As an ad man at heart, I love clever gimmicks, pitches and products. This ad for Oscar Mayer bacon nearly hits that stride.
It’s got the right idea — selling bacon to guys like De Beers sells diamonds to women. It even has a website where, for a limited time, you can order a felt-covered box of bacon for your loved one to open like the world’s tastiest engagement ring.
Unfortunately, unlike the Dollar Shave Club CEO/pitchman, Oscar Mayer’s CEO doesn’t quite have the same cool cache, and ends up bogging down the commercial with his scripted “cool speak.” But he’s kind of got this accent like a “Die Hard” villain and the whole time, all I could think was “Get out of my bacon commercial, you commie!” Sure, he’s probably a savvy European capitalist, but I’m a fat, loud American who loves bacon, pickup trucks and war. So you can expect a certain level of ignorance from me.
Here are some other good ads that sell the hell out of their less-exciting products:
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[…] Father’s Day is one of those uncomfortable holidays when you have to show emotion to the figure in your life who teaches you not to show too much emotion. And so you awkwardly hand over the tie or power tool and say, “Thanks for being my dad.” And he opens it and pretends he likes it and then you eat some steak or arm wrestle or he gets drunk and punches you to the floor. But in his role as father, in between drinking and watching pro wrestling on TV, occasionally some advice slips out as well (along with the farts). And that advice, when caught on videotape, can go on to help a great many young people out there grow up to be drunken, arm-wrestling burnouts, just like their old man. […]