I am classy like this but more in the style of Eazy-E

I’ve holed myself up in the office today trying to finish some layouts for a book I’m working on, so it would take something very special to pull me away from a deadline. This two-minute extravaganza for the Flea Market of Montgomery is exactly special enough to do this. (Thank you brad for bringing this to my attention).

I have a very specific standard for posting very local commercials. On the whole they all tend to look “bad” by national standards, and it’s really just a lack of technical expertise available at the level the commercials are being made. If that was the only standard I picked commercials by the site would just be full of local spots. Also, I don’t want to embarrass any local producers or business people who were genuinely trying to make a funny / good commercial and it’s just not up-to-snuff by national or regional standards. I try to pick spots that are meant to be corny or hilarious, or are just so ridiculous me pointing them out isn’t breaking any news (or hurting any feelings that aren’t already trampled all over).

Words really can’t substitute watching this spot. If you are at work and can’t see the spot right now, it’s a two minute rap pitching the fact that the Montgomery Flea Market is much like a mini mall.

It’s hilarious, but at the same time strangely effective. I am reminded of the simplistic beauty of other local spots such as this one by Hampstead Mulch (North Carolina) or the spots for the (sadly) defunct Red Devil Games of Red Bank, New Jersey. With this spot, it’s bad but endearingly so. I’m sure the business has many comments from customers every day that they have seen the commercial. It’s advertising that gets into your brain, and a quirk of marketing that only seems to be produced at, and effective on, the local level.