Great stuff you maybe missed
Gummi snuff film
Vesti la giubba! Spotted on YouTube by BB pal Drew Carey, this 1960s Rice Krispies commercial is an award winner. Simpsons fans may recall Krusty the Klown paying homage to it as well. (via @DrewFromTV)
Rice Krispies classic operatic commercial
Vesti la giubba! Spotted on YouTube by BB pal Drew Carey, this 1960s Rice Krispies commercial is an award winner. Simpsons fans may recall Krusty the Klown paying homage to it as well. (via @DrewFromTV)
Leave a comment
First-ever CC-licensed film in Sweden, available from Pirate Bay
Mathias sez, "Nasty Old People is the first feature film in Swedish history to be released under a Creative Commons license." Mette is a member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque... More.
Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors
Rachel Maddow did a segment on her always-superb show tonight about Ralph Lauren's recent bogus legal threats against various blogs -- including this one. Those DMCAs sent by lawyers for Lauren demanded the removal of a badly photoshopped ad which morphed a model into a lollipop-headed stick f... More.
Short video profiles of interesting New Yorkers
A city guide website called Revel in New York makes great mini documentaries about interesting New Yorkers. Here are a few: The Pigeon Lady, an East Village pigeon fancier who's been stealing pigeons from prized coops for nearly a decade. (Above) High Times senior editor David Bienenstock, wh... More.
A Tour of the Deepest Cave in the United States
Lechuguilla Cave is part of the Carlsbad Caverns Natural Park in New Mexico and is regarded as one of the most beautiful caves, with some of the most unique geography, in the entire world. You can't visit. Because of the delicacy of many of the formations, the cave is only open to scientists and t... More.
Elephant gives birth
This video of an elephant giving birth gets a little intense at the moment of actual delivery and immediately thereafter, but it also made my heart swell in my chest. There is something just goddamned wonderful about mammal and avian reproduction (insects and bacteria not so much), and it's not ju... More.
Recent Comments
Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow
David Pescovitz and Xeni Jardin
Editors
Rob Beschizza
Managing Editor
Lisa Katayama, Maggie Koerth-Baker
and Brandon Boyer
Contributing Editors
Sysadmin
Lead Moderator
Moderator
Moderator
Finance
Legal
Legal
Insurance
Developer
Friend
Ken Snider
Antinous
Arkizzle
Avram
Terry Thurlow
Rob Rader/MS&K
Marc Mayer/MS&K
Ed Szylko/EJMS
Dean Putney
Jason Weisberger
John Battelle
Partner
Federated Media
Advertising
RSS Feed
Gosh, you're making me feel old. I remember this commercial, and actually sung it for my son a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for digging it up!
Tony M
Columbus OH
hahaha... welp, the fat lady sang!
My tears will not stop
until I hear snap crackle pop
I hate to sound all getoffmylawn, but the commercials in the 60s were mostly better than the programs are now.
Italo-American stereotype much ?
The Tahiti Bob's version in Rome was cool noneless.
Can't recall seeing this, but I do remember that style of box.
I barely remember a cereal commercial with Jimmy Durante. He was plugging Corn Flakes that came with dehydrated banana slices.
This truly is a "wonderful thing"
I'll watch it but I'm boycotting kellogs for the crap with Phelps.
Wait, I know I've heard The Simpsons paying homage to the wonderful Vesti La Giubba from Pagliacci.
But they also riffed the the Rice Crispy version riffing the original? Interesting.
Oh, wait. Never mind, I misread the description.
Who is that man? Looks very familiar.
What is the Simpson episode wher Krusty paying homage to it ?
beautiful.
It's a marvelous commercial but I get the impression that it didn't go over too well with the target audience considering nobody every tried it again with other products. Life is unfair.
They also did versions of Madame Butterfly and Carmen - the Toreador Song. Wonderful stuff!
Madame Butterfly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVM567BTXw&feature=related
I forgot to mention the Rolling Stones rice Krispies commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZBmhEMFdl0&feature=related
Thanks for posting this! a quick search on YouTube turns up a nice handful of entertaining operatic commercials: of particular note:
The Fiat lady sings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P61eUElAkZc&feature=related
austrailian Weet-bix eating soccer players :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvBwfKpoDc
It kind of reminds me of me, doing alternative Karaoke for the Empty Orchestra Cafe in the 90s.
Is this from the same guys who gave us: "I cant believe I ate the whole thing" from alka-seltzer?
"Is this from the same guys who gave us: "I cant believe I ate the whole thing" from alka-seltzer?"
You mean Mary Wells?
PS, I believe that Rice Krispies ad is from the early 1970s.
The guy looks like Johnny Haymer who played Sgt. Zale on M*A*S*H but I'm not sure that's him.
Agreed--commercials back then were better than any sitcom on TV today.