Advertising IN a game...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/04/08/news_6093166.html

This is just insane... Video games soon as big an advertising medium as television? We PAY for our video games! We don't WANT commericals popping up when we pause the game!

C'est la vie, mon ami.

Why don't they just skip the middle-man and just beam the commercials straight to our brain?

Or into our dreams, like in Futurama.

I'll put that RF shielding plate in my NES into my skull before I allow that to happen!

Also, I have no idea what that meant OB1. What, is that some sort of non-English language? What's with whowever speaks that language? They only speak it because they are jerks I bet!

they already have some advertisements in some sports games.

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imagine that in your brain

It means "That's life, my friend".

Yes, it's a common saying.

Where? Maybe in English, but never once have I EVER heard that phrase in whatever language that is.

And no, that's not "life", it's wrong. TV is free, so of course commercials are to be expected. We PAY the ENTIRE price of the games we get, so putting commercials in THOSE is COMPLETELY wrong. Don't say you side with the companies on this.

Cable and satelite tv used to be commercial free, that was the main draw, but now look at it.

WELCOM TO TEH CAPITOLIZM!!!!

Where? Maybe in English, but never once have I EVER heard that phrase in whatever language that is.

I'd think that's just because you live in Oklahoma (no offence intended, but you have to admit that it's not the most cultured state in the country), but GR knew the saying so that can't be it.

And no, that's not "life", it's wrong. TV is free, so of course commercials are to be expected. We PAY the ENTIRE price of the games we get, so putting commercials in THOSE is COMPLETELY wrong. Don't say you side with the companies on this.

Of course not. I said "that's life" because it's typical and expected in this society. I hate it, but there's nothing we can do.

Sure there is. When it gets too commercial, stop buying. I won't buy a Zelda game with Link drinking Sprite all the time. If they went that far, the game won't be good anyway.

Ya know, your judgementalism is pretty high. We know foreign phrases here, like Carpe Diem, and Yvan Eht Nioj!

Join the Navy, eh? You've never heard "C'est La Vie..." before (or could even tell that's it's French), so I mean, you know...

Good luck with your anti-commercial revolution, by the way.

I just can't imagine how you can be so casual about this. It's like you are looking FORWARD to when Mario starts using magic Fruit Loops.

over 50 percent of "heavy" gamers like games to feature real products for added authenticity.

This has to be one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

I have a feelling that's a lie, you know like, "People LIKE to get our mail" from a spammer.

soon enough there will be advertisements on rolls of toilet papper.


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I like when games feature advertisements for the sake of realism, but they don't have to be REAL ads to portray this realism. Take Shenmue, there are ads all over town, because you would see ads all over town, but (this is an assumption) they are not for real products. I prefer that if there are ads, they at least seem real, and not just silly, general things you would never see (like, signs advertising COLA, instead of a fictional Jinbirabi Cola).

I just can't imagine how you can be so casual about this. It's like you are looking FORWARD to when Mario starts using magic Fruit Loops.

*sigh* So very naive, you are. Did you just wake up to the world a few days ago? This is how our society is, and there's not a damn thing you or I can do about it.

I am sure that toilet-paper advertising has been tried before... :D

And advertising in games isn't new. It's happened many times. Ever heard of a "liscenced game"? ...

Okay, how about the game starring Skittles (Darkened Skye), or those two old Cheetos games, or the one or two with the 7-Up dot, etc, etc... and those are just the most blatant examples... how about those ads in some games? I highly doubt that the Dickies, Slim Jim, etc. ads in Rush 2049 were put there from the goodness of Midway's hearts!

It's the way the world is. Live with it.

I get what you mean Weltall, and it's no biggy there. Also, I played the 7up game ABF, so I'm aware that some games are nothing BUT advertisements. Yo Noid! and the like are easy to recognize for what they are and the entire point is right there. No biggy because there's nothing to degrade. I'm talking about the actual problem here. The threat is that advertising will soon become very widespread in games, as in ACTUALLY DIMINISHING THE GAME ITSELF in the process. I'm talking stuff like an Obey Your Thirst meter in the next Battlefield game. Like this:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020918l.gif

OB1, this is just like spam, only this time it's spam you are PAYING FOR. It's a DEFECT in future games if it gets like this. We SHOULD complain about defects! You do it all the time! Why is this the ONE exception for you? What, do you plan on putting ridiculous numbers of ads in your games?

I want sports games to have the actual ads on the fields that the real stadiums do that season...

Ach, mein thirsten!

I get what you mean Weltall, and it's no biggy there. Also, I played the 7up game ABF, so I'm aware that some games are nothing BUT advertisements. Yo Noid! and the like are easy to recognize for what they are and the entire point is right there. No biggy because there's nothing to degrade. I'm talking about the actual problem here. The threat is that advertising will soon become very widespread in games, as in ACTUALLY DIMINISHING THE GAME ITSELF in the process. I'm talking stuff like an Obey Your Thirst meter in the next Battlefield game. Like this:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2002/20020918l.gif

OB1, this is just like spam, only this time it's spam you are PAYING FOR. It's a DEFECT in future games if it gets like this. We SHOULD complain about defects! You do it all the time! Why is this the ONE exception for you? What, do you plan on putting ridiculous numbers of ads in your games?

Yes DJ, because I am not going to start a massive campaign against advertisements in game means that my games are going to be filled with ads. As a matter of fact, I'm working on an M&M level right now.

You should make a game that is a gigantic advertisement for your videogame company.

OB1: And at the end you have to fight the CEO, Mr. Coleman, who shoots out firey office memos and attacks you with staplers! And after you beat him you get to view a commercial urging you to buy more games produced by Semnat Studios AND to even buy Semnat Studios stock! And on top of that while the credits are rolling you can sit back and view commercials for all the sponsors who helped to fund this great game!

OB1, you focused on a joke rather than anything considered a point eh?

A game that's just one advertisement for the company that made it...

Hmm...

Hey Mario, ever heard of such a thing?

Yunno, television exists because of commercials. All that TV shows try to do is keep you interested between commercials.

Ads in video games is nothing new and it will never catch on to the point of blatent advertizing, such as an actual break from gameplay to see an ad. What will happen is that we'll see huge ad campaigns over networked games. I heard that Coke wants to make a server for PC games, it's supposed to be cheap and easy to use but you're thrown in to Coke ad hell.

Blizzard already uses the lobby to advertise it's own games via banners at the top of the screen. No biggy there...

Yeah, there's no reason they should do something like that, considering the money is made off the actual product directly rather than advertising.

I just remembered something though. During King's Quest 2, when you peek into a certain hole, you see the most horrifying thing in all creation (in-game description), a PLUG! You are then bombarded with a 30 second or so ad for Space Quest. It would have been horrifying if it wasn't so hilarious.

Luigi's Mansion dropped a plug for Pikmin too. But the idea there is welcomed, promos and teasers for upcoming games from the company that made the game you're currently playing can be a very good thing (if you like the game you're currently playing). But by golly, if I took a whole SECOND from my busy coach potatoing time to watch a promo for a video game before loading my save file I better NOT see anyone telling me that they saved alot of money on their car insurance by using Clorox 2 on whites and colors (mama keeps whites bright like the sunshine), along with the tag line of "I'm lovin it" with the visual image of a well built gay man with no clothes eating FUCKING CHICKEN MCNUGGITS WHILE I HEAR A RAP MIX OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS FROM THE SIXTIES TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT A BREAKFAST BAR. Which are totally against nature "It's cereal and milk.... in a bar!" How about no.

How effective are advertisements? I have never bought anything because I thought the funny sex jokes of their ad was funny.

There's a guy in Monkey Island I who has a whole speech that is an advertisement for LOOM... :)

*Pick up the Badge*

Guybrush: I don't want people asking me about Grim Fandango.

Yep lazy, that's fine because it's an ad for a game, which I'm obviously interested in because I'm playing the thing. Better yet, it's completely your choice to view it or not. The day a mcnugget of any sort forcefully infiltrates it's way onto my screen during play though is the day I send the fiery flames of heck (HECK I say!) to forcefully infiltrate the tender flesh of some ad executive's genitals. I don't care which one...

The day a mcnugget of any sort forcefully infiltrates it's way onto my screen during play though is the day I send the fiery flames of heck (HECK I say!) to forcefully infiltrate the tender flesh of some ad executive's genitals. I don't care which one...

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Ads in games? As long as it doesn't interrupt gameplay, I could possibly tolerate it. In GTA, for example, there are billboards for Rockstar Games, which is fine. Radio advertisements are okay too. However, it'd be pretty stupid to have Mario walking around in Nikes with a shirt that says Polo across it throughout the entire game. The minute they start adding popups to video games, I'm going pure old school.

You wont have to worry about Nintendo doing it. I may sound like a fanboy but if we were destined to get ads in our video games then it would happen on a Playstation or XBox before it happened on a Nintendo system. The Gameboy market though would be the perfect candidate for ads; it's the only 'social' system because you take it outside.

It's true, Nintendo's the least likely of the first parties to put ads in games.

I hope they never have penis enlargement ads! I hate when I get those in my email box.

That would be frightening. I doubt they would have that in video games though, even if they were M-rated games. They better not.

I think that'd be hilarious. Imagine getting that kind of spam in your mailbox in Animal Crossing Online. :lol:

:shake:

:nodding:

You have Penis envy! No doubt about it!

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Haven't you people ever played Crazy Taxi? There are spots in there for KFC, Pizza Hut, Fila, and Levi's to name a few. Ads in games are already around. They're not imposing or anything but they're there. Instances like Crazy Taxi I can tolerate, even if other games if the context matches (like billboards in driving games).

That I can tolerate. Now if I see commercials during games or product placement in my inventory, I'm not going to be a happy gamer.

What EdenMaster said. I have no problem with real places being featured in a realistic game; it doesn't interrupt gameplay.

In fact, if they add a feature to a game, like they have with DVDs, where you can (optionally, of course) select to view the previews and ads on the menu, I won't be bothered then either. I just don't want commercials to play at random during the game. (Except maybe radio commercials, like in GTA, which don't interrupt gameplay and can easily be turned off, even though GTA's commercials are fictional.)

In fact, if they add a feature to a game, like they have with DVDs, where you can (optionally, of course) select to view the previews and ads on the menu, I won't be bothered then either.

They already do. It's called "EA Sports"

Final Fantasy and Zelda for instance shouldn't ever have ads. Even the very TITLE SCREEN should have purity of form AND essence, devoid of... you know... moron stuff.

lazy, I'm not so sure Nintendo is so far above repute as that. Remember how many "you can only unlock this feature, WHICH IS ALREADY IN THE GAME, if you have a copy of some other game" things they've done? Don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone's so close as that article would claim. I'm just saying Nintendo isn't holy.

Yeah, Pokémon Red and Blue do come to mind.

And Yellow.

And Gold and Silver.

And Crystal.

And Ruby and Sapphire.

The Pokémon team sure does know how to market to little kids. Too bad Nintendo has a hard time marketing otherwise.

You forgot the Japan-only Green :D (well, there's a whole thing about that that's the ACTUAL truth, but no I won't confuse you all again) :D.

In all fairness, Red/Blue/Green/Yellow may have been 4 versions of the same game, but Gold/Silver/Crystal was a brand new game (with 3 versions), and Ruby/Sapphire is also a seperate game. So, it's 3 games with many versions, not just 1. Still, while red/blue was innovative at the time, really I had hoped Nintendo would be kind to it's customers and from that point on just release all the new games as ONE game. There could be a sort of random selection of what monsters don't appear so you have to still find friends to get them all. Also, no more Yellow/Crystal style remakes on the SAME system being sold. Then again, Nintendo isn't alone. Square-Enix, and Konami, have released many updated versions of their games, namely on the PS2.

If you want to see a game that was really run into the ground though, look to the very beginning... (Yes, I know the Oddysey was the real first here...)

http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/

Behold, Pong was released like 3000 times IN A ROW before they finally gave it a rest and made something new.

That's why the features are never really all that great, just slight add-ons for the game. But when Nintendo says you can link up Metroid Fusion to Metroid Prime, it's safe to assume that if you own one, you'll own the other and Nintendo would never make a shit game just to load it with link-up options so you "have to" buy it. You buy it for the game period, link up stuff is just for surprise and replay value.

Also, remember Wario World? you got free downloads of Warioware Inc. for your GBA, which was a great promotion.

I'm talking from MY perspective, not the company's. And from MY perspective, I'm missing out on features that are ALREADY INSIDE THE VERY GAME I'M PLAYING just because I haven't bought some other game, which while good or not, is ONLY a key to unlock it. With something like Pokemon to Pokemon Stadium, the link up actually provides data you can't get in the Stadium game. However, this is just stupid. I never bought Wario World by the way, because I just didn't enjoy it when I played it a while back. You saying I needed it to unlock some stuff in Wario Ware? Yeesh... I bet that's all already INSIDE Wario Ware too.

cat food ads will be appearing in all Sega games that will be released this summer, As a way to boost funds and help Sega stay out of bankruptcy.


http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/cat/html

No, i'm saying Wario World allowed you to download free mini-versions of Warioware on to your GBA after you collected certain treasures in the levels. You didn't need both games.

Pokemon was created with the idea of people linking up, Nintendo isn't telling you to go buy the other Pokemon games, they're telling you to buy one version and then find a friend to who has the other version.

I believe Pokémon Green in Japan was Pokémon Blue in North America. Though I do think that they later got a Blue Version that we didn't get. Something like that. (Or was it Fire Red and Leaf Green?)

Okay Geno, since you started it I'll go into it. Yes, our blue is Japan's green. Then, Japan released a Blue we WOULD have got as Green, except NOA decided to skip it when Yellow was announced. Japan's blue (commonly called "Green" here just to prevent this very confusion) is basically yet another arrangement of monsters and new images and pokedex descriptions for the creatures. Nothing special beyond that. Essentially, it was made JUST for the purpose of having a game for Blastoise the other starting pokemon since there was already the "Charizard cart" and the "Venosaur cart" (replacing those monster names with the Japanese names for them).

Fire Red and Leaf Green... Considering Japan's original green became our blue, I wonder if Leaf Green will be called Water Blue when it's released here.

Now lazy, THAT'S the sort of GBA link-up that's NOT a total rip-off. Exactly like Animal Crossing, it's what makes link up a great thing.

Regarding Pokémon, yes you are correct. No one needs to buy EVERY version out there, just one and trade, so long as Nintendo just releases versions where the only difference is the monsters. Then, Nintendo released Yellow and Crystal. THOSE are the real problem makers if you ask me. They add whole gameplay features you can't just trade to get. It's not something other companies haven't done, and others have done it more often, but it's still VERY annoying to buy a game only to find that a few months later a better faster and uncut version that "is exactly like the creators originally intended" (as George Lucas would say, the rat bastard (yes, I said this purely to get OB1 to rant)).

ASM, WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?!

DJ, you are stupid.

That is all I will say.

I stopped buying Pokemon games on the GBA a long time ago.

Considering that the only GBA Poke games I can think of are Ruby/Sapphire and the Pinball game, that's not saying much.

Pokemon games on the Gameboy systems, I mean.

I stopped with Silver, which I hardly played.

I was highly addicted to pokemon blue and red when I was a kid.I loss interest by the time Yellow pikachu edition came out.

I too was addicted to Pokemon red and blue until I caught Mewtwo and saved the game only to find the my save somehow became corrupt. All the pokemon I had labored to catch vanished except for the 6 (or is it 5? i don't even remember anymore) that were with me. I was so pissed that I have never played a Pokemon gameboy game since.

It's funny how you could be playing the greatest and most addicting game in the world (not necessarily Pokemon) and then suddenly lose all interest when a game save goes bad or gets erased.

By the time Pokemon was around I was too old for its grade-school age group...

Oh, and I would be annoyed by game ads if they were like TV commercials, interrupting the game often. But when they're billboards in a game set in a city or something, that's fine... even if there is less variety of advertisers than there would be in a real city. :D (not mentioning the fact that Maine doesn't have billboards on highways and stuff...)

On this subject...

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# Activision has paired up with ratings firm Nielsen Entertainment to create a measurement service that will provide advertisers with detailed information on "in-game ad exposure." The companies also announced the results of a survey entitled "Video-Game Habits: A Comprehensive Examination of Gamer Demographics and Behavior in U.S. Television Households." Among the findings from the February poll are that three-quarters of the surveyed households with a male between ages 8-34 own a game system; gaming doesn't impact TV viewing among male gamers ages 8-17; and one-third of those polled said that in-game ads "help them decide which products to buy."
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/505/505417p3.html

Hahaha! yay for DEMOGRAPHICS!

Whenever my save file goes corrupt I end up staying up all night getting myself back to where I was. Which is a bitch with SSB:M

in-game ads "help them decide which products to buy."

:shake:

I predict we will see even more ingame ads.

Oh joy.

I would've caught all the Pokémon (at least, the original 151) a long time ago if my save files didn't always disappear for no apparent reason. I guess that's what I get for using a Gameshark. (Hey, it's not like I have anyone to trade with, and the chances of me winning a Mew in one of Nintendo Power's contests are one in a million.) I remember my file on Chrono Trigger once went corrupt. After beating the game (thank God I at least got to do that), when I returned to the save file, my party was standing in the middle of the blackness outside the little gate at the End of Time. They could do walking/running motions if I tried to move them, but they only ran in place. There was nothing I could do to get anywhere. I tried everything humanly possible, including Zelda: Ocarina of Time's legendary crooked cartridge trick (some of you may've heard of it, some of you may've not). The crooked cartridge trick didn't work too well (c.c I didn't think it woudl anyway, but I was going crazy and used it as a last resort) and it ended up completely erasing that game file. It doesn't bother me though, since I've beaten the entire game from beginning to end several times thereafter anyway.

Did you use a Game Genie on that game?

lazy, how often do your save files corrupt anyway? I've had the joy of never worrying about corrupt save files except the time I bought a mega memory card for my PS1. Don't use sharks, nor do I use memory cards that might just quit on me, nor do I hack my PC games, so I never have to worry about this sort of thing.

How do they determine ratings anyway? As a kid, after hearing about them, I thought TVs must send some sort of signal somewhere to inform some computer of what channel I'm watching. Now obviously that doesn't happen, so what do they do? What, do they find the most stereotypical "American viewers" possible and install some sort of box on their TVs and gather it from that?

They might form a consumer profile based on what games certain age groups/genders/etc. buy. I don't know how they'd make individual consumer profiles though. Perhaps they'll start implanting antennae into their systems that send a signal to a satellite high above the earth, which then transmits the information down to their super computers. Or maybe I'm just dreaming.

They WOULD need to find out the age group and gender of whoever just BOUGHT the game. How they gonna do that?

it's the Nielsen Ratings Media group

http://www.nielsenmedia.com/

Basically, a few thousand people chosen by dempgraphic and area are given a box for their TV. Whatever show they watch transmits the show's title and time they watched it back to Nielsen. I think they have the same operation for video games. That way they can tell you what type of people watch what type of show (or game they play) and at what time they watched/played it.

Oh and in the video games and home movie catagory, no one cares who actually buys it. They only worry about who watches it or plays it. If you make a 6 year old want something so bad he'll bitch about it for weeks, the parents will eventually buy it. It's how MCDonald's stays in business.

Wow, no wonder so much junk ends up on TV! That's a TERRIBLE way for the system to work! Only a few thousand? Yeah, that'll show what everyone ELSE wants to watch... no it won't!

I know, the system is incredibly retarded.

I wish networks would replace all their reality tv shows with anime and Asian movies.

I wish butterflies were actually made out of butter, so that if I ever needed some butter for a piece of toast or somethine while on a picnic, I could just catch a butterfly and spread it on my toast.

Now that's not very nice...

What's not nice? I seriously want that! I thought we were talking about wishes and stuff...

Wouldn't that be not nice to the butterflies?

You kill other animals for food, don't you? And butterflies are just pretty moths!

While we're wishing... i'd like to have edible coffee mugs.

I always hear of some show being "Number 1!" but I never even heard of it and then when I do watch it, I dont find it interesting/funny at all. All of what i'm going to consider your huge 'fresh' (unorthodox) comedy and drama hits like Curb your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Sex in the City, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, The Simpsons etc all gained enitial popularity by word of mouth and the Nilesen's didn't even know they existed until they talked to some normal people who couldn't stop talking about them. They think people love the WB network for Charmed and that Superman ripoff so of course there are more shows like that in production now. Joy.

When and if we all switch over to HD and use micro waves to transmit the data (obliterating the FCC :D) you'll probably see every TV transmiting the data back to the source. You might see internal ratings boards for each television broadcaster who would then report all of their findings to Neilsen. Same solution, higher numbers, more accurate perception of demographics. But it wont really matter, broadcast television will always suck. TLC, History Channel, Discovery, HBO etc, that's where the good stuff is right now. Unless you're like "OMG CHANDLER KISSED RATCHEL AND NOW JOEY LOST HIS BUTT CHEEK IN MONICA'S HAIR OMG OMG LAST 3 EPISODES OMG". I mean, if i'm going to waste my time in front of the boob tube doing something other than playing video games or watching a DVD it better have a good reason for me to watch it.

And now if you'll excuse me, I need to go dream about being on an episode of Monster House and beating the fuck out of that dillrod who kept using styrofoam on everything. They have to LIVE THERE dude, you cant MAKE furniture out of STYROFOAM, it doesn't work that way, idiot! *puts on tool belt and parades around the apartment yelling at inanimate objects*

And now i'm on Mythbusters! *uses JLo's ass as a floatation device... and drowns* Myth BUSTED! WOOOO!

Now i'm on the History Channel!

Col. Patton: We will invade the Machurian Dynasty when the sun greets the moon.

Alexander the Great: wtf! I thought I told you NEVER piss off the Manchurians! What if the Ottoman empire finds out!?

George Washington: Fuck em! *uses a rail gun to defeat Ajax (played by Brad Pitt)*

Brad Pitt: ....is there no one else...? *explodes*

Troy: *bombs*

The Alamo: *bombs*

King Arthur: *does moderately well opening weekend, then bombs*

Steven Spielberg: *jumps on the Tom Hanks band wagon* *money* I LIKE it!

Tom Hanks: *tries to compose the 37 different characters he's created in his head and then explodes after being asked if he would be the gorilla in the King Kong remake*

Mel Gibson: *face painted blue*I know what women want! they want FREEDOM! and JESUS! *shows prosthetic ass, wiggles prosthetic penis and nails Helen Hunt to a cross*

James Horner: How on Earth am i able to spend 6 months on a brand new film score and still not make anything original!?

Hans Zimmer: JA HET MIDI HOU VAN JE! *dur*

John Williams: *scores Episode 3 by recording the Return of the Jedi soundtrack backwards* Ha... this should keep the little bastards happy for another year.

George Lucas: I haven't had a good idea in 20 years! hey Cameron, let's make a 3-D version of Spy Kids!

James Cameron: Hold on! I'm almost done with my television special: "The Myth of the Disaster and the Truths of Titanic: The Undespitued and Completely Factual Rantings of Old People who Can Barely Talk 3!"

Jefferson Wodsworth Von Moneydouche, Deck C - Suite 227: well, Martha wanted a bloody mary and I had alot of money so I went to the bar and got drunk and cheated on my wife eleven times that night. Then I saw a spaceship poop out a big piece of ice in the shape of London and I thought 'Hey... it's a good thing i'm not Irish or poor.' And then everyone died.

AMAZING!

Diaries of normal unimportant people who may have seen or even worked with important people at one time in their lives!

1876, June 5th 4:06 AM, Partly Cloudy with mild showers

The General asked me to take my shoes off today and i did without talking back to him for fear of his using the horses on me again. He took my shoes and wore them on his head, proclaiming "I'm an elephant! I'm an elephant on safari with a bunch of negros! look at me mommy and daddy!". As soon as he wasn't looking, I shot him directly in the head with a bow and arrow. Hopefully, they'll think an indian did it and they wont come after me. I'll resurface in a few years after hiding out north of Little Big Horn since no one goes there. I just hope they dont look for the General too soon because I only burried half of him... I thought it looked funny that way and it made me feel good. I also have welts on my anus. I think the General put them there too.

Sgt. Frank F. Tuplington of the US 7th Calvary under General George A. Custer.

You know it's true!

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Maybe that could be William Hungs next move after everyone gets board with him.
Not that I want Anything! to do with his Asian johnson.

OTTOMANS!

Horde General Persona: AAAAARRRGH! We're the Ottomans, and you're NOT!

Elderly old lady in neck brace Persona: Well that's just rude...

WW1 Pilot Persona: I tell ya, when the enemy's on your tail and you take a dive, greatest feeling in the world.

I LOVE Earnest!

Now to turn my house into a giant puppet!

DJ's House (using roof-on-hinge for mouth): Nobody better come in here, for I am DJ's house! Bring me a tool shed, for I am hungry!

TV makes us lazy anyway. Make us HUNT for our entertainment I say! If that superman/seinfeld commercial taught me anything, it's that commercials just aren't long enough, and that they need to make it harder to view them! Yeah! That's a GREAT idea!

Hey lazy, ya know what? Lately, TLC and Discovery have teamed up to annoy me personally. They have gone... reality... *shudders*

Some guy making a motorcycle: Listen stupid! You just need to get it to work!
Other guy: Listen just shut up and wait a sec!

Where the hell is the remote?!

They still have good stuff, but the only Discovery channel that's ALMOST karp free at this point is the Science channel. They still do some stupid stuff now and again, but no reality shows, and NO shows where they try to prove that aliens built the pyramids...

Weltall persona: ASS! ASS! omgomgomgomgomg ass... :(

This whole thread has gone to hell. :muddled:

Looks like you watched that Daily Show episode with Seinfeld, eh DJ? ;)

Ottomans? People, or footstools? :)

BOTH!

Sherlock Holmes: This looks like a mystery for...someone else...because I'm only a fictional character!

Sir Arther Conan Doyle: I'm not though! *writes books*

Fred Jones: Let's split up, gang!

DJ: What's wrong with you?! You guys always split up and when you do you always get chased by monsters! And what's with the monsters always being some person in costume?! And how come you always think the monster is real? Haven't you learned that it's just someone in a costume by now?!

Scooby Doo: *licks DJ*

DJ: Yuck!!

GR: Now that's enterainment! *is eaten by a giant squid*

Mark Hamill: I directed a movie! *uses the Force to be in more movies*

Stephen Speilberg: No, E.T., you can't leave! I need more money!! *makes sequels*

George Lucas: Hey, there's nothing wrong with making sequels!

Everyone: ...

George Lucas: Well there isn't! Prequels are okay too.

Giant squid: *eats George Lucas*

Pecos Bill: Why is my name Pecos Bill?!

Steve: Why don't I have a last name? *is killed in the first five minutes of the movie*

Red Shirt: I don't even have a name!! *is killed in the first five seconds of the movie*

William Shatner: I'm William Shatner!

Capt. Kirk: I'm Captain Kirk!

William Shatner: You can't be Captain Kirk, because I'M Captain Kirk!

Capt. Kirk: What?! You said you were William Shatner!

Irony Man: *is on a smoke break*

Captain Spaz: *explodes*

Fanboy Man: Captain Spaz, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Mark Hamill: Hey, I'm in here twice!! *talks like the Joker*

Gary Owens: I was in Space Quest 4 and 6, you know. And Laugh-In.

Fanboy Man: *steals Gary Owens' shirt* Oh man, I can't believe I'm holding Gary Owens' shirt!!!

OB1: This thread is really going downhill...

GR: Yeah.

OB1: Right.

GR: *cough*

OB1: *clears throat*

*alarm goes off*

Everyone: Fire drill!

*runs, trips over shoelace, smashes into everyone in Tendo City, creating a massive domino effect*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

All members of Tendo City are now lying on the ground, and cannot get up.

Well, dang.

That sucks. Especially since whoever's lying on top of me is pinching my ass.

If Jimmy cracks corn and nobody cares, why does he keep doing it?

If they called them sad meals, kids wouldn't buy them.

Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulson are awesome.

Arrested Development is really funny. Sucks that it's gonna be cancelled.

Fox always cancels cool shows.

Fox exec #1: We have this show that everyone loves and says is really funny...Let's cancel it.

Fox exex #2: Yeah! And then we can show "When People Marry Animals That Attack Millionaires in the Outback 7"!!!

Fox exec #1: You know it!

of COURSE I was talking about the foot stools!

Foot stools. You know... stool... how did that happen? "Let's use the same name we use as the medical term for poop for those things we sit on." "yeah, Bob, sounds great!" "Oh hey let's make hookers illegal too!" "yeah, Bob! Boy you're full of ideas today!" It just... it pisses me off.

Sigh... I remember when I was young and I would come home from school every afternoon to watch Animaniacs... then they moved it to Kids' WB, which used to come on Sundays in this area. (The reason I stopped going to church.) Now it appears I have to order that NickToons channel just to watch reruns of Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain. This is why I wish they'd release both shows on DVD.

The thing that killed Pinky and the Brain? Adding Elmyra to the cast. The show barely lasted a few more months.

Alas, poor Animaniacs. I knew them, Geno.