It was a magical time before CGI stormtroopers and Red Bull

How can the Gap ever be cool again if they aren’t producing commercials like this anymore? What kids today need to see is Madonna and Missy Elliot bumping butts in order for them to think your clothing chain is ‘the bee’s knees’.

This spot has a mingling of clichéd tactics: the forced friendly co-mingling of two stars with very different fan bases, a catchy but annoying song reworked to be even more annoying, and so much dancing. It’s hard to believe the Gap was ever the king of television advertising. This spot is from earlier this decade, but looks like it was made in the 1980′s.

All this computer hacking has made me thirsty

This ad for video game design training at Collins College used to make its rounds on the G4 network. The differences portrayed in the ad versus the realities of game design are so sharply different it should warrant a ‘complete dramatization’ title.

First of all, you program video games with a video game controller? No, that would be stupid. If it were that easy why would you have to pay to go to college to learn how to do it. Instead of sitting next to your BFF in armchairs playing with your joysticks, you’re probably in an office hip deep in code trying to track down a memory leak.

The commercial also seems to suggest there’s no AI for the movement of bad guys in video games, and events and sound effects are laid out like a movie. “Ok should this guy move left or right now? And then what sound effect plays as this is happening, for this one unique instance?” Maybe this might make some kind of sense if they were designing the video for a cut scene, but they clearly aren’t since one of the guys refers to the level of the game they are ‘programming’.

(Oh there is more…)

I can’t bear to see Jack Nicholson like this

This awful commercial comes to us today via the Consumerist, featuring a young Linda Soundtrak who no doubt looks like Moses’ mum present day.

These three commercials are from 1986, and have all the production values of an Electric Company skit. Watch for Linda staring towards the camera / director for her cue to sit back up in bed.

No wait, THIS is that I am going as for Halloween

We found this Indian PSA / music video for condom use via bestweekever.tv. They claim it’s the funniest thing you’ll see all day, but at 6 minutes long it gets somewhat tedious, and you’ll probably want to turn it off before they start demonstrating how to put on a condom.

It is so ridiculous one has to wonder if the whole thing isn’t a joke. Also from reading the subtitles it’s apparent many more words rhyme in Hindi than in English.

I am going as this for Halloween

EIC: is steven richards a wrestler man or something

toby8000: yes

EIC: i need to write some crap for this commercial
is he totally washed up or what
do you love him

toby8000: he’s so-so
kind of an eternal midcard guy

EIC: so like you dont really jerk to him
that’s what you do when you watch wrestling right
i do understand correctly

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