Monday, July 17, 2006

Skidmarks on your soul?

In continuing with my inane movie clip theme, I bring you this ad from 1983. It was an era when a movie proved that cute little bears can bring down a technologically advanced evil empire. An entire nation was under the spell of a blinged-up badass shouting "I pity tha fool!" I was learning long division and that no human being could out-yell Mrs. Holecek, my third grade teacher.

And a radical new video game was infiltrating the country's youth. It was called Pole Position, and if this commercial doesn't want to make you scour Ebay for a 2600 console, I don't know what will.

Aspiring ad executives take note... this has perhaps the most attention-grabbing opening line in television advertising history.

• Posted by Brian at 11:51 PM
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