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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

351.0. "SF Commercials" by BEING::POSTPISCHIL (Always mount a scratch monkey.) Mon Jun 30 1986 11:16

    The biggest new medium for science fiction seems to be commercials.
    Is this good or bad?  Are the commercials any good?  Will this increase
    the popularity and quality of science fiction?
    
    
    				-- edp
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351.1Since You Asked,INK::KALLISMon Jun 30 1986 12:166
    Bad.
    Not really.
    No.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
    
351.2"Catch the Wave..."FRSBEE::FARRINGTONa Nuclear wonderland !Mon Jun 30 1986 15:411
    
351.3PAINFUL TO DRINK SODA, ISN'T IT?!EDEN::KLAESIt obstructs my view of Venus!Mon Jun 30 1986 19:4712
    	Recently there was an ad for some soft drink (Dr. Pepper I think)
    which was a takeoff on Blade Runner, where a woman detective tested
    three replicants to see which one was really human by finding out
    which one had real "taste" (ho ho) in sodas.  It had an interesting
    premise and even started out okay, but quickly became very weak
    and stupid.
    
    	The Pepsi ad with the guy traveling back in time to 1885 with
    a Pepsi (naturally) and eliminating Coke was simple and cute.
    
    	Larry
    
351.4Survival of the StickiestPROSE::WAJENBERGTue Jul 01 1986 09:517
    There is also a faintly amusing piece of wishful thinking by one
    of the cola giants.   In it, we see kids in exotic tights sipping
    strange containers of The Product while wandering around a futuristic
    archeology site with their teacher.  They unearth an old bottle
    of The Rival Product and completely fail to recognize it.
    
    Earl Wajenberg
351.5Another oneNONAME::ROBERTEldrad must live!Tue Jul 01 1986 18:368
    I just saw a slick commercial with helmeted guards and surveillance
    systems -- they open a vault and light blazes forth -- to what end
    this glorious epiphany?
    
    Zale's Jewelers is having a sale!
    
    Yecch!!  :^('
    
351.6LUCIE::PENNINGTONFri Sep 19 1986 10:551
    Don't forget the PEPSI add with Michael Fox at the duplicating machine!