GastonRabbit
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#2: Jan 11th 2023 at 2:35:53 AM
Paging ~Berrenta to the thread.
Anyway, I agree with cutting.
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#3: Jan 11th 2023 at 2:58:21 AM
Advertising Tropes just aren't good in general.
I see value in a merged "someone is having a problem and the other is suggesting Brand to help with that", but unless we already have something like that it'd be for Yard.
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#4: Jan 11th 2023 at 3:50:31 AM
I think this is a very clear cut case. Anything of worth can be Yarded.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
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#5: Jan 11th 2023 at 5:09:42 AM
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Cut, yard anything worthwhile like ![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
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#6: Jan 11th 2023 at 5:12:35 AM
Cut and yard.
How sweet it is
#7: Jan 11th 2023 at 5:21:51 AM
I'm also good with yarding the idea. The two parody examples I mentioned can be preserved here in this thread once we decide to do that.
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amathieu13
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#9: Jan 11th 2023 at 8:23:00 AM
Like Amon said, Advertising Tropes are hard to crosswick since only a rare few ads have pages on the wiki.
Cut and yard, but merge them; we don't need them as two separate tropes.
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#10: Jan 11th 2023 at 9:08:43 AM
The merged idea has potential, so Cut and Yard sounds good.
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#11: Jan 11th 2023 at 9:11:29 AM
+1 to cut/yard
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#12: Jan 11th 2023 at 9:28:05 AM
Cut and yard-merge.
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#16: Jan 11th 2023 at 2:37:03 PM
I think that's 14 votes counting the OP. Waive the rule, or no?
Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Jan 11th 2023 at 5:37:10 AM
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How sweet it is
#17: Jan 11th 2023 at 3:34:02 PM
Both tropes are wick-starved, so it's good enough to waive.
I'll salvage the examples in a non-hat post.
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How sweet it is
#18: Jan 11th 2023 at 3:36:53 PM
The salvaged examples:
Caution: Everything is pasted here as originally appeared. Be wary of natter and ZCE's.
Guys in Garage
- Canadian Tire has managed to update this one a little bit with a family that uses Canadian Tire products and leads a blissful existence. When the neighbour wanders over to find out what miracle product they've got now, usually both the husband and the wife extol it enthusiastically.
- They stopped running those ads due to the somewhat alarming hatred that viewers developed for "the Canadian Tire Guy". Apparently, his self assured attitude rubbed a number of people the wrong way.
- The ad ran for several years though, with even a francophone version of the couple for adds in Quebec. Things went overboard when the kids started exalting the Mastercraft product of the week. As one Quebec humorist put it: "The kids are doing it! The 10 year old boy is blabbering about how great that screw driver is! Someone buy them a TV or something!"
- They stopped running those ads due to the somewhat alarming hatred that viewers developed for "the Canadian Tire Guy". Apparently, his self assured attitude rubbed a number of people the wrong way.
- This is used in commercials for several motor oil brands; e.g., Mobil 1, Pennzoil, and Castrol.
- One commercial has two guys golfing, and discussing the unfortunate jock itch that one of them is suffering. His buddy tells him about this great cream he uses for that, and as he's about to demonstrate how to apply it, the commercial abruptly turns out to be advertising a DVR service that lets you skip commercials.
Chicks in Kitchen (example wicks already accounted for here)
Advertising
- AARP commercials do this incessantly. In fact, any commercial with life insurance that targets senior citizens does this in at least one of their commercials.
- To wit:
"It's a shame Lillian's husband passed."
"And so quickly, too."
"I hope they can handle the funeral bills. I've heard they can be over $9,000!"
"Well, she told me that right before his accident/cancer/massive jellyfissing he signed up for X-Brand Life Insurance." - Parodied by SNL's "Old Glory Robot Insurance"
- To wit:
- Feminine hygiene products can border on Too Much Information. Alice and Edith must be very close friends indeed if they can discuss having a "not so fresh feeling" over tea. And there was that one late night Trojan vibrator that goes on your finger, where apparently the two ladies are discussing this in a mall and a little old lady, who was in eavesdropping range, puts in her two cents.
- Then there's the one with the mother and daughter on a boat: "Mom, do you douche?"
- Parodied in a commercial for Ikea organizing systems.. Two women admiring one's walk-in shoe closet, but they have the exact same dialogue and mannerisms as Two Guys In A Garage.
- Vanish stain remover uses a variation, where the first Chick spills something, and the second appears out of nowhere in a way that would suggest "Who the hell are you??" and/or "How the hell did you get into my house??" would be more appropriate responses than "Why yes, that certainly is a powerful cleaning product you have there".
Live Action TV
- The Goodies parodied the stain remover version by having the second Chick sprinkle varnish everywhere, only to taunt the first Chick about the mess she's now made of her kitchen. So First Chick produces a submachine gun and shoots her.
Announcer: If someone comes in and fouls up your housework, try a Westminister submachine gun!
Radio
- Radio Active would include a fake advertisement in this format Once an Episode. The two women were always called Mary and June. Radio Active writer/performer Michael Fenton-Stevens refers to this trope as '2TK' - Two Tarts in a Kitchen.
Other
- Lampshaded, along with a lot of other advertising gimmicks used to draw in women, in some of Sarah Haskins' Target Women videos.
- Parodied by the D Generation in this sketch.
Print Advertising
- The documentary At Home with the Georgians showed a printed advertisement for furniture polish, with a Georgian housewife extolling the product to her friend over a cup of tea. In rhyme, yet.
- A magazine advertisement sometime in the nineties took the Too Much Information style to an extreme, with a photograph of two women conversing via comic-book style speech bubbles:
"Why do they make o.b. with an applicator now? It doesn't need one."
"I need one."
Edited by Berrenta on Jan 11th 2023 at 5:39:16 AM
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#19: Jan 11th 2023 at 3:53:06 PM
Dewicked, sent both tropes to the Cut List, and posted notices in the discussion of both. We can now close.
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Total posts: 20
Note: This thread was proposed by Berrenta and covers both Two Guys In A Garage and Two Chicks In A Kitchen.
The sibling tropes Two Guys In A Garage and Two Chicks In A Kitchen were created back in June 2008, yet they have 8 and 13 wicks respectively. The former is not on a work page at all, while the latter is in two, with both cases being parodies.
At this point, we should have them both cut.
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