Google Movie Clone

Movies so often use fictionalized versions of everyday products, especially Google. I have seen many movies where there’s a fake web browser that’s obviously supposed to be Google, but for some reason they don’t want to actually show someone using Google.

Recently I saw the most ridiculous example of this fake movie Google web browser I’ve yet seen, in a movie called: The New Daughter; it was called: “Root Around”, and it had a little cartoon logo of a squirrel holding an acorn, with the subtitle: “…your place to forage the web!” Hilarious!

But if they’re going to make a fake Google web browser for a horror movie that actually contains spiders in the plot, then how about using a cartoon of a spider riding on a surfboard as the logo for a browser called: “Web Surfer”? That would have been a silly in-joke for the movie.

I wonder if any movie has used the “Web Surfer” title and the spider on a surfboard before as a stand-in for Google? It seems so obvious to me as a joke web browser name, I would be shocked if it hadn’t ever been used before. (But I have never seen it used in a movie.)

Dentastix Dog Smile Ad

Wow, a product that dulls your dog’s teeth to where they look like human teeth? Does that mean the dogs can’t do as much damage when they chew things up? Hey, sign me up! (I’ll bet burglars are secretly going to feed these to guard dogs so it won’t hurt as much when the dogs bite them as they’re burgling the place.)

I wonder what they’re made of: especially heavy sandpaper?

It’s funny, though, as it looks like the dogs are wearing human dentures.

Here’s the doggie dentures spot:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7DZK/pedigree-dentastix-deep-clean-smile-longer

This is not a new concept, by the way. It was done in the 1990s with some cat litter, I believe, where a cat smiled a huge toothy grin with human teeth because the cat box odor was gone (allegedly due to the advertised product), and it made a big splash in the press because it showed the possibilities of computer-generated images in advertising.

Here’s an example of the Fresh Step Scoop ads from the 1990s, which I believe made the grinning cat ad; but it’s not the one with the cat smiling with human teeth, as I can’t find that one online for some reason, which is odd, as it was a big deal when it initially appeared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiY6uBKLqUE

Chick-fil-A “Ben Hur” Tie-In Ad (Joke/Proposed)

Hollywood is remaking Ben Hur, a film to be released soon. And when it is released, I thought maybe a Christian company like Chick-fil-A should make tie-in ads, but altered to be more chicken oriented, like maybe Hen Hur.

So Hen Hur would fight a childhood friend, Chicken Masala, who has sold out to Chicken Caesar, and who has sent Hen Hur’s family to an unethical factory farm for meat processing, where the chickens are forced to live in tiny cages and never get to even move around, or something like that. And so Hen Hur defeats Chicken Masala, and that’s how we know we’re getting the heroic, top quality fresh chicken, like you’ll find at Chick-fil-A. (< I guess: I’ve never been to a Chick-fil-A. This is just a fun intellectual exercise for me to play around with advertising stuff like this.)

Yes, sadly, like with the Burger King ad chicken who mastered Kung Fu, Hen Hur was also made into a sandwich, even after accomplishing so much in life. But hey, at least it was a “free range” chicken. And in fact, maybe that could be the conceit of the ad: Chick-fil-A’s chickens are free to roam around, and this is what one of them gets up to adventure-wise due to the free range freedom.

(BTW: I don’t know if Chcik-fil-A uses free range chickens, but they ought to. After all, how else can Hen Hur get revenge and free its family from those evil factory farm cages if there is no free range liberty?)

Lee Jeans Halloween Ad?

In this silly Halloween ad idea for Lee Jeans, we’d see Christopher Lee playing monsters and such in Hammer horror movies from the 1950s and ‘60s, but wearing Lee Jeans (put on the characters with CGI), and the announcer would call them: “Christopher Lee Jeans”, and say that for their Halloween sale, they’re: “at a special Vincent Price”. Then we’d see Vincent Price in a 1960s AIP movie wearing Lee Jeans.

VW “Isn’t It Time for German Engineering?” Slogan

There is sometimes an issue with VW advertising, and it always harkens back to their Germany references. With this slogan: “Isn’t it time for German engineering?” I always find myself thinking of Germany genetically engineering a new master race and conquering the world. I don’t know what could possibly make me think of such things, but it does come to mind. And if I’m thinking about it, chances are lots of other people are thinking about the same thing when they see this slogan. Maybe they should add: “…to be used for good?”

(By the way, for those who don’t know, VW especially has to be careful in eliciting thoughts of Nazi parallels because the company was essentially founded by Adolf Hitler; although for some reason Volkswagen does not generally choose to point out that tidbit in their ads.)

Three Days of the Condom (Joke/Proposed Ad for Condoms)

(Based upon the movie: Three Days of the Condor)

Robert Redford reads books for the CIA looking for plot elements that seem like possible national security scenarios. Well, one day at work, he makes a hot date with a groovy new chick he met over the weekend, and her playful banter and use of double entendre on the phone lead him to believe he may get lucky tonight, so he goes out to buy some condoms. Well, while he’s gone, a rogue element within the CIA sends assassins to kill everyone where Redford works, and when he gets back, everyone’s dead. Well, the date’s definitely off at this point, and Redford is on the run. In order to save his life, he abducts Faye Dunaway, and after a series of events over the next three days leads her to trust him (and after all, he is Robert Redford), she decides to sleep with him. Well, Redford reaches into his pocket for the condoms, but a little devil Robert Redford appears over his left shoulder and says: “What do you need those for? You’re probably going to be killed soon anyway, so what’s the difference?” He begins to put the condoms back into his pocket when a little angel version of Robert Redford appears over his right shoulder and says: “You don’t know, you might just survive this situation, and what if she has a sexually-transmitted disease, or you get her pregnant, marry her, and then you find out you don’t get along? Then you might wish you had been killed.” And so Redford takes the condoms out of his pocket and walks toward Faye Dunaway, and it is suggested that they get it on, as the picture cuts and we see the dark silhouette of a couple on a bed moving around suggestively from across the room, out of focus, in a low light situation.

Then the slogan is: “Always have a condom with you, because you never know what’s going to happen, and you need to be prepared for what comes.”

Shout “Spot of Bother” Ad (Proposed)

A woman is coming home from the country when she has a “spot of bother”, noir movie style: she gets a flat tire on a lonely dark road, she gets accosted by dangerous men whom she fights off action movie style with her deadly Kung Fu skills, and she safely makes it back to the city eventually, after changing her tire. But there’s one problem: her “spot of bother” resulted in a yucky stain spot on her blouse, and it bothers her. And so she sprays the spot with Shout and washes the blouse, and the spot is gone, no longer there to remind her of her earlier “spot of bother”.