This has nothing to do with the political incorrectness of the commercial, it has to do with the commercial's horrible writing making it sound like they were exploiting the troubles being faced in Tibet. I know funny politically incorrect humor, just go watch Blazing Saddles. This commercial was out if this world wrong, not politically incorrect, just flat out wrong (though unintentionally so, more on that a bit later).

Why did they cast that guy as the waiter? This whole fiasco could have been avoided by just having an American waiter serving that guy. Having a Tibetan serve him dinner after speaking about all the problems their people are facing today is all kinds of offensive. I am not partial to the current political correctness movement, but I have to draw the line at this one.

But really, I'm not saying that Groupon needs a new advertising board because what they did is offensive to the Tibetans, I am saying they need a new board because they were too thick to figure that out. Offensive or not offensive, it was unintentional, and I recognize that. Groupon's executives were simply too dumb to notice that airing that commercial was going to lose them customers.

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Feb 8 2011, 08:41 PM

"Is it twoo what they say about you people being ... gifted?" [ZIP] "It's twooo! It's twooo!"

"They said you was hung!" (response) "And they was right!"

"Excuse me while I whip this out..."


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This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 9 2011, 01:10 AM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Classic!!

And lets not forget this one!

"How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?" (response) "I'd say you've had enough!"

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"



This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 9 2011, 05:17 AM

ROFLMAO!!! The minute the scene loaded I started laughing cuz I knew what was coming!

Can't quote the movie without this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-pmpgrYQgs...feature=related

I actually have a good feeling that they've got a massive increase in hits to their site, increasing their revenue. It was probably the smartest thing they could have done.

I liked Conan O'Brien's take on the whole thing.

This post has been edited by RagingMudcrab: Feb 9 2011, 06:27 AM

Hits to their site does not equal increased revenue in contracts, which is how they would make their money - it may have been people wanting their address to send them hatemail, lol.

The vid is a better ad than they did, lol.

This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 9 2011, 02:05 PM

Ah yes...Lily Von Shtupp. Madeline Kahn was a comic genius!

QFT

I'm familiar with many internet/chat acronyms....but what is "QFT"?

Ooh! Ooh! Pick me, I know! Heh. I'm not familiar with much net speak, but I do actually know this one:

QFT = quoted for truth.

Lily von Schtupp is my all time favorite Madeline Kahn role.

She was both beautiful, funny and priceless in Young Frankenstein, too.

But that bordello scene is just plain funny on so many levels. I catch myself singing "coming and going and going and coming -- I'm so tired!" after a long day at work!

Acadian already answered correctly, lol. It is "Quoted For Truth" - something our beloved Treydog taught me.

anyone else see the darth vader kid volkswagen commercial? that was my favorite.

Doritos, by far... Especially the one where the guy's grandpa comes back to life... Although, they were thinking of fritos...

I liked that one too.

I missed that one, I'll have to go to the site and look for it!!

They have ads and businesses pay for their coupons to be on the site. They'll make money. Besides, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

I just remembered, I lol'd at the Mini Vader one. And the Adrien Brody commercial was awesome. Brody's the bomb.