Plastic Fantastic Spender
October 23rd, 2007
I think this TV commercial is obviously intended to get people into the holiday shopping mood.
The second thing I noticed about this commercial is that it’s a full minute long, which is relatively rare these days. The reason it deserves to be a 60-second spot is the first thing I noticed — the music, which I recognized immediately. It’s by Danny Elfman, from this…
Tech note: The buzz in the TV commercial is from Comedy Central. Not my fault.
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1. Dog Rat | October 23rd, 2007 at 11:37 pm
By the way, the Pee Wee video was taken from yet another LaserDisc that’s 20-something years old, played on a 20-year-old Pioneer LD deck. This isn’t even a particularly impressive disc (note the noisy reds), yet reduced to 400×300 and digitally compressed for Web viewing, it’s obvious that the source is vastly superior to VHS.
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