by BeckEye from The Pop Eye
Since we're getting closer to Big J's big day (and since I'm filled with Veddermas spirit), I thought I would post an example of a GOOD Christmas ad.
It's a regional ad by restaurant chain Eat 'n Park (home of the famous smiley cookies and best potato soup EVAH), so folks from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio might be the only ones to have seen it...unless you saw it on my blog a couple of years ago. This is my favorite Christmas commercial, and probably one of my favorite commercials, period. It's very short, sweet, and simple, but gets the point across beautifully. And it always, always, ALWAYS chokes me up.
So here it is, my Christmas gift to you: the warm fuzzies. They may not be as good as the potato soup, but they might last longer.
Showing posts with label The 12 Ads of Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The 12 Ads of Christmas. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas # 6,7, and 8
by Katrocket from Rocketradio
I am beginning to realize that if we don't start jamming up these 12 Ads of Christmas, well, we're not going to finish this stupid series. I solemnly promise to never again commit to a task I'm required to repeat at least a dozen times. I will admit it was an ambitious and arrogant dream for a blogger with such a brief attention span.
So, for the sixth, seventh, and eighth ads of Christmas, FTA brings to you:
Day 6 - Mac Vs. PC: Animated for the Holidays
John Hodgeman and Justin Long are back - in animated form - with a new series of ads for Apple. I'm not sure if this was a clever way to let these increasingly busy actors literally phone in their performances, or some kind of tribute to the Rankin/Bass holiday specials of the 60s and 70s, but I can tolerate this ad for one reason only: the bunny gets it.
More ads from this 2008 holiday series:
Mac Vs. PC singing with Santa
Mac Vs. PC trimming the tree
Day 7 - Fun With Female Insecurities
The cocktail party season pumps billions of dollars into the cosmetics and fashion industries, and because it's not enough that we blow our budgets on shopping, travel, and home entertaining - we go into debt so we can look really pretty doing all these things. Sorry gentlemen, but we don't do it just for you. The holidays are happier when those bitches at the office are wicked jealous of awesome you look. This 2007 holiday ad for Boots (a pharmacy chain in the UK and Canada) pretty much sums it up:
Day 8 - The Empty Promise of Peace on Earth
You know what, people? World peace is never going to happen, so I wish you'd stop harshin' my eggnog buzz with all this crap about sharing and caring. The last time I believed in that stuff was at age 10, performing "I'd Like to Teach The World To Sing" with the school choir. That was the year I began my tutelage in the fine art of profane comedy, when Gordie Grant taught me it's way more hilarious to sing "...and furniSHIT! with love..." instead of that awkward pause our teacher demanded. This classic Coca Cola ad from 1984 is a holiday redux of the famous Buy The World a Coke ad from 1971.
I am beginning to realize that if we don't start jamming up these 12 Ads of Christmas, well, we're not going to finish this stupid series. I solemnly promise to never again commit to a task I'm required to repeat at least a dozen times. I will admit it was an ambitious and arrogant dream for a blogger with such a brief attention span.
So, for the sixth, seventh, and eighth ads of Christmas, FTA brings to you:
Day 6 - Mac Vs. PC: Animated for the Holidays
John Hodgeman and Justin Long are back - in animated form - with a new series of ads for Apple. I'm not sure if this was a clever way to let these increasingly busy actors literally phone in their performances, or some kind of tribute to the Rankin/Bass holiday specials of the 60s and 70s, but I can tolerate this ad for one reason only: the bunny gets it.
More ads from this 2008 holiday series:
Mac Vs. PC singing with Santa
Mac Vs. PC trimming the tree
Day 7 - Fun With Female Insecurities
The cocktail party season pumps billions of dollars into the cosmetics and fashion industries, and because it's not enough that we blow our budgets on shopping, travel, and home entertaining - we go into debt so we can look really pretty doing all these things. Sorry gentlemen, but we don't do it just for you. The holidays are happier when those bitches at the office are wicked jealous of awesome you look. This 2007 holiday ad for Boots (a pharmacy chain in the UK and Canada) pretty much sums it up:
Day 8 - The Empty Promise of Peace on Earth
You know what, people? World peace is never going to happen, so I wish you'd stop harshin' my eggnog buzz with all this crap about sharing and caring. The last time I believed in that stuff was at age 10, performing "I'd Like to Teach The World To Sing" with the school choir. That was the year I began my tutelage in the fine art of profane comedy, when Gordie Grant taught me it's way more hilarious to sing "...and furniSHIT! with love..." instead of that awkward pause our teacher demanded. This classic Coca Cola ad from 1984 is a holiday redux of the famous Buy The World a Coke ad from 1971.
Friday, December 12, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas # 5 - Holiday Spirit Overload
by The Guv'ner from Psycho Secretary
On the fifth day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Holiday Spirit Overload
You know what commercials would currently be chafing my balls, if I had balls? Those moronic Best Buy stupid-assed Christmas gift ads.
There are a whole series of them and each one is more annoying than the previous one. In fact, every "customer" (or as I like to call them "butt steaming ass bandits") who does their little over-excited, not at all cute piece for the Best Buy salesman, deserves my size 8, steel-toe capped boot planted right in their squishy bits with demonic fervor, for making me incensed with The Hate.
I mean watch these commercials and tell me you don't want those people skewered with a goddamn sling blade (some people call it a Kaiser blade, I call it a sling blade, mmm hmmm).
And people wonder why I grind my teeth.
On the fifth day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Holiday Spirit Overload
You know what commercials would currently be chafing my balls, if I had balls? Those moronic Best Buy stupid-assed Christmas gift ads.
There are a whole series of them and each one is more annoying than the previous one. In fact, every "customer" (or as I like to call them "butt steaming ass bandits") who does their little over-excited, not at all cute piece for the Best Buy salesman, deserves my size 8, steel-toe capped boot planted right in their squishy bits with demonic fervor, for making me incensed with The Hate.
I mean watch these commercials and tell me you don't want those people skewered with a goddamn sling blade (some people call it a Kaiser blade, I call it a sling blade, mmm hmmm).
And people wonder why I grind my teeth.
Monday, December 8, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas #4 - Every Gold Digger Needs a Tagline
By BeckEye from The Pop Eye*
I love Christmas. I do. Generally, I can easily wade through the sea of commercialization and "gimme gimme gimme" attitudes and enjoy the holiday for what it really means. However, there are a few things that really irk me. For now, I'll focus on one: the deluge of Kay Jewelers commercials. You've all seen these ads, and you all know the cutesy little jingle that accompanies each one..."every kiss begins with Kay."
Maybe it's slightly irrational and, yes, there is so much more going on in the world to be pissed off about, but these commercials make me so angry. Excuse me while I get up on my soap, er, ring box for a moment.
Men: Every kiss does not begin with Kay. At least it shouldn't. If you only get kisses from your woman when you give her expensive gifts, you could be married to or dating an actual prostitute. It might be time to rethink your relationship.
Women: Jewelry does not equal love. If your husband/boyfriend is showering you with assloads of jewelry, he's probably either cheating on you or cheating with you. If that's not the case, your man may feel like wasting all his money on sparkly trinkets is the only way to get your attention. If you're putting that kind of price tag on your affections, you could be an actual prostitute. It might be time to rethink your priorities.
Of course, Kay isn't the only offender here in the "love for sale" commercial genre, but their stupid catchphrase bothers me the most. I suppose if they were being honest, the slogan would be, "Every Kiss Begins with Kold Hard Kash." I hear that DeBeers' tagline, "A Diamond is Forever" was actually shortened from "A Diamond is Forever, But Your Relationship is Not," and Jared's was originally "Sure, Sometimes He Beats Me, But...But He Went to Jared!"
*If this post feels at all familiar, then you have loved me for a looooong time, because it's a slightly modified 2006 rerun from my blog.
I love Christmas. I do. Generally, I can easily wade through the sea of commercialization and "gimme gimme gimme" attitudes and enjoy the holiday for what it really means. However, there are a few things that really irk me. For now, I'll focus on one: the deluge of Kay Jewelers commercials. You've all seen these ads, and you all know the cutesy little jingle that accompanies each one..."every kiss begins with Kay."Maybe it's slightly irrational and, yes, there is so much more going on in the world to be pissed off about, but these commercials make me so angry. Excuse me while I get up on my soap, er, ring box for a moment.
Men: Every kiss does not begin with Kay. At least it shouldn't. If you only get kisses from your woman when you give her expensive gifts, you could be married to or dating an actual prostitute. It might be time to rethink your relationship.
Women: Jewelry does not equal love. If your husband/boyfriend is showering you with assloads of jewelry, he's probably either cheating on you or cheating with you. If that's not the case, your man may feel like wasting all his money on sparkly trinkets is the only way to get your attention. If you're putting that kind of price tag on your affections, you could be an actual prostitute. It might be time to rethink your priorities.
Of course, Kay isn't the only offender here in the "love for sale" commercial genre, but their stupid catchphrase bothers me the most. I suppose if they were being honest, the slogan would be, "Every Kiss Begins with Kold Hard Kash." I hear that DeBeers' tagline, "A Diamond is Forever" was actually shortened from "A Diamond is Forever, But Your Relationship is Not," and Jared's was originally "Sure, Sometimes He Beats Me, But...But He Went to Jared!"
*If this post feels at all familiar, then you have loved me for a looooong time, because it's a slightly modified 2006 rerun from my blog.
Friday, December 5, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas # 3 - Sweet Box Shakin'
by Katrocket from Rocketradio
On the third day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Sweet Box Shakin'!
Okay, after a couple rounds of lingerie supermodels and dog ball-lickin', here's something just for the ladies! And also for my houseboy, Reynaldo.
This Joe Boxer/K-Mart was out a few years ago, but it's still one of my favourite holiday ads of all time. I can watch this all day and never tire of it (as long as I'm allowed a couple of diddle breaks.)
Every year I ask for Dick in a Box, but I always end up with movie passes and scented candles. Fuckers.
On the third day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Sweet Box Shakin'!
Okay, after a couple rounds of lingerie supermodels and dog ball-lickin', here's something just for the ladies! And also for my houseboy, Reynaldo.
This Joe Boxer/K-Mart was out a few years ago, but it's still one of my favourite holiday ads of all time. I can watch this all day and never tire of it (as long as I'm allowed a couple of diddle breaks.)
Every year I ask for Dick in a Box, but I always end up with movie passes and scented candles. Fuckers.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas #2 - Mistletoe Magic
by Katrocket from Rocketradio
On the second day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Mistletoe Magic
Day 2 is dedicated to Gwen at Everything I Like Causes Cancer, for her inspiring work on mistletoe.
TBWA Vancouver is a brilliant and highly creative ad agency that deserves your love and respect for making a fucking awesome Christmas commercial like this:
Stay tuned during December for more festive ad rants and raves, and please tell us about your most loved and hated Christmas commercials. Just leave a comment, or suggest a clip to firethatagency@gmail.com - we'll feature your choices for best and worst holiday ads later in the month. If you'd like to contribute your own article, just e-mail us!
On the second day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: Mistletoe Magic
Day 2 is dedicated to Gwen at Everything I Like Causes Cancer, for her inspiring work on mistletoe.
TBWA Vancouver is a brilliant and highly creative ad agency that deserves your love and respect for making a fucking awesome Christmas commercial like this:
Stay tuned during December for more festive ad rants and raves, and please tell us about your most loved and hated Christmas commercials. Just leave a comment, or suggest a clip to firethatagency@gmail.com - we'll feature your choices for best and worst holiday ads later in the month. If you'd like to contribute your own article, just e-mail us!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The 12 Ads of Christmas #1 - Reality Check
by Katrocket from Rocketradio
Only 23 more shopping days until Christmas, and we're waist-deep in holiday commercials, arguably the worst kind of commercial an agency will ever be asked to make. Competition is fierce, and companies are desperate for your hot cash injection (especially during a recession). They will stop at nothing to persuade you to buy things you can't afford, so the Baby Jesus can guilt you into giving those things away to other people.
My goal for FTA this month is to write twelve posts about Christmas ads, but given my fear of commitment, holidays, and the Partridges, this idea is likely ill-conceived.
On the first day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: A Reality Check
Sometimes men believe that the awesomest gift they can buy for their special lady is lingerie, since it should logically lead them to a hidden prize showcase in the bedroom. Not so.
This agency should be fired for convincing men that women want this:
And this agency should be highly commended for revealing the truth:
Only 23 more shopping days until Christmas, and we're waist-deep in holiday commercials, arguably the worst kind of commercial an agency will ever be asked to make. Competition is fierce, and companies are desperate for your hot cash injection (especially during a recession). They will stop at nothing to persuade you to buy things you can't afford, so the Baby Jesus can guilt you into giving those things away to other people.
My goal for FTA this month is to write twelve posts about Christmas ads, but given my fear of commitment, holidays, and the Partridges, this idea is likely ill-conceived.
On the first day of Christmas, FTA gives to you: A Reality Check
Sometimes men believe that the awesomest gift they can buy for their special lady is lingerie, since it should logically lead them to a hidden prize showcase in the bedroom. Not so.
This agency should be fired for convincing men that women want this:
And this agency should be highly commended for revealing the truth:
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