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Old Navy: Be a Mannequin
Old Navy has been using mannequins as their spokespeople for a while now. They even created relationships, personalities and backstories for them. It’s all a bit weird and I’ve been trying to figure...
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Weight Watchers: To Love Yourself
This is a recent commercial for Weight Watchers featuring Jennifer Hudson (a singer/actress). I actually really didn’t mind this commercial this much until she said that having lost weight “makes me...
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Vintage Friday: Libbyland Dinners
These are two commercials from the 1970s for Libbyland dinners (TV dinners for kids). I think it’s cute that they sort of tell a very short story in each commercial featuring recurring characters. I...
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New Mexico: Where’s the Video?
This is a travel commercial for New Mexico focusing on the construction of “Spaceport America”, the first commercial spaceport. I really have to wonder about this commercial. It’s an official...
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Toyota Prius: Nature People
This is a recent ad for the Toyota Prius. So this is one of those commercials that I had to watch a couple of times before I really had any idea what to say about it. I’m beginning to feel like car...
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Microsoft Kin: Justifying Online Stalking
This is an ad for the Microsoft Kin, a smartphone aimed at young customers. This ad really bothers me. While the social experiment element of the whole thing is an interesting idea in theory, the...
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L’Oreal Colour Riche Anti-Aging Lipstick: My Face Looks Younger!
This is a commercial for L’Oreal’s Colour Riche Anti-Aging Lipstick. She really does claim that her whole face looks younger because of a lipstick. Seriously? Is this magic lipstick? Because I’m...
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Vintage Friday: Oil of Olay
This is an ad from 1979 for Oil of Olay facial cream. Well, at least we know from this commercial that looking young and products that make impossible and fuzzy promises about helping you do so has...
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Friskies: Giving Cats Hallucinations
This is a current commercial for Friskies cat food. My husband and I saw it while watching a television show on Hulu and were both so baffled by it that we had to pause the show and go find the ad on...
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Southlake, TX: Dachshund Racing and Barnes and Noble
Today I have a commercial advertising the attractions of the city of Southlake, TX that I believe was made for the city’s marketing website. Do you know what I took away from this video? That this...
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