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Great ad

by DougJ|  September 17, 20135:08 pm| 39 Comments

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    September 17, 2013 at 5:12 pm

    Ok, now that is a good commercial.

    I am sooo stealing it and sharing it…lol

  2. 2.

    Trollhattan

    September 17, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    Damn clever. Nice to see something new, because it’s bloody rare.

    But I want demon sheep!

  3. 3.

    piratedan

    September 17, 2013 at 5:16 pm

    I expect to find his dad floating lifeless in Boston Harbor within a week…or at least completely disavowed

  4. 4.

    Roxy

    September 17, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    I love it. So different. I hope Carl gets elected.

  5. 5.

    geg6

    September 17, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    Awesome ad. Hope he wins. Maybe I’ll throw a sheckel or two his way to help him along.l

  6. 6.

    Ash Can

    September 17, 2013 at 5:22 pm

    Cute!

  7. 7.

    Tommy

    September 17, 2013 at 5:22 pm

    I am an advertising guy. Best ad I’ve seen this week.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s22HX18wDY

    I swear the best three minutes I’ve send this week. I wish I made that ad ….

  8. 8.

    Baud

    September 17, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    @Tommy:

    I teared up. Don’t know what the ad is for, however.

  9. 9.

    Anne Laurie

    September 17, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    Perhaps it should be added (to ease the consciences of the dudgeon-prone) that Carl is openly gay. So he’s not, y’know, inappropriately appropriating another subcultures experience, in case any knickers were knotting…

  10. 10.

    Baud

    September 17, 2013 at 5:29 pm

    Don’t like Carl’s ad. Makes tea party types seem like reasonable people.

  11. 11.

    Tommy

    September 17, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    @Baud:

    For a cell phone. I hate ads and I am an ad guy, but that is a good ad. As I said, wish I made it.

  12. 12.

    gogol's wife

    September 17, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    @Baud:

    I like the ad, but I don’t believe that person is really a Tea Party person. He seems too intelligent and ironic. He’s shamming . . . .

  13. 13.

    gogol's wife

    September 17, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    @Tommy:

    It’s for a cell phone? Isn’t it a campaign ad for the son?

  14. 14.

    JPL

    September 17, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    Earlier today after watching Carl’s ad on the Washington Post Politics page, I googled it and several news sites picked it up. He’ll certainly raise enough money to compete.

    @Tommy: Paying it forward is so socialistic. Now I have to find a hanky.

  15. 15.

    ruemara

    September 17, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    @Tommy: That ad made me cry by 1:42. I loved it and the Chipotle game ad.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    September 17, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Did you click on Tommy’s link?

    ETA: If not, do it; that too is a really cute ad.

  17. 17.

    Tommy

    September 17, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    @JPL: LOL. My parents are hardcore Republicans. I am not. They always even if it wasn’t a term, to play things forward. My mom and dad do it almost everyday. I try when I can. Funny, it is such a good thing. Most times good things come back to me ….

  18. 18.

    gogol's wife

    September 17, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    @Ash Can:

    No, I misunderstood and thought he was talking about the ad in the original post.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    September 17, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    I want to vote for Carl for Congress. Best political ad I’ve seen.

    ETA: Damn, I used to live in his district! I would have loved to vote for him.

    Don’t let me down 5th district!!

  20. 20.

    PurpleGirl

    September 17, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    @gogol’s wife: I think the cell phone ad is the longer ad involving charity. Although I don’t see the connection to cell phones there. But it is a good ad about being charitable. (RWNJ in the US would hate the ad and the story.)

  21. 21.

    gogol's wife

    September 17, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    @Tommy:

    Wow, that is a whole movie.

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    September 17, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    @PurpleGirl:

    RWNJ in the US would hate the ad and the story.

    No, they’d love it. It’s their alternative to Obamacare.

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    September 17, 2013 at 5:56 pm

    @Tommy:

    Oh my goodness, I am in tears.

  24. 24.

    Tommy

    September 17, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    Wisconsin Tourism Ad.

    http://deadspin.com/tourism-ad-jordy-nelson-gets-concussed-dreams-of-oz-l-1315175011

    I mean us ad guys do try.

  25. 25.

    Ash Can

    September 17, 2013 at 6:08 pm

    @Tommy: LOL! Were you in on that? If so, were you in on this one too?

    If so, bravo!

  26. 26.

    Tommy

    September 17, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    @Ash Can: Nope. Been about a decade since I did any ads you might see. I don’t do that anymore, but I do still like good “creative.”

  27. 27.

    Baud

    September 17, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    @Tommy:

    Awesome ending with the shoes.

  28. 28.

    Fluke bucket

    September 17, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    @Roger Moore: exactly. All day I have had to put up with people showing that ad and letting everybody know that health care should be taken care of with voluntary charitable giving. Damn. Ruined the ad for me.

  29. 29.

    lamh36

    September 17, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    @Tommy: Wow. That was a really good ad.

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    September 17, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    @Fluke bucket:
    It’s such a predictable response. Anything but government healthcare, at least for the under-65 set.

  31. 31.

    mainmati

    September 17, 2013 at 6:48 pm

    Really well done and nice camera work and cute music. Mostly great because it’s simply about those two people and no other distractions.

  32. 32.

    Bobby Thomson

    September 17, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    George Takei was promoting the cell phone ad on his face book page. Someone else linked to this ad. It’s for a bank, but will still raise the dust in the room.

  33. 33.

    Libby's person

    September 17, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    @Tommy: Thank you for the link. That was beautiful.

  34. 34.

    TaMara (BHF)

    September 17, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    @Tommy: I hate you just a little bit now. And love you just a bit, too. Crying was not on my agenda today.

  35. 35.

    TaMara (BHF)

    September 17, 2013 at 7:21 pm

    And @DougJ – thanks, that was a perfect ad. Wish more campaign ads were that thoughtful and…civil.

  36. 36.

    Comrade Mary

    September 17, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    I feel predictable today. (I’ll feel mysterious tomorrow.) Smiled at the political commercial, cried on cue for the Thai commercial.

    Man, Thai advertising specializes in squeezing out tears in the most obvious but effective way. A compilation.

  37. 37.

    satby

    September 17, 2013 at 11:13 pm

    @Tommy: I posted that on FB, watched it 3and times, just eatched it again, and blubber like a baby every time. It is a great ad.

  38. 38.

    satby

    September 17, 2013 at 11:14 pm

    I hate posting from my cell, excuse all the typos, FYWP is not lwtting me edit.

  39. 39.

    hamletta

    September 18, 2013 at 12:06 am

    @gogol’s wife: Naw, it’s real. My dad and brother are wingnuts, and I disagree with them on everything political (except they’re cool with gay people), but I love them unconditionally.

    Tea Partiers are misguided, no doubt, but they aren’t all morons.

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