Archive for the ‘furry commercials’ category
April 11, 2016
They’re quite diverse, yet they work as an office team…the CGI animals presented in a commercial for the messenger app “Slack,” that is. Headed by a lion boss called “Geoff” who observes a prawn employee (Alan) struggling with an umbrella, the idea of a flying umbrella is born, developed, and implemented by the surreal office team which includes a beaver, goat, rabbit, owl, and sloth. They all act in accordance with their respective species, with the sloth, for example, moving in slow motion. The commercial spot is surreal yet captivating, and it works as does the product.
Remarkably, a “bloopers reel” is also available for the commercial, showing such deleted scenes as the prawn falling from his chair, the goat beating her keyboard to pieces with their hooves, and the prawn doing a beatbox routine following his presentation. This is strange but wonderful stuff…
Categories: absurdities, animal elements, animals, Brilliant but twisted, furries, furry, furry commercials, television
Comments: 2 Comments
March 30, 2016
I love Chinese food, and so apparently do some alligators. Following lunch at a Chinese place with some human companions, it’s check time. “Whoa whoa whoa, I got this!,” declares the ‘gator as he makes a token effort to reach the check. Limited by his short arms, the reptile never gets there; “I can’t reach it,” he submits. “When you have short arms, you avoid picking up the check,” declares the announcer. “It’s what you do.” If you want to save up to 15% on car insurance, you switch to Geico…it’s what you do.
Conveniently, a male companion, Dennis, gathers up the check, and is thanked by the reptile. Not one to waste food, the ‘gator then gobbles down the remainder of the meal in one practiced gulp. “Oh, that is good crispy duck!,” he announces with gluttonous satisfaction. Waste not, want not, I suppose…
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, scalies, television
Tags: alligator arms, Geico alligator
Comments: 2 Comments
February 21, 2016
Some things nature never intended, and even the mad Dr. Moreau created by H.G. Wells would have shied away from. The PuppyMonkeyBaby created by Mountain Dew and first airing on Super Bowl 50 is one such thing…
…a CGI mishmash creation, the bizarre/disturbing/hilarious creature melds the head of a pug dog with the body and tail of a monkey and the lower extremities of a human infant. In the commercial, it enters with the advertised product, dances into the presence of three guys watching television, licks the face of one of them, and dances off again, all the while repeating its own name. This is to promote Mountain Dew’s Jumpstart, a mix of the drink, juice, and caffeine.
People tend to either love or hate PuppyMonkeyBaby, which may cross the line between cute and horrifying. Perhaps it could be worked into an episode of the X-Files or Mountain Monsters (they probably couldn’t catch it). In the current American presidential election year, the strange and the outrageous have become rather commonplace,however…
Categories: absurdities, anomalies, anthropomorphic, bizarre, fantasy, furry commercials, television
Tags: Mountain Dew ads, PuppyMonkeyBaby
Comments: 2 Comments
January 24, 2016
Owls have always had a popular following, representing as they do wisdom, knowledge, and learning. Their popularity may have been further bolstered by their use in the Harry Potter books and movies.
Recently an articulate and fine specimen has emerged as a spokesman for the America’s Best Eyeglasses line, suitably bespectacled and able to model different frames simply by an uncanny rotation of his head. The owl himself is both wise and extraordinarily expressive, with a lot of eye and other facial movement. He is further able to cast the hapless human into mimicking the usual owl role, reducing them to single-word utterances of “who?” as he elaborates on virtues of the eyewear company.
If Harry Potter had an owl of this caliber at his side, it might have been easier for him to take on Voldemort…
Categories: animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, avian, feathered friends, furry commercials, television
Tags: America's Best Eyeglasses, owls
Comments: 4 Comments
January 12, 2016
In another Farmers Insurance commercial, we are shown the revenge of the “proud bird with the golden tail,” the long-suffering and oft disrespected turkey. A “Meaty’s Butcher Shop” truck manned by a single hapless guy is making its way down the road when a turkey appears in its path, causing the driver to veer off the road and into a tree. The middle-aged gent then regards his passenger seat, where he be holds…a turkey! The driver screams at the turkey, who gobbles loudly at him…
…payback, they say, is hell. We then cut to an exterior shot of the disabled truck, with a mob of turkeys descending on it. There is strength in numbers, and the delivery truck rocks from side to side as the turkeys administer their own brand of justice to one of their oppressors. It’s reminiscent of a scene in the first Jurassic Park movie where a throng of diminutive dinosaurs overwhelm and dispense with an especially obnoxious character in his vehicle.
We then cut to a scene with the unflappable J.K. Simmons escorting a client through their extensive Hall of Claims, where we gaze with them upon a much-mangled apron, last worn by the ill-fated delivery driver. Farmers Insurance has seen just about everything, we are reminded, so they can insure against anything, including “Turkey Jerks…”
Categories: animals, anthropomorphic, feathered friends, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: animals of Farmers Insurance, turkey jerks
Comments: 6 Comments
January 3, 2016
Everyone knows that there are times when guys just need to be around the company of other guys so that they don’t have to worry about pleasing the does all of the time. Then instead of talking about “relationships” and “feelings,” we can just hang out, overeat, watch “guy” movies, and I dunno, maybe play some table tennis…
…and so it is that a recent Farmers Insurance commercial takes us to a genuine stag pool party, namely one attended by stags. They’re having a wild time of it, too, with loud music and commotion heard while the pool lights are off. When the floodlights come on, however, all of the stags are frozen in place, the old “deer in the headlights” thing. The lights off/lights on sequence repeats several times, but each time the lights come on, there are subtle changes in the scenario, primary among which is that there are more and more stags actually in the pool!
The Farmers Insurance spokesman (J.K. Simmons) explains in their Hall of Claims that since they’ve seen about everything, they can insure just about anything…including, apparently, an out-of-bounds party for some not-so-timid woodlands creatures. Party on, boys!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Farmers Insurance, stag pool party
Comments: 3 Comments
December 24, 2015
It’s Michael Jackson’s Thriller meets the British show Mongrels in a dark and bizarre commercial spot for Bosch’s Icon wiper blades sponsored by the Humane Society called, “Don’t Be A Roadkill Car.”
A quintet of road-slaughtered animals brings home the message that better wiper blades by facilitating your vision might have prevented their gruesome demise. Meet Frank the Squirrel, who peels his flattened and protesting self off the road surface to demonstrate a still impressive set of vocal chords. He is joined by Buck the Deer, Francesca Fox, Streetz the Skunk, and a tire-marked rabbit. I found Francesca especially compelling in how she could extend up her severed head in her own paws. They’ve all clearly seen much better days, but are doing their best undead service for Bosch blades and animal preservation. It’s a gutsy commercial, literally and figuratively…
The commercial/public service announcement pushes the envelope, and is likely to shock if not revolt some viewers; their performance and their singing will, however, likely stick in your head! As a year-round fan of Halloween and horror, these singing furry zombies with a message furnished me with a perfect antidote for the Xmas merchandising we’ve been relentlessly exposed to since October…I’d buy their album!
Categories: animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, bizarre, furry, furry commercials, furry horror, strange, television
Tags: Bosch roadkill
Comments: 2 Comments
November 8, 2015
The Honda commercial begins with a breathtaking, pristine mountain wilderness. Then we hear the narrating voice of a young male, and see who we think the speaker is, moving along briskly in a Honda off-road vehicle…
“At first I thought I was just seeing things,” the youth relates. “But no, it was out there. Something was definitely out there. Whatever it is, it was big…and at one point I swear, we got so close that I could smell it.”
The scene then changes to…surprise!…a family of Bigfoot individuals, two adults and a juvenile who has been our narrator all along. With hand gestures and facial expressions, the juvenile Bigfoot continues; “But then, poof! It was gone!”
“Right,” says Bigfoot Dad with obvious sarcastic skepticism. The Bigfoot parents clearly don’t believe in such nonsense any more than many humans believe in Bigfoot. – – What has junior been smoking?! It’s all a neat reversal, and these Bigfoot are not just grunting brutes. Turn-about, so they say, is fair play…
Categories: anthropomorphic, cryptozoology, furry commercials, television, unidentified
Tags: Bigfoot, It Exists
Comments: 2 Comments
October 31, 2015
Halloween is a wonderful time to let your inner furry self out, and a Redd’s Wicked Apple Halloween commercial shows us a werewolf with his date about to be served a Bloody Mary at the bartender’s recommended “perfect temperature of 98.6.” From above then falls a can of Wicked Apple Ale. Refusing the Bloody Mary, the werewolf seizes the gift from on high, and tells the bartender, “Nah dawg, I’m good!, ” walking away with the brew.
There’s some fine touches in this brief commercial, such as the mounted human head on the wall. “This party is dead,” declares the bartender, adding “I love it!” So do I, dawg…and a Happy Howloween to all of you!
Categories: anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: commercials, Redd's Wicked Apple
Comments: 5 Comments
October 18, 2015
It’s every motorist’s worst nightmare…an after-dark close encounter with a deer! As the driver successfully brakes to a full halt just short of a front end impact and rejoices in his luck at avoiding this close call, the buck cops an attitude, and lowers his impressive rack to deliberately scratch up the dude’s bumper. Yes, Bambi Bumps Bumper might be a subtitle…
…Uh oh! Better get Maaco (auto body repair, that is)! The out-takes on this commercial, viewable on Utube and elsewhere, are hilarious. In one, you can see the head of the human posed in front of the car bumper to manipulate the phony deer head and antlers that you see in the close-ups…
Categories: animals, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Maaco deer
Comments: 6 Comments
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