Monthly Archives: August 2010

Tall as a Damn Mountain, Part I, Featuring Gheorghe Muresan

By Street Dude | Published: August 26, 2010

With this commercial, 30 Seconds of Hell kick-starts our continuing “Tall as a Damn Mountain” series, wherein we cull commercials with the tallest people in all the land. Part one of our series features another clever commercial from ESPN’s Sportscenter. This commercial features former-NBA Allstar, Gheorghe Muresan, a 7′ 7” center who played for the [...]

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Bad Kitties

By Street Dude | Published: August 26, 2010

“Credit card, you got it.” — Macaulay Culkin, as Kevin, in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). Credit card, you got it. Credit Cards: can’t live with ‘em and you can’t shoot ‘em. Card Credits: our nation is in debt. Dear credit cards, in the 1990s, you bought so many damn speed boats [...]

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Is That Oak?

By Urban Pal | Published: August 16, 2010

This commercial is both funny and scary to me.  This bug speaks with a calm, creepy baritone voice that reminds me of the killer from “No Country for Old Men.”  You know he really wants to do more than use your phone, but you can’t help but be caught off guard by his compliment of [...]

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Weight-Loss Blunder

By Urban Pal | Published: August 16, 2010

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this ad from 1982 was aired right around that time that AIDS (the disease) was becoming a global crisis.  I’m not sure how they didn’t see this as the “worst possible name for a diet pill,” at the time.  That’s like naming a tobacco product canzer. Rating:  30 seconds [...]

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Step Yo Game Up!

By Urban Pal | Published: August 16, 2010

This one seems to have really taken a page out of Sega CD’s playbook. See “older posts,” for evidence.

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CGI that is Distractingly Ugly

By Street Dude | Published: August 15, 2010

Okay, I think we all agree that these commercials for The General auto insurance are ugly. Distractingly ugly. The General himself has a rasping voice, is three-feet-tall, has a wilting white mustache, and wears his helmet so low that you cannot see his eyes. He seems like a stereotypical general, but what are the origins [...]

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