Before she gained fame on How I Met Your Mother, Buffy, and American Pie, Alyson Hannigan was a sweetly over-concerned teen with apparent allergies who was terrified that her dad might be getting an ulcer. I actually remember this commercial because it made me feel bad that I was so busy writing notes (remember notes?) to boys in class that my father's stomach health or "thing about doctors" would never have entered my consciousness. This commercial is old in both the actual and internet sense, but it's going around, and it's really cute.
The Moldy Peaches's "Anyone Else But You," popularized by Juno, isn't fading away now that the Juno craze is over. This re-written version (apparently not sung by them) caught my ears in a commercial for Atlantis resorts during one of the tabloid shows last night, and it's not online yet, so here it is, and you may judge for yourself whether any selling out has occurred:
Lyrics (possibly slightly misheard):
Let's go ride a couple of dolphins
or maybe play tennis
or do some golfin'
oh what a wonder, a wonderful world can be ... with
we'll float a lazy river
and walk with sharks and shiver
and glide with a manna
the size of Alabama
oh what a wonder (fade out)
I have no real feelings about the song other than being sick of hearing it, so this wasn't a "selling out" moment for me. But I could see die-hard Moldy Peaches fans feeling a little icky. It does seem like a good deal on a vacation.
Is Darren Aronofsky making body wash commercials now, or is some young upstart commercial director (or advertising agency executive) trying to get us high on body wash? This new-ish Dove commercial played during all the big shows last night, and references Requiem For A Dream's unique style long before it takes it over the top with the pupil dilation.
Do you ever see the same commercial over and over on different channels and get the feeling you're being targeted? (If the number of times I see the Cymbalta commercial is any indication, my TV habits are that of a severely depressed person, for example.) Last night while watching 30 Rock, I got a funny feeling that NBC has a very specific, surprising type of viewer in mind for the fast-paced hipster comedy. And it's your mom.
My friend Bex does a comedy bit about the Juicy Fruit commercial that seemed to air every five minutes for the entire '80s. It's the one with the yuppies getting the energy to ski from Juicy Fruit gum, and it's most notable for the line "Take a sniff/pull it out", which sounded weird even to a kid. (Later versions of the same commercial changed the line to something like "pour it up/pour it out.") I like the part where the girl holds the Juicy Fruit package up to the guy's face and he's immediately addicted to its delicious undetermined fruity scent:
After the jump, the waterskiing version, which has boobies.
I was looking for preview clips from tonight's How I Met Your Mother (not up yet) when I came across this totally wtf CBS promo, promoted on their website without explanation and added by CBS to YouTube. It's a montage of clips from new shows like Mother and Two And A Half Men and old ones like MacGyver (?) that involve food in some way. And it's set to some kind of mariachi music. And for this reason, it's a "CBS Food Fight". Can someone explain why this exists?
If it wasn't on the CBS site, I would think it was put together by some old lady in her basement.
On 20/20 a few weeks ago, they showed a segment that involved college students going door-to-door canvassing a neighborhood. After ringing one bell for a while with no response, one of the students sang "Nobody's hommmmme! Nobody's hommmme!" to the tune of Beethoven's 5th, and I sat up and took notice, because that goes through my head all the time, too! It's from this ubiquitous commercial from the '80s for a tape of pre-recorded joke outgoing messages for your newfangled answering machine: Crazy Calls! I used to beg my parents to buy it, but they were of the "If you say you're not home on your answering machine, whoever is calling will come and rob you" school of illogical thought. Anyway, it's nice to see that someone thought it was important enough to put on YouTube:
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