Friday, September 30, 2011

This is really happening Fresno!

So if you're like me and live in the Fresno and Bakersfield broadcast areas you've been privileged to see this gem of an ad. Constantly. In-effing-cessantly. Ad nauseum...pun intended.Seriously, it's generally played at least twice every commercial break it's in. Even if I was interested in the product, that would just turn me the hell off.


First off, let me stress that's the second version of the ad. The initial ad said "The I-99, it's your time." That's great, I was wondering when our time was. The only problem is, the 99 isn't an Interstate; it's a US Highway. A minor difference, but when you're hyping that you're doing a big thing for an area, something like the major highway is something you may want to get right.

They've since edited the "I" out of the spot, which only makes me focus more on the other issues.

Issues like this guy...he is just WAY too excited about a Doritos taco shell
He's turned on by cheese-dust covered fingers. Sadly, not even in the top 100 of weird shit you'll find online. And somehow I get the impression he's doing a version of the old "cut a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket" trick. 


Anyway, I'll overlook all the lame jokes and bad puns; Lord knows I make enough of those myself (see first paragraph) but the one thing that just makes me shake my head is at the very end. He talks about the taco and confirms that no, this isn't a dream of another way to make your digestive tract loathe you even more, "This is Really Happening!"

That's right, this is really happening! A solution to all our problems. Unless you count crippling unemployment, high crime rateswater crisis in the farming community as our problems. But hey, Taco Bell in a Doritos shell! I mean, what else could you need.

Maybe a job so you could afford one I guess...

Monday, September 19, 2011

I can't stop watching this commercial...damn Kia hamsters

Last year, also-ran automaker Kia came out with a new car, the Soul, and a new commercial showing head bobbing hamsters driving the compact conveyance. Since then the hamsters have been rapping and now, dancing in the most addicting freaking ad I have seen.

Hamsters!


I honestly can't help myself, I can not stop watching this damn commercial. The annoying music drills into my brain and lays eggs or something like one of those zombie mold things.

It opens up like the beginning of some video game that, honestly, I would totally play. Some massive laser firing robots are doing battle with Master Chief clones in the remains of a great city somewhere that Hamsters have taken bipedal human form as if it were some sort of furry pet version of Planet of the Apes.

Wait....are they hamsters or guinea pigs? Not sure, but either way, Richard Gere loves this commercial too.

Anyway, just as one of the Master Chiefs (Masters Chief? ooh...grammar jokes) is about to meet its untimely death at the hands of the Super Death Robot thing, when the three hamsters roll up in their Kia Soul.

Hamsters!

The battle is immediately interrupted as the fighting factions are distracted by the rhythmic moves of the dancing Hamsters. Peace ensues, not to mention a space Marine/robot thing showing off some good moves.

                                                       Coming in 2012: Street Dance 2115

Seriously though, I haven't seen a robot fighter thing move his pelvis like that since I was killed by some 12 year old punk playing Halo online and he teabagged my dead character. I then promptly canceled my Xbox Live account. Effing kids...



                                                                    Hamsters, dammit!

So the sci-fi fighting force dance on as the hamsters drive out of town. Do they keep dancing in the pets' absence, or does the fighting resume. Who knows for sure, but the skies did seem a bit brighter as they left. Maybe we can learn something from these rhythmic rodents ...maybe we don't have to fight, but can solve our problems by getting down to catchy music performed by douche bags. All I know is, I feel better after watching the commercial. 


                                                            Did I mention the hamsters?