<![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> And I thought I needed to get a life. C'mon people, it's just a commercial. If it bothers you that much, close your eyes, put your fingers in your ears and go "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA..." until it's over.

I confess to not being happy when I started hearing Beatles songs in commercials, but I got over it.

BTW, my internet only got megabirds before, but I get a full gigabird now.

RAHfanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @X: The Eliminator: The cause may be rational, but I'm not so sure about the effect.

@Gann: Yeah, I don't even like the game Monopoly.

@zenpoet: Um. Yes. That would be worse. Totally. I am not intrigued by that scenario at all. *laughs nervously*

@braak: I find cartoon birds to be a better measure for replacement IQ tests.
I, for example, have an IQ of 3 Beaky Buzzards. (Roughly the equivalent of 0.004 Bubo's under the Classical standard or a 485 under the failed Howard The Duck standard.)

92BuickLeSabre

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phoghat

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @DearEditor:
Caution! Rice Boy

phoghat

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @92BuickLeSabre: there is nothing 'irrational' about your hatred.

X: The Eliminator

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @zenpoet: Well, the bird standard is very robust, and can be easily scaled and adjusted to different forms of etherwebs, based on the kind of cartoon birds.

Road runners are obviously good examples of cable-delivered internet speed, for instance, but if you wanted to measure the viability of a local wireless network you could use those crows from Dumbo.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> I'll allow these movie tie in ads for blockbusters, since it facilitates the budgets ballooning past 180 million - and lets be honest, I can't think of better place for that money to be going (*sarcasm*).

PVIII

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Gotta love monopolies.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @Miranda Kali: Hold on let me grab a pen... ... on chopsticks...

got to go...

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @braak: I use rotations per minute of cartoon Sarcophilus harrisii, but that hasn't seemed to catch on as well as your bird standard.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @92BuickLeSabre: Only thing that could make it worse is if they added Motorola and Kodak to the mix, and had all of them use their products to sexually assault the Great Grape Ape while the Snorks were forced to watch.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @Gann: Actually, to their demonic credit, it can't even do that, because TWC is essentially my only option, and I already didn't like them.

Checked out Verizon FIOS before these ads, and they don't yet serve where I live. DirectTV is a no go in my building. Comcast doesn't serve my area, and I wouldn't give a dime to Cablevision, even if it was for courtside seats at a NY Knicks game.

Aaaarrrggghh!

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> You know that part in Diamond Age where we learn that J.P. Hackworth became successful when he realized that there was tonnes of room for advertising on chopsticks?
...Yeah, were getting to that point. No space, no topic, no beloved character or historical figure is beyond exploitation. A .05 percent profit margin is still profit, and if it makes money, any disgrace is pardonable.
My friends, NEVER underestimate the extent that marketers will stoop to shill their trash.

(...brought to you by Carls' Jr. and Acura TSX )

Miranda Kali

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @92BuickLeSabre: I don't know about you, but I measure all internet speeds according to cartoon birds.

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> @92BuickLeSabre: In all fairness, this does have an impact on your internet service purchasing decisions, albeit a negative one.

On a totally unrelated note, the other day I saw what looked like a hurt dying bird on fairly busy suburban road. On closer inspection it was two roadrunners getting it on.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> If Chuck wasn't weeping in shame while he was alive, why should he start now?

Tiwa

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> I hate, hate, hate, (did I mention hate) this ad.

It is so ill-conceived. Do they really think it makes me think their service is faster than Speed Racer in some theoretical universe where I measure online performance against blockbuster live-action versions of classic childhood cartoon race cars?

No, instead it makes me think that Speed is a total loser who can't even beat a friggin bird in a race. It literally makes me less interested in the movie while having zero impact on my internet service purchasing decisions.

It's not like the Road Runner is even some beloved childhood icon. Probably the least developed character of the lot. Just a snotty little fast piece of prey that never does anything more than eat and run around. Speedy Gonzalez minus the quick wit is just a fast pest.

Aaarrrgh. My irrational hatred of this ad grows and grows!

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Speed Racer, Road Runner Beep Beep Their Way Into Advertising]]> I just saw a Honda Civic with the "H" badges replaced by Speed Racer "M" badges. Oh yeah, it's on.

DearEditor

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