Also, “I say. I say. I say.” (via boingboing)
Also, “I say. I say. I say.” (via boingboing)
M&Ms commercials have always bothered me a little. There’s a loveability to the anthropomorphized, walking/talking CGI candies to be sure, but there’s no getting around their looming demise. So to say that we identify with the protagonists is immediately to say that we understand just how little their lives are valued by their surrounding society. [...]
And really, success is more than just rapping squirrels, it’s also about really hideous animation played at 7fps.
This tv spot for 1800 tequila has been around for more than a year, I believe, and yet I’m continually fascinated by its utterly ridiculous sales pitch: the bottle cap doubles as a shot glass. A couple of things: What kind of person who drinks tequila doesn’t already have a shot glass? Or rather, what [...]
An admittedly funny spot (“How did you compensate for the diminished light?” “Very well. Thank you.”), Panasonic plays up the generations-old stereotype of all art snobbery as wine-sniffing receptions to admire the emperor’s fancy new robes. And while I’d like to not get huffy about the simplemindedness of these phony photography aficionados, I would like [...]
Orangina makes weird, furry-fetish TV ads with outlandish claims. (via The Daily What)
It was bound to happen. That inevitable rupture between Mandy and Dave. And their raging river of problems runs much deeper than simply using different travel sites. Kayak.com might have helped Mandy maintain her sleep schedule, keeping her on time for her flight, but what of her not waking Dave before heading to the airport? [...]
I’m really digging on this Xtranormal)-generated commercial for GEICO.
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