That said, I've noticed a recent trend in the last few years to bizarro commercials. These commercials advertise their product, but really random. They are usually weird, often very weird, yet I feel as if someone crawled inside my brain and created a commercial specifically for me.
Although JetBlue has been in the crapper lately and I've never even been on a freakin plane, I can't help but stop whatever I'm doing to watch its ad:
Ok, not so weird, as it is retro-pleasant with it's nod to 8-bit, but whatever.
Also, there is ad for Domino's new dessert Oreo Pizza which I think sounds disgusting and I hate Domino's pizza anyway, but the commercial interests me in the way that I try to imagine a board meeting where they've been at it all night when one guy goes, "I've got it, beards made of cookies!" and the other people patting him on the back and saying, "Jenkins, you're a genius!" I also like to imagine the commercial appearing on television in the past, say the 1950's and how people would've been like, "The hell is that?!" Granted, there are much weirder commercials overseas, but maybe we'll catch up?
More commercial weirdness:
Domino's Oreo Pizza
Skittle's Rabbit
Quizno's Rat Things
Snicker's Panda
I also enjoy very low quality local commercials.
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Re: Cheap Local Commercials
We used to have a guy here in DC who was on channel 20 named Cap'n 20.
He looked like Gabe Kaplan in a spacesuit.
He used to hock all sorts of kids gear in between hamster races and kung-fu movie marathons.
Re: Cap'n 20
My dad actually knew him personally as he has been a broadcast technician for DC 20 (now owned by Fox 5) since '82. Cap'n 20 was also Bozo the Clown and dressed up as a vampire to host the horror movies.
The vampire was the same guy? I guess I was just so overwhelmed by the thrill of staying up late that I didn't notice.
... I loved cap'n 20.
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