You take those guys, I will stick with the cows, the lizard and the duck.
WHAT!!! I think it one of the best one on TV!
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I like the cows, the lizard, and the duck too.You take those guys, I will stick with the cows, the lizard and the duck.
WHAT!!! I think it one of the best one on TV!
They're goofy enough for me to like them.
Most of the time I will mute the commercial, but that one from the start that I have like.
I found another DirectTV that need to be pulls. The one with Rob Lowe.The DirectTV one with the puppets.
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I found another DirectTV that need to be pulls. The one with Rob Lowe.
You mean you don't like looking at arm-hair curtains?
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I found another DirectTV that need to be pulls. The one with Rob Lowe.
They were funny at first...Now they're just beating a dead horse and becoming as boring as the Wendy's commercials with the young lady from Cullman and BSC.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/directv-rob-lowe-comcast-115853475145.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma
Don’t be like DirecTV, the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) says.
The watchdog group has recommended that DirecTV discontinue its popular Rob Lowe ads, which feature the handsome actor taking on what the commercial group called “one of several odd or awkward alter-ego characters.” The ads that always end with Lowe’s spoken tagline, “Don’t be like this me — Get rid of cable and upgrade to DirecTV,” may not be long for your small screen, thanks to a complaint filed by cable provider Comcast Corporation.
The NAD found that several of the ad campaign’s claims could not be substantiated, or were even flat-out unfair.
“While humor can be an effective and creative way for advertisers to highlight the differences between their products and their competitor’s, humor and hyperbole do not relieve an advertiser of the obligation to support messages that their advertisements might reasonably convey — especially if the advertising disparages a competitor’s product,” the NAD said on Tuesday.
The NAD didn’t like the signal reliability claims versus cable that are made in the “Creepy Rob Lowe” commercial, the shorter comparative customer service wait time suggested in the “Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe” spot, and the better picture and sound quality implications drawn in the “Far Less Attractive Rob Lowe” ad.
The group concluded: “Given the absence in the record of supporting evidence, NAD recommended the advertiser discontinue the claims.”
However, “the Rob Lowe campaign was always scheduled to end at the end of Q1,” Jon Gieselman, SVP, Marketing at DirecTV said in a statement to TheWrap. “We wanted to launch our new campaign with Hannah Davis in the Final Four [NCAA basketball championship]. We always reserve the right to bring back the Rob Lowe campaign, either in its current form or with new spots, it has been extremely successful for the brand.”
In its complaint, NAD also felt that the “Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe” commercial conveyed an unsupported message that DirecTV’s sports programming was better than cable’s. Other issues included the “superiority message” of Lowe’s aforementioned closing phrase, as well as DirecTV’s “rated No. 1 claim” and another that states it has been “ranked higher than cable for over 10 years.”
Finally, the NAD recommended that the satellite provider “either discontinue the price claim featured in the ‘Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe‘ commercial or modify it to reflect the price of a package that included the sports programming featured in the commercial.”
Don’t be like DirecTV, the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) says.
The watchdog group has recommended that DirecTV discontinue its popular Rob Lowe ads, which feature the handsome actor taking on what the commercial group called “one of several odd or awkward alter-ego characters.” The ads that always end with Lowe’s spoken tagline, “Don’t be like this me — Get rid of cable and upgrade to DirecTV,” may not be long for your small screen, thanks to a complaint filed by cable provider Comcast Corporation.
The NAD found that several of the ad campaign’s claims could not be substantiated, or were even flat-out unfair.
“While humor can be an effective and creative way for advertisers to highlight the differences between their products and their competitor’s, humor and hyperbole do not relieve an advertiser of the obligation to support messages that their advertisements might reasonably convey — especially if the advertising disparages a competitor’s product,” the NAD said on Tuesday.
The NAD didn’t like the signal reliability claims versus cable that are made in the “Creepy Rob Lowe” commercial, the shorter comparative customer service wait time suggested in the “Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe” spot, and the better picture and sound quality implications drawn in the “Far Less Attractive Rob Lowe” ad.
The group concluded: “Given the absence in the record of supporting evidence, NAD recommended the advertiser discontinue the claims.”
However, “the Rob Lowe campaign was always scheduled to end at the end of Q1,” Jon Gieselman, SVP, Marketing at DirecTV said in a statement to TheWrap. “We wanted to launch our new campaign with Hannah Davis in the Final Four [NCAA basketball championship]. We always reserve the right to bring back the Rob Lowe campaign, either in its current form or with new spots, it has been extremely successful for the brand.”
In its complaint, NAD also felt that the “Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe” commercial conveyed an unsupported message that DirecTV’s sports programming was better than cable’s. Other issues included the “superiority message” of Lowe’s aforementioned closing phrase, as well as DirecTV’s “rated No. 1 claim” and another that states it has been “ranked higher than cable for over 10 years.”
Finally, the NAD recommended that the satellite provider “either discontinue the price claim featured in the ‘Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe‘ commercial or modify it to reflect the price of a package that included the sports programming featured in the commercial.”
On the Lowe one DTV was going to pull it at the end of April. Maybe? PJ You right about Two broke girls. And his has the new Sunday show on CBS Battle Creek it a good show so far. Also the CIS show may not be no more because Ted Danson will be on the Fargo when it come back on.
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Very much looking forward to how the writers will handle this new season of Fargo. I hope it's not like American Horror Story where it's a new story line with completely new characters every season.
CSI has had an almost complete turnover from its original cast, even before Ted Danson left. He was not one of the originals. I think they will write him out of the show and go on.
@bama alum that was a Super Bowl commercial from last year, and yes I too would have too. I saw the new DirecTV commecial today and I think I want Lowe back:argh:. It a lady riding a white horse on the beach and the horse talk.:smh:
Nick(George Eads) was the last of the original cast member of the show and he left the show in the end of of the show this year.