Does This Policy Cover Flux Capacitor Damage?

By Skylers Dad from Some days it's not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Updated: Because Beckeye is a demanding, albeit clever bitch, a post title has been added. Thanks Beckeye!

Some days you stumble across a video or commercial that is such a white-hot mess you don't know whether to laugh or poke both your eyes out with a spork.

This wonderful piece of marketing has it all:

Bad acting? Check
Bad Music? Check
Incredibly bad rip-off of a movie? Double Check!
Horrendous special effects? Let's just say that my son's middle school video class turned out a better product.

From the opening 5 seconds of dead air they just left in, cause you know, it costs a lot to do things twice, to the poorly disguised porn movie within the commercial (see 15 seconds, "Isn't there anything I can do?) it just keeps insulting your senses. The guy doing Christopher Lloyd's character of Dr. Emmitt Brown seems to think he is supposed to do him as Adam Sandler! But nothing is quite as bad as the arm pushing the toy dino through the shot.

Well done Insurance King, I am turning over the house and the car to you today!

The 12 Ads of Christmas #9 - That Special Holiday Lift

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.