Especially when I hate V8!

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Oh, but if you hate V8, you can drink one of their noxious fruit concoctions instead.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I like V-8, but I haven't had a chance to try their fruit concoctions. It's got to be better than this rejected combination in a commercial for Boku (a fruit-based drink) narrated by Richard Lewis many years ago -- asparagus tips and prunes. (How's that for a drink?)

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On the topic of bad commercial timing....

I was watching an old episode of M*A*S*H where Hawkeye was sent to the hospital for a mental breakdown after an incident that happend on a bus. To make a long story short, the bus he was riding in had to hide because it was in enemy-occupied territory and a patrol was approaching. A woman on the bus had a noisy chicken, and Hawkeye harshly asked her to keep it quiet. We later find out that the chicken was actually a baby, and she smothered it to keep it quiet. This caused Hawkeye's breakdown.

This revelation was followed by a commercial for "Silence your Rooster."

BTW: I have no idea what the "Silence Your Rooster" ad is for, but there is a drug company logo at the bottom of the screen.

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That would be the final episode, in fact--"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen."

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I just saw that or a commercial similar to that, and it was "silence your crowing", if I remember right.

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Shamwow! That's the most annoying commercial I've seen... so far. But I think this Vince guy will soon be as ubiquitous as Billy Mays.

It wasn't the final M*A*S*H episode, but it must have been close. It was the one where BJ leaves. I was unaware/forgot that he wasn't there for the final pull-out.

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No--it's the final episode. I promise. You can look it up. It's the two-and-a-half hour final episode "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen." It's followed by Hawkeye returning to the 4077 to find BJ gone, but BJ gets sent back once he hits Guam. There's much talk over the fact that BJ can't say "goodbye" to people. In the end, Hawkeye takes a chopper away from the now-closed MASH unit, and BJ rides a motorcycle, pointing out to where he's left stones spelling out "goodbye" on the ground.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Ah, Bach.

Thanks for the clarification.

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No worries. I'm just having kind of a "no one is listening to me!" day so far--and I go see my therapist this afternoon, so I'm not expecting a change.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

If it's written as such a long episode, then it probably hits the air in pieces when the reruns are played, which would make some of the events appear to be from separate episodes.

IMDB lists it as 180 minutes but that's probably as a 3-parter including commercial breaks, the DVD version is 1h55m.
I've just realized I've never seen that episode end to end, back in 2 hours

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I've seen it and I agree. What's interesting is that Vince talks about imitation products -- in other words, sham shamwows!

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Sounds like a Sha Na Na song.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

What's my most hated TV commercial?

Politicial ads. All of them. It's already bad and getting worse.

My wife and I have a great way to avoid them the week before and the week after the election - we're going on a cruise from Los Angeles to Hawaii. TV reception will be limited. We'll vote before leaving. I'm thinking about getting a "No Politics" button and beating mercilessly anyone who persists in talking politics. I'm sick to death of it and we've got two months to go.

I watched it the other night, and it was at least two hours long. It may have been three. It was long enough that it could feel like a few separate episodes.

I know this is late, but I still want to say it: Gillian's right, Extravoice.

Mozart

Back after 1h55m.

There are very clean act breaks at 1/3 (remembering is halfway there), 1/2(Hawkeye gets back to work) and 2/3(does this look like peace?), like it's written to be shown as either a 3 or 2 parter which is probably how most have seen it.

The "chicken" silencing is in the first third, so if it's shown as three parts it definitely won't feel like it's in the final episode.

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Ahhhhhh . . . .

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I've got a Tivo - I don't watch commercials

Perhaps this one?
(They just don't write them like that anymore. )

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...and never did.

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