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March 17

Blue Magic (song)

For an extended period of time on Itunes, the song was not available. I just bought it today, but before that, Itunes told me that I could not bought the digital copy in the U.S., even though it was on "display" to be bought. I was just wondering if this was an Itunes only thing, or if it was that Jay-Z did not allow digital copies of that particular song to be sold in the U.S. Thanks The Reader who Writes (talk) 00:12, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Can someone find a video of this commercial?

This might seem like a strange request but I've been obsessing over the actress in this commercial for so long. It is a deodorant commercial for either Speed Stick or Gilette. It may have been Old Spice but it is definately not an Axe commercial.

If I recall correctly the commercial plays out like this:

A young man enters the room and tosses his shirt onto the bed. He heads to the shower. His brunette girlfriend appears and asks " Where'd you go?". He replies from the shower " I went running". Bizarrely, the girlfriend picks up his shirt from the bed and sniffs it. She exclaims " Andrew, it's dry and it doesn't even smell bad!"

A silly commercial and even sillier to obsess over it but the actress who played the girlfriend was stunning. Does anyone know where I can find said commercial? Or maybe just confirmation that what I saw was real and I am not crazy? I've tried finding this commercial on Youtube, Google, everything. No success.

Thanks

99.250.8.214 (talk) 01:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

That's a real ad, although I don't remember what it was for; I do remember that the original language was probably not English, because the actors' mouths don't match the words, the English is obviously overdubbed, and it is spoken much faster than a normal conversation. I always thought that was weird. Adam Bishop (talk) 01:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, apparently it was for Gillette, but it doesn't seem to be available online anywhere. Adam Bishop (talk) 14:14, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Song In Family Guy

What was the song that played in the episode Peterotica when Peter was on line at movies with Lois' father and the scene of the picnic movie played? What was the song that played when renee zellwegger started eating the ants? 24.90.87.56 (talk) 02:50, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

"Roll to Me" by Del Amitri. AlexiusHoratius 23:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Cybersix comic book

How many chapters were there in the first French volume of the comic Cybersix? I found a website that has scans of seven chapters, but I would rather just buy the book if that's not the whole thing. 99.245.16.164 (talk) 05:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Localisation in car adverts

I appreciate that car manufacturers can see the economy in shooting one advert in a great location, then showing that advert in many countries. But why do they go to the bother of localising the advert for the country where it is shown? For example, Vauxhall shoot an advert in the US (desert landscape, yellow line down the centre of the road, so definitely not the UK), yet when the advert is shown here in the UK, the car has a UK style number plate, the driver is sitting on the right and the car is driven on the left side of the road. Another manufacturer (Ford?) shot their advert in what appears to be the Italian alps, yet when shown in the UK they also used a UK style number plate, the driver was sitting on the right and the car was driven on the left side of the road. Astronaut (talk) 14:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I suppose they think that people are more willing to buy a product they believe to be locally produced. So, they will try to trick people into thinking that, with varying success. One particularly silly example here was a network TV station that superimposed pics of local landmarks into their advertising, to convince us it was really a local station. I doubt if anyone was fooled by that clumsy attempt. In your examples, they probably just took a mirror image and added a UK plate. They could also have taken the trouble to change the color of the line down the road, but changing the landscape would rather eliminate the whole point of the shot, from "this is a car that can get you across a desert or mountain range" to "this car is only good for a trip to the corner chemist's". StuRat (talk) 17:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Usually the purpose of car advertising is to boost car sales, so they look at ways of doing this with maximum effect. Therefore they want people that are relatable to the viewers (this is in fact always the case with international casting - when they shoot international commercials in South Africa they always case people that "look" like they are from the country where the ad will be shown). There's also the nationalist element - people want products that are "for" them, maybe even designed for them. So they don't want to see cars driving on the wrong side of the road. Furthermore their competition (other car companies) already have ads on TV that have been localised - so they're obligated to do it. If there's any dialog, they'll usually redub the dialog in the country where it's being aired - I see this quite often where I see an international product - but different voices (not even different languages!). So localisation is very important in advertising, because they want the ad to have as much impact possible - no distractions about accents, races, locations, etc - we want to talk to YOU, YOU living THERE. Rfwoolf (talk) 20:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

If they're concerned about wanting the car to be driving on the appropriate side of the road, why do they never give a tinker's cuss about drivers who pull out from a kerb needing to look, give way, indicate, and only then proceed? That never happens in ads, but any driver who drives this way in real life will sooner or later be struck by an oncoming car, and could wind up just as dead as if they drove on the wrong side of the road. (Maybe the market they're aiming for is "too cool" to bother with such "trivialities", and they want to be relatable.) -- JackofOz (talk) 21:00, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

They don't sell Vauxhalls in the U.S., so they would have had to import it from the UK for the ad. -- Mwalcoff (talk) 23:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Or more likely use an Opel - GM's biggest European brand, with essentially the same range as Vauxhall - and reverse the image for UK broadcast. Mowsbury (talk) 18:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

As a buyer you need to be able to 'imagine' yourself owning the car. That's much easier if the driving-layout is as expected. The scenery is merely a setting to create an 'idea'. It's not literal. 194.221.133.226 (talk) 10:53, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota Golden Gophers Basketball

Does anyone know which TV network will show the NCAA Tournament game between Texas and Minnesota? I can't find reference to it on Big 10 Network or ESPN. Thanks! EdwinHJ | Talk 22:26, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

CBS will be showing it, according to their schedule and the Star Tribune. AlexiusHoratius 22:51, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Correct. CBS airs all games (besides tonight's play in) in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Coverage is determined on a regional basis and often switches away from less exciting games even if that is the regional game. A complete schedule is here. If the game isn't airing in your area or CBS moves to a different game there's always March Madness On Demand, which I haven't used in years, but it seems to be a good option. Tomdobb (talk) 23:45, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Any large sports bar worth the name will be showing as many games as possible. If you go to one and ask the manager to put the game up for you, assuming you can't get it at home, they will oblige you if they can. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 18:58, 18 March 2009 (UTC)