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They were never planning on airing that. Why pay 3 million for 30 seconds of air time when they can release it "early", drum up controversy and get a butt load of publicity without ever paying the Super Bowl numbers.
Also, it's an incredibly shitty ad.
Also, it's an incredibly shitty ad.
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smoothg103rd
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Why it remind your parents abandon you?
Bidin~Time
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crappy ad. Brilliant advertising move.
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^^^Foster-care boy make my irony meter a-splode.
It worries me that we are losing our sense of humor. That's the problem with the terrorists, you know. You can't go through life taking everything so seriously. On a side note, anything related to an animal has become a sacred cow. It is a stupid, funny commercial. It has no connection to reality. Relax. Laugh and move on. Expect to see the good in life. Stop being so negative. Quite frankly, there are more legitimate things to get upset about.
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I think that commercial fed off the one from last year by budweiser. Very popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_3lITiK_Q
I don't know if they were trying to be funny but it stunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_3lITiK_Q
I don't know if they were trying to be funny but it stunk.
CandiCame
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1: That was annoying because it kept replaying
2: Why was it pulled? There was no sex or violence or anything.
4est_4est_Gump
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Sure.
PETA holds lots of GoDaddy stock...
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I'm not sure I believe either Go Daddy or the agency is that clever.
On the other hand, I don't believe anyone is stupid enough to schedule a Super Bowl ad and spend that kind of money without testing it before a couple of focus groups.
Go figure.
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There was nothing to laugh about. As others above said, it sucked.
Worse, there are people out there who do this regularly (driving with dogs in the back of their trucks) and don't think twice about making sure their dog is okay. Same thing with people in cities. They don't have a clue what is happening to their dog, it's tongue practically on the ground as they drag it along behind them during the summer heat while they're glued to their phones.
Still further, the ending is absolutely horrible. Obviously the woman didn't care shit about the dog, just about making a quick buck. This happens every day on Craigslist (among other places) where puppy and kitten mills abound.
Let's flip this around. Put a baby in the back of the pick up truck, high up like the dog was, and have it be tossed out. Then show it crawling around in the dirt along the highway, in the rain, in a storm drain, then have it sold off when it makes it way home. Still funny?
If you think I'm being melodramatic, I'll be more than happy to point out how people have treated their dogs and cats, thinking nothing of tormenting them or treating them like crap. Remember Michael Vick? We're supposed to be the smartest animal on the planet. How about we act like it.
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No.
I thought it was rather cute.
This country has gone stupid and way to PC.
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Holy shit! It's not real! It's a commercial! I get that animal lovers are rabid, but the commercial is a joke. No animals were harmed. Lighten up ffs.
On the other hand, I've known folk who are totally cool with a fast conviction and the death penalty, but God forbid a butterfly breaks a wing.
I don't get it.
On the other hand, I've known folk who are totally cool with a fast conviction and the death penalty, but God forbid a butterfly breaks a wing.
I don't get it.
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It ostensibly promotes "puppy mills."
I can imagine half-a-dozen female posters and their loyal male following wetting themselves over the idea of the puppy mills all across America and how abuse we are to our noble pets and how inhuman (you know sub-human) you must be if you don't agree with them.
15 minutes later, they'll find something else to be utterly outraged over.
Maybe starving Haitians enjoying good weather.
I can imagine half-a-dozen female posters and their loyal male following wetting themselves over the idea of the puppy mills all across America and how abuse we are to our noble pets and how inhuman (you know sub-human) you must be if you don't agree with them.
15 minutes later, they'll find something else to be utterly outraged over.
Maybe starving Haitians enjoying good weather.
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Oh, I get it now!
But there was no animal abuse in this commercial. No dogs were thirsting to death or from a puppy mill. That woman was an individual breeder with small litters- there were only a few other pups on that truck. She was doing things ethically.
And I don't think it was meant to be funny somuchas confusing.
Edit: Also about the baby thing... rednecks do that. We totally put our kids in the back of trucks and let them bounce around- up until I was a kid. And then they passed a law saying that people in the back of trucks weren't immune to the existing seatbelt laws, and everybody, parent and child alike, threw a fucking fit. I mean yeah, it's not safe, but we're not exactly known for safety regulations.
This dog's not an infant, it's at least 8 weeks old or she couldn't sell it. That's kinda riding the cusp between toddler and child. So, to a redneck as old as that woman, yeah, she probably would let her kids ride like that.
You guys remember that? Being able to ride around in the back of the truck?
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Doesn't matter.
It was not promoting the idea that your puppy has to be a shelter mongrel.
As long as one dog spends one night in a shelter, then it is now unethical to get a dog from a breeder, any sort of breeder. That's racism anyway...
People are too hung up on the un-multiculturalism of the dog world.
It was not promoting the idea that your puppy has to be a shelter mongrel.
As long as one dog spends one night in a shelter, then it is now unethical to get a dog from a breeder, any sort of breeder. That's racism anyway...
People are too hung up on the un-multiculturalism of the dog world.
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Doesn't matter.
It was not promoting the idea that your puppy has to be a shelter mongrel.
As long as one dog spends one night in a shelter, then it is now unethical to get a dog from a breeder, any sort of breeder. That's racism anyway...
People are too hung up on the un-multiculturalism of the dog world.
I don't really like breeders either, but everybody already knows that. There are tons of 'pureblood' dogs in shelters.
Elvis, my brother's pureblood beagle, was from a shelter. My man's pureblood pug was from a shelter. People get them and then are like, "Oh wait, these are inbred freaks who require a lot of medical attention! I just wanted an accessory! I didn't know I'd have to feed it and keep it's eyeballs from popping out of it's sockets when it gets a squish-face sinus infection". And then they give them to shelters.
But it's weird to think that that commercial was 'promoting' anything.
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They come with papers?
The problem here is the anthropomorphized view of animals.
The problem here is the anthropomorphized view of animals.
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Normally you can request them, because the vet records are available now. I know that both the examples above have the "papers". The American Kennel Club works extensively with shelters. But if the original breeder hasn't registered with the AKC you wouldn't have had the papers either way. If they are registered, the dog's chart can be matched up via medical records when you take them to the vet. But I'm pretty sure that you have to pay out of pocket for those tests because they aren't medically necessary. Basically what you're doing is proving that it is the same animal, so you can compete in shows and such.
Edit: With Elvis we actually had a packet handed to us. He was in the shelter because his tri-color markings were off, but the man who ran the shelter felt that he would make an excellent hunting dog, because that's the entire reason Beagles were bred. So they get a LOT of them and people generally just turn the packet over with the dog, because they know that they can't sell the dog, so they don't need it. There's nothing wrong with him, apart from the normal complications of the breed like the propensity for cancer (he actually just had a cyst removed a few days ago), but he's not pretty enough to sell or to compete, which just happens sometimes. His fat ass doesn't really hunt, either. But that's just because he's really fat. I've taken him before but he's just like, "Hey there's a racoon in that general direction. I'd run after it but... hey why don't we just cut this whole thing off right now and pick up some McDonalds on the way home? I mean, don't we have some Vampire Diaries to get through?"
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I think that you are guilty of romanticizing the act of 'adoption' and selecting the exception and making it the rule.
I too have gone to the humane society and picked a pet on several occasions and there were no purebreds there, just strays whose lineage was a complete mystery other than, well this one is clearly had a labrador involved in its creation...
