Because Nothing Says “BUY THIS!” Like An Exposed Ribcage
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
A promotional piece for Samsung’s new NV24 HD camera. The clip, featuring a safari, yawning lions, “Banana Boat Song”, and some questionable computer animation, teeters precariously on the edge of absurd and insipid just before losing its balance and plummeting into the abyss when the half eaten corpse of an antelope rises briefly from the dead to sing a verse and, perhaps, jiggle its entrails.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Amazing Yawning Lions [YouTube] : Thanks, Brain!
Categories: Animals, Corpses, WTF, Ads, Products, Advertising
Posted at 3:07 pm on July 23, 2008
11 Comments -
Yet another thing to add to my pile of impulse buys just because I can not resist a sales pitch from the reanimated dead.
Comment by Hlaode — July 23, 2008 @ 3:27 pm
Very entertaining, and confusing. But, I must say, this would be better if the lions were crowded around the antelope feasting then broke into song. The antelope would then stand up, gore smothered, rapping about the circle of life. The scene is too clean for my tastes.
Comment by epheros — July 23, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
And there goes one minute and ninteen seconds of my life, most of it staring at the screen and asking myself, “who comes up with this stuff?”
Comment by Robert — July 23, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
I want to work in advertising. They obviously let you take loads of drugs, then turn your drug fueled nonsense into short films. How cool is that as a job?
Zombie Antelope Rapper FTW.
Comment by cha0tic — July 23, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
@cha0tic : Sure. At the price of your soul….
Anyways, delicious off-color advertising. Om nom nom nom
Comment by Chill — July 24, 2008 @ 6:48 am
To have the lions’ rendition of “Day-O” supplanted by whatever dancehall reggae track the antelope starts singing and then to have the whole oasis spontaneously break into song is nothing less than genius.
Bra-vo, Samsung. Bra-vo.
Comment by scott — July 24, 2008 @ 8:36 am
Man oh man, that’s wrong on so many levels.
Comment by Giania — July 24, 2008 @ 8:37 am
god, I am starting the day with a bright spot. I don’t want to think about how shitty my day would have been if it hadn’t started with a dancing antelope corpse…Thank you, from the bottom of my giggling exposed lion-gnawed heart.
Comment by Andy — July 24, 2008 @ 9:39 am
I want to meet the person that pitched this to management. And then I want to raid his medicine cabinet.
Comment by Devon — July 24, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Great. More fuel for my nightmares. Thank you very much.
Comment by sirwete — July 24, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
Just sent this link to a mate of mine (still hungover from last night’s wedding party) while he was eating. Love the vid, it makes for a great ambush:)
Comment by Andy — July 27, 2008 @ 11:51 am