Thanks to time travel our nation has been destroyed but everyone gets a good deal on mattresses
| QuickTime link to the :30 commercial, which will pop in a new window. 2 MB. |
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| Captain Kirk travels back in time against the wishes of the Federation yet again |
This is a typical commercial for a locally owned and operated furniture business of some kind. What makes it so very magical is the bit of “special” effects on the very end with the narrator, and I’m assuming owner, edited into a famous scene from American history.
I’ve always wondered if these tacky pieces were thrown into otherwise normal commercials as part of an evil genius plan to create an advertisement that is so tacky the consumer of information at home cannot ignore it, or if it’s just the local owners putting their hands in an otherwise well-done production and making a poopy all over it. Until several scientific studies are done to determine the truth, we can only gaze in wonder at the superimposed green-screen head over the body of Thomas Jefferson. Or maybe John Adams. I know it’s not the body of Thomas Paine, he would never put up with that kind of shit.
| QuickTime link to the :30 commercial, which will pop in a new window. 2 MB. |
Comment // July 14th, 2005 // 2:20 pm
Please check out the fantastic Flash intro of the sitnsleep web site to put this entire spot into perspective.
Comment // June 8th, 2007 // 4:07 am
I hope that your furniture business will succeed..
Comment // July 6th, 2007 // 3:26 am
The worst thing about S(h)it’n'Sleep is their slogan: “We’ll beat anyone’s advertised price or your mattress is FREEEEEEE!” Yeah, like they’d ever just give them away instead of subtracting a few bucks off the list price to match their competitors. I’d like to see that happen.
That annoying guy in the ad (The store’s owner, natch) is a 3 AM fixture in the Los Angeles area. It makes me sad because he basically replaced the previous time slot king, Crazy Gideon’s. Now THOSE ads were bad/”good” perfection: “My prices is unbelievable because I’m craaa-zeee! You buy a DVD player from me… forrrrty-nine dollar! [Smashes head into said DVD player.] Ha ha! Call the police!”