New Elio Commercial

[ehwatt]

It's a message targeted to a specific audience. If you're not the target audience, it probably won't appeal to you.

It's the same with any advertisement. A commercial with stats-laden sports humor written for ESPN probably won't go over very well on Cartoon Network. A commercial written for hardcore science fiction fans for SyFy probably won't be received too well on the Food network.

Same with this ad. It was targeted for a younger generation, in cooperation with a web site that specializes in satirical humor and parody. Show it in some other venue, and it may very well flop. As it did here, where the typical audience is much older, and with a quite different social/political outlook. Chances are, if you're reading this post then you're not the target audience for that ad. Just shake your head, mutter "kids these days, what's the world coming to?" under your breath, and move on.

And what does this say about the targeted demographic? Does that demographic identify with the image portrayed? They are no longer "kids".

And by no means say anything out loud that might hurt some feelings, Especially if it is true. Look where that has put us. "You're a smart boy Johnny, (patting him on the head), I know you meant to spell dog".

I'm sorry, but that commercial hurts my feelings.

 

[Coss]

Shouldn't that be rock, scissors, paper, lizard, Spock?

No, Rock, scissors, paper, hand grenade (or detonator)

 

[Sethodine]

I was taught that it was "Paper, Rock, Scissors", not "Rock, Scissors, Paper".

 

[Coss]

Hmmm, pretty sure it's "Rock, Paper, Scissors, detonator (detonator = hold hand like thumbs up, but fold the thumb down) Detonator beats anything.

Rock is beat by paper, because paper covers rock, paper is beat by scissors because scissors can cut; and rock beats scissors because it can hit and break or scissors can't cut rock.

 

[Rob Croson]

Rock, Paper, Scissors .... Dynamite!

Or is it Scissors, Paper, Rock....

And scissors beat dynamite, because it cuts the fuse.

 

[Rob Croson]

In the commercial, no one says anything unique about the Elio vehicle. They could have photo shopped the picture of any vehicle in front of the building and added the printed words in the sky for that vehicle, and this "commercial" would be just as applicable. Nothing has anything to do with the vehicle.

My guess is that they are saying that everyone wants to drive the Elio. It is appealing to both sides of the biggest issue currently on most people's minds: the presidential election.

Commercials apparently are full of things people like and the merits of the product are nothing.

Well, yeah. Same concept as "sex sells", but with fewer bikinis.

I want to know technical facts about a product and I expect the sales person to know them.

I agree. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer sales people these are likely to know anything about the stuff they sell.

 

[DikiJ]

This would make a GREAT commercial. However, crawfish are usually the bait and not the game.

WRONG. Being a cajun from Louisiana I can say that crawfish is definitely game. It is highly regarded as one of the best seafoods to ever come out of the bayous.

 

[Marshall]

WRONG. Being a cajun from Louisiana I can say that crawfish is definitely game. It is highly regarded as one of the best seafoods to ever come out of the bayous.

I've seen lots of traps, but never a fishing line to go after crawfish. I've even seen a pail and shovel. But not a fishing line.

 

[Frim]

I've seen lots of traps, but never a fishing line to go after crawfish. I've even seen a pail and shovel. But not a fishing line.

My mother was grandma to every kid in the neighborhood. Mom would provide string and a piece of bacon so they could drop it down the crawdad hole in the muddy ditch. The crawdad would not release the bacon and could be pulled up to the surface. That's crawdad fishing.

 

[Marshall]

My mother was grandma to every kid in the neighborhood. Mom would provide string and a piece of bacon so they could drop it down the crawdad hole in the muddy ditch. The crawdad would not release the bacon and could be pulled up to the surface. That's crawdad fishing.

OK. You got me there. I do remember something to that effect now that you mentioned it. Nothing like a crawfish cooked in a tin can over an open flame in the back yard.