Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations

[RGMike]

OMG: Just heard a radio commercial for one of those herbal supplements for erectile dysfunction, and the spokesman was Peter Scolari, of Bosom Buddies fame. So Tom Hanks is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and Scolari is concerned with, er, wood.

[RGMike]

"Yummy Yummy Yummy" has been revived to promote some of Kellogg's most sugary cereals, like FrootLoops and AppleJacks.

[RGMike]

Now I've seen everything: A new citrusy soft drink called SunDrop is using "Drop it Like It's Hot" 

[RGMike]

My favorite spot currently airing is a Valentine's PSA that encourages men to check themselves for testicular cancer as a gift to their significant others.  Seriously.  And the tag line:  "Why give diamonds when you can give the family jewels."  I am not making this up.

Thanks for posting this. I don't know if I'll be able to view the advertisement from here, but I'll give it a try. Sounds hilarious.

here ya go. CBS cares!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGaCzIU8Utk

CBS has topped the above PSA with one in whiich an older guy I didn't recognize says (I swear to gawd): "I've seen lots of movements since the '60s... but there's no movement more important than the one you'll have when preparing for a colonoscopy" 

er... ewww.

[Tinka Cat]

My favorite spot currently airing is a Valentine's PSA that encourages men to check themselves for testicular cancer as a gift to their significant others.  Seriously.  And the tag line:  "Why give diamonds when you can give the family jewels."  I am not making this up.

Thanks for posting this. I don't know if I'll be able to view the advertisement from here, but I'll give it a try. Sounds hilarious.

here ya go. CBS cares!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGaCzIU8Utk

CBS has topped the above PSA with one in whiich an older guy I didn't recognize says (I swear to gawd): "I've seen lots of movements since the '60s... but there's no movement more important than the one you'll have when preparing for a colonoscopy" 

er... ewww.

I've seen that, too!

have you seen the one for the couch support system, where they put "a four hundred pound sumo wrestler on the couch, and then a SIX hundred pound sumo wrestler on the couch -- that's ONE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SUMO!"  and then the sumos high five.. (they aren't in sumo diapers, though, just civvies.)

[urth]

have you seen the one for the couch support system, where they put "a four hundred pound sumo wrestler on the couch, and then a SIX hundred pound sumo wrestler on the couch -- that's ONE THOUSAND POUNDS OF SUMO!"  and then the sumos high five.. (they aren't in sumo diapers, though, just civvies.)

Just saw that one for the first time tonight, and yeah, it caught my attention too. Except I surmise that the two "sumo wrestlers" are really just two fat guys, but they couldn't say "we're putting a 400-pound fat guy on the couch and then a 600-pound fat guy on the couch--that's ONE THOUSAND POUNDS OF FAT GUY."

[RGMike]

FYC's "Good Thing" (actually, an instrumental version) is flogging Prevacid.

[RGMike]

KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" is being used in spots for a new birth control pill called Seasonique. Great name -- but their slogan is (I swear) "Re-punctuate your life with fewer periods". 

Meanwhile, the Beatles' "All Together Now" is flogging Sprint.

[RGMike]

The new BlackBerry Playbook (looks like half an iPad) must be "special" -- "Brass in Pocket" is being used in the commercials.

[RGMike]

JB's "Super Bad" is selling Gatorade.

[RGMike]

I've always liked the Progressive insurance commercials with "Flo" -- but the new ones with the guy with the moustache? Jeez, he's so OBVIOUSLY meant to be a mash-up of Keystone Beer's "Keith Stone" (some of the worst commercials I've ever seen) and Allstate's "Mr Mayhem"... whatever happened to creative ad agencies?

[Gazoo]

Time Warner Cable's using "Ca Plane Pour Moi" in its local ads!

[RGMike]

So, the Blackberry Playbook runs Flash... so they're using Queen's "Flash! ahhh-ahhh!" in the commercial. Cute.

Meanwhile the Stones' "Miss You" is flogging Grey Goose vodka.

[RGMike]

"Pictures of Matchstickmen" is the latest to be featured in a Target commercial. They're gonna run out of songs pretty soon.

[RGMike]

They bought a birthday card for my supervisor so we could all sign it, and it's one of those cards that plays music -- "I Want Candy", the BowWowWow version! Hallmark done got hip.