yahoo answers commericals

May 9, 2007 9:57 PM

So yahoo answers has its own tv commercial now. Will we follow suit?
posted by null terminated to MetaFilter-Related at 9:57 PM (30 comments total)

No.
posted by geoff. at 10:07 PM on May 9, 2007

No.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:27 PM on May 9, 2007

Fuck no.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:28 PM on May 9, 2007 [2 favorites]

Dude. We can't go acting like the Internet is surpassing and outmoding television if we openly aspire to be on television!

We not only don't care for the medium, we don't even own such devices. If we do, we certainly only keep them around for our Criterion Collection and PBS.
posted by ODiV at 10:28 PM on May 9, 2007 [2 favorites]

I'm glad to hear it :-)
posted by null terminated at 10:30 PM on May 9, 2007

If we do, we certainly only keep them around for our Criterion Collection and PBS.

This sounds like derision. Are you joking? Wanna fight?
posted by carsonb at 10:41 PM on May 9, 2007

Get the shitting elephant's agent on the phone, stat!
posted by Rhomboid at 10:43 PM on May 9, 2007 [1 favorite]

Anyway, you forgot SNES.
posted by carsonb at 10:44 PM on May 9, 2007

Hell, when you do it as well as AskMe, they'd have to pay US (er, Metafilter Network LLC that is) to put it on the idiot tube.
posted by edgeways at 10:55 PM on May 9, 2007

OK, the paint huffer in the MF shirt is an excellent mash up.
posted by maxwelton at 11:16 PM on May 9, 2007

I'll take When Pigs Fly for $1000 $5, Alex.
posted by rob511 at 11:17 PM on May 9, 2007

Ooh ooh ooh! But we could make a commercial where John Hodgman is yahoo answers and some annoying, smug jackass is AskMe!

Or would it be better to hire stoned teenagers to talk about how yahoo answers lost all their answers but AskMe saved Christmas?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:26 PM on May 9, 2007

An optimal snarky response post but I am not optimally snarky. I know jessamyn'll leave it open, but please cortex, please don't adjudicate the mofo till tha mornin'.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:47 AM on May 10, 2007

I'm doing my viral marketing bit by accosting random strangers and telling them to seek therapy, see a doctor and consult a lawyer.
posted by Abiezer at 2:42 AM on May 10, 2007

You forgot BREAKUPWITHHIM.
posted by mediareport at 4:04 AM on May 10, 2007

Baby, failing to adjudicate motherfuckers is my new thing.

Also, I know we have at least a few members with video cameras, free time, and too little restraint. Chop chop with the awkward and semi-funny parodies!
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:23 AM on May 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

In a just world, Brad, Jen and Oprah would pay a nickel per view to everyone who encountered an image of them or read their name while standing in the checkout line.
posted by y2karl at 6:47 AM on May 10, 2007

I've been doing my part by spray painting "BREAKUPWITHHIM" and "SLBOE" on street signs throughout the world, and also posting lite brite renditions of a shitting elephant.
posted by drezdn at 6:48 AM on May 10, 2007

"Get the shitting elephant's agent on the phone, stat!"

Rhomboid, the elephant was pissing, not shitting.

Thus the tragedy of our loss of images.

Pissing elephant, NEVAR FORGET.
posted by klangklangston at 8:13 AM on May 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

Plus, the YahooAnswers ads always make me crack up— "Just wait 'til they get there," I think.

But Yahoo's gotta have something beyond Pipes and Flickr to sell, because google's become a verb.
And I'm amazed that Ask.com is still around. I mean, who wants the search results of a destitute aristocrat, so impoverished that he had to let go of his butler?
posted by klangklangston at 8:17 AM on May 10, 2007

Pissing elephant, NEVAR FORGET.

Literally laughed so hard I cried at that. Thanks klang.

It was a pretty good commercial, though.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:25 AM on May 10, 2007

Will we follow suit?

chicobang's ad

my ad
posted by languagehat at 9:37 AM on May 10, 2007

I saw the ad last night at about 12:49 am. Needless to say I don't watch much tv, but when I'm not tired and it's bedtime I put Conan on. He had Howie Mandel and Criss Angel, Mindfreak as guests. *shudder, shudder, shower, sit and cry* Those two plus that ad totalled the most insipid and intellectually atrophying 30 minutes of tv I have ever seen.

But I'm still kinda jealous. After all, If there is hope, it lies in the proles!!!!1
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:25 AM on May 10, 2007

They've had radio ads for quite a while too.
posted by smackfu at 1:27 PM on May 10, 2007

"Daddy, I want my OWN ad and I want it NOW!"

That thing was cute, but whatever. I love it when jessamyn says the F word though. Great Post!
posted by snsranch at 3:04 PM on May 10, 2007

"Oh! You straightened my spine!" ???

I always thought that when you had to explain plot points to the audience, you had a lot more bigger problems too.
posted by niles at 6:12 PM on May 10, 2007

They've had radio ads for quite a while too.

Aaand...their site still has an absurdly awful signal to noise ratio. Advertise *that*, suckers.
posted by mediareport at 7:39 PM on May 10, 2007

Yeah, it doesn't really seem to capture the feel of the site. The second scene should have gone more like this:

WIFE: What ya got there, hon?

HUSBAND, pantsless, hold finger parallel to wall

HUSBAND: Pew! Pew pew!

WIFE: Hon? Are y—

HUSBAND: lasers lol

WIFE: ...

HUSBAND: i hope you like your house too fall apart rofl!!!! hire a mechanic luser
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:11 PM on May 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

Please no mass-media Metafilter of any kind. It'd suck to have to explain to thumb-typers what a paragraph is, let alone a paragraph break.
posted by davy at 12:05 AM on May 11, 2007

Ask MetaFilter: "Oh, you fixed me spine!"
posted by tepidmonkey at 9:50 PM on May 12, 2007