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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 14, 2022 14:19:34 GMT -5
Because they can’t all be Cornette seamlessly transitioning to their sponsorship. Sometimes in fact the sponsors. And be she right bizarre and nerve grating. I don’t think anything can match the period we’re WWE was showing those starburst “berries and cream” ads and Enzyte ads about fifty times per broadcast. Though I suppose Global Force Gold has to rank up there too. Let’s hear more, the more obscure the better.
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Post by sungod2020 on Dec 14, 2022 15:41:02 GMT -5
I find it annoying when JR was shilling skittles. It felt so forced when he was talking about how fruity they were.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 14, 2022 15:49:53 GMT -5
Paragon Pro Wrestling was a short-lived indie promotion from 2014-2016. It stands out because it actually had paid TV on Pop TV before TNA/Impact Wrestling moved there.
It aired during graveyard hours. Their model was they would pay for their slot then sell commercial spots to reduce this cost. For a while their only sponsor was this spray that made the fire change colors for people who had fireplaces. Eventually they got at least one other sponsor though I’m blanking on what it was.
Also, this is just tangentially related because Ben, one of the hosts of Last Podcast on a the Left, is a huge wrestling fan. Anyway, the podcast did this multi-part series on a very evil cult tied to many cases of sexual abuse. Marcus, another one of the hosts had to make a super awkward transition to a spot, “Today’s sponsor, although it probably shouldn’t be, is Adam & Eve…”
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Dec 14, 2022 16:09:59 GMT -5
I find it annoying when JR was shilling skittles. It felt so forced when he was talking about how fruity they were. said "annoying" not "epically bah-gawd amazing!!"  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 16:15:46 GMT -5
Money is money and sponsors are sponsors but I always found it hilarious that when WWE was at it's most "adult"... it was advertising acne products to teenagers.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 14, 2022 17:16:41 GMT -5
The anti-smoking ads from the late 90s.
It felt like Jerry Lawler had gone soft when he started doing plugs for Burger King.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 15, 2022 8:52:48 GMT -5
And I recall WWE plugging Yu Yu Hakusho and it being obvious lawler and jr had no idea what the hell they were talking about
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Post by tafkaga on Dec 15, 2022 9:31:49 GMT -5
"Promotional consideration is paid for by the following..."
Nothing like Alfred Hayes shilling a product to make it sound utterly unappealing.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Dec 16, 2022 0:04:35 GMT -5
I find it annoying when JR was shilling skittles. It felt so forced when he was talking about how fruity they were. First thing I thought of. |
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 16, 2022 0:23:44 GMT -5
I remember them plugging USA's other programming. Sometimes it could be done well, like in the early days when they would plug USA's original tv movies, and at the end, Heenan would make some wisecrack, but other times it was desperate. One time Todd Pettingill said that instead of switching to Monday Night Football when RAW was over, they should stay on USA and watch Silk Stalkings.
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Dec 16, 2022 0:24:42 GMT -5
Anything that used the EEEEEEE midget as a spokesperson. His gimmick was that he would randomly burst out of something an average sized human could never fit in while screaming EEEEEEEEE, then deliver a monologue. I never knew his actual name. But for maybe a year, maybe a little less, in the late 90s he was in every other commercial. A phone company, I think it might've been Sprint, was using him as a spokesman when they were also a major WWF sponsor, and so we got to watch him pop out of a laundry tub screaming EEEEE, then slap a naked man on the ass and insult his genital size all while shilling a telecommunications company, over and over and over again.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Dec 16, 2022 0:26:26 GMT -5
DRAFT KINGS.
Tony, whatever they're paying you isn't worth giant glowing green bullshit on the canvas.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 16, 2022 0:32:13 GMT -5
Christley ads count?
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Post by Rave on Dec 16, 2022 1:43:23 GMT -5
Paragon Pro Wrestling was a short-lived indie promotion from 2014-2016. It stands out because it actually had paid TV on Pop TV before TNA/Impact Wrestling moved there. It aired during graveyard hours. Their model was they would pay for their slot then sell commercial spots to reduce this cost. For a while their only sponsor was this spray that made the fire change colors for people who had fireplaces. Eventually they got at least one other sponsor though I’m blanking on what it was. I know they had some local sponsors, I remember a commercial spot for a pizza restaurant with Glenn Gilbertti and whoever he was managing at the time that was kinda funny. If their Youtube episodes are any indication, they also ran some of those helpline-type ads that show up on pretty much everything. |
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 16, 2022 14:08:57 GMT -5
The anti-smoking ads from the late 90s. It felt like Jerry Lawler had gone soft when he started doing plugs for Burger King. Especially since early in his (WWF) career, he used to get riled up by fans chanting “Burger King” at him. |
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Post by Aceorton on Dec 16, 2022 14:23:56 GMT -5
Cinnaburst with flavor crystals is up there for me as far as commercials that made me want to claw my face off because they aired them so incessantly. Milton Bradley Karate Fighters was pretty ridiculous as an actual named PPV sponsor.
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Dec 17, 2022 0:05:05 GMT -5
"Promotional consideration is paid for by the following..." Nothing like Alfred Hayes shilling a product to make it sound utterly unappealing. |
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 17, 2022 0:06:51 GMT -5
Truth.com. I have the old TLC vhs tape (basically a tape focusing on the Hardy Boyz, Edge and Christian, and the Dudleyz), and they have the same truth ad at the beginning and ending of the tape.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Dec 17, 2022 15:03:18 GMT -5
The anti-smoking ads from the late 90s. It felt like Jerry Lawler had gone soft when he started doing plugs for Burger King. I remember one night he said he celebrated Easter the day before with a bunch of chicken Whoppers and it was like my soul died when he said it lol |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Dec 17, 2022 15:05:36 GMT -5
I remember them plugging USA's other programming. Sometimes it could be done well, like in the early days when they would plug USA's original tv movies, and at the end, Heenan would make some wisecrack, but other times it was desperate. One time Todd Pettingill said that instead of switching to Monday Night Football when RAW was over, they should stay on USA and watch Silk Stalkings. "Coming up next on USA, it's La FEMME Nikita!!" Remember when Sunday Night Heat started and they had a crossover with Pacific Blue and Mario Lopez? |
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