OK… So here’s my question. Is it possible that Star-Fucking agency BBDO New York could actually do a spot for a major brand without using a fucking star? I just watched their latest effort for Mountain Dew about a couple of geeks that CG Chuck Norris’s head on an ostrich and get a few geeky-yucks out of it… Then guess what? The real Chuck Norris shows up and chases them all over the New York roofscape. But, ‘cos it’s a commercial, instead of beating the living daylights out of them. he just confiscates their can of Mountain Dew, then kicks the shit out of them via his own CG version of them as puppets… I think… But laugh… I wet my knickers with total boredom. One good thing though, I haven’t seen Cindy Crawford, Jason Alexander, or Donald Trump in a BBD&O $10 billion spot for a couple of months […]
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