Here’s an ad that’s been airing on Jeopardy for the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Quinto game. Listen, somebody get Gus on the phone. We have to put a stop to this. This has simply gone too far.
I had heard a while back about ads funded by readers of some liberal blogs running against Democratic Rep. Chris Carney of Pennsylvania. I didn’t know until today how awesome they were. Ha ha, Monopoly photoshops and scary voiceovers about Bush and Cheney. I think I can safely say any increased influence of the Internet on politics is going to be great.
If you’ve watched sports in Philadelphia for any amount of time, you might be familiar with the BMW ads from a dealership called West German. In short: They make buying a BMW from the dealership akin to achieving Nirvana.
We finally caught the famed/hated remix with the Flyers’ Mike Richards remix the other night, and… I must say, this is simply the most convincing testimonial ever. Now switch to Camera 2 one more time.
Hey, it’s almost May, and we haven’t had a drummed-up pointless controversy in a while. Hmm, hmm… ahh, here we go: It seems some transit agencies took down ads for Grand Theft Auto IV, already hailed as the greatest video game of all time. (I can’t believe I don’t have a system to play it on. I feel like crying.)
Septa officials would not be interviewed, but they issued a statement saying while some might consider the game offensive, “the advertisement is not.” The ad campaign is slated to run for six weeks, with 350 posters on buses and other locations, generating $83,000 in revenue for Septa.
Septa last year was criticized for accepting ads for the movie “Hitman,” ads featuring images of guns. The “Grand Theft Auto IV” ads show only the faces of three characters in the game and “Grand Theft Auto” logo.
Six weeks? Puh-leeze. SEPTA had an advertisement at Bridge Street for How Stella Got Her Groove Back (released in 1998) well into this decade. As a friend (okay, Chrissmari said to me online: “It’s supposed to last 6 weeks but it’ll be up for ages along with posters for Big Momma’s House and last year’s Jewish Career Fair.” Exactly.
On the other hand, there was a noticeable drop in gun violence last year after SEPTA took down its ads for Hitman. Okay, maybe not.
Here’s an ad I spotted this morning, apparently designed to appeal to those who are having their houses foreclosed on any minute now. But the real prize is the intro, where a man runs to the top of the Art Museum steps and (to celebrate his accomplishment, or his foreclosed home, or something) he does the “Apache” dance and then pantomimes sex. Honestly, at first I thought this was going to be an ad for Hillary Cinton.
Here’s Larry Farnese’s new ad. The intro to the ad is pretty uneventful, but I really, really love the music direction in this ad. It should win some sort of award. As soon as it switches from Farnese to criticism of Johnny Doc, the music gets very dark and mysterious. Ooooh, scary! Do I vote for upbeat music or scary death march? Oh, it’s just too hard.
Hillary Clinton just released her new Pennsylvania ad like 10 seconds ago; it’s a remake of her 3 a.m. ad, which asked what presidential candidate you’d want answering the phone during a crisis at 3 a.m.
It apparently worked so well Clinton is now re-running the ad in Pennsylvania, only this time it’s a 3 a.m. phone call about the economy! It’s pretty much a complete parody of the original ad — only it’s actually funny, a first in Internet parody video history. Oh, yeah, and she’s serious about answering that 3 a.m. economic crisis phone call. WHO FORGOT TO LOCK THE STOCK MARKET???
Oh, and Barack Obama got into a fight with an “eBay guy” today in Philly. If I want a candidate to tell off somebody… hmm. It was Walnuts McCain in a cinch, I though, but Obama showed me something today. Keep it up, Barry!
