ok guys so i am rating subway tv ads in this thread

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that stupid old one where people would come in and give their order to the smug person sitting behind the counter and then proceed to EXPLAIN THEIR FUCKING CHOICE WITH RETARDED LOGIC like "oh she'll have the chilli burger or sandwich or whatever the fuck you sell, because she's hot", as if a) that makes sense and justifies the purchase; and b) the retarded woman behind the counter GIVES A SHIT why you are buying their overpriced sandwiches. she's getting minimum wage, why the hell do you think she cares what you think of your fugly girlfriend. also, the aspect where he has to order for his girlfriend as if she is too overwhelmed by the sandwich choice at subway to do it is annoying.

anyway, rating = -4

the ad after that where this guy and the guy at subway try to explain what this new type of sandwich is. they do it smugly, like everything in a subway ad. anyway, it goes along the lines of "this has mozarella cheese and some other cheese and a bunch of herbs on it, hooray". and then the stupid mate that they were explaining it to (as if he cant see what it is from the photos ALL AROUND THE STORE) goes "wow, that's sounds like a great sandwich!" the punchline is supposed to be that no, really it isnt a sandwich, it's only the bread! we're just getting started my friend! why not go down to subway and humour your friendly neighbourhood minorities that we pay bugger all to work in a place that smells like absolute shit right now!
anyway, i'm getting off-track. the point is, ON WHICH PLANET DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A GOOD SANDWICH? it's fucking cheese and herbs. who in their right mind would go to subway and think its a good deal to pay $6 or whatever for a bit of bread with a couple of bits of cheddar and some chives in it? i need to start a business marketing to these people.

rating = -10, because everyone in this ad is extra smug and/or illogical.

that new one, where the guy out of freaks and geeks relates the subway experience to the rest of his life, like a moron. somehow the fact that he gets to choose what kind of sandwich he wants to eat is empowering to him. not as empowering as making your own fucking sandwich though, is it? this all despite the fact that the (yet again) smug employee pressured him in to buying the sandwich with a misleading description. i'm sure he would have chosen the sandwich if she had have said hey this is the same as the rest of our sandwiches but with a different variety of sauce that looks (and probably tastes) like cum. HOW EMPOWERING FOR YOU FREAKS AND GEEKS GUY!
also, he completely mispronounces the name of the sandwich. i guess the point is that most people wont know how to pronounce it, but dont worry because even our ad guy who we are paying thousands of dollars to act smarmy gets it wrong too. but come on, he pronounces it "chip-o-lay". the word has a fucking t in it. if you were going to take a stab at getting the word "chipotle" wrong you'd say "chip-o-till", you wouldnt just randomly make up this whole other word. stupid.

rating = -8, because it's still on.

fuck subway

― webber (webber), Sunday, 10 August 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What happened to ye olde Subway tradition of having a song for each ad anyway? Like the one about Clay Henry or whoever it was? Out of those three I find the one with the geek and his sandwich the funniest.
I often wonder what the people behind the counter would think if you acted like one of the people in the first ad.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 11 August 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't watch tv much & when i do i read a book or leave the rm when the ads come on so i don't know

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

that makes me sound SO DEEP & INTELLECTUAL

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

which is an accurate impression actually

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"i don't watch tv much & when i do i read a book or leave the rm when the ads come on so i don't know"

you are missing out

― webber (webber), Monday, 11 August 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

nah man it's cool, i got people on the innernet to synopsise that shit for me

― duane, Monday, 11 August 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

One "Jim" ("a Dennis Miller-type of guy who tells it like it is," says Subway publicist Les Winograd) pulls up to a burger joint in a car full of buddies. He's about 40, tall, well-exercised: "Turkey breast, ham, bacon, melted cheese, Dijon horseradish sauce," he says in the drive-through, exuding an aura of Supermanship all out of proportion to the situation. "That's, like, not on our menu," says the young, pudgy, confused person taking orders. "It's not only not on your menu," Jim says, "it's not on your radar screen!" "Do we have a radar screen?" the clerk asks a supervisor as Jim peels out. "Think I made that burger kid cry?" Jim says to his pals, all of them now ensconced in a Subway with the new Select specials in front of them.

It seems plain that, finally, George W. Bush is making himself felt in culture. The commercial takes Bush's sense of entitlement -- which derives from his lifelong insulation from anything most people eat, talk about, want or fear, and which is acted out by treating whatever does not conform to his insulation as an irritant -- and makes it into a story that tries to be ordinary. But the story as the commercial tells it is too cruel, its dramatization of the class divisions Bush has made into law too apparent. The man smugly laughing over embarrassing a kid is precisely Bush in Paris attempting to embarrass a French-speaking American reporter for having the temerity to demonstrate that he knew something Bush didn't. (Real Americans don't speak French.) Even someone responsible for putting this talisman on the air may have flinched at the thing once it was out there in the world at large, functioning as public discourse, as politics -- the last time I saw the spot, the final punchline had been dropped.
-Greil Marcus, "Real Life Rock Top Ten," July 23, 2002

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 11 August 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway Subway, I love it

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 11 August 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

After reading this thread at uni we had to go to Subway!
Subway melt = 10/10 oh so delicious.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 11 August 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey look guys, Jared's off his diet!... The ad where seemingly all of America starts to laugh at Jared for being off his diet before realising oh THANK GOD IT'S JUST LOW FAT TERIYAKI = almost as good as freaks and geeks chipolay guy. in some ways, better.

― alex (alex), Monday, 11 August 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet they're all scared and laughing to make it seem more assimilable, because what does this mean? If Jared is no longer the "DIET GUY" then WHO IS HE? And BY EXTENSION of what worth are any of our ideas of who the people we know "are" and like WHAT IS IDENTITY? Can we resist the selfdestructive (LITERALLY, perhaps) urge (LITERALLY, perhaps) to apply this reasoning to ourselves? It's a pretty impressive ad. I like "Yeah, what I want!" better though, he should say "Take yr top off", it'd be more in character

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 11 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

How does one pronounce "chipotle", anyway?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 11 August 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"chi-pote-lay", according to the ever-annoying radio ads i cant seem to avoid.

― webber (webber), Monday, 11 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Those low fat ones are actually only low fat if you don't have cheese or any of the actual good dressings. I read it on the bag, and what's the point of getting subway if you don't have that stuff?
Also more on the Jared ads - wasn't he already eating subway, like it was part of his diet? Why was everyone so shocked??

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 11 August 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

because the bread actually had stuff in it, i guess

― alex (alex), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

God, you guys have way too much time on your hands.....

― Adrian McCoy (Adrian McCoy), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

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