Judging from the tacked-on ending, this commercial ostensibly meaning to demonstrate the ease of taking an STD test was created to be bought and shown in different international markets. But this commercial has the exact opposite effect than the one intended. If you weren't already scared of getting an STD test, which is a little weird of them to assume in the first place, you will be now! I think this commercial was made by Syphilis:
Kate Winslet and her husband, director Sam Mendes, talk about their December drama Revolutionary Road in the new Entertainment Weekly. The movie, which is not to be confused with the too-depressing-to-even-watch Jennifer Connelly/Mark Ruffalo film Reservation Road from earlier this year, re-teams Kate with Leo DiCaprio. Apparently there are people who take a great interest in the difficulty of filming sex scenes in movies, so they focused on that. I've bolded the phrases that sound gross:
Mendes, who directed "American Beauty" and "Road to Perdition," says, "I will admit it was quite bizarre to direct my wife in how to make love. But it's difficult whether you're married to a person or not."
It's been 11 years since Winslet and DiCaprio co-starred in the Oscar-winning blockbuster "Titanic," and Winslet says a spark remains between them.
"I hadn't realized how much my chemistry with him since `Titanic' would still stick," says the 32-year-old actress. "It's great to discover we can just slip right into it, like muscle memory."
Gross! But I've always thought "muscle memory" would be a good band name.
Why anyone thought sending Bill Maher to a burqua store to ridicule its owner to his face while making pathetic hacky jokes would somehow enlighten anyone about organized religion's excess of power is beyond me. Why did the makers of his new film Religulous think this particular clip would make people want to see the movie? We get it: Bill Maher is a mean bully with bad jokes and a huge chip on his shoulder:
(Via FilmDrunk.) I'm not even disappointed in Bill Maher. I'm disappointed in director Larry Charles. Were there no curious, thoughtful people out there willing to explore this subject without cheap mockery and (ironic) blatant self-righteousness? Bill Maher is like the Jimmy Jerry Falwell (Ha! Freudian typo) of the non-religious.
This Soviet-era Estonian commercial for some sort of mixture between chicken and beef is indistinguishable from what one might imagine a commercial for vegetarianism would look like:
I glimpsed a few flashes of this AP report on the late local news last night, so it's probably playing around the country (Update: and on GMA this very morning, apparently!). It seems there's a new weapon in fighting our national dry foot skin epidemic/crisis: paying a guy $35 to put your feet in a bowl of dead-skin-eating fish. "People have always liked eating fish, but the roles have reversed and fish are eating us." (Nice writing, AP):
"Clearly, I'm giving them a pretty good meal." Gross! At least it's still not as bad as The Ped Egg, for nothing will ever be as bad as The Ped Egg.
It's always too early in the morning for the Ped Egg commercial, which, with its disgusting examples of diseased foot skin, and shocking "emptying of the Ped Egg into the trash can" demonstration that single-handedly introduced an entirely new nightmare powdered substance to the universe, was like so totally old gross news by the time we launched this site. But not anymore! Via Jezebel, a model couple whose feet are shown in the commercial in "horror makeup," eliciting cries of "That is not even within the realm of normalcy for dry feet!" and "Oh my god, please stop!" are actually suing because, among other complaints, they thought the commercial would be "internet-only." Oops, Kelly Parker-Corso and Jonathan Corso, who also came in second on The Amazing Race (foot joke) in 2003, the internet is something people can see you on, and I found you:
Dear lord, have you seen this show, You Are What You Eat? It's from England. Couples are shown the mountains of garbage they put in their bodies in a single week and berated for it by a proper English lady, and then she takes them into the bathroom, they all don masks, and she hands them boxes of their own poo. On the most recent show, one woman dares to rebel against this practice, and the others help her become less naturally averse to poo. This is one show we don't have to worry about jumping the pond (do not watch if you're hungover or otherwise gaggy):
It's not quite as bad as The Worst PSA Ever Ever Ever, but that one was made in the '80s, before anyone knew what they were doing. It could be argued that creepiness standards are different in Germany or wherever this PSA is airing, but the tags really say it all:
Tentacle Ad Commercial Sex Sexual Child Abuse Trauma Metaphor 3d CGI The Vikings hairy arm disturbing snake nonprofit
"The Vikings?"
Anyway, if you want a strong jolt of ew with your Tuesday morning, and to follow the international ad agency battle for the most over-the-top public service ad campaign, here's the hairy tentacle of sexual abuse. It's way "metaphorical."
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