Talking about weird American TV shows and commercials. Also a discussion about the first Mortal Kombat movie. Audio is from SleepyCast Episode 29: / sleepycast-29-super-sl...
Honestly it’s crazy how many commercials there are for medication, lawyers, asbestos and mesothelioma. Like Americans commercials are always portrayed as McDonald’s 90% of the time, but it’s always meds and lawyers.
I've honestly never thought about our commercials before. It's like sandwiched between Chili's ads lawyers are always assuring me that something wasn't my fault. "Are you a victim of inbreeding? It's not your fault. Call us, and we'll sue your parents!"
Did you commit a crime? No? Maybe? Call this number! Did you do something wrong? You might have! You don't know! Call this fucking number! Call us! Or don't! We don't know? Fuck you! Call this number!
"Is your inbred son suing you for being a foul human being with no moral compass and no knowledge about how genetics works? it's not your fault! give us lots of money and we'll sue someone you don't like."
@Gremblo He regretted it immediately. *FIX THE BIRD* He killed an animal on a whim and ever since he's fought to wrong that right by cherishing the lives of each and every helpless, disgusting creature he encountered. Rats, chipmunks, cats, mange-ridden foxes, Jeff. Truly, a friend to beasts great and small.
I was sitting in the hospital waiting room when I got the terrible news. My wife has cancer. We tried everything, medication, chemo, but she kept getting weaker. She's dead now, but my memory of her love will never fade away, and that's what gives me the strength to keep on living. LOVE. THAT'S WHAT MAKES A SUBARU A SUBARU
Hey man, I dunno if you remember making this comment, or if you'll even see this- but I just wanna say that you've perfectly encapsulated everything that makes the subaru commercials so cringe. They barely have anything to do with a car, and the motto at the end is just so disingenuous and pretentious. I honestly would not be surprised if they made a real commercial with a scenario similar to this one.
The Toxic Avenger was so violent they didn't even bother submitting it for a rating because it would definitely get an X. Naturally it got its own Saturday morning childrens cartoon and action figure line.
Tbh you could probably get away with robocop even 5-10 years ago. Maybe not now, after goge flowd, but every other 80s and 90s r rated action hero is arguably a bad guy or morally grey while RoboCop is pretty much all good guy, and everyone loves good guys
Oh god I Google "woolie" and fucked up kid's horror shit shows up what the fuck ( I'm assuming this is referring to the guy from _Two Best Friends Play_ )
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The first commercial seems VAGUELY familiar, but equally surreal. The weirdest thing about American TV as a statesman, is when you go to a new territory on vacation. FOR SOME ODD REASON, local commercials seem worse and different than the area you grew up in.
I think the Super Best Friendcast should have Mick, Stamper, Oney and Zach on as guests. If not in one episode, then one or two at a time. Like a sort of Sleepycast version 2.5 or whatev
If Super Best Friendcast is a thing ive never heard of it. Zach and Chris are in California, Mick and Stamper and Niall are still back there, but SleepyCast is over now I believe. Plus theyre all busy working on their own things soo yeah
Love how one week you see an ad for the new wonder drug to cure your explosive ballsack warts and then the next week you see 100 ads from the law offices of Goldstein & Frankelburg offering a settlement in a class action against the drug from last week for causing toenail cancer.
They perfectly captured the exact feeling of watching commercials on an American TV station for Canadians. We usually have seen living in the US being very similar to living in our own country, but watching some of your commercials make it seem like it exists in an intense and bizarre alternate reality. But yeah - TV shows made here in Canada are mostly so terrible due to and because of the fact there's actually a law that stations are required to show a certain amount of Canadian content. Otherwise it would be flooded with all American shows, since everyone prefers those. Besides our own news, I would be perfectly ok with us only getting TV content from outside Canada.
How the fuck did that animal guy get away with any of that shit?? fuckin animals stuffed in a box? Who approved that notion? i can't stop laughing/ raging.
There’s a reason for this, I’ll use Round Up as an example. So they found that the weedkiller Round Up could potentially cause cancer. A law firm sees this and recognizes they can sue for a shit ton of money. They make a class action law suit but they need people affected by it to join, so they make a shit ton of commercials asking affected parties to join. They advertise the financial aspect to get more people on board.
Those commercials of happy people going about their lives and it's all a commercial for a new drug, and at the end they tell you all the side effects really quickly and alot of them are fucking disturbing; and then like a month later a commercial saying have you or a loved one lose your genitals/get fucked up by this new drug call us and we'll get you some money.
don’t forget the movie trailers where every single goddamn one has the exact same deep voice guy as the narrator and there’s always at least one moment in the trailer where the music stops and the character says something “funny” or “cool” before it kicks back in and ends 10 seconds later
in australia they give you like 1 minute of content and 3 minutes of ads i dont know how my mum enjoys it cause all the ads are the same repetitive jingles that get stuck in your head on repeat every minute
When I lived in as a kid, every single day I'd see the "How can you lay your hands on several thousand pounds cash? I don't know! RAID ME SAVINGS!" commercial. They still use that commercial in 2020
I live in windsor, across the river from Detroit. So I grew up with a mixture of lawyers and lawsuits commercials on America channels and then w.e hippy shit canada has
This is old but I’ll have you know canada has quite the industry in comedy and movie filming and some decent tv series, we also have one of the locations where your most favourite cartoons voices were recorded here! The funny thing is tho, any weird ad with 800 numbers come usually from the states or further south of the states. But I’m disappointed they didn’t mention the house hippo commercial from canada.
We've been stuck in an era of ads trying too hard to be ironic for so long this past decade that I'm starting to miss "HONEY WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE A TERMINATOR IN YOUR UNDERWEAR"
The second Mortal Kombat movie will always be my favorite because that dumbfuck Johnny Cage gets killed in the first five minutes. I literally watch that movie until he dies and then shut it off on Liu Kang's meme expression.
real story according to my dad back in the day my dad new a guy that bought a fancy car for street racing that he named kano and it died a week after he bought it and never got his money back because the guy left town(not 100% sure about that last part) I remember that because I wanted to name something that I don’t remember what though ( maybe a car we just bought) but he wouldn’t let me name it that because of the story and the fact that he thought the name was cursed .
