thinglets: “As Seen On TV” Houseware Product Name Generator
When culture gets overinflated, yet refuses to pop, I want to be there with the needle. Enlightened cynics of the world unite! Express your love or hatred of things from the sacred to the mundane.
I figure that since the majority of people working at McDonald's now are high school students, and we all know that High School students are prone to break out into song about anything, these gentlemen (who were very happy at mopping and cleaning out grease traps) must be the closest thing the 70s had to High School Musical... expect Fame.
I'm not sure what the definition of Power was when they put this compilation together, but Dream Weaver, an Alice Cooper ballad, and another ballad by England Dan and John Ford Coley have never screamed "POWER" to me. That, and a Kiss song that sounds more like Roots Rock than their regular catalogue, made Pure Power a powerful misnomer... and that said, the 70's cheese addict in me LOVES this freakin' album OR 8-track.
I know some of these clips will seems ridiculous to anyone who did grow up with them, but these are the video games of my childhood. Not to say I didn't drop ton of quarters into arcade machines every week, but a video game at home was the holy grail. And I guess for some it still is.
This commercial is an oxymoron.
It is brilliantly/stupid, stylishly/gauche, and awesomely/horrible at the same time. The only thing that could make this ad more impactful is to just run it again today in the middle of an episode of Lost.
Get your pop culture retro fix on with the Cap'n, the Count, Frankenberry and Mr.T.
And as a special bonus a rare episode of the Sugar Bear cartoon before cereals were afraid to put "sugar" in their names.
In keeping with my cereal theme of yesterday, while trying to think up crazy new cereal names (in the vein of John Hodgman's hobo names) I instead ended up on quick formula of how to create a repulsive breakfast food that most people would shirk from.
