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I can pahk it anywheah. How 'bout Dawchestah?
By adamg on Mon, 01/27/2020 - 2:22pm
Featuring a cameo by His Bigness, in an ad they're still going to run during the Super Bowl even though New England's Team didn't make it.
Of course, this is hardly the first commercial to feature English as it is spoken heah:
And let's not forget:
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Wicked awesome!
I love it, but wow, Hyundai is brave (or foolhardy?) to be running this in the
Super BowlBig Game context. Doesn't the rest of the NFL world *hate* us?Tony V!
Nice to see them include someone that only the locals would recognize.
Another local touch, which went unsaid
In the list of places wheah you can pahk the cah, they didn't mention Havahd Yahd, because, as we all know, ya can't pahk ya cah theah.
It’s worth noting that I see
It’s worth noting that I see vehicles parked in Harvard Yard all the time. Mostly service vehicles, but at least a half dozen random cars with placards. This isn’t a new thing either.
Ahem!
PARKED IT!
I had a high school friend, two years my junior, arrive alone at the airport. I picked her up at Logan, then went straight for Hahvahd Yahd, where I got to pahk mah cah for fifteen glorious minutes to unload!
Now that's Braggin' Rights!
still my favorite:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/whats-the-best-way/2868135
got menino upset.
Made alotta Black folk mad as
Made alotta Black folk mad as well, I remember the sharp left this took at the end
Yikes
That's worse than Kevin Nealon's accent.
didn't see when it aired
My brother called me to ask if I'd seen it - about Bostonians giving directions. I started doing my impression of that and he was like, wait, you did see it? I included "well that part you'll be driving the wrong way on a one way street but it's only for a block and everyone does it - just drive fast" in my version (lived on Charter in the N. End at the time). Definitely include Dunkins in the directions
Now THIS is how New Englanders give directions
And I know every single Dunkin's the guy mentions ...
Huh.
I don't remember there being a Baskin Robbins on Rt 1.
My absolute favorite!
I love this video more than words can express. Every time Legacy Place comes up in conversation in my house, it's followed by, "that place is a gold mine."
Also, following the exact route in my head and seeing each of the Dunks mentioned.
Love it.
They say the best way to go the wrong way on a one-way street
...is to go in reverse. That way, you're not really going the wrong way at all.
It's much safer that way.
It's much safer that way.
my other favorite
came out when cops was big - 100% New England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EH0z5s864k
COPS
That's fake COPS. The real best COPS episode ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDNTizxoZE
i like this one too:
https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/boston-accent-trai...
late nite with seth meyers - boston accent trailer
Eh
I find this commercial to be annoying and another reason for people in my office to say “hey you sound that hyndai commercial, does your cahhh pahk itself, hahaha”
Yeah, but you slashed their
Yeah, but you slashed their tires when they moved your space saver, so I think you can call it even.
southwest airlines commercial
did it for me in college in philly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvp79ZvMiUM
Finally!
Finally!
An ad that features people who don't have funny accents.
I remember my third-grade classmates mocking
a substitute teacher with a Midwestern accent. The look of horror on their faces when I observed, “Watch TV. She talks normal. *We’re* the ones with the funny accents.” (I grew up here, but have family from NY and IL.)
Opposite story here
I used to work a job where lots of traveling people cane in and worked with the very local crew.
Locals were talking about how long they’ve had their union “cards.”
Traveling guy asked who taught them how to talk like that.
I told him “theah teachahs!”
LOL
At my wedding, all my west coast kin were chatting up the Massachusetts folk, and not just out of friendliness - they wanted to hear the accents!
That's Doostah.
Not Dawchestah.
I missed my calling
I should have gone to work for an ad agency, because I can just regurgitate the same unfunny crap repeatedly and get paid for it.
Fantastic example!
Fantastic example!
Exaggerated accent is trite. Ortiz, already?
Why hire Massachusetts (and Dominican) born actors with authentic suburban Boston accents and then have them exaggerate it to the point of silliness? The ad would be less annoying but more effective if they spoke with their natural local accents, no hyperbole needed. Maybe hire a funny, inexpensive retired Boston Meter Maid to highlight the Hyundai's ability to park itself. That would have more credibility.
As for David Ortiz appearing in the ad, has
ex-Lowell Police DetectiveMenino puppet Commissioner Ed Davis or the Dominican Police (LOL) finished their painstaking investigation into the near fatal shooting of Ortiz almost eight months after the fact? It seems once Ortiz and the Red Sox (whose owner also owns the Globe) hired a powerful PR firm and Davis, the press dutifully gave up on the coverage. A wise investment by Ortiz and the Red Sox, amidst the team's cheating scandal, to bury the story but not sure I'd rush to purchase a product he endorsed. Do any of the actors/athlete drive the Hyundai being advertised? I didn't think so.I imagine most of these actors had their
middle-class suburban Boston accents, if they had much of any (in Lexington, Sudbury and Newton) burred out of them at fancy schools (Dartmouth, Brown and the Lee Strasberg Institute), and if not, sanded off by accent coaches once they hit the entertainment business.
Mark Wahlberg famously spent a small fortune on voice coaches to get rid of his Dorchester honk, only to have to undo all that work for some of his more famous movie roles.
Hollywood only cares about the working-class Charlestown/Southie/Dorchester accent, which is one of the tougher American accents to get right: so many vowel sounds that most flavors of American English don't have.
Do these Hyundais also read
Do these Hyundais also read the signs? I can imagine a whole series of Boston ads for these along a "2001" theme:
Pahk the cah, Hal.
I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave. This is a posted snow emergency route and an emergency has been declared. We can't park here.
...or space savers. Will Hyundai respect "the way things are done"?
Pahk the cah, Hal.
I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave. There's a lawn chair there and it's less than 48 hours after the Snow Emergency.
Eff dat! Somebody stole the traffic cone I put out this morning! Pahk the cah, Hal!
Eff you, Dave! I'm not getting keyed again!
Best reply in the whole
Best reply in the whole thread!
"live double parking"
Now that would be something - back into a double parking space within 100 feet of any dunks.
"Only for a minute ...."
Well done sir!
You should submit that bit @Rob.
Next scene: the owner of the
Next scene: the owner of the suv comes back from his grubhub delivery and fights them when he can't get in his car
Can't believe I didn't notice it the first five times I watched
this, but they're standing in front of Syrian Grocery Importing on Shawmut Ave just up the block from Waltham Street in the South End. South End Formaggio is on the left.
Maybe I was fooled by the head-in parking and the car driving the wrong way down the one-way.