AT&T — Buddy!
sjbooher: The first time I saw this, I saw with my mouth wide open in disbelief, before turning, looking at my wife, and saying, “Seriously?”. Hey AT&T… this had been done 1.56 million times! Well, at least 2 notable times! And 1 was for the product of your MAJOR partner, Apple, for the iPhone, and they did it a million times better. This also seems very much like a rip-off of the famous Budweiser “Waaazzzzuuuuuuuupppp” ad. If you’re going to rip-off, or “cover” classics, you have to improve on them. That definitely does not happen here. Why is everyone so happy to answer the phone? That’s just fake. You are reading a website right now run by two people that absolutely HATE answering the phone. They should have people looking at their phone, realizing who is calling, and shoving the phone back in their pocket. I wish I could do that to this ad. D-
jtherkal: It’s true, I hate answering the phone. Although I have discovered that with my iPhone I can listen to people through the headphones and talk into the phone. That sort of makes it fun. And if you ever answer the phone by shouting “buddy” like the last guy in this ad, I’ll hang up. This ad doesn’t do anything that hasn’t been done before, and it certainly doesn’t do it better. D.
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