Paul Maki, self-proclaimed Idjit, makes episode-by-episode reviews of television shows. An eclectic mix of short run shows, animated, and older television is reviewed along with biographic tidbits, cultural artifacts, and general weird stuff.
I hope we’ve all learned something about the world and our place in it, or perhaps you just need answers about the PSA’s I referenced yesterday. Then, it’s a long tradition for advertisers to make you fearful that you smell bad, before offering you these handy hygiene products.
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Here’s hoping you don’t need to spell relief after we looked at restaurants. After revealing those answers we look to improve awareness of the issues, as we look at PSA’s, the public service announcements stations added when there weren’t paid spots in a break.
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What were those movies based on short descriptions and their taglines? Did you know? Then I hope you’re hungry, because we’re going to four restaurants.
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Car advertising is a staple of television ads, but did you answer correctly about the few chosen here? Then we will look at movie taglines, and some descriptions of the movies they promoted.
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Today we’ll see how you all did identifying celebrities involved in advertising. Then, we will look at ads about automobiles, and somehow a Canadian environmental scientist.
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