The last game you will ever play

This video goes from being a Halo retrospective piece to a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the franchise, and the video game industry itself.

In the not-too-distant future, the Halo franchise becomes so popular it is the only form of media produced in the world, and society eventually falls apart as no corpse is left un-humped.

My favorite part of the video is when the Nintendo branch of Microsoft Game Studios tries its hand at a cell-shaded sequel, which fails horribly (and no one will sit through the opening cut scene).

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It’s just like every fucking Thanksgiving

This one-minute spot for Bud Light I unfortunately don’t have any back story on. I would suspect it never aired, and is just used to promote the bud.tv link mentioned at the end of the spot.

This spot is pretty good, especially for the times where it’s not 100% clear what the swears actually are intended to be. The woman’s reaction to “that’s doesn’t count” might be the high point of the spot.

It’s really a shame the FCC is so uptight about this kind of thing, though I guess some of you out there have fucking kids to raise.

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A caveman MMORPG is in the works* *not really

Geico’s caveman campaign has started running TV spots for cavemanscrib.com, an extension of their cavemen characters into the Internet world.

If you haven’t visited in a while, they’ve added a lot of new material (when the site loads you select ’snooze and rejouve’ for the newer interactive content). What impressed me most was the plethora of movies hidden throughout the apartment, all of which I’ve linked directly to from this page, thanks to their Youtube clone, cmoviesonline.com. This is a fictional site that just takes you back to the crib, similar to the fake dating site, iheartcavemen.com (which you can see a fake commercial for on the DVR in the apartment.

The updating of content on this site really will help to make it successful, many sites like this fall by the wayside because they fail to do this kind of updating in any meaningful form.

If you look hard enough on the site, you can find a bonus piece of trivia: the artwork used to decorate the apartment was by Roger Seigmund.

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This is NOT funky fresh as advertised

Take a look at this minute-long rapfest for TurboTax, starring a double-washed-up Vanilla Ice. Without knowing the background of this video, I can only speculate it is an attempt at viral marketing gone wrong. The low production values and “impromptu” rapping are bad, but not so hilariously bad it would be popular in any respect.

For a lesson in how to roast a white rapper while keeping a sense of humor about it, watch this Super Bowl ad for Nationwide, featuring an up-and-coming icon of washed-upedness, Kevin Federline.

If this video of Vanilla Ice isn’t supposed to be bad on purpose, it’s bad and tedious on accident. I don’t know which is worse. Wait, yes I do. The second one. That is what is worse.

Update: Duh, I found this on YouTube but didn’t link to the channel. There it is. There is the link. END TRANSMISSION

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It was the weirdest episode of Reading Rainbow

This two minute mock video for the Axe ESP campaign is a good follow-up to our previous post about body spray commercials, and is one of my favorite things in the world: a parody of an awful commercial.

The video mocks home-shopping TV commercials and pokes some fun at its own campaign.

Explore their web site (danger: audio, maybe NSFW), and watch the actual video commercials that go along with this campaign.

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