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I dunno…I kind of think I like this ad mostly because I like the Grimes song they’ve used.  On the other hand, it’s amazing what a little slo-mo can do for what would otherwise be a pretty dull bit of footage.

“Cherreeeee, cherry blahsom!”

Ah, the perfect commercial to run between episodes of Jacob Two-Two and HR Pufnstuf!

Bonus:  This video has a note from a guy named Barry Stringer who says he was the art director and copywriter for this commercial when he worked at Vickers & Benson in Montreal.  The 70s were a great time for Canadian commercials, if you ask me.

There’s nothing I can say about these ‘scratch posters’ that the video doesn’t say better.  Except maybe:  “Why do we never see stuff like this in Toronto?”

They’ve started running some cheesy new commercial for Aero chocolate bars, featuring (I think) that horrible woman from the Ebates spots riding around on her kid’s bicycle, because of course the bubbles in Aero bars somehow make you feel like a kid again.  Riiiggghhhht.  I’ll tell you how to feel like a kid while eating a chocolate bar:  Eat one without afterwards feeling guilty about it.  You don’t need an Aero for that – you just need to forget about those extra 10lbs you’ve been trying to lose for the past 3 years.  

I wish Aero would just run this spot again.  It’s quirky, it’s got a bit of a non-sequitur vibe (“Milk is perfect on cereal.  Aero?  Why not?”), and the voiceover is excellent.

 

I’ll never forget the first time I saw this:  In Gary Prouk’s office at Lowe SMS in 1995.  I was very new to advertising, and had no idea that there were so many creative, hilarious commercials out there that never made it onto Canadian tv screens.  I wasn’t even familiar with this Desmond Dekker track, but that didn’t matter – the ad made sense anyway.