Cold Call Carl Sells Twitter to the Masses

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Because why master Twitter yourself when you could pay a consultant $400 per hour?

Because It’s Obligatory for Moms to Be Like, ‘No, Don’t Get Me Anything’

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I read somewhere that Mother’s Day is more important to mothers than any other holiday. And while we may suspect that’s true, moms are constantly trying to downplay it — which is a dirty trick you should never fall for.

Commercial Parodies Get Spotlight

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Ooo, ooo, ooo! Who doesn’t love a good parody ad?

Watching Someone Eat His Feelings? That Never Gets Old.

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It’s funny about York Peppermint Patties. They’re delightful — but, as with Andes Mints, I never actually ate one unless it came out of a complimentary candy bowl. Who actually buys them for casual snacking purposes?

Adland Causes Runny Farts and Will Kill You

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This just in!! This “Reuters” story is one day late but apparently adland kills us all and is the cause of 1.6 million deaths each year.

Don’t Just Join a Startup; Start Up a New Chapter for Man.

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Last year Google turned your love life into an algorithmically solvable search problem. This year it’s teamed up with Virgin to give us Virgle: the adventure of not one, but many lifetimes.

Retirement Isn’t Hard. Not Like Killing a Man without Breaking Eye Contact!

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Here’s a Ryan Iverson parody of Dennis Hopper’s Ameriprise ads — which were creepy to begin with.

New Social Network ncludr Makes Everyone Your Friend

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In what is clearly a joke or some sort of clandestine promotion for the next greatest social network or some other entity, ncludr.com (get it? includer?) has launched

JerryTime Celebrates Easter With Nazi Propaganda Spoof

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To celebrate Easter, JerryTime, that goofy video series we discovered years ago, has put together a new video called Triumph of the Peeps.

Comfeze Brings Uncomfezable Twist to Typical Diaper Ad

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Wow. This is warped. That’s apt, because it’s a spoof spot for Scream TV, which wants us all to (tagline, tagline!) “Get scared more often.”

Spitzer Scandal Spun to Promote Virgin Mobile

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“I’m tired of being treated like a number…” laments NY Governor Eliot Spitzer in this print ad for Virgin Mobile in Canada.

PETA Would be Proud of Dove Evolutionized Foster Farm Chicken

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What? Let a week go by without another Dove Evolution spoof? OK so we’ve let lots of weeks slip without sharing one which is why we’ll share this Foster Farms chicken transformation with you.

You Want It. You Need It. The iHam 5J!

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It’s a high-cholesterol take on Apple’s design-makes-the-man ethos.

Pepsi, Diet Pepsi Max Super Bowls Ads Get Nut Cracking Mashup

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Oh God. It’s that damn song again.

Adrants Plagiarizes Agency Spy’s Love For UK Levi’s Campaign

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There are a few of these, but here’s our favorite from a series of new print ads from BBH UK for Levi’s.

Just an MLK, Jr. Day Time-Waster with Unusually Broad Scope

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If you have strong positive feelings about any of the following:

– Beer
– World of Warcraft
– Georges Bizet’s Carmen

Then you will probably still not love this.

Sometimes Taste is All in the Shape. Just Ask Cheerios.

These videos (1, 2, 3) parody both clueless focus group victims and anal spoonfeeding marketing moderators. It’s for Diamond Shreddies, which is like ordinary square-shaped cereal, except it’s diamond-shaped. Big ha-ha. The thing is, these spoofs aren’t any less…