Showing posts with label TV commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV commercials. Show all posts
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Turning Japanese (for a paycheck): Celebs in '80s TV commercials

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For almost four decades now, the Japanese have been luring American and European celebrities to do their ads with big paychecks and the prom...
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Friday, July 3, 2009

Ivan the Terrible, commercial pitchman

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On the subject of despotism I introduced below, I offer up some UK gentleman’s uploads of a series of TV ads intended to sing the praises of...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

The grooviest cola im Deustchland

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I've referred to the Sixties as "the gift that keeps on giving" in the past few weeks on the show, and truly it is so. Just sa...
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Friday, July 27, 2007

Ingmar Bergman sells soap

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I haven't done many tributes on the Funhouse TV program to this Old Master, but I do love his work. It may have become fashionable to ba...
Monday, July 16, 2007

Music in odd places

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No greater joy than finding music clips I never knew existed. Here are two that fit the bill. A Tom Waits cartoon, in the Ralph Bakshi rotos...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Zappa scores a TV commercial (1967) with some rather strange noises

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It's a rough pass at Lumpy Gravy here in a 1967 Ludens commercial, animated by Ed Seeman. Ah yes, a commercial that can fuck with your ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

One of my favorite commercials, EVER (psychedelia from the old blog)

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See the light, man! I have literally hours and hours of vintage commercials on tape, but I decided that this little item should be the one I...