Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:38:21 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: [NVC] Re: Suicide ad - VW
In-Reply-To: <45D755F6.4050104@gmail.com>
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foreighn ads do cross boundarys of other countrys - and sometimes they
are funny sometimes not. Consider the Japanese ad for copy machines,
with the girl winding up on the copier. Funny for some - offensive to
others. Depending on the country and individual mindset.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Michael Elliott wrote:
> Pulling the ad could be viewed either as a gutless act, or the action of
> a company that frankly didn't know that to some suicide just ain't funny
> (even if committed by an industrial robot) and didn't want to be viewed
> as inconsiderate a$$holes.
>
> It's hardly a loss, anyway -- it was just an okay ad and was not likely
> to change anyone's life for the better.
>
> That said, I agree that European, Japanese, and South American TV ads
> often cross boundaries that few U.S. companies would care to cross, and
> are often much funnier as a result.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> Matt Drew typed:
>> Yeah, it's sad alright . . .
>>
>> As a GM Ad Exec I can say that we were ALL (the ad agency) absolutely
>> amazed
>> when we'd heard the news that "Robot" was being changed and that the
>> robot
>> was not going to take the plunge.
>>
>> The discussion around the water cooler that day initially focused on
>> American vs. European advertising (we see advertising that would
>> never even
>> make it through an American brainstorming session!), but then the bigger
>> picture came up - the PC Police.
>>
>> I'm just sad that GM didn't grow a pair and stick with their original
>> response, which was "You gotta be KIDDIN' me!".
>>
>> Hey, anyone know of any European agencies that are hiring?
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Matt Drew
>> '90 GL "Blackbeard"
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan Alfonso <vangina@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2014998,00.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you kidding me?!
>>> Yes suicide is sad(i knew people who past away due to it, and i know
>>> people who have tried unsuccessfully)... But this country plays to
>>> cries of
>>> all the oversensitive politically correct nazi's too much. It was a
>>> funny
>>> commercial i don't care what the rest say. And the GM add was funny
>>> too,
>>> because it was a fr*%k'n ROBOT.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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