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Animals, animal, animals. Much like babies, the use of animals almost guarantees your commercial will be a success. Not that that’s what Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was going for when it brought back Sully the talking sheep for a new series of commercials. Oh wait, of course they were. Sequels, people, sequels! Why bother with something new when a rehash will do?

Of course, this work is much more than a rehash. Our sheep, Sully, gets to walk upright, Ditch the Herd and have a whole lot of fun with his newfound human friends. Check out the series of four :15s below.

StubHub is back with its full on wackiness courtesy of Ticket Oak, that crazy tree filled with ticket stubs. In the new ad, created by D/C and shot by Biscuit Filmworks, Ticket Oak has a few too many Lattes and can’t help buy spew out event ideas for the weekend.

Really nothing else to say other than watch it. Good stuff.

While it would certainly be amusing to stand at a bus top, visit a mobile site and then be picked up by a super cool sports car or a dog sled or a bus filled with carnival characters but how exactly does all that sell Qualcomm mobile services? If, in fact, that’s what this stunt is trying to sell. Because we have no idea since we were distracted by all the stunt’s hoopla.

This makes about as much sense as the brand’s keynote at CES.

In this hilarious video, two “gangs” of women take on each other in a tampon versus mooncup bathroom rap competition. For those who don’t know (we didin’t), a mooncup is a silicon menstrual cup women can use instead of a tampon or sanitary napkin.

It’s like a direct to consumer ad that’s actually watchable.

Dating site Zoosk is out with a silly video in which a girl tries to get it on with a real frog. The message, of course, is that a woman’s prince will never be found in a frog but just might be a few click away on Zoosk.

We like this Publicis Switzerland-created campaign for Garnier Frustis’ “for any hair type” shampoo that features guys with long beards that aren’t really beards and aren’t really attached to the guys. Look closely at the ads and you’ll see what we mean.

Copyranter thinks the campaign will win a Gold Lion at Cannes this year. It just might. Whether or not it sells any shampoo is, as always, of no concern to anyone.

Last week a mysterious teaser campaign began to appear on outdoor media across the nation. The campaign made statements such as “The Genetically Privileged Deserve to Die, “Cat Lovers Deserve to Die, “Crazy Old Aunts Deserve to Die, “Hipsters Deserve to Die, “The Tattooed Deserve to Die” and others.

Many were not pleased with the campaign’s sentiment with some ripping down the posters and one man telling CBS Chicago, “Nobody deserves to die; come on, that’s a hell of a statement.”

The campaign, which this week was revealed to be from the Lung Cancer Alliance, includes a website on which copy reads, “Every year over 160,000 lives are lost to a deadly disease. They didn’t ask for it, but many people seem to think they deserved it. This disease doesn’t discriminate. It affects almost all of us and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. So what is the killer? You’ll find out soon enough.”

A clock counted down the days until the campaign would be revealed. Does this campaign offend? Or is it just another pointed attempt at achieving attention, notoriety and press?

This past April, we highlighted some typically twisted car dealer advertising from Cosby, Texas-based John Keating Chevrolet. The dealership is owned by Rick Melartin who, in the ads, referred to himself as The Finnisher (he’s from Finland and competed in the Olympics) because he caught three robbers at gunpoint over the course of 15 years.

The ads are, indeed, strange but he was hailed locally as a hero for his neighborhood protection efforts. That, however, may no longer be the case. Melartin, 51, and his assistant, 37-year-old Maroun Koutani have been accused of plying a 16-year-old female employee, the dealership’s receptionist, with alcohol and sexually fondling her in a dealership office.

Reportedly, court documents say Melartin also, on separate occasions, offered the girl $200 to see her naked, exposed himself to her and is alleged to have had sex with the girl.

In late August, according to the teen, Melartin offered the girl a Monster drink which he later admitted was spiked with alcohol. Melartin then asked the girl to come upstairs to an office, along with Koutani, because he had something to show her. It’s then alleged both men fondled the girl who has since said she received $500 from from Melartin over the course of three separate incidents.

The girl’s mother, who claims Melartin may have assaulted other girls, has said Melartin tried to pay the family off for their silence. But the family has hired a lawyer to press charges.

Seems The Finnisher is finished.

Hahahaha! This is a funny one. Or a creepy one depending upon your viewpoint. To sell his 1977 yellow Datsun 280Z, Kim Ridley photographed his 20-year-old daughter, Lexxa, draped across the vehicle in a series of images for an ad on eBay.

Explaining his motivation for using his daughter, Ridley told AdFreak, “If I felt bad about it, I wouldn’t do it.”

Apparently, his strategy paid off. The car has sold for $7,500. Hey, whatever works.

Oh you silly Internet Famous people. Always ending up in ads created by 20-something creatives who think they are so hip for finding you and putting you in ads for big brands who’ve probably never even heard of you but place their trust in their 20-something agency account manager because, well, they are hip and cool and know what the kids like these days.

Anyway, here’s yet another overly hip and cool piece of Internet Famedom from Samsung. And what do we know. The video’s already been viewed 430,000 so you 20-somethings must know what the hell you are talking about.