And now, a message from the producers of Gossip Girl:
Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex.
Hello! (That will probably get the Google hits up a notch.)
The hit CW show has unleashed a series of new ads for the new season of the soap opera, and it actually uses negative quotes from critics as the main selling point. "A Nasty Piece Of Work!" says The New York Post. "Every Parent's Nightmare," says The Boston Herald. "Mindblowingly Inappropriate," says the Parents Television Council. It's a classic example of a critic's words actually being the perfect ad copy for the audience of a particular show.
Of course, the pics of half-naked cast members in the ad probably helps, too. Though to be fair, I'm not sure what's happening in the upper left corner ad. Is he smoking?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-18-2008 @ 3:01PM
0megapart!cle said...
I think he is preparing to extinguish his cigarette on a girl's tongue.
Horrible, horrible show! WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
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7-20-2008 @ 5:14AM
Brent McKee said...
The Parents Television Council thinks of the Children. The only problem is that they think that everybody's a child. Or at least should be protected like one.
7-18-2008 @ 3:24PM
Donna said...
Never had watched the show. Got turned off by the title. I think this will make me solidly anti-GG, though.
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7-18-2008 @ 3:43PM
Kate said...
While I don't watch Gossip Girl, you have to admit that this marketing is brilliant. It's unlikely (and that's the understatement of the year) that the sort of person who watches Gossip Girl actually gives a crap what the Parents Television Council has to say. Who does? So it's rather clever to use their criticisms which basically boil down to "This show shows lots of gratuitous sex" as ad copy.
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7-18-2008 @ 3:51PM
John A said...
I think it's a strawberry or a cherry he's putting on her tongue.
Filthy show! Love it...
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7-18-2008 @ 3:57PM
nick said...
The show is actually better than I expected, but it's really just FNL but replace football with money.
The conceit of the show is what bothers me. I wish they had chosen someone less famous than Kristen Bell as "Gossip Girl" since the whole time I'm thinking why is this woman ten years older than everyone stalking and blogging about these teenagers, who outside of this 100-student school, no one really cares about.
Eww...
It would have been cooler if there was a series-long mystery as to who GG was. but I guess it's a secret they'll never tell.
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7-18-2008 @ 4:38PM
GL said...
I never even consider the actual GG. It's just an excuse for a nice voiceover.
To date, there really hasn't been all that much sex. I suppose they are ramping that up. Great adverts either way.
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7-18-2008 @ 7:40PM
Ashley Boyd said...
And to be fair, Kristen Bell was chosen just after VM got axed. So that was prior Heroes and Forgetting Sarah Marshall Fame Index increasement.
Although it was weird to hear her voiceovers be about romance and gossip rather than...well, cynicism.
7-18-2008 @ 5:12PM
Nola said...
Kristen Bell looks younger than half the cast members of the show.
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7-18-2008 @ 5:55PM
Jen said...
Have never seen the show - but these ads are really smart, love 'em.
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7-18-2008 @ 10:46PM
DMD said...
Lame, almost as lame as OMFG...
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7-19-2008 @ 9:00PM
Frank Wrench said...
Doesn't the fact that these characters are teens kinda make it child porn? Just saying.
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