Greedo Never Fired

There’s this company called Marathon Oil Corporation and they’ve been running an ad like crazy. It’s standard stuff following in the foot steps of British Petroleum. Female employee says “I’m proud of what we are doing here in Garyville, LA... cleanest, safest, newest...” You know the drill. I understand softening the image of an oil corporation and have no comment on the tactic. But I brought up the ad for some damn reason right? Right. About seven seconds into the ad there is a note that seems a little out of place in the pretty little background melody. It’s sort of a low tone. What is so cool about this tone is how well it mimics the sound of a cell phone vibrating in a jacket pocket somewhere. Every time the commercial plays I look up and wonder where my phone is and why the ringer isn’t on. Then I realize “its that damn Marathon commercial again.” Nice Job Marathon/whomever made your ad. It is a total attention grabber. I wish I could play the ad for you folks here, b...

Tina Fey AmEx commercial Uploaded by nycspitters Did you ever see an ad on television and it just doesn't get its message across. Maybe I just watch too much TV... No, I definitely watch too much TV, but these problems in ads always catch my attention. Sometimes an important line is hard to understand or the message is lost in bad editing, but most times I see the ad again a few days later and its been repaired and I think “nice, they noticed it too.” Well, Amex’s new Tina Fey ad is chock full of these errors and yet it keeps running as is. I am amazed at how faulty this ad is and just had to run through the list of what needs to be fixed. “Change the bear to a shark.” This line is mumbled quickly and I doubt most are catching what it is on the first listen. “These are my divorce papers.” Beside the line being swallowed. The joke is that the papers were not handed to Tina, but she has grabbed them out of habit and comments on how funny they are, but the poor cut in which she ...

You know you did a good job parodying a genre when a song you wrote for an imaginary band which would eventually become an imaginary super band gets picked up for an actual American Express commercial. Gimme Some Money is a song by The Thamesmen , a band that never existed and went on to never actually be Spinal Tap . Sweet. Thamesmen performing Gimme Some Money on GoogleVideo