I went to re-watch Reza Aslan's Daily Show interview from last night on their site just now (because he's so dreamy!) and was greeted by this pre-roll commercial for Supercuts with a very familiar narrator who is obviously not trying to sound like anyone else but herself. It turns out Amy's been doing these for almost a year, yet it's gone virtually unnoticed (and un-blogged, even!) for all those eons of internet-time. Good for Amy:
Tipster Caroline sent this in wondering "Is this real? Who actually needs something like this?" The best I can figure is that maybe women with VERY large boobs can't sleep on their sides because one boob crushes the other? Otherwise, I'm stumped. Either way, they think it's worth $55 to someone. I like the picture of the lady "posing" with her Kush. Is that for Facebook?:
Maybe a check of the YouTube comments will yield more information about this product:
Oops, no. Of course not. (Thanks for the tip, Caroline!)
Yesterday Gawker pointed out a series of commercials for Scientology that have been running during, among other things, Anderson Cooper 360 (:(), and noted that they look like prescription antidepressant ads, which I guess they do, but they're as similar to Mormon and Christian commercials, just much scarier and more like promos for The X Files. It's kind of hard to believe that they're actually real, because you would think Scientology would want to go the happy route instead of the futuristic lonely blue-black wasteland one, but what do you expect from a religion that is literally about aliens that live inside us. Here's a slightly longer version of the "Truth" ad. I feel "an unexplainable emptiness" just watching this:
People often assume that YouTube videos of people hurting themselves or cute animals being cute or dancing children are the lowest form of entertainment, but they're wrong. The lowest form of entertainment is the poorly CGI-d baby doing something babies don't usually do, like talk or dance. The original horribly fake looking yet strangely popular dancing baby appeared in 1996, and even though YouTube has offered up MANY recent examples of ACTUAL DANCING by REAL TODDLERS whose parents would no doubt jump at the chance to use ad money to finance their talented tots' education at one of those schools like the one in Fame, companies like Evian are still hiring animators to make things like this.
David Wain put this up on his blog yesterday: apparently 13 years ago, he and State members Kerri Kenney, Ben Garant, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black made a commercial for the then-new Game Boy Pocket. I feel like if I saw this now I would recognize their voices, but probably not:
I wonder whose butt that is at the end? (Via CC Insider.)
First off, this is real, unless internet parodies now come with working, relevant 1-800 numbers. (I took the time to call, which makes me the Bob Woodward of bloggers.) Secondly, though they try to dance around the issue of why the Comfort Wipe exists with red herrings like the inherent disgustingness of toilet paper, and shoulder injuries, it becomes clear at the :42 mark that they know and we know exactly why this product exists. Like The Body Snake, the thing that helps you wash your body when you're unable to touch most of it, this product exists because apparently one of the afflictions of morbid obesity is the inabilty to wipe one's butt.
The UK has these new hilarious commercials for a gentle laundry soap meant for babies (of all things) in which a grown-up dude responds appropriately with weird looks when his middle-aged mother treats him like a baby in a variety of ways. But they're definitely funnier than that sounds! I couldn't decide between the three commercials because they're all great and go well together as sketches, mostly because the woman who plays the mom has incredible comic acting skills, so here are all three: "Rubber Ducky," "Pen Cap," and "Pee-pee."
Yesterday Time.com launched a debate about an online-only Budweiser commercial -- a two-minute sketch in which a guy tries to subtly order a porn magazine called "Tongue & Cheeks" in a convenience store along with his Bud Light and watch batteries. The debate is about whether the ad objectifies women, and specifically, whether it signifies something called "porn creep," the further mainstreaming of porn by a big American brand. Blah blah blah, but as a few YouTube commenters have noticed, isn't this commercial, which is moderately amusing, an exact ripoff of the funny/sad scene in Little Miss Sunshine where Steve Carrel runs into his ex while buying porn in a convenience store?
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