I just had to watch the Phillies throw away a sure win by leaving the bases loaded in the 7th and 8th inning and then friggin’ Arthur Rhodes giving up a game winning home run in the 9th.
To add insult to injury, they then run the worst commercial ever to close out the game. They run this awful WB Mason commercial about 3 times again.
Looks like WB Mason was so embarrased by this shite of a commercial, they had YouTube pull it. I’m wondering if we can have them do the same with the actual commercial.
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Lauren Kelly
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:29 am
I’ve never heard of that company and haven’t seen the commercial - but it seems dated.
c
September 4th, 2006 at 10:30 am
The thing is, the first ten times or so I saw it I only half-watched and I thought it was a going-away montage of the WB network or something.
radiocynic
September 4th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Oh, hell yeah. I didn’t think they could get any more annoying than their old overused “private investigator” spots they used to run, but hey, they sure did.
I hate to dis any musicians, but it’s really ill-conceived melodic and harmonic writing for a jingle as well. Just an extra little annoyance.
Luckily, I think they sank their entire ad budget into the Phils sponsorship, so we never see these anywhere else. So it’s just we-the-dwindling-number-of-Phils-gluttons-for-punishment, um, I mean Phillies fans, who are continually subjected to it!
JM
September 4th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
I thought the same, but after seeing 8 or 9 times, it caught on; now I go around the house singing it :-0
Spencer
September 5th, 2006 at 12:41 am
8 or 9 times? You’ve only watched 1 game this year I guess. But you’re right - it’s insidious how that song gets in your head.
radiocynic
September 5th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Yeah, I was going to admit… after I criticized the composer, I also still found the damn song unwillingly stuck in my head for the next few hours, even including the name of the product. So since that’s the main purpose of a jingle, I guess they did a great job.
Spencer
September 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
I’ll remember a nail in the head too.
MCF
September 15th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Philadelphia isn’t the only lucky city to see this gem — they run it during the Red Sox games up here in Boston, PLUS there’s a radio spot too. I just did a google search for the ad and this site came up — I wanted to show it to a co-worker that has only heard about it.
Spencer
September 15th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I’m figuring in Boston there are more advertisers wanting to promote during Sox games. During the Phillies games I kid you not, there are no more than 4 or 5 not including the Phillies. Add to that that WB Mason has only this one spot running and it’s the perfect storm - once every other inning.
And they do run it on radio here too.
Dave I
July 6th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
They actually run it in NY too! Seen it a few hundred times and still don’t know what the company does!
Matt
April 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I want my double uuuuuuuuu beeeeeeee… They sell office supplies. They have way better commercials than this!