Comments on: “We Love xkcd” video will cheer you up http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd-video-will-cheer-you-up/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Torsten Adair http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd-video-will-cheer-you-up/#comment-367 Torsten Adair Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:49 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd-video-will-cheer-you-up/#comment-367 The ads were pathetic... Only three deserve mention: 1) Betty White for Snickers (the best celebrity cameo, runner up: Stevie Wonder playing Punch Buggy for Volkswagen. 2) Late Show. Leno scores some points, as does Letterman. 3) Google. In thirty seconds, Google tells a love story with just the search bar and a simple soundtrack. Elegant and effective, showing just how useful Google can be. The worst? MobilePCS. Unfunny, hard to hear with the stereotypical accents, and offensive (and I'm caucasian). Surprisingly, Budweiser had not a single memorable ad. The only effective ad was for their new lite beer "Select 55" which only pitched what the beer was about. The Tebow ad was early and didn't seem too controversial. CBS has the ads on their website. (XKCD is awesome.) The ads were pathetic… Only three deserve mention:
1) Betty White for Snickers (the best celebrity cameo, runner up: Stevie Wonder playing Punch Buggy for Volkswagen.
2) Late Show. Leno scores some points, as does Letterman.
3) Google. In thirty seconds, Google tells a love story with just the search bar and a simple soundtrack. Elegant and effective, showing just how useful Google can be.

The worst? MobilePCS. Unfunny, hard to hear with the stereotypical accents, and offensive (and I’m caucasian).

Surprisingly, Budweiser had not a single memorable ad. The only effective ad was for their new lite beer “Select 55″ which only pitched what the beer was about.

The Tebow ad was early and didn’t seem too controversial.

CBS has the ads on their website.

(XKCD is awesome.)

]]> By: Nate Horn http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd-video-will-cheer-you-up/#comment-361 Nate Horn Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:37:51 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/02/08/we-love-xkcd-video-will-cheer-you-up/#comment-361 That did cheer me up! I looooove xkcd! That did cheer me up! I looooove xkcd!

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