Nabisco Embarasses Us All
| Quicktime link to the :15 spot, which will pop in a new window. |
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| Is this another Borat thing? |
After seeing this commercial, I sat in stunned silence for several moments. Then the phone rang. I picked it up without even looking at the caller ID. I knew who it was calling.
“Hello mister President. Yes sir, I was watching television. Yes sir, I saw it too. I’ll get right on it.”
About a month or two later I’ve finally gotten around to working on it. Here’s the spot, an intricately assembled 1/78th scale-model of an actual train wreck. So many horrible elements have been packed into only 15 seconds it’s hard to believe. There’s a washed-up actor cameo, foreign-culture costume designs, CGI-assisted dancing, and a vapid tagline that took someone less than the run time of the spot itself to come up with (”light on your feet”).
On the bright side you get to see the girl twirl so hard at the end her dress flies off.
| Quicktime link to the :15 spot, which will pop in a new window. |
Comment // December 21st, 2006 // 2:18 am
D’ya know what country old George is supposed to be from in this commercial? Looks Mediterranean…Greek, maybe?
Comment // December 21st, 2006 // 11:54 am
George clearly hails from Dorkistan.
I don’t know, Lola, my guess is that the outfit is Dutch, though the setting does look decidedly Mediterranean. Frankly I’m kind of shocked this commercial would let such an inconsistency fly, I hope I find out later that I’m wrong.
He’s wearing large “wooden” shoes.. or .. elf shoes? I think they are mocking the traditional ancient ritual of the Klompen dance invented by Holland’s chamber of commerce as a tourist trap in the early ninth century to bring more revenue to local hotels. The rest of the outfit does look like he killed a flamboyant Greek street performer with his own fairy wand and stole his clothing.
Comment // May 7th, 2007 // 1:25 pm
Nabisco/Kraft are idiots!!!!