OT: DISH Network Commercial Eerily Similar to Victors Commercial
I cannot be the only one who thinks this is a blatant rip-off of The Victors commercial for the U of M:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PxJtkdMLkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxwcizqYFMI
(I suck at embedding...any help is appreciated....)
EDIT: I'm the only one. I could see some DISH employee basically using this as a template...
October 12th, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
October 12th, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
I don't see it.
October 13th, 2010 at 11:02 AM ^
I've seen that a gazillion times and still choke up.
Anyway, I think the OP is correct in hearing similarities in the music, but to my untrained ear a lot of music played on the..... on the.... xylophone? Hammer dulcimer? Marimba? Whatever that thing is...sounds similar. Without there being any "ripping off" involved.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:21 PM ^
I remember hearing this commercial one day and turning to the T.V. and saying "Michigan commercial?", wanting to rub Michigan in my OSU-leaning father. Turns out it was this commercial. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the similarities.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:22 PM ^
October 12th, 2010 at 10:25 PM ^
I don't think having some sort of whimsical xylophone music even makes it a rip off of the xylophone rendition of the Victors, let alone a blatant rip-off of the entire commercial. Maybe it's just me.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:27 PM ^
They both use a synthesized marimba sound. Similar, maybe. Blatant rip-off? No.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:49 PM ^
The UM commercial had all sorts of examples of miracles of modern medicine. The dish commercial had one persons leg in a cast. I would say that is a huge similarity. Or you could think about how much work goes on on a daily basis at UM and how hard all of those people were working as they sat on their ass watching tv and playing footsie. Wow that was eerily similar.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
It's not just "some xylophone/marimba music". It's an arrangement of "The Victors".
October 12th, 2010 at 11:38 PM ^
On a related note, I cancelled my Dish Network subscription this very evening. I did not really have any problem with them, but they were unwilling to make any price concessions to me even though my 2 year contract was up, and the Direct TV offer was pretty good (if only for a year). Plus, they do not currently offer FSN Detroit. Instead, they have their CEO on what was formerly their FSN Detroit station railing against FSN as a big media company (that is pretty rich coming from the CEO of a company that bought a town so that they could change the name of it to Dish) that is trying to rip-off consumers, and hearkens back to a day when televised sports were free. I mean Fox is probably most definitely trying to rip us off, but so is Dish. The self-righteousness of their CEO was a bit much. Plus, FSN Detroit carries the Rich Rod show, as well as Pistons and Wings games. Dish Loses!
October 13th, 2010 at 12:09 AM ^
Never been a more perfect time for this:
Those were not similar at all outside of the music.
October 13th, 2010 at 12:18 PM ^
The DISH commercial misses the grab-the-heartstrings-and-don't-let-go violin solo at the end of our commercial.
Yet it's definitely close enough to say...
DEY TUUK ERR JEEEBBBB!!!!
October 13th, 2010 at 2:08 PM ^
but, in regards to your signature, Gob says "candy" not "cocaine" because he sees the kids next to him after he says whores are in shock
October 13th, 2010 at 2:34 PM ^