Does this feel like advertising to anyone else?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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Not at all, but I am craving Cinnabon™
With its hot gooey layers of cinnamon and dough draped in sensuous icing how could we all not crave Cinnabon™?
I have a sudden urge to watch better call Saul
I still need to watch the last season. Cancelled Netflix though and haven’t set up a safe way to sail the seas yet. Haven’t missed it though so maybe I shouldn’t.
I was genuinely thinking that it seems like the kind of viral ad a smart (or terminally online) marketing department might come up with.
Honestly the joke only works with a few brands, because of how situational they are. You could maybe substitute a pretzel place.
How about no brand or a fake brand? If you replace Cinnabon with something like Cinnabun then it removes any semblance of real-world advertising while still getting your point across.
It'd have to imply that brand to be funny. The gag is that you only seem to encounter these kinds of... restaurateurs?... in airports or dead malls. You could make a similar joke about watching CNN, but it only properly lands if you know it's about CNN. Otherwise it is, at best, a non sequitur.
Also, why the fuck is there no N in the middle of "restaurateurs?"
Cause it's French. And I do not believe that if you replace the name with a similar one that the joke wouldn't land the same. They'd still land even if the GameSpot and Cinnabin names are slightly replaced, because then we'll just use our brains to figure out what they are referencing.
we’ll just use our brains to figure out what they are referencing.
That's not better.
You can't insist any mention is awful corporate propaganda, and then assert you'd recognize which corporations are being referenced, without being named.
Coca-Loca. Can you solve this great mystery Mr. Thinking-is-hard. Also I just said it felt like an ad, not that corporations should not be referenced ever.
Jackass - what's the difference between saying Sony and saying Sorny? It's not any less of a reference to a specific brand.
And the very direct reference is part of the joke when a comic is about how generally irrelevant the brand is, outside of specific contexts.
I'm sorry, maybe I just don't see the joke then. How is "Cinnabon, since this could be your last" specifically a part of the original comic's joke? Wouldn't it work just as well with a plane crashing while thinking of literally any other food? Replace Cinnabon with Oreo's and I think the joke is the same. Maybe I just missed something that makes Cinnabon essential to the joke besides Cinnabon being in airports sometimes?
You only seem to encounter this brand in airports. Oreos are commonplace. Cinnabons are not. They are an idle temptation almost exclusive to air travel, with its occasional risk of helpless death.
The joke's not about airplanes crashing. The joke is about Cinnabon.
This frog is minced.
I have seen more cinnabons in Malls than in airports. The joke is "buy cinnabon" according to you, which is not a fucking joke dipshit.
Already mentioned malls, thanks.
I no longer care if you understand this quite simple gag. You've been an unpleasant time vampire. Bye.
Says the guy continuing the conversation by responding to me repeatedly
If this isn't deliberate trolling then you are an idiot.
Or I'm just sick of your fucking bullshit bro