“Two Tickets to that Thing You Love”

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On the off chance that you’re living under a rock, here’s the new Old Spice commercial that’s getting a ton of attention.  Question below:

So–if the oyster had two tickets to that thing you love…what would that thing be?

PAD

62 comments on ““Two Tickets to that Thing You Love””

  1. Not sure about the tickets, but I saw this last night and the only thing I could think was, if my husband smelled like Old Spice, he sure wouldn’t be getting anywhere near me. I think that stuff stinks!

  2. My fiance loves that commercial. I’m surprised I’m not smelling like that guy already.
    MY two tickets would be to a Led Zepplin reunion concert. Yes, I know there is no such thing, but I’M ON A HORSE.

  4. Two tickets to an exclusive, limited attendance comic con where all my favourite artists were there doing free sketches and all my favourite writers were there giving advice and telling stories at an open bar. Then, at the end of the evening, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would do a three hour set.

    I’d be all right with that.

      1. The dinner is during a writer’s pannel discussion on the importance of providing the Good Triumphs Over Evil trope in comics.
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        So, it is a stake dinner.
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        Theno

    2. Frak, I’d settle for two tickets to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, with maybe a hotel room thrown in. Why throw a hotel room in? Because I’m on a horse!

  5. Apparently, I’ve been living under a rock… that commercial is great.

    A Broadway show of some sort would be nice. Of course, I’d have to get tickets for a plane to New York first. So maybe the touring version. (Mary Poppins is here right now, I think.)

  7. Tickets…. trip to Europe would be nice
    Although watching that, the only thing I could think is that I would not want my husband to smell like that because I think Old Spice stinks.

    1. Dude, slow down and smell the flowers.

      Oh, wait, then you’d be ticketed for not wearing a restraining device.

      Nevermind.

      2. You know, now that I think about it, if a bodywash is supposed to make your man smell like a man, wouldn’t it have to be a bodywash that makes him smell like he’s sweaty from a workout? I’m not sure I see the attraction.
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        Also, if he’s on a horse, he probably smells more like horse than anything else.
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        PAD

      3. “Also, if he’s on a horse, he probably smells more like horse than anything else.”
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        That’s the best argument yet to make women buy it for their man.
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        I’m on a horse.

  11. They have to be *season passes* to something. maybe Cleveland Playhouse Theater or some such.

  12. my wife loves this commercial too – it’s her new “TV Boyfriend”

    I’d like a ticket to ride. She had one, but didn’t care.

    1. This commercial shows before the trailers at the Regal Cinemas chain. Just imagine how she’d love seeing ber new “TV Boyfiend” on the big screen!

  13. I’d take two tickets to paradise.
    Would grab the bags, and leave tonight.
    (Cmon, ya know someone had to do it)

  14. I’d like to two tickets to the Premiere Party for Season Two of Firefly.

    In reality, I’d go with TNT’s Leverage, either for the Season Three Party or Con-Con.

    1. I was almost an inmate on Leverage tomorrow (that is a scene filming tomorrow) but they picked someone else, darn the luck. Maybe if I had Alan Coil’s record I’d have more credibility as an inmate.

  15. Apparently, I’ve been living under a rock, too.
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    Hmm. Two tickets… I’m gonna be greedy here. Two tickets to the wrap party for season SEVEN of Firefly (hey, if it’s good enough for Buffy, Hercules, all the ‘future’ Star Treks…).
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    Barring that, and slightly more realistically… maybe two tickets to England. Or Japan. But I know people in England. And can (usually) understand the language. Preferably on a cruise boat, but I’d settle for flying first class.

  16. It’s a trick question, because without a babysitter, those tickets are worthless! I’ll take the diamonds. Or maybe an oyster with a dámņ pearl in it. Or I could just settle for not smelling like a lady. I’m on a horse.

  17. 2 tickets to a Pixies reunion concert! Though I’d need someone else to go with since my wife thinks their stuff is mostly just noise.

      1. For that i should make you a mix tape of my wife’s favorite music and lock you in a room where it will be played over and over and over again until you crack, which will take about 3 songs. Ðìçk Cheney himself would not approve of such tactics.
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        She’s the love of my life but when it comes to picking the right stuff…well, she married me, right? Nuff said.
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        Also, if I thought I could get the rights to it without winning the lottery, wouldn’t the Pixies’ Wave Of Mutilation be a great title theme for a zombie movie of the same name?

  19. Wow.

    Look at his horse. His horse is amazing. Give it a lick.

    MMM! It tastes just like raisins!

    PAD – if you don’t get this I will have to subtract two geek points from you (Granted, writing a Star Trek novel is worth 50k).

  20. I’d go with two tickets to the A SHOGGOTH ON THE ROOF, the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired musical. (Since this is a fantasy, it’d be with the original music, which will never happen in reality ‘cuz the folks who own the rights to A FIDDLER ON THE ROOF say the music is plagarism.)

    Or tickets to EVIL DEAD: THE MUSICAL.

    Or the Old 97’s playing up here in NY.

  21. Two tickets to the New York opening of Love Never Dies (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sequel to Phantom of the Opera), which as it turns out, has a pretty cool storyline IMO.

  22. Two tickets to London so daughter and I can attend Tom Robinson’s annual free New Year concert for his fans.

  23. Two tickets to Feed Them All 25, the annual charity concert against hunger hosted each year by founder Harry Chapin. This year’s is special: As a celebration of the fact that world hunger has decreased to the point that the concert is no longer going to be held, Harry has made it a four-day event, starring every single artist and performer who appeared in any of the last twenty-four shows, including a re-reunion of all four Beatles itself in celebration of their historic reunion at Feed Them All 3, which resulted in the new Beatles album every other year we’ve all had the chance to enjoy.

    (My favorite of them was the Blues Album from 1998, which featured Stevie Ray Vaughan dueling with a young Derek Trucks and John–who would have thought he’d kept up practicing slide guitar after all these years? Of course, I guess slide is easier for him when his left arm acts up. I still can’t believe some nut took a shot at him three decades ago–but I guess it’s lucky he only hit John’s arm.
    The neat thing is that both Trucks–in both the Allman Brothers and in his own band–and Stevie Ray will be at this final FTA concert, so maybe they’ll do that song …)

    The best part? It’s free–all financed by Harry. I never would have thought he’d be such a good investor–but I guess when you become the only man to ever get two successive Nobel Prizes, and you have half of the money from that (after he of course gave the other half to charity), and you already have a plan on how to bankroll technology startups to better ensure your cause is furthered, it’s not so hard …

    Greedy? Who cares? I’m on a mother@#$%in’ HORSE. … With my wife Vicki and her three co-wives, Shakira, Natalie Portman, and Alicia Keys.

    3. According to his widow, money flowed through Harry’s fingers, almost entirely to good causes: “He always said, ‘Money is for people,’ so he gave it away.”
      Perhaps he realized that by keeping control of some of that money he could leverage it do even more good.

      And would you save me a seat in the front row?

    1. Ðámņ, I was gonna go with an E.L.O concert but I think that one won it. (And sorry, Bill Mulligan, but choosing a pixies concert over an E.L.O concert is a crime against nature.)

      1. I WAS able to get to two tickets to THAT ELO concert. Back in 2001, Jeff Lynne did two shows at CBS studios and invited the ELO fan club to come for free! This was then made into the Zoom Tour Live dvd, the title of which was a bit funny since the tour pretty much was only these two shows.

        It was just as phenomenal and great-sounding as the dvd captures.

        I certainly don’t think Jeff Lynne will ever tour again, so that may have been last one …but I hope not!

  26. I love that ad, and to a lesser degree the one where he’s on the horse backwards.

    Could I have two tickets to Mars?
    Who should I take with me?

  29. Gotta point out that Mens bathroom products are designed to smell nice to men, and womens bathroom products are designed to smell nice to women, so really, if you’re a guy who wants an odor which is appealing to the opposite sex, you’re better off sticking to womens bathroom products.

    Look down. Now back to ME.

    My tickets are life long VIP access to Glastonbury – the greatest music festival in the World.

  31. “Two tickets to that thing you love” means he doesn’t have a clue WHAT that thing is!! I’d want two tickets to the next Comic-Con (and plane tickets to get there and hotel accommodations, food, etc.).

  32. Do two plane tickets to Japan count? It’s been too long…

    Kevin – Multi-million dollar lottery tickets? Make that “winning …” and count me in.

    Robert – “Best commercial ever”? I’m guessing you weren’t around for the brilliant VW ads (both print and TV) of the mid-sixties through mid seventies.

    1. To say nothing of the classic Alka Seltzer commercials of that same period. Just saying, “That’s a some spicy meatball!” or “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” evokes instant memories and smiles.
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      PAD

      1. Or “My wife, I think I’ll keep her.”
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        Back on topic, I’d go for two tickets on the shuttle. Want to try out that Colbert Treadmill.

  33. Yeah, this commercial is hilarious.

    However, I think the best commercial I’ve ever seen was a Sprite commercial featuring a cute (I think it was Sunny Delite) animated mascot that jumps off the juice box, and can’t understand why the entire family screams and runs in terror. I think it was Sprite. That is one problem, when you can remember the commercial, but not the actual product.

  34. @Sean, two tickets on the SPACE shuttle? Knowing they already blew up two of them? No thank you! 😛

    1. Tickets to a concert? People have died in stampedes at concerts.

      Tickets to travel? Yeah, nobody’s ever died on an airplane or had a boat sink under them.

      Shuttle disasters have happened, but there’s far more safety measures built into a shuttle flight than anything else you could name.

      1. I don’t know about that. Word is, they could have done repairs to Columbia while in orbit, but they decided “eh, why bother.” I get the impression that there is a huge amount of risks involved because the choice is generally launch while it’s not entirely safe or never launch at all. To name something off the top of my head, I’d guess airline travel has a safer ratio (crashes to total number of flights) than the space shuttle program.

      2. I seriously doubt that ANYone involved with the shuttle would have a “eh, why bother” attitude toward safety and risks. Or would agree that they launch when it’s not as safe as they can make it.
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        “Entirely safe”? No, nothing is. But I get a sense that you think there is a cavalier-ish attitude and there really just isn’t.
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        You’d choose tickets to something else. Excellent. Enjoy. For myself, I’ll take the shuttle.

  36. One ticket on a time bubble to the 31st Century, the other to the scientific accident that will give me super-powers.

    Doesn’t matter what the powers are. If guys like Bouncing Boy and Matter-Eater Lad can make it …

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