They spend such a significant amount of money of these ads and I can't see how any of them get any traction. Wouldn't your best bet for low premiums and seeing claims actually getting paid be finding a company that doesn't spend a fortune on TV ads?
They spend such a significant amount of money of these ads and I can't see how any of them get any traction. Wouldn't your best bet for low premiums and seeing claims actually getting paid be finding a company that doesn't spend a fortune on TV ads?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I'm gonna take a break from football and watch The Three Stooges. I need a good belly laugh.
I remmeber when insurance ads used to be serious, like the old Prudential and Allstate ads from when I was a kid. As a side note, the spokesman for Allstate during the 60's was an actor named Ed Reimers. Reimers other great claim to fame was he played Admiral Fitzpatrick in the best Star Trek episode ever (well, my personal favorite episode, anyway). There's a great outtake where he says, "Oh, one more thing, Kirk", and someone wings a tribble at him, from off camera, and he says "You're in good hands with tribbles".
Yeah, me too. Every Saturday since last March and the lockdown it's the laughs I look forward to. I'm talking gut-busting, loud, hysterics. When Shemp goes....whoa, hey Moe, help, whoooaaaahhhh. Whoever I tell young people I'm gonna watch the Three Stooges they roll their eyes. Their loss.
And Moe smashes an apple on Larry's head......
Watching......The Black Scorpion (1957) on Svengoolie.
Well, I figured out exactly when Roseanne jumped the shark.
Season 8, episode 3 She started acting even more redneck-y and white trashy than before, as he sought to sabotage the restaurant that opened across the street from the diner.
And that's the bottom line because Silver Shoes said so.
Rosanne jumped the shark when she butchered the Star Spangled Banner...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c
Well, there was that, but I was talkign about the TV show, not Roseanne herself. I never did understand that one. OK, on the one hand you got whoever picks the people to sing the national anthem saying, "OK, let's get someone famous, but not an actual singer. In fact, let's get someone who has no experience as a singer whatsoever to sing a song that's almost unsingable for most professional singers".
And then on the other hand, you've got Roseanne agreeing to do it. Then again, it's clear...I dunno, it's pretty obviously that lady doesn't have a full set of encyclopedias, if you know what I mean. I recall reading that at some point, she accused her parents of molesting her, which her siblings claimed never happened. Then, some years later, Roseanne said she was on some kind of anti-psychotic medication that made her believe she had been molested. Also, I read she bought into all that business about teh Satanists running the child sex ring out of the basement of a Washington DC area pizza joint. As Hank Hill might say, "There's something...not right about her".
Roseanne (the TV show) should have closed up shop around the end of season 5 or 6 long before the sanctimonium started creeping in. The lottery thing and everything that came after was a trainwreck.
The anthem thing, she claimed at the time, was to poke fun of baseball players, "always scratching and spitting". Of course, as has as already been pointed out, she was a master at situational judgement, tact and taste.
Yeah, I've gotten up season 9, where they won the lottery, and it's getting a bit ponderous. I would have kept season 7, if for no other reason than to have the one where she's greeted by all the TV moms from the past, and the one Gilligan's Island parody.
I think the best stuff in season 8 was the one where Roseanne and Dan crash the bar mitzvah at the hotel, and there's the whole thing with Schecky Green. I thought that was pretty funny. Also, I liked Fred Willard as Martin Mull's husband. That was kinda funny.
As far as the anthem goes, I wanna know who the crazy person was who thought it was a good idea to offer it to her. Like I said, who's sitting around saying, "We need to get someone who has literally no experience as a singer to sing a song that most professional singers struggle with!".
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