Banned commercial not for cat lovers.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2004-04-19 12:21am

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Remove the space.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ sportka.html

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 12:27am

As morbidly funny as that is, in the long run it's really just too disturbingly graphic to air, in my opinion.

I can't even see what timeslot or on what network you could get away with this, really...

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2004-04-19 12:28am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:As morbidly funny as that is, in the long run it's really just too disturbingly graphic to air, in my opinion.

I can't even see what timeslot or on what network you could get away with this, really...

Actually, it seems to have been created with the express purpose of being seen without being aired to generate controversy and thus, publicity.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 12:29am

Yeah, I remember reading that from Snopes. A really dumb risk if you ask me.

*myan*

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-04-19 02:19am

PETA will be on their ass very soon.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-19 02:22am

Rally the APL!

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-19 02:24am

Wow, that was incredibly tasteless. Are we sure it's legit? Because all other things being equal I'd lean against buying Ford because of that.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 02:24am

The what?

Howedar: It's 100% legit.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/commercials/sportka.asp

*myan*

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-19 02:26am

The Anti-PETA League.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 02:28am

Rogue 9 wrote:The Anti-PETA League.

Why? This is seriously an extremely disgusting advertisement. I wouldn't be bothered at all if PETA jumped all over Ford's ass about this, since they'd fully deserve it.

*myan*

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-19 05:47am

The pigeon commercial is morbidly amusing, but the cat one... uh... yeah, tasteless barely starts to describe it...

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-04-19 05:53am

Since I'm not a cat lover, I can't get too worked up about it, but when I imagine that being a dog that they did something like that with, I'd probably strangle the guy who made it with his own bootlaces...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 06:04am

I'm not really a cat or a dog lover, but I just find it simply revolting because that's all it really is.

*myan*

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-04-19 07:57am

The moron who thought of this should have is or her head examined......sick fuck.

ps i know its not a real cat being decapitated.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-04-19 11:28am

I've seen that before, along with the pigeon one. The pigeon one is funny, but the cat one....thats just fucking morbid. Whoever came up with that idea should have his penis welded to the exhaust pipe....

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-04-19 11:51am

Okay, that commercial is just beyond tasteless. I can just imagine some mentally fucked sadist trying to think up some new way of torturing other organisms, seeing this commercial, and saying, "Hey, that looks great!"

Of course I'm not saying ban it. The fucked up sadists will find ways to exercise their depravities regardless of what the TV tells them, but I think it's rather fucked up that a company would encourage this sort of behavior.

-Damien

Supreme Monkey Lord · Post by **Supreme Monkey Lord** » 2004-04-19 03:48pm

That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-04-19 03:51pm

Supreme Monkey Lord wrote:That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.

That'd be kind of pointless, seeing as the cat was computer generated.

*myan*

Supreme Monkey Lord · Post by **Supreme Monkey Lord** » 2004-04-19 04:00pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Supreme Monkey Lord wrote:That's disgusting. The people that filmed it should be arrested for animal cruelty.
That'd be kind of pointless, seeing as the cat was computer generated.

*myan*

If the cat was real that is. The commercial shouldn't air regardless.

Imperium² · Post by **Imperium²** » 2004-04-19 04:01pm

I give it a 6 out of 10 on the funny scale.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-19 04:23pm

The ad is succeeding. It makes controversy and thus gets publicity and since there's no such thing as bad publicity these days, as sick as that ad is with the cat, it's doing what it set out to do.

Imperium² · Post by **Imperium²** » 2004-04-19 04:27pm

I really don't see a problem with the ad. A cat's head is lopped off in a sun roof. No screaming, no gore...nothing. I would have found it funnier if the cat was underneath the car near the engine, someone starts it and you here the cat "MEOOORRROOOWW!!!!", *car shakes* *wood chipper sounds* and fur shoots out the back of the exhaust. The only reason why the above commercial is funny is because it makes people so angry. In reality it is uncreative and lame.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-04-19 04:41pm

Imperium² wrote:I really don't see a problem with the ad. A cat's head is lopped off in a sun roof. No screaming, no gore...nothing. I would have found it funnier if the cat was underneath the car near the engine, someone starts it and you here the cat "MEOOORRROOOWW!!!!", *car shakes* *wood chipper sounds* and fur shoots out the back of the exhaust. The only reason why the above commercial is funny is because it makes people so angry. In reality it is uncreative and lame.

I think the idea of a self-aware car decapitating domestic pets is a little too much for people to tolerate. I'm certainly not going to rush out and buy a car that markets itself as a mean road vehicle because it performs animal mutilations when not in use.

J · Post by J » 2004-04-19 05:05pm

Normally I'd be very disturbed, but I just got back from watching The Punisher with my Sandy & my BF which seems to have completely desensitized me for the time being...

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-04-19 05:34pm

That's just sick, no two ways about it. I can't believe something made me side with PETA. I feel so dirty....