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5 Favorite Local TV Commercials From Childhood

Christine Egan · 08/26/10 12:40PM

We cannot stop searching for cheesy local/regional TV commercials from our childhood hometowns. You know, the ones with really high-quality production values, classically-trained actors, and demure used car salesmen that only you and the people you grew up with remember?

Katie Holmes' J. Crew Ads Are the Stuff of Rich White Fever Dreams

Maureen O'Connor · 08/20/10 01:46PM

The cast of Katie Holmes rom-com The Romantics did a J. Crew ad campaign, and the result is an aneurysm of creamy cupcakes, tasteful khaki, and fresh-faced youth. Katie even exorcises a few Tom Cruise-related demons. Let's take a look.

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Maureen O'Connor · 08/20/10 01:35PM


According to its trailer, The Romantics is about tasteful white people getting married in a scenic white people place. (Maine?) Quoth J. Crew's synergistic The Romantics advertainment: "Friendships and alliances are tested and the love triangle comes to a head the night before the wedding, when the drunken friends frolic in the nearby surf and return to shore… without the groom." That sounds… macabre. (And kind of interesting? I hate it when I accidentally like something I meant to hate.)

What If Mad Men's Don Draper Designed Facebook Ads?

Max Read · 08/05/10 08:20PM

Trying to convince their clients that "everything ages fast," Brazilian ad agency Moma mocked up some hilarious vintage 1960s-style ads for Facebook, YouTube, and Skype. (Including charmingly broken Brazilian English.) Yes, there's even a Keyboard Cat cameo.

The Most Mind-Boggling Toy Commercials

Etan Berkowitz · 04/27/10 11:30AM

Oh, the innocence of childhood. Remember all those lovely toys we played with when we were younger? They were so colorful, fun, disgusting, haunting, sexual...wait we played with same childhood toys right? Check out these bewildering children's toy commercials.