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Paz de la Huerta Is Good at Lingerie

“Boardwalk Empire” star Paz de la Huerta is infamous — or awesome, depending on your viewpoint — for getting wasted and accidentally revealing her T & A to paparazzi. That makes her the perfect...

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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Rolls Out Vintage Subway

This week in Awesome But Also Kind of Terrible Ideas: “Boardwalk Empire” is advertising its second season by rolling out vintage subway cars in New York City. The train cars date back to 1917 and are...

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Damn Kids Singing to Firefighters

(via) When I realized that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 would fall on a Sunday, I was relieved for wholly selfish reasons: I wouldn’t have to spend a workday worried about whether my lighthearted...

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‘Look at That Antelope Driving a Car’

I’ve had a complete abortion of a day, thanks to Time Warner Cable’s large-scale, company-wide policy of f*cking its customers in the ass. For the last two hours, I’ve either been on hold or yelling...

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Brazil Is Good At Commercials.

I’ve spent all morning trying to figure out a way to write about Argentina’s “Dancing With the Stars” routine in which a woman got completely naked and had wine poured all over her breasts and my God...

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K.I.T.T. and Yogi Bear in a Yogurt Ad. Sure.

This new Müller yogurt ad airing in the U.K. is pretty straightforward. First, K.I.T.T. from “Knight Rider” gets a parking ticket. Then the milk truck transforms into a robot and changes the traffic...

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Happy Birthday, Marines

As most regular followers of this blog know, I was in the boring ol’ Marine Corps before I decided to join the ELITE RANKS of full-time bloggers. And today, November 10th, marks the 236th birthday of...

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The Best Commercial on Television

There isn’t much going on in the television world this morning, which is nice because it gives me the opportunity to briefly discuss something near and dear to my heart: this commercial. I’ll be...

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Well Played, Volkswagen

This Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial is all over the place today. But, as the Internet’s premiere destination for dog-related television content, I feel it’s very important to post it here anyway....

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Well Played, Dollar Shave Club

I didn’t want to like this commercial. I really didn’t. It’s pretty much just a knockoff of the Old Spice commercials (and a less creative one at that, because there are cuts between each nonsensical...

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The Greatest Commercial Ever Made

We’re still four long, painful days away from Corgi Friday, but there’s no way I’m waiting all week to post this great new commercial from the UK’s Freeview HD (video below). It stars the same corgis...

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Awesome: ‘Walking Dead’ Billboard on Funeral Home

A billboard for “The Walking Dead” has raised the ire of citizens in an English town who don’t like the ad’s placement next to a funeral home. I guess some people don’t like the idea of their loved...

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Kate Upton Is Good at Commercials

My first and only reaction to this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was to follow then-18-year-old (now 19!) Rookie of the Year Kate Upton on Twitter. Kate’s Twitter feed was awesome: a young...

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K-Swiss’s Kenny Powers Ad Campaign

K-Swiss has a new ad campaign built around the idea of Kenny Powers as the company’s CEO, and I have to admire the balls it took to make a profane fictional character on pay cable the centerpiece of an...

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Richard Marx Is Doing Well

I missed this when it first hit the internet last week, but now that I know it exists, I can’t simply ignore it’s existence. It’s an actual colonic commercial in which Richard Marx, the smoothest...

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This Charming Kate Spade Commercial Proves Anna Kendrick Can Sell Just About...

Some shopping commercials are annoying, with most ending up being downright unbearable during the holiday season. That is, unless your ad stars the one and only Anna Kendrick. I’ll be the first to...

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Check Out Nike’s New Ad For LeBron James That Ran In The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Getty Image “Nothing is given. Everything is earned.” Things didn’t go as planned for the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. The prodigal son’s return did not end in a championship. But, as Nike...

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Bo Jackson Is Making Football Legends Do Weird Stuff In These New Ads

Bo Jackson is untouchable. And it seems like AT&T took notice because their new ad campaign completely revolves around how impressively great Bo really is (and how everybody knows it). The company...

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Links: Happy 5th B-Day, YouTube

I didn’t even get it a card! Apparently, YouTube is celebrating its fifth birthday. I had no idea that I could actually feel emotionally attached to a website filled mostly with videos of weirdos...

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‘I Will Shoot My Way Into Office’

Dale Peterson is trying to get the Republican nomination for Agriculture Commissioner of Alabama, and he REALLY wants it. In what may be the greatest political TV ad I’ve ever seen, Peterson conjures...

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