There is nothing crazier in the entire world, which is a very crazy place, than Dan Akroyd (Dan Aykroyd!) starting his own line of crystal-filtered vodka, sold in a skull shaped bottle, and based on his lifelong fascination with the occult. Well, there is one thing crazier in the entire world, and that is an 8 minute long advertisement featuring Dan Aykroyd in which he explains his new line of crystal-filtered vodka, sold in a skull-shaped bottle, and based on his lifelong fascination with the occult.
This is not an ad for 30 Rock Season 2 on DVD, which comes out October 7 (next Tuesday) with cast commentary, extras, and deleted scenes, but it's going to sound like one because I can't help it. Even if you never missed an episode and in fact watched each one three times, there's something about watching entire TV seasons in a row that (everyone knows by now) is super fun. The show has released some excerpts from the DVD extras to the internet, which will have to tide us over until the show's glorious return on October 30, 2008. Videos after the jump.
FACT: everyone loves local cable commercials. They are so unprofessionally made! And a lovably unprofessional series of commercials (via BuzzFeed) made for a St. Louis company, Schweig Engel, in the late '80s and early '90s is no exception. Combining the latest in green screen technology with the most impenetrable concept of what the world is like, Schweig Engel made it very hard to understand what exactly they offered their customers. It's definitely some kind of lax credit system for purchasing housewares, but it also involves a heavy degree of violence.
The only question now is which ad is more insaaaaaaaane.
I can't tell you how many times I've thought to myself "ENOUGH WITH THIS KITCHEN, WHERE IS A MACHINE FROM MR. T THAT I CAN USE TO MAKE GARBAGE FOOD." Just kidding, I can tell you how many times. Zero times!
I like that Mr. T "challenged some friends" to make this for him. Totally. That's just how friends are. Always challenging each other to invent shitty ovens. I think more friendships should involve challenges and ridiculous inventions with the word Turbo in them. Just as a fun, marketable celebration of how much we all like each other.
Gatorade Is Extreme To The Max Times Infinity• This Gatorade commercial parody makes fun of how everyone in Gatorade commercials is always sweating so much and being so intense, but the funny thing is that at the end of the parody it's not like you don't kind of still want a Gatorade so that you can be a champion.
I have no idea how this ad got through the rigorous misogyny focus grouping of Don Draper's office, but it's a work of genius. Because it's true, the only person that super shitty kids who are such assholes to their parents will listen to about calcium is famed character actor Robert Loggia? Who looks like he's about to stuff this whole breakfast in the trunk of his LeSabre? This ad is actually a little bit depressing because I know that no matter how hard I try, a million Gabes typing on a million typewriters for a million years could never come up with something this mind-blowing.
August 22, 2008 (Computerworld) Michel Gondry, the innovative director of films, music videos and numerous TV commercials, is directing at least one of the TV spots starring Jerry Seinfeld touting Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, according to numerous reports.
Blogs in the New York City borough of Brooklyn reported in mid-July that locations including the Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park and parts of the neighborhood of Carroll Gardens were being closed down for a Microsoft television commercial shot by the French director and the production company he is affiliated with, Partizan Entertainment.
The trade magazine, Advertising Age, reported at the time that Seinfeld was rumored to be in the Brooklyn-shot commercial, though it did not confirm it.
The Journal reported that the Seinfeld commercial, for which the comedian will be paid about $10 million, will debut on Sept. 4.
Too much information on this thing! I've got to get excited about commercials now? I have neither the time, nor the energy to get excited about commercials. Although, I'm not even sure I'm excited. Don't get me wrong, Michel Gondry is really good at his job. He should keep making things forever, and get promoted to Regional Vice President of Making Things. But Jerry Seinfeld is the worst. The only thing Jerry Seinfeld should be a spokesman for is the important work of getting out of my face.
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