Comments on: NBC [Unintentionally] Brings Back the Funny with their New Marketing Slogan

By: Casting & Race, Part 2.5: A Representative Interlude | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:16:17 +0000

[...] Now, if you simply compare those numbers, it only really seems like Latino/as are considerably underrepresented, if you’re broadly looking at the numbers (and assuming the US population breakdown hasn’t changed much in the last decade). Of course, the overall numbers actually fail to tell the whole picture, because there is no breakdown between the types of roles filled. As background comprises of a large number of actors, does this breakdown include background? How does the breakdown look when you examine supporting actors and leading actors? Recurring actors on television?TheTVAddict.com, upon discovering NBC’s new slogan of “More Colorful” was compelled to create this poster: [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:24:23 +0000

ok ppl first of all, this is CLEARLY not a poster made by nbc! secondly, this is such a loaded poster bc for every show represented in the poster there is more than one minority actor/character on the show. of course the majority of the cast is white on these shows, thats just a representation of american demographics, duh.

By: izikavazo

izikavazo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:35:58 +0000

Wouldn’t it have been racist if NBC had wrote the slogan “More Colorful” with non-white people in mind? If they had created the slogan then hired a bunch of black people then it would have been more rough.
If anything NBC is guilty of living in the past. They think that people care about things like their logo and their jingle. No one even knows what they’re talking about most of the time. I doubt any of my friends even remember “Must-See TV”.

By: theTVaddict

theTVaddict — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:05:41 +0000

Melissa,

Great point. All the networks (especially as John noted above, the CW) are guilty off continuing to create shows that bare little reflection to America’s current ethnic and cultural landscape. That said, none of the other networks had the audacity to come up with such a ludicrous slogan. Somebody at NBC should have seen this backlash coming.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:56:25 +0000

I know this is Daniel’s own creation, but how easy was it to put this together? VERY. To be fair, NBC isn’t the only network we could make this joke about, they’re just the ones who opened themselves up to it.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:05:30 +0000

Thank You Kristen!

For all the ragging some of you did on that NBC poster, apparently many of you did not even read the whole article so you deserve a…

Epic Fail. (However, if you we just going along with the joke, please disregard the Epic Fail m’kays?)

P.S. It’s called Photoshop people!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:20:16 +0000

Didn’t The TV Addict make this poster? You guys are mad at something that was purposefully done to make us laugh. This isn’t NBC’s doing! Maybe you guys should learn to read before you make judgements!

By: Pidelo

Pidelo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:24:46 +0000

Unbelievable. IS THERE ONE STAR ON THAT POSTER THAT IS A PERSON OF COLOR?
THERE ARE NO BLACKS, HISPANICS, ASIANS, INDIANS ETC ETC ETC.

WTF?

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:39:01 +0000

This is — as Amy Sedaris would describe it — HIGH-larious. Thanks for sharing.

By: JaySmack

JaySmack — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:37:46 +0000

FooCakes

Thanks for giving us yet another example of what a joke NBC is –er, I mean what great jokes NBC makes.

When you guys finally go the way of the LA Times, so unprofitable that nobody in their right mind would even consider buying you, then please remember this moment.

Spin may work in the board room, it may have helped Ben Silverman stay in charge –way too long!– but it don’t fly in the real world. You’ve been caught red –or is it white?– handed.
Just shut up and take your lumps. You don’t like it. Change that poster to something that doesn’t look like a Clorox commercial.