The greatest car commercial ever !! Old Spock (Nimoy) and New Spock (Quinto) come together (and battle it out) in what is likely the best car commercial that you ever saw (or will see). Chock full of Star Trek references there's even a scene with Nimoy humming along to "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" . Awesomeness follows ...
posted by Podkayne of Pasadena
on May 7, 2013 -
108 comments
Digging up long forgotten memories for a generation who spent their formative years glued to the boob tube,
Memorex is a veritable nostalgia nuke for children of the 80s. Endless beach parties, Saturday morning cartoons, claymation everything, sleek cars, sexy babes, toys you forgot existed, station idents, primitive computer animation, all your favorite sugary cereal mascots, and so much more. An ode to the hyper consumerism and sleek veneer of a simpler time. (
previously)
posted by eric1halfb
on Jan 24, 2013 -
27 comments
Dear Jay Leno ... "First off, my intention is not to fight you on this. You have more cars than I have dollars, and so I know I don’t stand a chance legally ..." - "An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube"
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posted by mrgrimm
on May 24, 2012 -
104 comments
Don't like those commercials that run before the movies in the theaters? Well, this weekend, Kraft Foods is introducing something new to screens across the U.S.,
"two- to three-minute branded-entertainment vignettes" that promise NOT to "knock you over the head with a bat as a brand commercial", but instead they... well... here's an example: Lunchables kids' meals present:
Alien Field Trip* (Warning: more artificially cheesy than Cheez Whiz). Kraft and other big advertisers are betting that
long-form ads will be "the Wave of the Future", and the perfect audience for them will be the folks who have already paid to see "Iron Man 2", "Sex and the City 2" or "Toy Story 3". What could possibly go wrong?
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posted by oneswellfoop
on May 5, 2010 -
74 comments
Bad credit or no credit? No Problem! Are you on welfare? Social Security? No Problem! You have to see the
Special Man!
posted by grapefoot
on Apr 19, 2010 -
23 comments
Ever made fun of a commercial, a TV show, or a romantic comedy? Of course you have. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. But even shooting fish in a barrel can be done with style. Check out Info Mania’s Sarah Haskins’ Target Women spots in which Haskins dissects how the media types depicts we women types, especially when it comes to those matters so dear to the lady brain, like
Botox,
birth control,
chick flicks,
female political candidates,
number two,
cleaning,
jewelry,
diets,
aging,
skin care,
the Oscars,
Disney Princesses,
vampires,
The View,
Michelle Obama’s arms,
Lifetime programming,
chocolate,
lady parts,
laundry,
security,
weddings, and of course that official food of women,
yogurt. You can find a complete listing of Target Women spots
here.
posted by orange swan
on Jan 20, 2010 -
72 comments
It's time to get ready for the Super Bowl... Ads! Adland has freely available archives of 37 years of commercials from the big game, over 2,800 ads - from 1969, when
Winston,
Salem,
Camel,
Tareyton,
Pall Mall, and
Silva Thins smoked up the Bowl *
cough-cough*, all the way to 2008, when the best-liked ad was
Bud's dalmation inspiration (how do we know it was best liked?
SCIENCE!). Some highlights of the collection include:
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posted by taz
on Jan 29, 2009 -
40 comments
