Archived comment by Arlene:
It's always fun looking at the commercials during the shows that you watch & try to figure whether or not you are part of the 'target audience'.

As to Mtn Dew, I just want to know, is that Marty Stouffer's voice & is that his son in that commercial?

Archived comment by Jon:
Well, MTV used to have a *good* game show: "Remote Control". If I could get episodes of that on DVD, that would be cool.

Nowadays, I hardly watch either MTV or VH1. U2's about the only band playing on MTV that I like, and you can only watch the "Elevation" video so many times.

Surprised no-one has mentioned Target stores yet.

Archived comment by talshadar:
Montygirl - pedophiles are a target for me :-) Just let me get my 12-gauge and I'll be set. :-)

Archived comment by nikki:
i'm 18, and MTV has never had a major part in my life, but to me 14 and 15 year olds having sex sounds pretty damned regular. Maybe not so regular with their step-siblings. None the less, as i recall when i was 15, pretty much everyone was having sex.....at least we all SAID we were. Maybe MTV wanted to increase their target audience so it included pregnant 14 and 15 year olds, hence the 14 year olds having sex....gotta love marketing.

Archived comment by montygirl:
Shadow, are pediphiles concidered a target market?

Kapeh, Night Drag - EEEEEW!

Archived comment by Matt:
Don't forget, Montygirl, that was also during the time when the big draw of having cable TV was NO COMMERCIALS! None at all! Oh well. Now even PBS has resorted to commercials between programs.

Archived comment by Kapeh, Night Drag:
and then there was that one episode were the step brother and sister liked each other and almost had sex.... ewwwwww reminds me of someone i know.... ewwww

Archived comment by Night Dragon, Anderman:
I remember when they used to play *mostly* videos...

yea they still do early in the morning and late late at night but its always the same videos.

I used to watch Undressed... when i was 15... hmmm.... I think your on to something.

Archived comment by Shadow:
I was shocked the other day when MTV said "next up: Videos." No TRL, no Carson Daly, no Real World/Road Rules...just videos. oooo...and I've discovered they do play videos in the morning- like 7 or 8, no host or anything. Guess their "target market" of 13 year olds aren't watching then.

On a different, but less pertinent(sp?) topic - has anyone ever watched the MTV show "Undressed". If you have, do you realize the storylines have to do with high school kids -- as in 14 and 15 year olds -- having sex? Does anyone else find this appalling, if not illegal? Am I just a prude, or completely naive? I'm only 25, not an old foogy yet...but god, that makes me wonder who they want to watch this show...

Archived comment by Montygirl:
I'm so old I remember when MTV actually ran music videos without sandwiching them into an hour-long screaming-fan interview, aka Total Request Live. Yes, you really young kids wouldn't believe it, but you could turn on MTV any time of day or night and there would be a video playing. No reality shows, no game shows, no stupid audience shouting behind Carson Daly, hell, no Carson Daly. Just music. I think that's how it got it's name - Music TeleVision. Ah, the good old days.

Archived comment by Ian:
What scares me about music videos, is that when I was a teenager I watched MTV and made fun of VH1.

Now I watch VH1 and make fun of MTV.

Lifes interesting like that.

Archived comment by talshadar:
Triticale - that was hilarious. I really didn't need to spew coffee all over my keyboard, but hey, a new keyboard never hurts does it? :-)

That would be a cool store, especially if you could bring pictures in for them to paint onto the targets. Just imagine the possibilities! Targets of annoying coworkes that you can stash in your cubicle until they annoy you. Then you could take it out and beat the hell out of it. Or even better, bring pictures of yourself in and every morning sneak into work and place the target-lookalike in your office. Then you can say, truthfully (kinda) that you were in your office all day. It would be great :-)

Archived comment by talshadar:
Triticale - that was hilarious. I really didn't need to spew coffee all over my keyboard, but hey, a new keyboard never hurts does it? :-)

That would be a cool store, especially if you could bring pictures in for them to paint onto the targets. Just imagine the possibilities! Targets of annoying coworkes that you can stash in your cubicle until they annoy you. Then you could take it out and beat the hell out of it. Or even better, bring pictures of yourself in and every morning sneak into work and place the target-lookalike in your office. Then you can say, truthfully (kinda) that you were in your office all day. It would be great :-)

Archived comment by triticale:
"Good morning, target market."

"Yes, good morning, do you have the new 3d alligator target in stock? We're heading out to the range."

BTW, Kroeber hall was named after one or more of the parents of author Ursula K LeGuin.

Archived comment by Aaron:
At Penn State University, in a urinal,
I saw a urinal cookie with the words "You hold
in your hands the tools to stop rape."

Just thought that was funny and relevant.

Archived comment by Anderman, Kapeh:
hey i am in their target market and i still think they have no taste. what is with all these dumb ads now?? their so annoying, and as for drinks i'll stick to my green plum jucie thanks...

yummmmmmmm...... green plum jucie....mmmmmm

Archived comment by Passerby:
Was there a poster or something anywhere near by?

Archived comment by Pan:
I am proud to be the target market for funky second hand stores every where. I can not pass by a cool, well stocked, slightly mustly second-hand store.
Not for nothin'.
Why pay any money for a name on a product when someone else has already done that for you? I like my money to stay in real pockets. Of real people. Except for underwear and matresses. Heh.

Archived comment by Ben:
At 25 I'm no longer the target market for MTV, the Gap, or anywhere else... If I didn't think that stuff sucked when I was their target audience, I might be upset.

Archived comment by Phil:
While watching a couple of commercials for some unnamed soft drinks (one rhymes with "Fountain View" and the other was Pepsi. Could't think of a rhyme), I raised the same complaints I have for years about how moronic they are, do they think they're in tune with youth culture, blah blah blah. My wife then pointed out "Honey, they don't care. In case you haven't noticed, You're 34. Yoru're not even a blip on their marketing radar."
Its a sure sign that you're approaching middle age when you realize that MTV, Gap, etc, isn't stung by your rejection anymore. THEY don't want YOU.

By the way, there isn't a target age here at IP, is there? Can I still hang out here?

Archived comment by Jon:
Oh, by Cthulhu, you had to mention Piddlers. The scarring image of a poo target... did they have to offer them while there was a movie about monsters that emerged from the toilet?

Archived comment by E!:
...And it would make more sense (if it were in the Men's urinal) if it said "I am your marked target" with a little bullseye floating in the bowl (kind of like Piddlers (TM)).

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Oh, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
Instead of a frontal lobotomy...

Archived comment by David:
This would make a lot more sense next to a urinal in a MEN's restroom.