As I slog through the summer "offerings" from the networks (more on that later), I often catch the errant commercial before I can grab the remote to hit the skip button. Commercials have long pushed the envelope of taste and decorum in an attempt to get our attention, but recently I've seen a few that caught my eye for the wrong reasons.
Best Buy: Laptop & a Geek
Mom just bought her son a sex doll apparently. Good luck getting him to video chat now.
Tiger Woods Nike Commercial
This takes some context explanation for those not familiar with professional athletics (Jefe), specifically golf. The voiceover is a recording of Tiger's late father Earl Woods, asked a decade ago what he would ask young Tiger about his career in Golf; now used here to ask him about his famous sexual scandals.
Oh, and to play emotionally on the notion that the audience should pity and forgive the first billionaire professional athlete.
KIA Hamster Soul
Anthropomorphic Rapping Hamsters mocking other hamsters who drive toasters and laundry machines? And we all know a hamster wouldn't be able to dunk with that low center of gravity.
Lastly, this one's creepy in a different way:
Sorry about that, here's a "softer" kind of creepy:
See anything delightfully creepy lately?
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Pedobear would approve of that last one.
ReplyDeleteTop creepy ad icons for me are still Smilin' Bob from Enzyte and The King from all the Burger King commercials. There's something unsettlingly evil about a big unchanging grin.
I'm fond of the unintentionally creepy that happens. There's a ton of that over at http://failblog.org/tag/things-that-are-doing-it/. Here's one of my favorites(least favorite?): http://failblog.org/2010/06/25/epic-fail-photos-decorative-plate-fail/