So, this is an advertisement...

[Fairportfan]

...for Bell's whiskey.

I think it'll touch you a bit...

[GlytchMeister]

That's one of the best commercials I've ever seen.

[Jabberwonky]

This is what advertising should be like.

[Mark N]

This is what advertising should be like.

Give people positive inspiration instead of stupidity, that would make a nice change for advertising.

[GlytchMeister]

Give people positive inspiration instead of stupidity, that would make a nice change for advertising.

But... But how will companies sell their products to the idiotic masses?

[Dave]

But... But how will companies sell their products to the idiotic masses?

Offer high quality and real value?

(yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a rabble-rouser, trouble-maker, un-American, have no idea how Big Business actually works, and should just go buy a big box of the new flavor of Sugar-Coated Tasteless Garbage brought to us by the nice folks at Degenerate Mills... )

[Jabberwonky]

Offer high quality and real value?

(yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a rabble-rouser, trouble-maker, un-American, have no idea how Big Business actually works, and should just go buy a big box of the new flavor of Sugar-Coated Tasteless Garbage brought to us by the nice folks at Degenerate Mills... )

Okay...
I'm going to have admit to being a little curious about the products from Degenerate Mills.

[Atomic]

Fer them folks out there who aren't Murcian, lemme just say that there crack about Degenerate Mills refers to a very large Murican food company that cranks out lots and lots of breakfast cereals as well as tons of other stuff that people like to eat and pretend they et somethin actually good for ya.

Not that yer going to chow down, blow a gasket, and start to twitch or something, but some folks like to wonder. Just saying.

Y'all take care, now!

[Mark N]

Not that yer going to chow down, blow a gasket, and start to twitch or something, but some folks like to wonder. Just saying.

I don't know. If you eat too much of the Sugar Coated Sugar Coco Chunks you might.

[shadowinthelight]

Okay...
I'm going to have admit to being a little curious about the products from Degenerate Mills.

I did a Google image search in search of LOLs and only found one relevant picture on a very hateful forum.

[Dave]

Original reference to Degenerate Mills (a couple of cereal commercials) is here: (the "Radio Phil" section of the first Congress of Wonders album).

There are some other Congress of Wonders bits on YouTube - search for "Star Trip", "Stoned Ranger", "Pigeon Park".

[Atomic]

Pigeons, you say?

[Grantwhy]

But... But how will companies sell their products to the idiotic masses?

Offer high quality and real value?

(yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a rabble-rouser, trouble-maker, un-American, have no idea how Big Business actually works, and should just go buy a big box of the new flavor of Sugar-Coated Tasteless Garbage brought to us by the nice folks at Degenerate Mills... )

which reminds me of something I read about a interstellar company in the background information (via another interstellar company) from a strategy/war game set in the far far future (31st century),
-----

• “So how did HTE get the jump on the competition? The usual method? Blackmail, murder, kidnapping or even a good advertising campaign?”
  
  “No. Something even more insidious than that; HTE produced products that were inexpensive and surprisingly high in quality.”
  
  “Is that ethical?”

-----

The more things change

[Fairportfan]

Pigeons, you say?

Get that pigeon!

[Atomic]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words – and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded – their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."

[Jabberwonky]

Pigeons, you say?

Get that pigeon!

Stop That Pigeon? (about 1:45 ish, but the first 1:45 is worth listening to)

[Fairportfan]

I love the Rev.

Man can play a mean rockabilly guitar.

[bmonk]

A nice commercial--right up there with some few others I've seen, such as Sink and Frogs.

(Naturally, some have complained about it--how it portrays short, bald people as undesirable. )

[Jabberwonky]

A nice commercial--right up there with some few others I've seen, such as Sink and Frogs.

(Naturally, some have complained about it--how it portrays short, bald people as undesirable. )

I don't know, even I'd have given that short bald guy a kiss.

[MerchManDan]

A nice commercial--right up there with some few others I've seen, such as Sink and Frogs.

(Naturally, some have complained about it--how it portrays short, bald people as undesirable. )

"Sink" is friggin' adorable, and speaking as a bald guy - a not-tall, chubby one at that - I scoff derisively at those who would complain about such a thing. It was clearly not Johnson & Johnson's intent to make such a portrayal, and those who say it was are WAY too sensitive.