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Originally posted by spookyfish
I don't know. Every time I see or hear the Sprint ads, I always think about it being a bad Joe Friday imitator, but maybe that's just me.
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Those Sprint commercials have been on so long that hardly anyone remembers the initial premise: the man in the suit is a ripoff of Agent Mulder from the X-Files, going from town to town to investigate strange cell phone phenomena.
I don't generally hate the Sprint ads, but the fraternity/sorority ads are loathsome. They rival the Verizon Wireless ads. There's a special circle of hell reserved for the "Can you hear me now?" guy and the ad execs who came up with that line.
There's this one AT&T Wireless spot that tracks a man walking through an airport, sitting alone in a hotel room, and generally looking like a face in the crowd. So he sits down by himself at a bank of chairs, picks up the cell phone, and calls home. Then his little daughter appears the next seat over to talk about her soccer game with that adorable Cindy Brady-voice of hers. Surprisingly effective.
edited to impress the nubile twirling hippie chicks with my grammar and punctuation.
