Fake ad as viral marketing for True Blood, you guys:

Wooooof. You know what my favorite thing about this is? It isn’t the cheesiness, which to be fair, they actually nailed pretty well. The alcohol commercials this is parodying often are cheesy! It’s not the fat guy kicker-joke at the end when the fat guy asks if they have Tru Blood in diet because he’s fat. It’s not the fact that this fictional synthetic blood drink stopped being an important plot device or even a functional presence in the show after the second episode of season one. It’s not the fact that somehow I feel like clever, winking viral marketing has become so prevalent that it’s defeating its own purpose and I’m starting to wish marketing was less clever and winking and just tried to explain why I might like something. No, my favorite part of this is the fact that the boyfriend vampire is wearing what appears to be a standard issue vampire long sleeve thermal shirt. They all get them. Classic vampire stuff. You know.

Here, I’ll trade you:

Better. (Thanks for the tip, Gideon.)

Comments (16)
  1. Kinda wish someone would bottle Bloody Marys and sell in 6 packs, but then again, that’s pretty gross.

  2. It’s like we don’t even know what to think of vampires anymore. I just learned that the Twilight ones have no fucking fangs yesterday!

  3. Is the fat guy Lutz from 30 Rock?

  4. What no one says about this show (or maybe they do and I missed it) is how great the opening credits are. I have nothing articulate to say about them except that they are so good! But even though I don’t really watch the show, that pie monstrosity pretty much ruined any future good opinion of it I might have otherwise formed. K, just realized how irrelevant this whole comment was.

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  6. Whose the weirdo asian gal who is apparently friends with nobody but is toasting her appletini to the leaving vampire couple?

  7. My friend made me watch two episodes of this because she swore it was amazing. Amazingly bad, maybe.

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  9. I will not trade you.

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