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. |