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This is sad news. Hal Douglas, whose booming voice was known to generations of moviegoers and TV watchers, has died at 89. Douglas’ daughter Sarah told The New York Times that the Connecticut native with the famous baritone died of pancreatic cancer last week. Right now you might be racking your brain trying to figure …
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Here’s another one of those CKCO web extras. A nice, long clip from Romper Room. I have 0 recollection of Cowbells the Clown, but I do remember watching Romper Room every day I could and wishing that my nursery school could be on TV like theirs. And does anybody else remember paying special attention at …
Now that I’ve written about the Enzyte hotel, I figured I’d write about another commercial, or couple of them, that I’ve meant to write about for months. Out of the blue, these commercials appeared for this Mio stuff. From the audio, I had no friggin idea what this stuff was, but it didn’t sound good. …
Steve mentioned Trivago the other day, which reminded me that I wanted to write something about Trivago, have been meaning to for a while. When I first heard a Trivago commercial, I wasn’t paying attention. I heard its whistling song, and then a reference to finding a hotel. My first thought was complete shock. In …
I haven’t watched a second of NBC’s Olympic coverage, because who does that if he doesn’t have to? Seriously, it’s pretty well always useless and horrible, not even worth the energy it would take to press the remote buttons to get there. But since I am nothing if not a fair man, I will readily …
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Here’s something or other From Gill. Sort of reminds me of that sorry attempt by Pepsi and Hockey Canada to get us all excited by Cheer Nation, including chanting “Eh! O’ Canada Go!” Remember that? Some asshole actually submitted that entry and won a contest with it, if memory serves. Thankfully most Canadians appear to …
I’m cursed to be followed by this Belvita commercial. The thing is way too catchy…and it’s too easy to start singing it while you’re trying to get things done. But 2 things: If she’s supposed to be so energized by these biscuits, why does she sound like she’s half dead? And, why at the end …
My guess is that this is what happens when you watch the Don’t Put It In Your Mouth PSA after you’ve already mistaken pills for candy. I’ve never seen this version of Don’t Put It In Your Mouth, by the way. The only one I remember is the shorter one. It’s especially weird not to …
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How about a soundtrack? Good luck getting that out of your head. And the Newsroom 11 intro at the end just made me feel every bit of old that the commercial hadn’t already gotten around to. Now on to business. Pretty much immediately, we get a good sense that there’s something not quite right about …
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I’m not one to believe in things like ghosts and spirits, but this is a little weird so what the hell, let’s write it down. Most nights we fall asleep listening to Those Old Radio Shows on CHML. On the weekends, that often means waking up to infomercials by Purity Products, who would like very …
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