Will Flo be next?
Posted on 01/30/2012 10:47:11 AM PST by Hojczyk
"Save yourself - some money."
Those were William Shatner's last words as Priceline's "Negotiator." The discount-price travel booking site apparently killed off the television and movie legend last week in a TV advertisement.
In the commercial, which has been airing nationally and will also be shown during the Super Bowl pre-game show, Shatner's character saves the lives of fellow travelers as their bus teeters on the edge of a bridge. As the last passenger steps off, Shatner says "Save yourself - some money," handing his cellphone to a woman just before the bus falls off the bridge, bursting into flames as it crashes to the ground.
According to the company, Priceline is moving in a new direction - from negotiating to a fixed-price business model. In an official press release, Priceline's Chief Marketing Official Brett Keller said: "We felt it was necessary to go to extremes to grab the attention of every consumer in America and drive home the message that you don't have to negotiate to save money on a hotel at priceline.com. We know that The Negotiator has a lot of fans, and we hope that everyone understands this was something that just had to be done."
Because he accepted Priceline shares as part of compensation when the contract was signed in 1997, Shatner has reportedly earned $600 million as Pricline's pitchman. (Talk about smart negotiating!)
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Still better than the way Kirk died.
I hope so.
One can only hope.
Please... please... and take out the Gecko too.
> Still better than the way Kirk died.
How DID Kirk die?
What ST episode was that?
And his co-workers, the cavemen and the piglet.
One can only hope.
-—Will Flo be next?-—
From your lips to God’s ear.
I cannot wait for the Grimreaper of Advertising to come for Flo.
If it didn’t happen in ST:TOS, it didn’t happen, right?
“In my star-trek universe, klingons are still our enemy, there are no therapists at the Captain’s right hand, and the only Kardashians anyone ever heard of were a tribe of 21st-century skanks.”
In Star Trek the Next Generation movie “Generations”
It was in “Generations” (a film, and eminently missable).
Kirk fell off a cliff and his last words were “It was fun” (or something like that).
The guy saved the Federation more times than I can count: at least give him a suitably epic death!
I saw it a few days ago. I thought it was odd.
Jack In The Box not only killed off their titular character, they later brought him back.
Those regressive “Progressives” at Progressive irritate me. Flo is the recipient of my angst. Hopefully, she broke Shatner’s fall.
At any given time he's been there, almost every day on some channel or other. Its hard to believe.
There are no suitable epic deaths that can match the ego of William Shatner.
Jeez I hope so. That bimbo drives me nuts. I’d not shop at Progressive just because their commercials irritate me.
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