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KFC is a bit generous with who gets to play their founder. There’s also an outdated cyborg looking for work. So, RoboCop playing Colonel Sanders makes perfect sense.
Reprogrammed with one prime directive, Robo-Colonel has been tasked with protecting KFC’s secret recipe. He even sports the trademark goatee and string bow tie.
Dead or alive, your chicken is coming with me…
The only thing that goes better with eggs than bacon, is even more bacon. So, it makes perfect sense that actor/musician Kevin Bacon is back to peddle for the American Egg Board. Only this time, he’s accompanied by his brother, Michael Bacon.
Watch as the Bacon Brothers show up unexpectedly in people’s homes, and croon a delightful egg jingle. E-G-G-S, E-G-G-S… everybody sing!
[link, via First We Feast]
It’s 1964 and Kellogg’s needs to sell some crisped-rice cereal. So, who better to handle the jingle duties, than the greatest rock band ever?
The Rolling Stones rocked out in this spot for Rice Krispies. Written by late member of the band, Brian Jones, the commercial only ran in England.
[link, via BoingBoing]
In what could be his finest role to date, besides that coke-fiend he played in The Social Network, Justin Timberlake stars as a giant lime… You heard me.
In the three-minute spot for Sauza 901 Tequila, Timberlake portrays Rick “Sour” Vane, an anthropomorphic lime that was living large when he was needed to make inferior tequilas tolerable.
Now, with a high-end tequila such as Sauza 901, limes are as useful as one of those paper umbrellas in your drink.. although not nearly as festive. Watch this, if you’d like to see the downfall of a once-great citrus…
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Nothing says “Murica!” quite like freedom, over-the-top advertising, and your right to eat whatever the hell you want at a reasonable price.
This 1991 Sizzler commercial has all of these things, therefore, it is the most American thing to ever America. Overly-sentimental advertising with cringe-inducing voice-over… check. Hordes of hungry Americans huddled around an all-you-can-eat buffet… done and done.
But the greatest part, besides trying to imagine the original pitch meeting for this ad, is how this four-minute spot perfectly sums up an early 90s America. It was a country still recovering from the 80s — shown in the questionable fashion sense, a soundtrack for the tone-deaf, and heavy emphasis on value after the decade of excess. And, the steaks… Oh my, those steaks.
Please watch this…
[via Laughing Squid]