Archive for the ‘animals’ category
September 16, 2013
– – The Kia hamsters combined cool, cute, and cuddly in their previous commercials, but they were always a bit, well, rotund. So with a redesign of the endorsed product, it was time to pack the rascally rodents off to the gym and the salon for some serious body sculpting and a fashion makeover. We are shown the boys working out in a variety of ways, including treadmills, exercise bikes, and swimming pools. We see them all in a row under driers at the salon, and when they appear in formal attire and shades at a red carpet Broadway-type opening, the transformation is indeed striking; these guys are sleek, stylish, sexy, and total babe-killers! There hasn’t been a physical transformation this dramatic since Rocky Balboa went from chump to champ.
Backed by Applause by none less than Lady Gaga, these hamsters have indeed arrived…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: "Totally Transformed" Kia hamsters
Comments: 5 Comments
September 11, 2013
Sears has given us a great gift in their commercial, Squirrel Revolt, about the best furry-themed ad that I’ve seen in months! The commercial begins with the fictitious Denskie couple entering their home, where Bob Denskie reveals to his better half that he’s trained those “pesky squirrels” to cut coupons! And so we are shown realistic CGI squirrels, about half a dozen sitting at tiny individual work tables and industriously using scissors. “I love your brain, Bob!,” says his adoring wife. “So do I!,” agrees Bob immodestly.
All is not well, however, in this workers’ paradise, for a moment later one squirrel throws his worktable over and screams:
“Enough! — Your tyranny ends now, you filthy humans!” With that, nuts are thrown, tiny fires are ignited, and the squirrel leader flings himself onto the face of his human oppressor! This is getting good! Bob screams at his wife to get the squirrel off his face, and she obliges by repeatedly whacking him in the head with a golf club! –Ooh, that’s gotta hurt! The Day of the Squirrel is at hand…and it does not bode well for the Denskies.
I, for one, wish to avoid the great and terrible wrath of the squirrel, so I don’t put them to hard labor in sweat shops, but rather feed them peanuts in parks. Perhaps they will remember this small kindness, and spare me in the coming tribulation…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Sears squirrel revolt, squirrels cutting coupons
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September 9, 2013
— Love them or hate them, cats have been a powerful presence in advertising, and since at least the 20th century, they’ve also been associated with music, especially jazz. They’re part of the language; consider idiomatic references like hep cat, swing cat, cool cat, and the list goes on. Perhaps it’s because cats are independent and tend to choose their own focus that they’ve come to be associated with music forms that are cutting edge and a bit outside of the mainstream, at least at their inception and at one particular point in time.
It’s perhaps only natural then that cats should update and transition into studio and technology based forms of musical expression, functioning as disc jockeys and engineering today’s sound in a Fresh Step kitty litter commercial…
Categories: animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, cool things, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: cats, cats and music, Fresh Step
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August 24, 2013
– – Skunks often get the short end of the stick because of their stink, but Pepe Le Pew is one of the few cartoon characters fighting for skunk liberation, to say nothing of the male libido…
…a second tier yet memorable Warner Bros. character, Pepe was a stereotypic Frenchman in the same manner that Speedy Gonzalez was a stereotypic Mexican. Pepe would perpetually stroll about Paris in the spring, foisting his totally unwelcome romantic attentions upon an unfortunate black feline, Penelope Pussycat, whom Pepe would always mistake to be a female skunk. Penelope’s resemblance to a skunk was often generated by some plot device such as the cat crawling under a freshly painted white fence, and emerging with a white stripe down her back; Pepe was readily deceived, perhaps because of his own eagerness. Much of the ensuing cartoon antics would then center about Pepe’s persistent pursuit of the misperceived female, and her frantic efforts to escape his amorous intentions.
Little would deter or dissuade the amorous French skunk, even acts of physical violence against himself by the cat, which Pepe interpreted as playing “hard to get.” Pepe’s self-assurance and rock-solid sexual confidence always propelled him forward, with reality seldom intruding on his belief systems; he was a soft-core sexual predator unaware of his own repugnancy for whom the pursuit was everything. The Pepe Le Pew cartoons traded in absurdity, and perhaps resonated within any person who had ever experienced an irrational and hopeless love attraction or been the recipient of unwanted romantic advances…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, cartoons, famous furries, furry
Tags: Pepe Le Pew, toon skunks
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August 18, 2013
— New species are discovered every year, although many of them are insects. Now insects don’t quite do it for me, and I tend to become far more excited about the discovery of a higher animal, especially a mammal, since I happen to be one myself! What’s been identified is the olinguito, which resembles a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face, and is almost unbelievably cute. The creature is indigenous to the rain forests of South America, and found in countries such as Ecuador and Columbia. Running about 14 inches long with an equally long tail and and rust-colored fur and weighing in at about two pounds, the olinguito escaped classification for so many years owing to its nocturnal and tree-dwelling habits, and the fact that it was confused with the olingo, a larger and distinctive sister species.
The National Zoo in Washington actually housed an olinguito for a year, mistaking it for an olingo and expecting it to breed with them, which it sensibly refused to do. The species has accordingly been hiding in plain sight for some time! Looking like a cross between a teddy bear and a house cat, this smallest member of the raccoon family certainly possesses the “awww” factor!
Categories: animals, discoveries, furry, new species, science
Tags: mammals, New species
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August 10, 2013
– – We can remember Chevy Chase’s classic SNL “land shark” routines, and it sounds like a plot for another outrageous Syfy channel movie, but this one’s real…a shark was found on a New York City subway car! I swear that I am not making this up…
Dead, unfortunately, and certainly a fish out of water tale (–yeah, I know it’s technically not a true fish), it seems that a small shark washed up at Brooklyn’s Coney Island. — Well, a few kids picked up the deceased shark, and had their pictures taken with it, kids loving scary and gross things. The corpus delicti then wound up beside a roller coaster, where a 31-year-old man decided to take it home with him…the perfect gift for every occasion, and all. Then the gentleman thoughtfully decided to leave the shark on the subway for his fellow New Yorkers to enjoy. This the denizens of the City that Never Sleeps did, taking pictures of the late shark and with it, some even propping cigarettes in its mouth and a MetroCard by its side. New York is truly a tough city, you see, known for taking things in stride. A shark to a New Yorker would be a minor inconvenience.
At least the shark got a good send-off, going for a great ride on the N train at the end…and it all suitably transpired during the beloved Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! I love happy endings…
Categories: animals, aquatic, scalies, strange, strange happenings
Tags: shark on subway, shark out of water
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August 5, 2013
– – It’s kind of a “night of the living dead venison” commercial; a guy is shown kicking back with three male friends in a comfy room, the mounted head of an antlered deer hanging on the wall. The doorbell rings, and the guy answers the door. There standing at the door is every hunter’s worst nightmare; the body of the slaughtered deer, minus its head! It gets creepier; you can see the headless torso breathing!
“Who is it?,” asks the head of the slaughtered deer from the wall; you can see its mouth move, and its eyes blink. The guy is too stunned to say anything, so the deer head repeats its question; “Seriously, who is it?” Again, the host is unable to answer, the headless body lingering in the doorway…end of commercial!
First airing in July of 2012, this is creepy yet wonderful stuff, imparting the message that Mike’s hard lemonade is different, and that as the host tells a friend of the lemonade, “sometimes you gotta change things up.” If every hunter was visited by an undead version of their slain prey, it might indeed make a world of difference…(Twilight Zone theme plays in the background)
Categories: animal rights, animals, anthropomorphic, bizarre, Brilliant but twisted, furry commercials, television
Tags: animal zombies, Mike's hard lemonade deer
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August 3, 2013
— Does it get much better than Wonder Woman versus the Cheetah? Not by much it doesn’t; I’d want to pull up a chair and watch this one!
There are relatively few female villains worthy of note, and fewer still of the furry persuasion; Cheetah fills the gap purr-fectly! As with most comic book superheroes and villains, Cheetah has gone through a number of re-imaginings, ranging from the rather ridiculous to the superbly menacing. I like my Cheetah anthropomorphic and ferociously feral, thank you! She’s evil yet alluring and seductive, more than enough to make a good boy turn bad. In the world of female furry felines, Catwoman remains the gold standard but Cheetah prowls not far behind, roaming closer to the jungle and lacking the breakout status Catwoman has achieved.
The Cheetah was originally portrayed as a woman in a costume, but over the years has come to be shown as far more than that. The character even had a heretical stint in a male incarnation! I like the character’s portrayal as Barbara Ann Minerva, kind of a cursed/blessed archaeologist who through supernatural intervention has transformational powers. Her status as an archenemy of Wonder Woman has at times been rooted in a desire to possess the Amazon’s golden “Lasso of Truth,” while at other times it’s more of a bruised ego thing. At any rate, it makes for memorable cat fights which are usually inconclusive or open-ended; you don’t really want to kill off a great villain or villainess as they are what makes for a better story and a more appealing protagonist.
At any rate, I’d secretly root for the Cheetah.- – Long may she vex Wonder Woman, and perhaps someday she’ll achieve the stand-alone and cult status that Catwoman enjoys. In one animated outing, the Cheetah did have a tryst of sorts with Batman, who saw that she although in league with villains lacked true criminal intent; she just needed money to further her scientific research, what with funding cuts and all. Many of us have felt that pinch, and I wouldn’t mind feeling hers…Rrowr!
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, comics, furry
Tags: Classic clashes, furry villainesses
Comments: 2 Comments
July 26, 2013
— In France and elsewhere, a soft drink is sold called Orangina. A memorable commercial was made for the product in 2010 which featured a CGI-generated anthropomorphic male cougar who liked the product so much that the big cat applied it to his face following shaving like lotion to soften his skin. As the viewer is wondering why a cougar shaves or why a soft drink has skin applications, a bare-chested human male enters the scene who approaches the cougar, and shares, shall we say, a tender moment with him…
…yes, cross-species same-sex attraction! — Ah. those French are such sly dogs, are they not…or perhaps I should say, cats? — Meow!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, strange, television
Tags: gay cat commercial, Orangina cat commercial
Comments: 2 Comments
July 19, 2013
– – Being eaten by an airborne shark can ruin your whole day! It’s not that the SyFy Channel hasn’t made and aired breath-taking bad movies before; it’s just that Sharknado is one of those rare hilariously bad movies that has taken on a life of its own, and taken Twitter by storm. For the time that Sharknado aired, there was the feeling that a global ephemeral community had formed, and that thousands, perhaps millions of bad movie connoisseurs were united in groaning and laughing over the premise and execution of this marvelously bad flick.
Originally airing on the SyFy Channel on July 11th and repeated on air July 18th, Sharknado was a kind of monster meets disaster movie production in which a freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes, which then flooded the city with shark-infested waters. There is something dark inside many of us that delights in seeing someone eaten by a shark, especially a throw-away character that deserves it. Unlike similar movies in which there’s only five or ten minutes of actual gory action, Sharknado didn’t skimp on the shock and sharks; there were sharks peppered throughout the film, on land, sea, and air! They consumed fleeing motorists, and even made their way into flooded houses. – – That’s gotta lower property values!
If you left your brains at the door, Sharknado was great fun! Sample dialogue: “We’re gonna fight. You can’t just stand around and wait for sharks to rain down on us.” Fight the protagonists did, with shotguns, baseball bats, and even chainsaws…they got up in helicopters, and used home-made propane bombs to neutralize tornadoes! You haven’t lived until you’ve seen someone use a chainsaw to rescue a woman after being consumed and inside the shark! Contracted by the SyFy Channel and directed for film studio The Asylum by Anthony C. Ferrante, Sharknado will have a sequel set in New York City, with fans suggesting titles on Twitter…
Categories: absurdities, animals, aquatic, Brilliant but twisted, television
Tags: Sharknado, SyFy Channel movies
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