WTF is the deal with the Sprint commercials with the talking hamster? Am I missing something here? I see a guy with a beard and flannel who I am guessing is a house husband, his wife, who I know from a commercial loves tacos, there's a mooching goth, the hamster and a foreign child who needlepoints at dinner and has cartoon animal companions....
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
you're not confusing it with "compare the meerkat" are you?
Nope. This is one of the ones where they promote "Framily" plan
Believe it or not, the hamster is taco lady's husband. The guy who doesn't like the mooching goth and the little french girl are the siblings. The old black guy is a relative too, but I don't recall offhand how he fits in.
I blame it on ergot in the wheat thins at the ad agency.
Thanks, but at the risk of "going there", why us she married to a hamster?
Who knows? Why does the one kid not speak English and have a coterie of cartoon birds?
Very proggy commercial spot
BG
"When Yes appeared on stage, it was like, the gods appearing from the heavens, deigning to play in front of the people."
I finally looked up the campaign. The concept of a hamster as a spouse comes from a Japanese ad campaign (figures ) where a woman is married to a dog. The whiner is her college age son, there's a son who speaks with a southern accent and is a ventriloquist and the French speaking girl. "Prog" is not exactly the term for this....
I saw one of them a minute ago. The older black guy is taco lady's father.Originally Posted by moecurlythanu
I haven't seen it , but just hearing about it has sold on Sprint.
The next question: how do you get three kids from a hamster?
I believe I have seen the commercial of which you speak. There is a decent-looking woman with unbelievably high heels so that she will appear taller than anyone else, a nondescript dude, and a goth dude wearing lipstick. There may be a hamster. I don't recall a foreign child, but I don't doubt your recollection. No commercials that come on the idiot box in casa spellbound are allowed to play without the audio muted, so I did not know:
a. the ad was for Sprint.
b. there is such a term as Framily.
c. where the taco connection comes in.
It is entirely possible for my eyes to glaze over during commercials, so that I don't see the video portion. My wife has asked me about things she just saw on a commercial, and I draw a blank. My mind was elsewhere, my eyelids a blank slate. If you can train yourself to do this, I recommend it. It only requires moderate intelligence and an active mind. Or low-grade narcolepsy. The latter has the advantage that you miss everything else on TV in addition to the commercials.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
I can't believe you people actually WATCH commercials.
Now I know about at least one person who pays attention to commercials. ;-)
I love it - I think it's hilarious. And the Hamster is Andrew Dice Clay.
There are actually a whole series of these commercials. I think there are at least 5 that I have seen. Not sure that I understand it all either, but I do remember them after I see them.
Yeah. I don't think the Hamster is always the dad - I think an older black man is the dad in one of the commercials.
The only kind of funny thing that stuck with me from any of those dumb commercials is someone referring to the goth guy as Gordon and he says "It's pronounced Gor-doan," with the long "o" sound and accent on the 2nd syllable. Or something to that effect. Anyway, we're all here talking about Sprint in a forum dedicated to music and having nothing whatsoever to do with phones or anything remotely connected to them. Sprint would give the execs at that ad agency blow jobs if they knew.
"It's pronounced....'gorDON'..."
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
This is probably irrelevant to the discussion, but what is Sprint?
A major cell phone service company here in the U.S.
Gotta say, the commercials that are just as weird are the Direct TV commercials with the guy married to the marionette...
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
Gotta admit I kinda get a kick outta those commercials. The latest one where the puppet wife's father wants to duke it out with the husband and the old geezer takes his shirt off and tells the husband "wanna dance punk?" or similar words. Hilarious.
That one has almost an improv quality to it - the guy starts laughing, the wife whispers "stop laughing!" and he replies "I can't help it, it tickles!"Gotta admit I kinda get a kick outta those commercials. The latest one where the puppet wife's father wants to duke it out with the husband and the old geezer takes his shirt off and tells the husband "wanna dance punk?" or similar words. Hilarious.
And then there's the previous episode in the bedroom..."You like THIS?" "Yeah, that's kinda jazzy!"
http://www.marketmenot.com/directv-m...ty-commercial/
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
Memo to the ad execs: Some mountains are harder to climb than others.
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