But who could forget a Bollywood condom commercial (made in different colors with fragrance!). This starts out strong with apropos use of slide whistles, but starts to get old after a while. It all comes back together with the gay sex cross-section diagram, however.
Via Boing Boing
Vaccines are good, mmmkay?
It’s important to get them, or to get boosters, not just to protect you (who cares?) but also to protect everyone else. Vaccines are usually, but not always effective- a small percentage of vaccinated people are still susceptible to diseases they’ve already been vaccinated against. It’s amazingly selfish of you to put them at risk just for your misguided superstitions, fears, and paranoias. It’s just fine for you to kill yourself believing in magic rocks, invisible sky favors, and other such hippie nonsense (in fact, the rest of us will likely be better off without you), but it’s not about you.
If you won’t do it for you, then at least do it for the testicles.
Video via Neatorama, other bits via Pharyngula, personal research, and common sense.
Via Consumerist, an interesting bit of conspiracy-history:
If you want to sell a car, you put a hot person in it and shoot them skidding at high speeds across desert plains. This was like trailer for a sequel to The Ring.
Elongated shadows of a family spill across across pavement at a canted angle while a spectral chorus moans in the background. “How does it go without sparks or explosions?” asks the voice over. Right when it says “explosions,” the camera moves in on the baby carriage shadow. Then it fades to black, and when it fades back in, near where the baby carriage was there’s an explosiony-looking pock-mark on the ground.
You don’t have to have a PhD psychology to figure out that they were trying to scare consumers away from buying electric cars.
I’m probably more likely to buy a car if it comes with the promise that it will explode baby carriages (and presumably babies), but I suppose people like me weren’t the target audience.
From VideoSift, a beer advertisement with a heaping serving of surreal and a hint of theremin.
Sacrifice, indeed.
A friend just showed me the Blizzard WoW movie repository, and I had to pass on this great performance by Mr. T. They got Shatner, too, but his commercial isn’t nearly as entertaining.
“I’m Mr. T, and this is my Night Elf Mohawk.”
“Cut! T, there’s no such thing as a Night Elf Mohawk.”
“Shut up, foo!”
…I wonder if they’ll get Chuck Norris?
Via Consumerist, an example of fun advertising:
I assume that ‘ghost’ is a bit of a mistranslation- these seem more like the Japanese idea of spirits (a la Spirited Away.
No matter, I still think this is great fun. If American TV was this much fun, I might actually watch it sometime!