No amount of CGI trickery could save this year's Snickers Super Bowl ad from being a total dog.
If it was possible that an ad campaign can jump the shark, well, this is it. The lunatics behind the ads have taken a scene from the Brady Bunch episode, "The Subject Was Noses" (I believe that's the one), subbing in Danny Trejo ("Machete") for Maureen McCormick as Marcia, and Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) for Eve Plumb as Jan. Factor in Florence Henderson dubbing over herself and a Snickers bar being convienently mixed in via CGI, and......
This is worth as many facepalms as you could muster. It's that bad.
2 comments:
As someone who used to love this show as a kid, I thought it was hilarious! Seeing Buscemi as Jan was an unexpected bonus!
As it turns out, the scene wasn't quite from "The Subject Was Noses", but the dialogue was lifted from it to a point. There was just something wrong about Trejo as Marcia. Buscemi, back doing comedy, was a bonus, yes, but let's see him do Urkel.....
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