Sticks! Amazing!

September 5, 2014 8:47 PM

Be more dog

Hi. I was once 0% dog. Now I’m 100% dog. And life is 110% better!

How dog are you?

posted by Kerasia (30 comments total)

Points for Queen.


No points for Pepsi blO2
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 8:51 PM on September 5, 2014 [7 favorites]

Are you sure you don't work for O2?
posted by kdar at 9:07 PM on September 5, 2014

71 percent fekkin canine, mate!
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 9:18 PM on September 5, 2014

I have no idea what I've just been sold but I know I've been sold it.

Look at the world today! It's amazing!

Yeah. Have you been reading the news? The grand recession of naughty oughties has slowly creeped into the Race-Riot-Ebola-Beheadings-Brink-of-World-War-3 crisis called summer in the amazing world.

Today I'd rather be more cat.
posted by dis_integration at 9:18 PM on September 5, 2014 [9 favorites]

hey how come going outside is the only way to do fun dog stuff :(

my cat would love to be more dog... but does not appreciate this harness and leash set i got her
posted by ghostbikes at 9:35 PM on September 5, 2014

hey how come going outside is the only way to do fun dog stuff :(

The purported reason that cats are so popular on the Internet is that dog owners go outside. ;)
posted by Celsius1414 at 9:36 PM on September 5, 2014 [8 favorites]

My cat was too sleepy to comment on this.
posted by arcticseal at 9:53 PM on September 5, 2014

ACH SO EIN o2 WERBESENDUNG BITTE SAG MIR MEHR
posted by sklero at 10:53 PM on September 5, 2014 [1 favorite]

No.
posted by Coaticass at 10:54 PM on September 5, 2014

My current dog is part cat. She perches. She flicks her tail.

We're working on it.
posted by mochapickle at 11:09 PM on September 5, 2014

Hey, shop East Hills Mall for back to school!
posted by Naberius at 11:09 PM on September 5, 2014

On one hand, I'm not against posting good advertisements on Metafilter. On the other hand, every major telecom can go die in a fucking fire.
posted by mcmile at 11:15 PM on September 5, 2014 [1 favorite]

Is that Simon Pegg narrating?
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 11:20 PM on September 5, 2014

My toes didn't curl, so no, I don't think it's Pegg.
posted by mochapickle at 11:24 PM on September 5, 2014

You're right -- it's some guy named Matthew Macfadyen.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 11:34 PM on September 5, 2014

I have to ask, how much of the reason for posting this was to act as a eyebleach for spiderdog?
posted by eemeli at 11:52 PM on September 5, 2014 [1 favorite]

That mall commercial was actually pretty good. Light-hearted fun - especially compared to the fusillade of "medical college" rip-off artists,
payday loan sharks, structured settlement swindlers, and low-down-payment car lot shylocks that pummel viewers
every three minutes or so during the banality of evil that is late morning television.

As for cats masquerading as dogs: accept that they are supernaturally adroit sociopaths, or waste a few dollars at a pet assayer.
posted by Pudhoho at 11:57 PM on September 5, 2014

This advertisement would be 110% better if they had trained a cat to actually do this stuff rather than taking the lazy route and using cgi. You might even say that using special effects rather than actually doing something is a very cat thing to do.
posted by Pyry at 12:02 AM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]

I have to ask, how much of the reason for posting this was to act as a eyebleach for spiderdog?

Oh eemili, you know me too well.
posted by Kerasia at 12:03 AM on September 6, 2014 [3 favorites]

There were a few points that really hit the uncanny valley for me - cat catching the frisbee, and looking out the car window, in particular. Mostly it involved the cat's head - did they composite it over a filmed dog's body or something? (On re-examining: yeah, a dog with shaved legs.)
posted by NMcCoy at 12:35 AM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]

Also, if you want to see an actual cat being more dog, check the video here.
posted by NMcCoy at 12:38 AM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]

Be more After Effects
posted by Rhomboid at 12:49 AM on September 6, 2014 [3 favorites]

Huh, so now Pepsi is naming its drinks after atmospheric oxygen.
posted by JHarris at 2:29 AM on September 6, 2014

The videos being referenced in the first half is the Henri: Le Chat Noir series of videos by Will Braden.
posted by Kattullus at 2:39 AM on September 6, 2014 [4 favorites]

It's a composited dog-cat, yeah. Most obvious in its tail when it becomes dog. That ain't no cat tail, and it definitely isn't that cat's tail (which you can see in the fluff when it's cat).

They'd have done better selectively filming a feisty Maine Coon. My own fluffball has cat moments and dog moments, which include fetching balls (he catches them in his paws) and taking showers. If I had a bathtub, I strongly suspect he would swim in it. As it is, he loves the sink.

Anyway. Maine Coons. The dogs of cats.
posted by fraula at 3:30 AM on September 6, 2014 [5 favorites]

One fine day with a woof and a purr
a baby was born and it cause a little stir
no blue bug
no three-eyed frog
just a feline canine little catdog

catdog
catdog
alone in the world was a little catdog
posted by drlith at 4:26 AM on September 6, 2014 [4 favorites]

It's a composited dog-cat

yup - 3d cat head comped onto a dog body
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 5:05 AM on September 6, 2014

If you're wondering about the piano music at the beginning, it's the first few measures of Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1.
posted by Gymnopedist at 8:11 AM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]

Kitty Blue?

Cute ad. I did like the Henri-esque opening. Excellent use of Queen! The real cat in this video(previously) is way more dog than their cgi'd kitty, though.
posted by rmd1023 at 8:46 AM on September 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

I don't like seeing Henri on whatever drugs they gave him. Being something you're not isn't better than being yourself.
posted by bleep at 8:05 PM on September 6, 2014 [1 favorite]