Archive for the ‘furry commercials’ category
February 19, 2013
– – When an asteroid passes within a cosmic whisker of Earth and a meteorite smashes down in the former Soviet Union, one might not be totally surprised that small, plaque-mounted anthropomorphic fish are becoming more vocal than humans. In a variant of the McDonald’s Fish McBites commercial, we again visit with the young gentleman in the checked plaid shirt, this time in a beautiful, wood-paneled cabin.
Two young women enter the cabin through the door and see the young guy feeding his face. “Hey, what are those?,” asks one of the women, clearly no more of a Rhodes scholar than the guy. Fortunately, the fish themselves are well-able to answer her query, with one responding and then the group of mounted fish launching into a rhythmic cadence of “Fishy, fishy!- – Fish, fish McBites!- -McBites!” Soon all of the trio are munching away on the item, with the guy saying not a word during the whole commercial, even to the women…
…and I thought that fish were reputed to be “brain food!” 
Categories: absurdities, animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, aquatic, furry commercials, television
Tags: Fish McBites ad, Fish McBites Fish Plaque
Comments: 2 Comments
February 14, 2013
– – Something’s fishy here! A few years back in 2009, McDonald’s produced an irritatingly memorable singing fish commercial, with the fish modeled after the singing “Billy Bass” novelty item, an electronic mounted fish that sang and moved about on its mounting. It was the kind of thing that you got tired of after seeing about twice. The earlier McDonald’s fish commercial could haunt you. “Gimme back that Filet of Fish, give me that fish!,” sang the McDonald’s spokes-fish. It took me some time to get that commercial out of my head…(shudders!)
…and what could be more memorable than a singing fish on a plaque?- -How about fifteen minnow-sized fish on a plaque, all singing together to sell you McDonald’s Fish McBites, now available for only a dollar, and for a limited time only! “Fishy, fishy!,” they sing while a guy in a checked flannel shirt stands there with his mouth open holding a dollar…the fish, they’re back, and are multiplying!
Categories: absurdities, animal spokepersons, aquatic, furry commercials, scalies, television
Tags: Fish McBites Fish Plaque, singing fish
Comments: 2 Comments
February 11, 2013
– – If Skynet designed greyhounds, they would probably look something like these beauties; starkly striking robotic greyhound creatures who are racing for their lives in a Mad Max styled desert wasteland. Both a music video and a commercial, the video features the music of electronic dance trio Swedish House Mafia, who appropriately perform their track, Greyhound, while electronically transformed in the video to robotic dogs who chase a floating orb. Bizarrely costumed guests watch the greyhounds go through their paces while drinking Absolut cocktails served by a waiter in a mask with animal styling.
It’s kind of a desert masquerade ball that is surreal and futuristic, with stunning detailed visual imagery and intense electro-house music. Some have objected to the commercial, however, for its depiction of greyhound racing, an activity often described as animal cruelty…
Categories: animals, fantasy, furry, furry commercials, sci fi, television
Tags: Absolut greyhounds, robotic greyhounds
Comments: 2 Comments
February 7, 2013
– – Thanks to the Super Bowl commercial for Wheat Thins, we now know what the Big Foot secret agenda is; they want to steal into our kitchens under cover of darkness, and abscond with our snack crackers! The only defense against this tactic is to sit in the blackness ourselves with night vision goggles, and be prepared to grapple with them! It’s the manly and right thing to do…
“Who’s gonna take your Wheat Thins?,” asks the wife of the snack cracker vigilante as he hunkers down to guard his treasure. “I dunno,” responds the guy, “an intruder, the dog, Big Foot, Ted from next door,” he answers as the lights are put out on his request. Momentarily the lights are restored, and we behold the lone defender with his arms locked around a Yeti, who is flailing about! In the ensuing turmoil, dastardly Ted from next door darts in, and makes off with the Spicy Buffalo Wheat Thins! Ted is an opportunistic predator…
The commercial is appealingly cheesy as the “Yeti” is obviously someone in a costume rather than a computer-generated masterpiece, an example of where less can be more…
Categories: absurdities, cryptozoology, furry, furry commercials, humor, television
Tags: Big Foot snack snatcher, Wheat Thins yeti
Comments: 6 Comments
February 5, 2013
– – Goats tend to be slighted, and really don’t get the attention that they deserve. One crosses a goat at their own peril…or some might infer from the “Goat 4 Sale” commercial by Doritos featured on the Super Bowl.
Made by users and chosen by fans, the commercial features a goat named “Moose” who is depicted being picked up by a new owner at a yard sale. The owner-pet relationship appears to be a match made in heaven, as both the man and his new goat love Doritos, and the man appears to have a generous stock of the snack on hand. Alas, however, the man underestimated the passion of the goat for Doritos, and after the animal consumes hundreds of bags of the product (with loud, actual goat-chewing sounds), his owner attempts to cut him off and sell the goat. The goat screams a memorable, piercing scream, and then it’s pay-back time…beware the wrath of the goat! The raucous, boogie sound track of the spot is a blast, too…
Categories: absurdities, animals, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Doritos goat, Moose the goat
Comments: 5 Comments
February 3, 2013
– – Maxwell the Geico pig continues to evolve; he doesn’t appear to exclaim “Wheee!” anymore, plays with electronics, and apparently can even drive a car. He could use some coaching on relationships with the opposite sex, however, passing up an ideal lover’s lane opportunity with a girl who appears to be hot for his porky body.- -Maxwell, it would seem, is more of a techie than a lover!
In the latest Geico commercial featuring Maxwell, he is stranded in a broken-down convertible car with a rather comely lass, and appears to be fooling with his hand-held device. “Did you just turn your ringer off so no one would interrupt us?,” questions the lady. Maxwell responds that he just used his Geico app to summon a tow truck, his ears rising as he finally perceives that his date wants to “pass the time.” Maxwell has an idea ready to pass the 30-minute waiting interval, and unfortunately it’s not the past-time that the lady apparently desires; no, for Maxwell immediately switches his hand-held to a rousing game of “Fruit Ninja!” The look of disappointment (or whatever) on his date’s eyes is classic as Maxwell enthusiastically launches into the game…
Many questions go unanswered. We are not told how Maxwell’s little legs can reach the car’s pedals, or how his cloven hooves can operate his device, for example…but at least we are spared the messy and probably distasteful details of human/pig relationships, something for which we all can be grateful…although I’m sure that some of our readership can relate to having dated real pigs! Thankfully, no one can refer to Maxwell as a chauvinist pig…
Categories: absurdities, animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, famous furries, furry art, furry commercials, television
Tags: Maxwell the Geico pig, Maxwell the pig's date
Comments: 2 Comments
January 20, 2013
– – The Aflac Duck had seemed almost indestructible up to this point…after all, he’s been bonked by soccer balls, whacked with logs, singed by flames, and even dropped into the Grand Canyon. Now the daredevil duck has suffered the unthinkable, involved in an undisclosed accident with ensuing injuries to his wing and beak! In a new series of television commercials, a “doctor” discusses the duck’s disaster in front of reporters, and we only see the familiar fowl as a small fixed image on the screen.
The campaign is to illustrate that if the iconic duck can run afoul of fate, anyone can get hurt. Of course, his Aflac insurance is going to take care of the hospitalized duck’s expenses.- -What else is he gonna do, put them on his bill?!
Categories: animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, avian, feathered friends, furry commercials, television
Tags: Aflac duck
Comments: 2 Comments
January 16, 2013
– – Seems like everyone’s a critic these days, even Fancy Bear from the FreeCreditScore commercial! It appears that you’re just not safe from having a home invasion by a bowler-hat wearing, cane and moustache-sporting bear in a dress jacket who criticizes your taste in home decor. “May I respond negatively about your porcelain poodle?,” interjects the well-dressed ursine intruder, disdainfully holding up the objectionable artifact. “This should be in the trash!,” he huffs. The commercial closes with Fancy Bear playing a piano piece while the properly scolded human couple sit listening on the couch.
Fancy Bear is not quite my cup of tea, and I dread to think of what he would say about half of the stuff that I have sitting around my house, such as a bust of a snarling werewolf…
Categories: absurdities, animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Fancy Bear
Comments: 3 Comments
December 25, 2012
– – We’ve had the movie, Snakes on a Plane, and now we have Maxwell the Pig in a commercial set on a plane, where two flight attendants are after him to turn off what they think is his “little word game.”- -Well, it turns out that Maxwell is actually using his Geico application to pay his bill, detailing a host of other potential functions which the flight attendants can’t quite swallow, one remarking that she’ll believe the accounting of the app’s functionality “when pigs fly.”
“Did she seriously just say that?!,” marvels Maxwell to a fellow passenger in this episode which is free of the “wee” squealing and the pinwheels that were Maxwell’s hallmarks in earlier commercials. Pigs, it would seem, fight stereotypes as do many of us for a variety of assorted reasons…
…and wishing Happy Holidays to all of our readers!
Categories: absurdities, animal spokepersons, animals, anthropomorphic, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: Maxwell on a plane, Maxwell the pig
Comments: 2 Comments
December 21, 2012
– – Even when you are out in the woods in the darkness of night, you can apparently find attached to a tree a convenient brightly-illuminated medicine cabinet, filled with a wise, zen-like squirrel who will counsel the gastric-afflicted that “many hot dogs are within you,” and provide pepto bismol to go, in a convenient use-anywhere vial!
Such is the Pepto 2 Go TV commercial, “Squirrel.” Would you refer to such a squirrel as, “your nutty buddy?”–Nah, I’m not gonna touch that one…
Categories: absurdities, animals, furry, furry commercials, television
Tags: the Pepto Squirrel
Comments: 3 Comments
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