Most sexist commercial of all time?

Is this the most sexist commercial of all time? It's gotta be right up there. Thanks, Jalopnik!

Made in ... Ontario?

That Eminem-Chrysler ad everyone loved, with the slogan "Imported from Detroit"? Almost featured a car that's made in Ontario.

Fascinating look at some of the internal business issues that went into the making of that Super Bowl commercial.

Here's my first Tweet. Or Twerp? Whatever.

I am not usually a fan of "HA, technology IZ so DUM" ads, but this Tom Bodett radio ad about his first Tweet cracks me up.

Just for the taste of iiiiiiiit

Man, how is it that old commercial jingles sometimes stick in my head for a quarter of a century, but I can't remember the plot of a book I read last year?

The very first Diet Coke jingle has been bumping around my brain lately. This was from 1983, when diet pop was still suspicious. (Fresca and Tab, much as I like them, distinctly have a "diet" chemically taste that Diet Coke managed to eliminate.)

So when Diet Coke came out, rich daddy Coke went all out to introduce its new little cousin with this extravagant, celebrity-filled commercial and a damn catchy jingle. If you're old like me, you'll remember it: "Introducing Diet Coke! You're gonna drink it just for the taste of it! Diet Coke, yeah, Diet Coke! This is the one from Coca-Cola!" (As if a Pepsi product would dub itself Diet Coke.)

Anyway, here's the jingle, and a little glimpse into what my brain has been humming lately, for NO APPARENT REASON.

Well, "Action" is kind of a relative term

This vintage ad features a very young Christopher "Peter Brady" Knight (and one of the kids looks like possibly his real younger brother?) in a commercial for Marx Action play sets.

The kids are dubbed the Action Kids, but really, they're about as lively as a digital clock. At one point I thought they said "cheap bullet-shooting machine guns," but I paid better attention, and they didn't really say the "cheap" part.

Greg's the Candy Man

Here's Barry "Greg Brady" Williams in an old Milky Way ad. This is fun for numerous reasons, chief among them:

--The street he is running down looks so familiar, like it's either the set from "The Brady Bunch" or the Haddonfeld street Michael Myers lived on in "Halloween."
--It cracks me up how he sees a Milky Way wrapper on his mailbox
--When he gets home, he has a lineup of about five full-size Milky Ways just sitting on his dresser. What kid would a) have the money for five candy bars, and buy all the same brand, and b) would have the will power to line them up all OCD and not devour them all? Well, Greg always was kind of a priss.

Blogging the Super Bowl ads

For my MSNBC.com Weblog, Test Pattern, I blogged the Super Bowl ads. They were almost universally awful, except for the ones with animals in them.

Here's my first-half blog: Snickers, what are you on?

And here's the second half: Do not pick up hitchhikers.

Go, boy, go

A little bit on the voice behind the catchy tune in those "Work/Weekend/Dress/Golf" Dockers commercials.

Turns out it's boogie-woogie child prodigy Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson singing, even though everyone thinks the singer is female. Watch the ad here.