what was the thing about the pepsi ad involving Friends cast?
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something about it insulting gays...sorry thats alll i know about it.
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i saw the commerical you are talking about and no they dont. it was just a metaphor, almost like the one they used to show when they put a egg in a hot frying pan and saying this is your brain on drugs.
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I know 5 people who have been on the show.  The first was my cousin.  She met her "boyfriend"  and her "best friend" just a couple of hours before the show started taping.  I have two friends who are sisters that went on it with their husbands.  They had to act like one sister was having an affair with the other's husband.  It wasn't at all true.  But hey, at least they got paid.
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Coke!\nThat is really sad, I'm sorry to offend anyone, but our country was founded on religion (as well as politics) and I'm sure that the Pepsi execs don't scratch off the word "God" from their money when they cash their fat checks from selling their product.\nBut I wouldn't be surprised if it is just a marketing ploy to cause commotion so that they will sell more product.  By making such a statement I'm sure that thousands of people are going to grab a can and look at it in the store, and even more will see it on TV, kinda like having free advertising by changing the can, making them look like their patriotic, then causing a scene and hundreds looking at their product.  \n    Food for thought.
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Because the ad, whether or not it mentions the movie by name, is advertising the movie.  It got you talking about it, didn't it?
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i miss the show. i still watch the syndicated epps every night. as far a movie goes i don't know unless they use the real cast, it may not be good.. i wish Matt LeBlanc's show would have made it also. if they would have had guess appearances from the cast of Friends, it may have been funnier. i also think that they surrounded Joey with a crappy cast and the writing wasn;t that good...    good question!!
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its  ridiculous and there's so many "news" shows with nothing but this crap. my theory is that the people who eat this  up like mothers milk are those same people who would gossip and be in everyones business in high school. it truly is a drug type release they get off it. and after the demise of the high school social structure its   HOLLYWOOD ta da.the prettiest people who's seeing who, oh there having a baby. \n the insults come because it sells,its so much easier to joke about somebody's fault than be positive.\n trying to stop it is just a beautiful dream ,our society is too diseased
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*Chuckling for she is rather pretty* Candice Michelle\n\nIt went down as the most hyped and most controversial ad to run during Sunday's Super Bowl – and now the scantily clad star of the GoDaddy.com ad is getting ready for her 15 minutes of fame.\n\nCandice Beckman, an actress and former Playboy pinup who goes by the professional name Candice Michelle, is set to star in at least two more ads for GoDaddy, which raised eyebrows during Sunday's Super Bowl and even led FOX to yank the commercial before it could run a second time.\n\nSunday's spot featured the voluptuous Michelle testifying before a censorship committee in Salem, Mass., dressed in a tight tank top. Her tank top strap then snaps off, leading to a "wardrobe malfunction" and a sexy dance for the committee. FOX ad execs decided to pull the ad after deciding it was "out of step" with the other Super Bowl commercials.\n\nMeanwhile, the controversy could work wonders for Michelle's career. The 26-year-old Milwaukee native is getting more exposure from her 30-second ad than for her past gigs, which include appearances in the Ben Stiller movie Dodgeball, the TV show Monk, competing to become "WWE Raw Diva," a stint as a "Juggy Girl" on Comedy Central's The Man Show and as a model for Playboy.
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They were kind of silly and funny at first, but the King acts kind of stalker-ish, (who is really in that suit, the guy who used to be Ronald McDonald?)and that smile is odd. The worst commercial for burgers is that Paris Hilton Car Washing for Carl's Jr.
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Thanks for responding to my answer...haha.  I agree, I thought their friend was going to have something to do with it.  Kinda looked liked the friend in the truck at the end.  I knew they would leave it.  That demon was the background to the whole show, they couldn't very well just get rid of it.\n:)
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Peyton's is pretty dumb after a few views (you're talking about the cell phone commercial, right?).  Also, it's annoying how he tilts his neck, like he had a bad injury years ago.\n\nLeBron's multi-character commercial is a hoot!  Lebron wins!
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I've seen every episode of Friends and for the life of me I can't think of what you could possibly mean???  Did anything else happen in the episode that you can remember? I might be able to help if there was more information.\n\nI really can't think of any episode with that in it. The only stripper I remember from the show is the one from Ross' bachelor party. She sleeps with Joey, and when he wakes up she and ross' engagement ring are both gone, so they accuse her of taking it, but it ends up that the duck swallowed it.\n\nThe only other stripper ones are when Monica hires a stripper for Chandler because he didn't get a bachelor party and she ends up being a hooker. \nAnd then when Danny Devito is a stripper at Phoebe's bachelorette party.\nThose are the only ones I can remember that have strippers. Sorry.\nIs there any way it's a different show or it's not a stripper or something???\n\n\nIf you go here:  http://epguides.com/Friends/   it has all the episodes and you can read about them and see if the one you are thinking of is in there.
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I liked the Dr. Pepper commercial with the dedicated boyfriend.  To the tune of Meat Loaf's "I would do anything for love (but I won't do that)", the boyfriend gets tampons for his girlfriend, does yoga, goes shopping with her among other things.  But there was one final straw:  she tried to take his Dr. Pepper.  He gets up and runs away, leaving her.\nSo funny!
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You kidding? Ads! Why should ads appear in school?\n\nImagine this...the teacher is teaching halfway about the solar system through the computer when suddenly in the middle of the powerpoint presentation....\n\n"WE INTERRUPT THIS PRESENTATION TO BRING YOU AN ADVERTISEMENT. XYZ COMPANY HAS JUST RELEASED ITS NEW FISH MAYO BURGER! COME TO XYZ COMPANY NOW!"\n\nImagine all the ruckus it would make.
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Just saw The Breakup - it was pretty good, but the previews were definitely false advertising!  It's way too depressing to really be a comedy even though there were some funny scenes.
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Well, with only 30 seconds and a staggering 12 scene changes (on average), marketers don't have a lot of time to convey a message, and research indicates that people often misinterpret the intended meaning of commercials (or worse yet, miss the name of the product) if they miss even 2 seconds of footage!  That means marketers have to fill the commercials with readily-identifiable steryotypes.  The buffoon-men you mention, are one of them.  Another would be the cell-phone weilding, henley wearing, preppy teenagers, the over-active, shockingly buff tween boys with their 'skaters' gear, the gossipy women having lunch or the busy soccer mom who still finds time to prepare a three-course meal and pickout the family cellphone plan.  It is unfortunate that commercials must play out in such a manner, but you can help the '8 year old boy' you mention, by reinforcing positive male steryotypes from television, other media or simply laughing along at the 'buffoon' in the commerical so that he realizes that this is a characterisation and not real life (which I'll admit is difficult for children to do, moreso than I'm giving credit to in this brief Yahoo! Answer).  However, in defense of marketers, the American Consumer (that's the title of a magazine, I'm not saying 'consumers in America') report that many Americans today find that depictions of people like themselves in commericals is more inline to their actual behavior than it has been in the past (the so-called Is-It-Me? Factor).  Hope that helped some.
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They are not friends. This is a carefully orchestrated public relations campaign designed to change Britney's image to the percieved "cool" of the times. Britney is dangerously close to becoming some 90's - 2000 trivia, and her handlers know it. This is how celebrity culture works. You shouldn't be paying attention to these people anyway. They use you for your money and handle the public like a farmer herds sheep. \n\nBaaa