Another Dollhouse TV spot - Dollhouse

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January 31 2009

Another Dollhouse TV spot. It's in two parts because the uploader's cell phone can only record 15 seconds at a time. Part 2 is here. And yeah, as you have probably already figured out, since it was recorded by a cell phone, the quality of the video is once again pretty bad.

Anuris | Dollhouse | 20:06 CET | 22 comments total | tags: tv spot, promo, dollhouse

Yeah, the "hot chicks" one. They ran this one during American Idol this past week.

The One True b!X | January 31, 20:25 CET

Truly crappy quality, but I am glad they are showing these spots.

Garim | January 31, 21:04 CET

Why oh why? Is it so difficult to rip the broadcast?

flugufrelsarinn | February 01, 00:07 CET

Actually, yes. It takes time.

gossi | February 01, 00:38 CET

This is not in reference to this new spot, I believe. But I just watched a DVR'd Bones, the most recently broadcast ep. I saw a Dollhouse TV promo in it - first one I've seen. Yay! But, sheesh, the (film) quality was crap - really measurably bad compared to commercials before it and after it, not to mention Bones itself. I was watching on a quality TV. Anyone else notice this? It was bizarre. Kind of like suddenly having regularly scheduled HDTV programming interrupted and a Youtube video filling the (large) screen...

phlebotinin | February 01, 07:46 CET

Maybe it's supposed to be a style?

dreamlogic | February 01, 09:41 CET

A couple of the ads are very stylized and shot in a fuzzy overexposed (why yes those are technical terms) on purpose.

IrrationaliTV | February 01, 19:00 CET

"Overexposed" is a technical term. Not so sure about "fuzzy". Also not sure why that would be a good way to introduce new viewers to something that already might seem odd to them.

dreamlogic | February 01, 19:54 CET

I was in HMV today and they had a big Dollhouse ad on top of a display of Joss shows and Tru Calling. I've never seen that before in a DVD store, with a show that hasn't even aired yet.

redeem147 | February 02, 01:17 CET

"Overexposed" is a technical term. Not so sure about "fuzzy". Also not sure why that would be a good way to introduce new viewers to something that already might seem odd to them.

Maybe it's a pitch to the seeing-impaired: "Watch Dollhouse, and you won't have to worry about what you're missing!"

snot monster from outer space | February 02, 01:32 CET

Dreamlogic, that was sarcasm. I know nothing about that kind of stuff. Some of the ads seem stylized to me and most of them are directed at an audience that isn't us. That is a very good thing.

Redeem, 20th Home Entertainment is doing a big DVD promotion of Jossverse and ED shows around the Dollhouse premiere.

IrrationaliTV | February 02, 03:22 CET

Fair enough, TamaraC. I'm just not sure that the best approach is doing weirder stuff than appeals to us.

dreamlogic | February 02, 06:01 CET

Ooops. Double post.

[ edited by TamaraC on 2009-02-02 08:39 ]

IrrationaliTV | February 02, 08:33 CET

Dreamlogic, Joss' fans are nowhere near enough viewers to make Dollhouse get a second season. In order for that to happen, people who are stranger than us or a whole lot more normal than us will have to watch the show. Fox is casting a wide net and for that we should be grateful not critical. A lot of people on this site are much older than the desired Fox demo. I know that I am. Maybe what appeals to us is different from what appeals to 18 yr old boys. Just a thought.

IrrationaliTV | February 02, 08:38 CET

I can recall saying the same thing myself about Whedon fans and a realistic network television audience. I still don't follow your thinking about the promos. Lefter/weirder is how much more television viewers?

dreamlogic | February 02, 08:44 CET

Has anyone spotted a link to the "grindhouse-style" (two people, at least, have said that now) ad Fox is running for T:SCC and Dollhouse?

The One True b!X | February 02, 08:49 CET

You mean Grindhouse the Tarentino/Rodriguez movie? I think I'm just going to go to sleep now.

dreamlogic | February 02, 08:57 CET

Dreamlogic, what is weird to you might be cool to an 18 yr old boy. Unless you are an 18 yr old boy and I misunderstood that you were a woman at least my age (old enough to be an 18 yr old boy's mother).

IrrationaliTV | February 02, 08:58 CET

Well, in the sense that the T/R movie used the name because it was an existing term.

The One True b!X | February 02, 09:00 CET

Well TamaraC, being an 18 year old boy myself, I can confirm that what appeals to you does appeal to at least some of us as well.

Racoon Boy | February 02, 11:51 CET

Psst, Raccoon Boy, I like the weird ads. The weirder the better. :-)

Have you seen any Dollhouse ads that you think are strange or too "out there"?

IrrationaliTV | February 02, 18:20 CET

We're well off the main page now so I don't know who would read this. I was too tired to express it at the time, but I actually liked Grindhouse pretty well, as one of the twelve people who saw it in theaters, but it was such a huge flop.

dreamlogic | February 04, 11:22 CET

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