Let me just say, before Devlin takes you on a rockin' journey to a land of WONDER, that this video starts off very strong, duh, but it is not until the 1:40 mark that things really get going. DON'T skip ahead, just get ready for the mind explosion.
BOOM! For his next trick, Devlin is going to pull a five dollar bill from his mom's purse and use it to buy some ramen! And people say that you can't change the world by performing hackneyed magic tricks in red leather pants from a darkened corner of your unfinished basement?! HA! (Via BuzzFeed.)
They just are very good at it. This furniture one was good. And this mobile homes one is good:
I WILL TAKE TWO MOBILE HOMES, PLEASE, JUST DON'T MAKE ME PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE WITH A BRICK? Robert Lee, constantly making people severely damage his face with blunt objects. No big deal.
Rhett and Link are taking nominations for their next commercial. Uh, I nominate all of the businesses? Go! Although, it will be sad when Rhett and Link start making actual ads for Diet Red Bull, or whatever. "Some of that Rhett and Link viral magic is just the shot in the arm that the Playtex corporation needs!" Oh well. GOODBYE IN ADVANCE, RHETT AND LINK! (And thanks for the tip, many people.)
Someone has laid a finger on Seth Green's BUTTERFINGER®. Nestlé USA today announced the launch of "Dude, Where's My Bar?" an innovative online narrative game for consumers to help solve the mystery surrounding the October 2 theft of Green's vintage Butterfinger bar. The "lite" alternate reality game starring Seth Green will call upon the clever, irreverent thinking of Butterfinger fans, as they compete to find and solve clues that could lead to the return of Green's missing bar and a one-of-a-kind grand prize: a solid-gold Butterfinger bar worth $10,000.
Green, a lifelong Butterfinger fan, was announced recently as the official Butterfinger Mouthpiece, in conjunction with the brand reintroducing its tagline "Nobody's Gonna Lay A Finger On My Butterfinger." Green collaborated with Butterfinger to produce "Dude, Where's My Bar?" using comedy and the real world as a platform. Dubbed an "alternate reality game lite" (ARGL), DudeWheresMyBar.com propels fans into an entertaining storyline created by the comedic genius of Green and the one-and-only iconic candy bar brand. "Dude, Where's My Bar?" combines the innovations of a multi-platform narrative game with video vignettes featuring Green and co-starring actors Sean Cullen, Stuart Pankin and Jon Wellner.
In other miserable late night television news, Jay Leno is the worst. We know that. And his new nightly 10PM talk show is awful. Yes. If you want to break that as a news story, you will have to fire up the old time machine and go back in time (and KILL HITLER, but then) to before everyone already knew that duh. But what may be news is that Jay Leno is using his show as an hour-long paid infomercial? Now, inserting product placement into late night talk shows is not new. It's a method the networks enjoy to keep the cost of production down, and the late night format is particularly easy to semi-unobtrusively infect with this stealth marketing. Not to mention the fact that a show built on timely pop cultural references is probably going to drop a couple of names they're not even getting paid to drop because we live in a capitalist society dominated by brand names. But this compilation video that some AdBuster made of all the products mentioned in a single episode of The Jay Leno Show is pretty astonishing. He basically mentions a bagillion products.
This fall, CBS is launching NCIS: Los Angeles, a spin-off series from NCIS, whatever that is. It's basically the golden rule of television: anything that can be done well, can also be done in another city on Tuesday nights at 9/8 Central. Anyway, the show stars Chris O'Donnell (naturally. When you look at him you just think "COP!". Also, I am just assuming that NCIS is about cops? I have no idea what NCIS is) and also LL Cool J. Obviously, LL Cool J brings something special to the table, which is his unique experience as both a hip hop artist, and someone who stopped being taken seriously as a hip hop artist years ago. That's how he is able to make a music video for his new song, "No Crew Is Superior" (Get it? You get it) with a straight face (the straightest face in the game!).
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