Maybe this is a big running joke in the city of Columbus, Ohio, but there's apparently a bar there called "The Frog Bear And Wild Boar Bar", and that name is either brilliantly or stupidly bizarre, so someone had to put their New Year's Eve commercial on YouTube yesterday. When people make plans to go there, do they say out loud "The Frog Bear And Wild Boar Bar"? Or do they call it the "FBAWBB"? Just "The Frog Bear"? I kind of actually want to know:
"Featuring Lt. Dan's New Legs"? What? Turns out that the fictional character played by Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump still ain't got no legs: it's a hip-hop band that "creates an environment where it's nearly impossible to stop dancing." Get it? Legs? I think we've all learned a lot about Columbus, clubs, or YouTube, or America today.
If you ever find yourself with a DUI or too many tickets in the Pacific Northwest, consider Vern Fonk Insurance, which serves the hard-to-insure population in Washington and Oregon. Their crazy ads, which spoof everything from Napoleon Dynamite to The Sopranos to Love Affair, and at least one of which stars "Osama bin Laden," urge viewers to "Honk For Fonk" when they drive by a branch. These people are having way too much fun making insurance commercials.
Local commercial fun time! "This year's most exciting inspirational gospel stage play to hit Oklahoma City" is the dissonant sociological curiosity Pimps In The Pulpit. It seems like an odd way to try to bring people to Jesus, but whatever works, right?
There should be an annual award for nepotistic casting in local commercials. It's actually kind of sweet, the way family businesses view marketing their brand as a roll-up-your sleeves and chip in family chore, like a barn raising. No need for real actors, we'll do it ourselves, and maybe it'll be little Johnny's big break. Last night, I saw this prime example for a Honda dealership in Queens. The chick is probably a professional actress, but there's no way this dude has ever acted, or thought about acting, before:
I like how he doesn't seem to realize he's in a commercial nor is he required to pay attention.
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