The Real Laptop Hunters

Funny or Die spoofs the MS "Laptop Hunters" campaign from CP+B with some hilarious results:

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Jimmy Dean Entertains, but Will it Sell?

I'd been looking for this spot for a few days now. Finally it popped up on Adpulp. I love the quirky, "I Heart Huckabees" atmosphere they're creating with this campaign:



But then Adpulp has to come along and point out that the above spot sells the category, not the specific product.

Well shit. I have to admit they've got a point there. But it's just so damn entertaining to me. Let's look at another spot from the campaign:



Ok, now we're getting somewhere. We've got a benefit, albeit a vague one, but Jimmy Dean will make you full. That's at least something they can lay their claim to.

Now here's another spot:



Ohhhh. So now Jimmy Dean makes you happy. Happy Breakfast. Maybe that's a new saying, sorta like "Happy New Year." In any case, it's all coming together for me now. Jimmy dean fills you up, keeps you full, and gives you a happy breakfast. That sounds pretty good.

And the campaign continues with lots of similar commercials.

I like that there are so many variations on this one concept of the sun and cloud / planet / moon cast. It's great. So few brands have big coherent campaigns like this anymore. So many are doing a little something here then jumping to something else over there and then to something different.

There's also a few webisodes of interviews with the sun, moon, cloud, etc. Looks like they were added a couple years ago. Is this campaign really that old? Maybe I'm just out of the loop.

Government Spoofs Freecreditreport.com

The FTC has decided to spoof the already spoofy (and scammy) freecreditreport.com commercials with their own (and actually free) annualcreditreport.com.

I love this. Not because the commercial is amazing or anything, although it is amusing. I just love that the government has actually decided to fight fire with fire and stick it to the douchebags that try to scam people into buying their credit reports when they can, by law, get them for free.

Now if only we can get the government to spoof the snuggie....



(via RedTape Chronicles where you can see another gov't commercial)

The Con-Time Machine

I just can't get enough of the skits from Channel 101. This one gets me every time:

Tag a Dummer

This is great, the site www.tagadummer.com provides you with a template you can print out that just so happens to match the font on the nameplates of Hummers that allows them to be transformed into Dummers. Brilliant, funny, and a great way to get people into action fighting against stupidity and excess.
(via Josh Spear)

Kodak: Make Me Super

Kodak just did something cool.
I've been waiting a long time to say that.

The company that has provided me a means to live the last six years has also had it's head up it's ass most of that time about anything digital, advertising related or remotely 21st century. But now they've hitched their star to the same agency that did that "Elf Yourself" thing for OfficeMax last year and come up with "Make Me Super". You upload your photo, and WHAM! Before you know it you're a full-fledged super hero complete with theme song (see mine here). I started passing this around the office this afternoon and I fully expect 50 super videos in my inbox tomorrow (wouldn't it be great if Kodak had planted the seeds of this viral site by informing it's 25,000 US employees about it so they wouldn't have to read about it somewhere else? or does that violate the "rule of viral-ness"?) Of course, you can buy customized mugs, mouse pads, etc., as well as upload your super picture to your Kodak Gallery account. What? You don't have a Kodak Gallery account? Well now would be a good time to start one, wouldn't it?

Sonic: Food Math

I think these are the best commercials running on TV right now. Sonic hits home run after home run with this series. From what I’ve read all of these commercials are improvised. If that’s true these guys are comedy genius. If they’re written, then some copywriter out there needs some recognition. What’s your favorite sonic commercial?

It's just a bronze

My obligatory Olympics post:



(via Adverganza)

Pimp My...Kettle?

I feel like the whole "Pimp my..." thing is a bit played out. But something about this made me laugh. (From Clemenger BBDO, Austrailia)

And from www.pimpmykettle.com, the ridiculousness continues:


(via Coloribus)

Just Stop It

(via The Denver Egotist)

Best Campaign Gaffes: Club Remix

23/6 has taken the best campaign gaffes and made a club remix of them. It's funny, and their embed code won't copy for me, so go watch it here. C'mon, you needed a break anyway.

Happy Fourth of July

Fireworks aren't nearly as dangerous as their distant cousin, the sword...

You'll never guess who this is an ad for

A hilarious look inside the consumer-client-agency relationship. (via Adpulp)

Why Advertising Sucks Presents: Diary of an Intern

Why Advertising Sucks has been posting a "Diary of an Intern" series that's pretty damn good. As a soon-to-be intern myself I can't attest to the validity of this account, but I hope it's closer to fiction for my own sake.

A few excerpts:

...I'm not really sure what to expect but along with me, there's three guys and five girls. Not bad odds seeing as some of those guys look like total douche bags. Anyways, they gave me the option to work in any department I wanted and of course I picked Creative. Shit yeah!!!! Getting paid to think up shit and dude, I've watched so much shit that I can definitely do good ads...

...I found out that there’s copywriters and artists and lucky for me, I’m the copywriter so I have more say as to what ideas get done while the artist makes it look like it has to because that’s how it works here...

...Today was another activityless day and I couldn't handle looking at Steve make saliva bubbles, Jerry making top ten lists of who he's going to bone and Robert's corner one man brain storming that didn't include any of us, because he wanted to work on something before showing us...

Check it out here:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7

Payday: Time Machine

The video is hilarious (reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite). I'm missing the product tie in, but maybe that's the point.



(via Adverbox)

Erotika Films

(sound NSFW)



Translation (from Italian):
We don't hire them for their ability to speak.

The best hard films in circulation.

(via Adverbox)

The Payoff

A lesson in payoff:



(via Adverbox)

Old Spice: It's two things in one!

It's an ad and it's funny!



(Adverganza via AdFreak)

Man vs. Banner Ad

This is hilarious.



(via AdFreak)

This has been stuck in my head lately

Every time I hear this song I think of this commercial. To me it's probably my most memorable commercial of, well, recent memory. One problem though: I was sure that it was for DHL. Then I thought it was for FedEx. The I just searched for the name of the song and the word commercial and I found it. It's for Nextel. Maybe it's just me, but that seems like problem for this ad. It's super memorable, but the brand isn't. Oh well, it's Saturday so just enjoy: