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Commercial Monday

The commercials in other countries are better than ours.
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FANTAstic

I was on Digg recently and there was a thread on 10 Commercials that are Exercises in WTF.

Those 10 were OK, but better ones appeared in the comments.

Feel Great (Nutrigrain)
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Apparently this is from 2003. I missed it.

Sync Is Everything (FusionONe)
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Short and sweet. I didn't get it until the end.

Swiss Family Robinson (Emerald Nuts)
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Low volume warning. Heavy into WTF territory on this one.

Tailor / Mirror (Skittles)
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translation from comments
Man on Suit: "Wait... I'm not eating Skittles"
Tailor (Thai): "Hey! You can't eat during work!"
Filipino: "But I am hungry"
Tailor:" "I don't understand what you're saying"
Filipino: "I am hungry so I am going to eat"
Tailor: "You lazy worker!"
Filipino: "Don't you... (gibberish)... Don't do this to me."
Thai: (starts speaking gibberish)
Filipino: "Son of a ****, I want to... (*kicks mirror*)"
Thai: "Hehehehe"

The obligatory Skittles commercial

Finally, the REAL reason for the post:

Japanese Year Three Teachers (Fanta)
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This is a whole series of commercials (in Japanese, but with subtitles). As a former 3^rd Grade Teacher in Japan (third year in middle school, equivalent to high school freshman), I identified with this commercial. ^_^ There are more (sans subtitles). This was posted to YouTube in 2006, so it must have aired in Japan while I lived there. I guess I didn't watch enough TV. :-/

Hang In There, Jack

I saw this commercial during the superbowl, but apparently it's not a "superbowl commercial"? It's not in ANY of the official collections of superbowl commercials (NFL, NBC, Hulu, YouTube, Yidio). This is what I get for not watching TV.

Anyway, it was the one where Jack gets hit by a bus.
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(May be gone by the time this posts)

Hadn't thought about it since the game, but it came up recently on a blog I read, so I checked out the site HangInThereJack.com. Two things:

1: FREE FOOD. One day only. February 10th. That's THIS TUESDAY. Print out the coupon on the site, get one order of medium seasoned curly fries. Free. Not, free with purchase or any of that crap.

2: While most of the HITJ videos are meh, the ones with Jack's doctor tickle me.

First:
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Second:
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World Record

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Superbowl Aftermath

What were the final scores? Who cares! How were the commercials?!

My favorites:

CareerBuilder.com: Tips
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You get to see a glasses-wearing, coffee-drinking koala punched in the face. Oh dear!

Cars.com: David Abernathy
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Am I watching a commercial or The Royal Tenenbaums?

Pepsi: Pepsuber
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Purely for the presence of Richard Dean Anderson. This is actually the 2^nd of three SNL clips. 1 2 3

And finally, my personal favorite:

Hulu: Alec in Huluwood
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Alec Baldwin!

Wednesday's Foreign Commercial

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I know kung fu.

Wait, don't I already have a post for today? Yeah, forward posting has a lot of drawbacks. A major one being: I was forward posting everything, and some things (like random videos) aren't really .... substantial. Almost content-free posts.

So they'll be posted roughly same-day, but after the daily post (so, 9am or later). So yes, this is still forward posted from even earlier today. ^_^

So.

(That being said, there are still several weeks of posts in the queue, so some days will just be a random video. Sorry.)

Phoenix Watches a Lot of Commercials

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I like the idea, but am I the only one that thinks it's a bit long? And too many short clips of songs. I'd prefer fewer songs with more to them.

This is what happens when multinational corporations undertake expensive productions without checking with me first.

(Also, spoiler in thumbnail AGAIN. I really wish people would take the time to set their thumbnail properly [eg, earlier in the video])

Cadbury Commercials

I saw this video just now:
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It's by the same people that did the Trucks** video and the Gorilla playing the drums* video; all three are commercials for Cadbury.

*Have you seen this remix?

**UPDATE: Also a "remix" (more of just a music swap) for Trucks***.

Both of these updated commercials have played officially on TV.

***UPDATE III: There's also apparently one with Final Countdown. Is there anyone who can hear that song now and not think of Arrested Development? There's even a stair-car!

I don't know why, but commercials with music just really do it for me. Like mini music videos. (Also, it helps that the Cadbury commercials are so completely random).

The people that made this have an interesting Myst-like site. What is the mystery word? How far can you jump? Why is Phoenix so very easily amused? The world may never know.

UPDATE II: Saw the following comment on the eyebrows commercial:

12. Troy - January 24, 2009 9:41 PM
Where the f*** did she get a baloon?! SOMETHINGS NOT RIGHT HERE.

Another Awesome Commercial

Now, you guys already know what kind of commercials I like... ^_^
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Wazzup?

Remember this?
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Looks like they got the band back together, and made one of the best ads ever. ^_^
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Orangina

Seriously, WTF?

(Wikipedia, which helps not at all)