Web Rescues Un-Aired Super Bowl Ads 286
destinyland writes "A pirated version of Budweiser's un-aired Super Bowl ad appeared on YouTube — proving the Web is more democratic than NBC. The sexy PETA ad they refused to air also turned up on PETA's site; YouTube also had Saturday's skit from SNL, mocking the actual Pepsi ad that would air Sunday. But ironically, the Web site for Jack in the Box crashed right after they'd aired their cliffhanger about Jack's bus accident, prompting one critic to joke, 'Should we assume he's dead?'
Counter-intuitive (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Counter-intuitive (Score:5, Insightful)
It doesn't make me want to become vegetarian or vegan, either.
It pisses me off at PETA, due to all the lies and misleading studies that they tout in their ads, as well as the implication that one sorry-assed psycho beating a duck to death is how they're all killed for meat.
Having grown up and lived on a mixed farm for 20+ years, I think I can safely say that beating an animal to death would pretty much ruin any meat in it. Especially something as small as a duck.
So, in conclusion:
1. PETA is a shady political group with an agenda.
2. We (or at least I) hate politics.
3. I hate PETA.
4. Eat meat.
5. ???
6. Profit!!
Re:Counter-intuitive (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Counter-intuitive (Score:5, Insightful)
PETA has so many problems with its tactics that you'd think they were sponsored by the American Beef Council.
The thing that surprises people the most about vegetarian (although not vegan) diets is that the food they can eat is relatively normal: cheese pizza instead of pepperoni, bagels rather than bacon, bean burritos rather than beef, etc. And you're absolutely right that reducing meat has significant benefits.
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Mmmm lentils. Although I have to say that shredded beef or pork tacos are much tastier than both, without the fat of pan-frying ground beef. Just cook an inexpensive cut of meat in a crockpot with your favorite chiles and spices until it easily separates with a fork.
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Shredded pork tacos are my absolute favorite. Particularly actual Mexican style ones (what Taco Bell calls tacos are disgusting). Soft grilled corn tortilla, some shredded pork, hot sauce, cilantro, some pickled chili peppers, and onions. No hard shell, no tomatoes, no cheese, and no lettuce. After trying some done the "proper" way taco's went from a rather bland, uninteresting food that I'd typically avoid to one of my favorite foods.
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bagles rather than bacon?
Mmmm savory, crispy...bagels.
Nope won't work for me.
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You are the example of why their 'statistics' are misleading and biased. Most people don't give a shit about what they eat. So how is comparing that group of people to vegetarians/vegans (who put at least a little thought into their diet) fair? They're not unhealthy because they eat meat, they are unhealthy because they don't give a shit.
CastrTroy is the example of the right thing to do. Studies that
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That was an excellent point: only compare vegetarians/vegans who put some thought into their food with carnivores who put some thought into their food. Not to mention, a vegetarian would immediately have to turn down, e.g., meat lover's pizza (mmm...heart stopping).
Do you have any links / sources for those more in-depth, non-PETA stud
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If you're not in a situation where you could raise your own in whatever conditions you deem fit, then you can always take up hunting (seriously). Startup cost is relatively minor (you can find a good used hunting rifle for ~$150, or a new one for around $275, or you can find a decent bow for around $175 if you wanted to go that route, though the archery accessories market drives that cost up fast), and most states have good public hunting land. 1 or 2 deer (or any other large game) per year is a lot of me
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You grew up on a mix farm, there is a world of difference between that and a feedlot or a battery farming operation.
Now I'm fond of good meat myself, but good meat is getting harder to find :(
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They're shady alright. I am pretty bothered by how they react to people wearing fur. Throwing flour and paint and other things is simply unacceptable. It's a stretch to call it assault, but it is still invading your personal space in an effort to force you to comply with their ideas of good behavior.
I have a right to choose to wear fur. It's not illegal. You also have the right to disagree with my choice. You do not have the right to terrorize me into ag
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Some meat benefits from being beaten (tenderised) before cooking, too.
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And some meat just needs to be beaten (Especially after seeing those girls in the link).
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And you have pigshit for brains, but you don't hear me complaining.
But seriously...farmers pollute the environment? What kind of crap propaganda have you been reading?
Polluting the environment you're trying to live from isn't exactly productive, and if you were to do so, your productivity, and therefore your income would drop significantly.
Farmers run tractors substantially for only a few weeks out of the year. You probably drive a car to work 5 days a week, for 50 or so weeks a year.
Farmers have manure to deal with, but 200 years ago, North America was full of bison and buffalo that were shitting all over the place, and we didn't have pollution problems.
I have to pick up the crap my dog leaves when I take him for a walk, under the guise of preventing pollution, but the fact that there are at least a dozen deer in the same woodlot in my city, who crap all over it every day, doesn't seem to have entered into the minds of people like you.
And as far as them being a throwback to a age best left in the past (Nice grammar by the way), it really takes a shortsighted twit to believe that anything remotely resembling a modern society could function without farmers.
If there were no farmers, everybody would have other jobs, but there'd be no food.
So everybody would have to grow their own food, which would mean little time to do other jobs, and all of a sudden, everybody's a farmer again.
You're an idiot.
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Who cares? They fucking pay gazillions of dollars to force us to watch the things because they're a craptastic waste of attention. How about the web rescues people from the ads that did get aired?
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I actually thought the game was more interesting than the commercials this year. But I did find some of them funny...
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Pirated (Score:5, Insightful)
Do we really have to use this word? It's not like they're going to be upset about getting poeole to view their ad.
Re:Pirated (Score:5, Interesting)
Did the industries scheme to demonize copyright infringement backfire?
If they scream piracy at everything, then the word piracy will dilute until it doesn't really mean anything.
This might already have happened.
Re:Pirated (Score:5, Funny)
Did the industries scheme to demonize copyright infringement backfire?
If they scream piracy at everything, then the word piracy will dilute until it doesn't really mean anything.
This might already have happened.
Good. Then I'm going to the fridge to pirate myself something to eat.
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What the pirate does that mean? Man, that pirating pirate is pirated up!
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Ogg is that Ogg... oggity ogg to ogg Ogg. Pirate? Ogg.
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What the pirate does that mean? Man, that pirating pirate is pirated up!
Verbing pirates language.
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The general public sees "piracy" as a joke anyways. 90% of the kids out there from ages 8-18 are downloading songs and video off the net like maniacs. Even the rich as hell kids, Their parents are building a 10,000 sq foot summer home here, use bittorrent and limewire and brag about how much free music they can get.
The ONLY people upset about piracy is the middlemen that only make money by not actually doing anything of value. They see they are obsolete and are panicking.
Re:Pirated (Score:4, Informative)
That's not true! I'm a uni student who's reasonably poor, and has nothing to do with any artistic industry, thanks to my lack of talent. As someone who enjoys copyrighted music, movies, games, and other software (including GPL'd software) and who researches using copyrighted scientific papers, I care about piracy. I don't want to have to bear the costs of pirates who sap money from the respective industries, who will then pass the costs on to me. I don't want to have to fight for my rights, including my right to privacy, against the RIAA and MPAA every year, as they push for greater and greater restrictions. I don't want to trash copyright and hope that something better exists, and that it'll come along and save our culture.
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Likely? No. Technically possible? Yes. Technically, it is piracy, but I think we're pretty safe sharing it around. ;)
Thanks, Slashdot! (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks for these very important updates on how we should be manipulated! I was kind of feeling like I was thinking a bit too much on own, but finally I get some more ads to dull the senses and reinforce that conformity!
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You know, the absolute basics of manipulating someone is making them think they're not being manipulated.
I'm in Canada...the web is the only way for us (Score:5, Informative)
Not too many Americans know this, but even though we get the Superbowl in Canada, the CRTC (our version of the FCC) allows broadcasters and cable companies to substitute their own commercials during the broadcast. (Yes, we get the Spokane NBC feed on our cable, but we get substituted Canadian ads!) This has been going on for years. So when the USA sees the most AMAZING KEWL Superbowl ad, most Canadians see an add for "Joe's plumbing and lighting"
The Web is the only way for most of us to see the Superbowl ads.
Re:I'm in Canada...the web is the only way for us (Score:5, Funny)
The USA does that too, sort of. I think it's around half time they let the 'locals' air what ever ads they want. Which is a good thing, because it lead to the best superbowl ad I've ever seen. [youtube.com]
That tops anything the big companies put on, if not just for the "WTF did I just see" factor.
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That... what the...
*sound of a squishy explosion and brains splattering everywhere*
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I can confirm the same on the NBCHD channel using Shaw in Edmonton. I can't figure out why the American HD channels are treated differently than standard channels.
I'm somewhat surprised that commercials are actually slightly amusing during the Super Bowl. Why don't advertisers do this all year long, rather than have annoying people yelling at me (at which point I hit mute and read for a few minutes until my show comes back on)? Wouldn't
This is what the civilised world finds bizarre... (Score:5, Insightful)
See, this is what those of us in the civilised world find so bizarre about the United States. You're perfectly happy to show ads (and programmes) containing violence, but some women in perfectly decent underwear? Banned.
What is that about?
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See Right, Religious. Also see Party, Republican.
The rest of us a perfectly fine with women in "perfectly decent underwear". Except the nudists.
Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. (Score:4, Insightful)
There, I fixed that for you since you don't seem to realize that Republican and Neo-Conservative are not synonymous.
Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. (Score:4, Insightful)
But, in his defense, they don't seem to realize it either.
Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. (Score:4, Insightful)
Apparently you haven't heard about the Federal Communications Commission, the fact that they have a process for accepting and acting upon complaints, and that there are members of the above-mentioned movements that have nothing better to do than sit there and watch TV and call in a complaint the moment they see skin or hear an F-bomb.
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As far as I can tell, the descendants of the puritans are fairly open-minded, e.g., Massachussetts and Connecticut do support same sex marriage.
No, they don't, they've just never been allowed to vote on the issue.
If California won't allow same sex marriage when put to a popular vote, why would you think Massachusetts and Connecticut would?!
Neither state has ever allowed the people to vote on the matter. But opinion polls are clear: if the people were allowed to vote on the matter, gay marriage would be outlawed in a heartbeat.
And on the idea that Puritan descendants are "open minded" keep in mind that the church Obama went to for twenty years can t
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Do you guys really want to try to explain to four-year-olds what the women are doing?
"I'll tell you when you're older." worked just fine for my dad. Kids don't need everything explained to them the instant they see it.
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Do you guys really want to try to explain to four-year-olds what the women are doing?
They probably wouldn't ask, especially if you don't make a big deal out of it.
If they do, say "making themselves look nice" or whatever.
I always found the TV where people died (e.g. the news) much scarier than nudity etc. What would you rather answer? "Daddy, why isn't she wearing any clothes?" or "Daddy, why are those children really thin and why are there flies on them? And why does the man have a gun?".
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What's the problem?
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And we were damned glad to get rid of them! How are you expected to have decent entertainment with some group of people constantly demonising you for the barest flash of a "soul corrupting nipple"?
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I've wondered if it is because they don't want to see real violence or skin shown on TV, but the violence can be more easily faked. If an American TV show actually showed real people truly killing each other, or shooting each other, or whatever, it would be shut down immediately. (Boxing and football are violent but don't count.) But scripted, special-effect violence is fine. You can't (or don't) fake the sex stuff, so it offends people.
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Meh, even the fake sex stuff gets way censored. There was a guy several years ago that got breast implants on a dare and when the local news showed a clip of him, they stuck a black bar over his top when he took off his shirt. I doubt many found that of prurient interest.
Or maybe it is just nipples, as they didn't censor manikins when shooting at the mall in outrage over a open-cup bra on display.
Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. (Score:5, Funny)
It's simple. The human body is evil. Unless it's been shot or otherwise maimed.
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The ads that did make it on that were "risque" were atrocious though. Danica Patrick, an indy racecar driver who has garnered some respect over the last few years, washing it away in a shower for GoDaddy.
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Also bizarre is this fascination for ads.
Re:This is what the civilised world finds bizarre. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's a nation founded by Puritans and presently populated with 200+ million prudes which has a multi-billion-dollar pr0n industry.
What's so hard to understand?
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Are you saying that the US censorship laws are really a way to shore up the porn industry? (yes I said porn). As in, without all that repression on public media, porn would become less interesting because we'd all be desensitized to human nudity and sexual situations? Desensitized meaning it would become normal, rather than taboo.
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There will always be a risky side of the moral compass that the porn companies are willing to visit. Don't matter how lax we get, they're (thankfully) ready to come out with a shocking video of something even kinkier. And really, that's nature. People love doing or looking at things that they feel like they're "not supposed to". It gives a nice rush.
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Like many other industries, the porn industry is so successful because of all the legal complications, very much (although not exactly) like the illegal drug industry and prostitution.
Trying to criminalize it only makes it stronger. We learned this with alcohol, I don't understand why people don't learn it with other things.
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We also ban public nudity, prosecute and berate those that choose to love more than one person, we sling hate at any chance we get.
But, video of someone beating the hell out of someone or even killing them? That's considered required viewing for children.
OMG They showed a nipple.... a NIPPLE!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG!
There is nothing in puritanical ideals that is healthy for society or humanity.
Disclaimer: I'm a Lutheran, I believe in God and My savior Christ, not all Christians are simpletons and wa
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No we don't.
Speak for yourself.
No it's not, Captain Straw Man.
Just accept it; we're insane when it comes to sex (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't get me wrong. I think our attitude towards violence is just dandy. I have no problem with enforcing the castle doctrine, i.e. the notion that if someone breaks into my house and I have an even remotely reasonable fear for my safety, I get a free pass to kill him. That's just logical and those euro-locales that would prohibit people from defending themselves and their property with guns and violence are insane to me.
But the sex thing? We're just nuts. We're so squeamish on the subject that usefu
Pepsi (Score:3, Interesting)
I haven't actually seen the SNL skit for comparison, but the Pepsi MacGyver spoof just seemed stupid. It wasn't even the kind of "poking fun at oneself" parody that will endear itself to fans of the show.
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I cant stand that sticky film feeling on my teeth from that crap. If I cant get Coke/Diet Coke I'll drink water. Pepsi products are too sweet to me.
Macho guys that don't want to rot out their teeth, or understand how screwed up your diet get's from drinking a lot of sweet soda will drink Diet. I wont touch the regular crap from here in the states. Coke from Mexico that is made with sugar and not corn syrup? that's a different story.
Pop made with corn syrup is nasty. Ask anyone from outside the USA.
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How much diet coke do you drink? I recently started having one 16 oz sweet soda ( I like Pepsi actually) a day which is a lot for me historically. I never understood how people could drink so much of the stuff...
I usually just have A coffee in the morning, water throughout the day, now a soda in the afternoon, and juice or water at night. I used to just drink coffee, water, juice and beer... cut back on the coffee and beer - added a soda.
Hear what you're saying about the corn syrup though... sugar based so
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Wussy? Well the things (Score:2)
that women will swallow might just excuse the taste of some diet drinks, let alone the taste of some diet food.
I know, crude, but the Pepsi commercial was just going at it from the guy point of view, I guess for things women put up with everyday... glass ceiling, mammograms, and childbirth....
They won't admit it (Score:2)
Except the guys who do drink diet drinks won't wuss out and complain that commercials about manly diet drinks offend them.
Why are you complaining about a pepsi max commercial? ARE YOU A WUSS?????
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Pepsi Max is a manly diet pop.
Just drinking it could lead to a "I'm good" moment.
Prolonged exposure to Siberian Ginseng (which isn't a true ginseng but is much cheaper while having most of the same compounds as true ginseng) can cause nerve inflammation which will lead to muscle spasms. Unfortunately, this is not something they mention on the can, so if you think you've finally found a diet pop with a decent taste and a sizable caffeine payload and make the switch to it on a four can a day habit it may come
peta ad spoof (Score:5, Funny)
Let me know when there is a spoof of the PETA ad featuring bacon instead of vegetables.
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Let me know when there is a spoof of the PETA ad featuring bacon instead of vegetables.
If you aren't stuck on bacon, a few searches on the internet will probably find you some hotdog spoofs.
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Yet another rejected ad (Score:3, Interesting)
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Well, I'm pro-choice (and ex-Catholic), and I didn't find a problem with that ad. At least it wasn't the usual "You'll burn in hell if you have an abortion!11!!".
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At least it wasn't the usual "You'll burn in hell if you have an abortion!"
That may have been "the usual" about 30 years ago, but these days I have noticed the pro-life forces favor using science in their arguments, demonstrating clearly how very early life begins in the womb.
It hasn't seemed to be very effective, but you know how the zealots react when you start arguing with science...
... more democratic than ... huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Free Food (Score:2)
More to the point, Denny's is giving away free Grand Slam breakfasts [businessweek.com] from 6:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. (local time) today.
Time to see if the /. effect works IRL and DoS Denny's.
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It did. I swung by on my way to work, and the line was out the door and halfway around the building.
For a $4 breakfast? Really? I went for my usual Dunkin Donuts coffee + bagel after all...
Yeah, right (Score:5, Insightful)
After watching PETA's ad it's no surprise that it didn't air. I doubt they even have the budget to air commercials during the Superbowl.
PETA probably commissioned a sexy ad knowing fully well it wouldn't be approved by NBC. The fact that it's "banned" gives PETA the Superbowl publicity it can't afford. (And as others have said, Superbowl watchers aren't exactly PETA's target audience.)
Yes - people love PETA ads while. . . (Score:2)
They are eating chicken wings, ribs, and 8-Meat pizzas.
SNL (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:SNL (Score:4, Insightful)
SNL hasn't been funny for well over a decade and that skit was a prime example of it...
SNL has never been funny. It's always been good for a skit or two now and then, but the average humor level has been pretty low since the beginning.
snl pepsi parody?? (Score:2)
as far as i can tell the (last macgruber of the night) snl skit was just re-aired during the superbowl. how is this a parody?
what am i missing?
SNL 'skit' not a skit (Score:4, Informative)
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The ads (or at least one of them) were repeated during the superbowl.
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Just figure that out, huh? (Score:3, Insightful)
Tell me, when did it first dawn on you that this was a Pepsi ad?
Sorry, but it seems pretty obvious to me that this was an ad, so I don't understand why you are acting as though this is some big conspiracy.
Why stop there? (Score:5, Funny)
If you're going to watch ads on the internet, may as well make it worth your while...
http://www.fleggaard.dk/movie.aspx [fleggaard.dk]
(click that you're Over 18, then hit the first video thumbnail)
Pirated? (Score:2)
I don't understand, why was Budweiser's commercial loaded on a ship off the Somali coast? And how much ransom did the pirates want for it?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy [gnu.org]
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Just some overgrown boy millionaires tossing around some weird-shaped device, that, despite being decidedly un-spherical, is for some reason referred to as a 'ball'. Additionally, despite that this 'ball' can only be kicked by one guy from each of the opposing teams at specific times, the strange 'ball' has a 'foot-' prefix attached to it.
Other than that, no.
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Other than that, no.
Aussie Open Final. No "whooshes", please. Nadal-Federer five-setter in a Grand Slam final is nothing to sneeze at.
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Are they made of meat?
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Off topic?
I'm specifically referring to the PETA ad which is MENTIONED IN THE SUMMARY!!!
How the @#%@$^ is that off topic?
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No shit. "Too hot for TV" my ass.
"To stupid that taking your money to air that would be like stealing lunch money from the retarded kids" is more accurate. I mean, what target "market" were they trying to reach? It was the fucking superbowl, for fuck's sake.
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It's similar to viral advertising - don't pay to show your advert, instead get other people to do the leg work for you. Advertising agencies need to work harder for their right to be ignored and cursed for ruining TV shows, damnit!