New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by Tom Hamill '85
New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Tom Hamill '85 (---)
Date: February 04, 2003 09:03PM
Am I the only one left here who still actually listens to the WHCU radio broadcasts over the internet? From a devoted radio Faithful, I'd like to suggest, Greg, that the TBRW is missing a very important award, the "Herb Tarlek" award (so named for the advertising director from the old CBS series "WKRP in Cincinnati". This award would go to the most useless and irritatingly repetitive commercial broadcast during hockey games.
C'mon, who can forget some of the classics of old? Like that damned Shortline bus ad with the old geezer saying "What a change in this generation!" (whatever that means).
My nominee for the 2002-2003 Herb Tarlek award for the most useless radio ad would go to Pepsi-Cola, who obviously don't realize that the Ivy-hockey obsessed demographic doesn't overlap with the Britney Spears teenybopper demographic.
Any other turkeys you want to toss out of the airplane?
Tom
C'mon, who can forget some of the classics of old? Like that damned Shortline bus ad with the old geezer saying "What a change in this generation!" (whatever that means).
My nominee for the 2002-2003 Herb Tarlek award for the most useless radio ad would go to Pepsi-Cola, who obviously don't realize that the Ivy-hockey obsessed demographic doesn't overlap with the Britney Spears teenybopper demographic.
Any other turkeys you want to toss out of the airplane?
Tom
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: DeltaOne81 (---)
Date: February 04, 2003 09:04PM
Snapple Apple is Apple Snapple?? ::shudder::
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Tom Hamill '85 (---)
Date: February 04, 2003 09:15PM
We are all thankful that you are not a proponent of "going commando."
Just one question
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---)
Date: February 04, 2003 11:15PM
Are you sure it was chicken?
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: rhovorka (---)
Date: February 04, 2003 11:20PM
Be X-tra smart! Shop X-Tra Mart!
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 01:09AM
I love it! Though I don't think it rates Full TBRW? Award status, I am now taking official nominations for the "primetime offenders," which will be honored with their own page in TBRW?
So far:
+ "Not that you need one, you look perfect, did you cut your bangs?"
+ "What a difference in this generation!"
+ "This week at the Country Couple..."
All make the cut. I honestly don't recall whether "Are you suuuuuuuuure it was chicken?" was on the hockey casts or just on the football ones. And I'm sure there have been others that I've blocked out. I'd especially like to honor the efforts of upstate businesses (Shalimar, Matts, etc)
So far:
+ "Not that you need one, you look perfect, did you cut your bangs?"
+ "What a difference in this generation!"
+ "This week at the Country Couple..."
All make the cut. I honestly don't recall whether "Are you suuuuuuuuure it was chicken?" was on the hockey casts or just on the football ones. And I'm sure there have been others that I've blocked out. I'd especially like to honor the efforts of upstate businesses (Shalimar, Matts, etc)
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: cquinn (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 07:01AM
The "are you suuuuuure it was chicken" was definitely played during hockey broadcasts. And played, and played, and played...... I haven't heard it in a season or two and it still gets my vote as the most annoying.
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Adam '01 (205.217.105.---)
Date: February 05, 2003 10:09AM
I'm always a fan of "Drew Bledsoe for Topp's Family Market."
Has this guy's career so dead-ended that he can't even get the Wegman's gig?
Has this guy's career so dead-ended that he can't even get the Wegman's gig?
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Ken71 (207.127.234.---)
Date: February 05, 2003 10:33AM
Last year's Snapple Winner/Whiner ad - which promoted a contest that the ad itself said ended 10/31/01, yet ran all season long (into March '02) - is my nominee.
"Miss Hoover, this cap says I'm a winner too!"
Ken '71
(glad I don't have to pay to listen to the ads)
"Miss Hoover, this cap says I'm a winner too!"
Ken '71
(glad I don't have to pay to listen to the ads)
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: AnneDVM (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 10:47AM
Personally, I like Cornell Laundry's "We're not better by accident..." What does that mean?
(From someone who usually lurks, but is so irritated by some of these commercials that she just has to post!)
(From someone who usually lurks, but is so irritated by some of these commercials that she just has to post!)
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: pat (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 12:06PM
Is Barry Leonard's favorite dish at the Boatyard REALLY the East-Meets-West Spring Rolls?
I actually like the commercial with Drew. Bledsoe. The Pepsi commercial is just weird; it's a collage of jingles that goes a little too long. But I think I'll have to agree with Fred and vote for Apple Snapple. Or Snapple Apple. Or whatever the hell it is.
I actually like the commercial with Drew. Bledsoe. The Pepsi commercial is just weird; it's a collage of jingles that goes a little too long. But I think I'll have to agree with Fred and vote for Apple Snapple. Or Snapple Apple. Or whatever the hell it is.
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: crodger1 (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 01:41PM
Well, they are "the best on purpose". Doen't that clarify it for you?
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 01:51PM
If anybody knows a clever way for me to actually capture the audio clips of these, I will make the page multi-media. I don' know nuthin' 'bout sound Miss Scarlet.
Re: New TBRW Award? The Herb Tarlek
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---)
Date: February 05, 2003 03:53PM
As I recall each season we came up with a consensus for that year's annoying commercial. Xtra-Mart must have been the first season of broadcasts, and I know "are you sure it was chicken" was one of the two years I was in Switzerland (1998-2000). "What a difference in this generation!" was after that. I'm still partial to the M&T Bank Dating Service; let's go get a taco indeed.
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