Epic Win: Orville Redenbacher Commercials
Orville Redenbacher had quite a bit of personality for an old guy selling popcorn.
Not bad, right? Popcorn isn’t the sexiest product in the world, but he does alright in a folksy and charming way.
This, on the other hand (Orville’s first posthumous commercial), is disturbing. In fact, it should come with a warning, which I’ll give you, because I’m caring that way:
WARNING: THE SQUICK FACTOR ON THIS VIDEO IS OFF THE CHARTS, YO. WHOEVER DID THIS TO ORVILLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED AND NEVER, EVER MAKE ANOTHER COMMERCIAL.
The original submission and a bane of office life after the jump.
Submitted by Janet
He gave us popcorn… delicious, buttery kernels that someone in the office always burns to a crisp in the microwave. An example of their handiwork, if you will:
The Office Popcorn Burner must be stopped!
Who was the marketing genius who thought of using Zombiebacher?
The same man who will release the zombies very soon… he wants us to believe that zombies wont eat our brains, but instead want good popcorn… a genius indeed….
I totally wrote the company and complained to them about the zombiebacher. They answered back with some corporate-speak about how the ad tested well and they thought it fitting.
Yeah, whatever….still frakkin’ creepy.
“But but but…. it tested well!!” Are you people retarded?!?!
jamie kennedy?
brb gotta blast my eyes out with bleach after that second video >_<
These were made by a kick ass studio, a lot of talent and technology went into them..
but they are creepy.
The Uncanny Valley: where dreams come true, but only if those dreams are really awkward and creepy.
Is it just me, or does it say “Baptist Church” on that bag of burned popcorn?
Maybe Baptist popcorn is more flammable =X
AND that’s Ernie from My Three Sons! He’s the first person you see after Zombie Orville.
That was super creppy. That was a floating CG head on an actor. ::shudder::
The inside of that microwave looks like a nookleer waste dump site. WTF?
Nas-T!
I remember those on all the time. I never tried popcorn in the microwave though ever. I don’t like those hard seeds in the middle.
I remember one time I put some popcorn in the microwave for thirty minutes instead of three… It was a SOLID BRICK of burned popcorn…
The “new” Orville is creeeeeeepy!
That 2nd one was really him? A computer generated him or someone dressed up as him and a spoof commercial?
now all corn is just GMO and maybe imported from other planets to our willing consumers in america.