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While thinking about favorite commercials, I remembered a Skittles commercial I saw. It was a stop-motion animation where the Skittles ran all over and made different things. Things like a merry-go-round, and of course the requisite rainbow. I don’t recall many details and thought sure it would be on YouTube, but I didn’t find it.

I did find another on that is just weird enough to share. Continue Reading…

Okay, they found the formula – Beer + techno music + hot robot chicks. Put this in a loop with the Dell XPS commercial and I’m good for quite a while.

I found this one while looking for the clip from the Dell commercial. I’ve never seen it on TV, but that doesn’t alter the fact that it features more Devo. How can you go wrong with that?

It would be so easy to complain about all the commercials I don’t like. In fact, it might be an endless task.

But once in a while a commercial comes along that stands out from the crowd and I just have to enjoy for whatever reason. This is one. Never mind that it really has little to do about laptop computers. The idea of putting a big V8 engine into one is just silly. But silly is what makes this one fun. That and the hot techno-babes with wrenches and music by Devo.

And watch closely, it has just the right amount of cowbell!