative team behind the ad understands that it's an obnoxious ad; but they're recognizing that there's nothing that can be done about the HappyLOUD "Go Get 'em, team, Rah-rah!" perky-morning-traffic-girl, and the best you can do is put up with it -- and coffee helps.

I think it's a *great* ad: it gets the point accross, and no-one is going to forget the brand name anytime soon.

Re: Folgers' *UNDERSTANDS*!!!!!

[duckflambe.livejournal.com]

I think the advertisers understand that obnoxious ads get remembered and talked about.

Yes, they are fucking you in the eyeballs but, by god, you'll remember the name Folgers! And, people like me who don't watch TV, could have gone the entire week without remember the craptastic taste of Folgers except for the fact that this ad has become this weeks internet phenomena.

They totally understand.

[jadeinsoca.livejournal.com]

I think I like the dog...they ytouched him and he growled at him.

And I wonder if the guy at the end was thinking about what they would do if he threw his cup of coffee on them.

[jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com]

Oh this is soooooo ssooooo wrong.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just imagine what would happen if these happy cheerful people showed up some bright and early morning at Great Western War...........(evil grin)

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

And I quote:
Wake up you sleepyhead
you can sleep when you are dead...

WTF?!? Sounds like some kind of a moronic commercial parody that was thought up around 3-4am!!

Are you sure Starbucks didn't produce this commercial?? ^_^

We posted this to the Exalted forum

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

on White Wolf's site. If those are what the Solar Exalted were like, then we would have backed the Usurpation, too :-).

That said, I don't know how successful a viral marketing campaign is if it has people swearing off your product. Ultimately, sales are more important than talk. Talk is only good to the extent it increases sales.

Fair Trade coffee, anyone?