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Der_Iron_Chef 08-17-2007 04:47 AM

Telus Fish Commercial
 
I'm sure you've all seen THIS Telus commerical. Am I the only one bothered by it?!!!

niloc16 08-17-2007 04:57 AM

are you serious you are bothered by it? why? its a commercial

andrewsk 08-17-2007 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by niloc16 (Post 266248)
are you serious you are bothered by it? why? its a commercial

The only thing that came to my mind was all of the people seeing this and then buying the fish and knowing nothing about them.

Kind of like after Finding nemo where everyone wanted a Dori in their little tank.

niloc16 08-17-2007 05:33 AM

i can see your point and agreed but i still thought the commercial was pretty cool......

justinl 08-17-2007 06:07 AM

everytime i see one of these commercials, i just shake my head and wonder why they would take a perfectly gorgeous fish like the lemonpeel and invert the colours for no apparent reason. could they not find a suitable blue fish in all the ocean? and then of course, they go and use a normal lemonpeel in another ad! just boggles the mind. and the lemonpeel isnt the only one either, there's a few obviously (and not very well done) photoshopped fish for no reason. just looks unatural. jmo.

and of course the finding nemo reason is another big thing for me too. and why on earth is a FW fish in there? im not sure that one would be a long term friend :D

in short, yeah it does bother me a lil. not a lot. just a lil. kinda the same way when some person on the bus plays his/her music just loud enough that all you hear is "thump, thump, thump". it's there and there isnt much i can do about it, and it isnt meant to annoy me, but yet, it does still annoy me a little bit.

marie 08-17-2007 06:20 AM

They also use gheckos, monkeys and cavemen. As colin said "it's just a commercial"

It's cute and harmless IMO :biggrin:

Der_Iron_Chef 08-17-2007 06:34 AM

Ok, well I don't mean "bothered" in the sense that I'm bothered by homelessness and teenage prostitution!

I mean...well, there's a freshwater fish swimming around with four saltwater fish. Ok, maybe I'm just picky, but C'MON! It's like Telus making a commercial set in the Serengeti, with a zebra, a giraffe, a lion and a.....moose.

niloc16 08-17-2007 06:37 AM

:biggrin: good point drew. :lol:

Samw 08-17-2007 06:56 AM

I was hoping to get a blue lemonpeel for my tank.

Chaloupa 08-17-2007 07:02 AM

I love the commercials....for the average "joe" they are just great, eye catching and really I don't think anyone will attempt to duplicate it...good marketing I think...look at us, talking about it. Isn't that the idea? Next time we go to buy a cell phone etc we'll remember the commercial. We as a group remember it because of the flaw with fish choice, and the color issues with some of the fish (man I wish my Naso was that colorful!) but others just think it is so freakin cool!


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