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Schweppes brings 1950s Christmases to life

AdFreak -- Mother London adds live-action arms and hands (along with some goofy and mildly smutty humor) to classic 1950s Christmas illustrations in these amusing 10-second spots for Schweppes tonic water in the U.K. The voice talent includes Martin Freeman, who played Tim on The Office. The best line has to be: "Don and Tabitha, you're just in time. I'm about to hose down Felicity!" Via The Inspiration Room...     06:34
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Shake your big percussive butt for Orangina

AdFreak -- Video is NSFW.Continuing with the butt theme, here's an absurd, NSFW video from Orangina featuring some impressive butt shaking, butt slapping and butt clapping. It advertises the drink brand's "Shake That Orangina" contest, which asks you to upload a video of yourself dancing (not just butt clapping) for a chance to become an official "Shake Star" of Orangina. As a Shake Star, you will "appear on...     00:01
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Glasses that look great on all kinds of asses

AdFreak -- It's tough to know what to say about these Italian print ads for Glassing Sunglasses, but I'll try. Some might find it objectionable, but it's offensive in a cartoony, memorable way, like naughty Mad magazine illustrations from 20 years ago, so folks might want to lighten up. Some Web commenters have bashed the ads for implying that people who wear the sunglasses are asses, but that's probably too...     00:01
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Fighting tooth and nail for a flack internship

AdFreak -- I don't envy new grads trying to break into marketing and advertising. The intense competition for entry-level jobs is apparently forcing our next generation of leaders to humiliate themselves for the right to do menial tasks. Advertising Week created an entire entertainment program out of it, making would-be creatives jump through hoops for the promise of a 30-day freelance gig at entry-level pay...     11-25
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Ohio Lottery gets crafty with its holiday ads

AdFreak -- Speaking of nutty holiday ad characters, Northlich introduces an overeager arts-and-crafts enthusiast in its new spots for the Ohio Lottery. One ad is posted below; see a bunch more here. The theme is "Makin' It Fun With Maggie." But in Ohio, as in Illinois and every other state, lottery tickets just aren't much fun as gifts. If they're losers, it's like not getting a present at all. If they're wi...     11-25
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Target's 2-Day Sale lady totally frightens me

AdFreak -- Target is attempting to lure shoppers to its annual two-day sale with a cautionary tale about a Christmas-crazed housewife. Overzealous holiday shoppers are a fairly common theme, but rarely are they as serial-killery as this lady. She hasn't slept in days, she's convinced she'll "win Christmas," and I hope to God she doesn't knife me if I get to the doorbusters before her. The spot below is one o...     11-25
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Yahoo! knows that life isn't fun for creatives

AdFreak -- For anyone in the advertising business, particularly those on the creative side, this Yahoo! video surely hits close to home. It touches on the big three broad ad caricatures: the cheesy, spineless account guy, the faux hipster creatives and the unreasonable clients. A personal favorite moment is when one client says, "My whole thing is, Are people going to tweet about this? What's the tweet facto...     11-25
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Stunt buddha jumps Benihana shrimp buffet

AdFreak -- Benihana was hot in the '70s when it was a novelty for chefs to prepare food at your table. That's not so special now, and neither is this "Big Jump" spot via Wieden + Kennedy and Matt Lenski of Epoch Films. They use tiki-mug figurines to tell the tale of a self-styled Buddah Knievel with a salad-cycle who leaps over a spread of shrimp. This isn't nearly as wild as a real Asian ad would be, and it...     11-25
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'War on Christmas' army attacking Best Buy

AdFreak -- The holiday season means traditions. One of the more recent that's fun to watch is the "war on Christmas," with advertisers taking flak for being too inclusive in their holiday messaging. Of course, they just want to sell more stuff. But that hasn't stopped the vigilant WOC shocktroops from going after Gap for having the temerity to urge people to have whatever kind of holiday they want ("Go Chris...     11-24
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10 best celebrity computer ads of the 1980s

AdFreak -- When geek-culture blog Topless Robot dug up the Prime Computer ads above, from 1980, featuring Tom Baker's classic incarnation of Dr. Who (and his equally classic sidekick, Lalla Ward as Romana), I was shocked to see they were actually great commercials. They're clever, endearing and memorable—even if they do oversell the machine's capabilities by a light year or two. In short, these ads are every...     11-24
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VIDEO: Tina Fey celebrates Ad Council work

AdFreak -- Tina Fey emceed the Ad Council's annual dinner last Wednesday. Here's a video of her amusing opening remarks, in which she bemoans NBC's fourth-place ratings ("Actually, we're in ninth place if you count the couple of radio stations that are ahead of us right now"), recalls some classic PSAs from her youth, and even brings back her Sarah Palin impression. "They recently made a porn movie about Sar...     11-24
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JCPenney back in the doghouse once again

AdFreak -- JCPenney had some success last year with its Beware of the Doghouse holiday campaign. Yes, the Web site got millions of views. But I knew it had broken through when my father-in-law sent me the link, along with the message, "Too FUNNY!!!" So, naturally, Penney and Saatchi & Saatchi are back with an encore: Return to the Doghouse. The clip below is basically a replay of last year's video, featu...     11-24
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PETA Thanksgiving always awkward as hell

AdFreak -- Ever wonder what a PETA Thanksgiving would be like? Of course not. But it turns out it's a serious downer, as we find out in this spot from ad agency Matter and director Dave Laden. The little girl asked to say grace ambushes the family: "Dear God. Thank you for the turkey we are about to eat, and for the turkey farms, where they pack them into dark tiny little sheds for their whole lives. Thank y...     11-24
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Generic U gets you on fast track to nowhere

AdFreak -- Smith Brothers Agency takes an offbeat approach to college advertising by creating the ultimate "everyschool" called Generic U, attended by dull, cliché-spouting plastic figures whose lives are going nowhere because their education is lacking. Sounds kind of like every college in America, doesn't it? Actually, the client is Point Park University, which, given its relative standing in the academic ...     11-24
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'Tis the season for 'sexist' U.K. commercials

AdFreak -- Considering how much advertising gets squeezed into the holiday season, life for the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority must be hell from October to mid-March. They're already fielding complaints about this Marks & Spencer's Christmas ad, whose final scene is supposedly "offensive and demeaning to women" because the actor, Philip Glenister, likes seeing hot girls in their underwear. Shocki...     11-21
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Polar bears more screwed than you thought

AdFreak -- The U.K. is on a roll with its climate-change PSAs. First, there were the dogs drowning in rising seas. Now, we get this gruesome spot from Mother (posted below) for PlaneStupid.com, in which polar bears fall from the sky to splattery deaths—to make some point about airplane emissions. "An average European flight produces over 400kg of greenhouse gases for every passenger … that's the weight of an...     11-21
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Get naked, say the pervy scrubbing bubbles

AdFreak -- What's really inside your household cleaning products? It could be a bunch of dirty-minded chemicals, who are all bright and bubbly and innocent in TV commercials but who indulge in debauchery off camera, hanging around long after cleaning time to watch you give your naked bod a good scrub in the shower. That's the warning in the video below from Droga5 and Method, the maker of environmentally fri...     11-21
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Muscle Milk pilgrim sexing up Thanksgiving

AdFreak -- Considering how naughty Halloween has gotten, it was only a matter of time before someone took a crack at Thanksgiving. That someone is Muscle Milk, the athletic drink brand, which channels Justin Timberlake in this spoof hip-hop music video "Sexy Pilgrim" (posted below), courtesy of ad agency Pereira & O'Dell. It's fairly similar to the Smirnoff "Tea Partay" video from a couple years back. Th...     11-21
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Prostate cancer gets a proper street beating

AdFreak -- TBWA\Chiat\Day goes the high-testosterone vigilante route in this pair of anti-prostate-cancer PSAs. The guy in the cancerous-mass suit looks like an alien from '70s Dr. Who or the grotesque but misunderstood Horta from Star Trek. Sure, it strikes the first blow in the spot above. But the thing was cornered by that gang of scruffy toughs with their "Movember" men's-health-month moustaches and was ...     11-21
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Big Tobacco ad interviewer meets his match

AdFreak -- I'd grown weary of American Legacy's fake-job-interview "Truth" spots from Arnold, but the latest iteration, this Web-only clip called "Nostradamus," ranks among the campaign's best. The phony Big Cig exec almost gets one-upped by a guy who frankly comes off more like a professional actor or repressed psychopath than a job seeker unaware he's being filmed for an anti-smoking commercial. Anyway, he...     11-20
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