Famous Movie Scenes Recreated with Marmots

These are identification sequences for France 3. That's a TV channel. (via Metafilter)

Real Estate Ad

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New X-Files LEGO Set

Watching someone open a box has never been my cup of tea, but what's inside this one is pretty cool. Gillian Anderson comes out of retirement to portray FBI Special Agent Dana Scully confronting a mysterious delivery. Inside is the new 1,478-piece LEGO set depicting The X-Files TV series! It was submitted to LEGO Ideas by Brent Waller of Brisbane as part of the LEGO Ideas ’90s Nostalgia Challenge. It has Fox Mulder’s office on the bottom, topped by an eerie forest scene, over which a UFO is hovering. It includes eight minifigs, both human and alien. 

Kids won't be all that excited about this theme, since the show ran from 1993 to 2002. But adult fans will want to check out the set, and read more about its features here. (via Laughing Squid) 

Engagement Ring

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Mint Condition

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We've Only Just Begun

  
You know this song, "We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters. It was heard at every wedding you went to for about twenty years -and a lot of graduations, too. You might think it pretty clever for a bank to use it in an ad inviting young couples to establish their accounts. But couldn't they afford to use the hit version? 

But that's backwards. "We've Only Just Begun" was written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols specifically to advertise a bank in Mendocino, California. Richard Carpenter heard the ad, liked the song, and reached out to the ad agency for the music rights. The Carpenters recorded an expanded version that proved to be a hit and helped them win the Best New Artist Grammy in 1971. It's not the only advertising jingle that was so catchy it became a song, as you will learn in a list of nine such stories at Mental Floss. 

Happy Tooth and Old Mr. Tooth Decay

This 1952 TV ad for Colgate is about as cheaply produced as you could get. Pretty cheesy, too. (via Weird Universe) 

Perfect Tie-In

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Ad Placement

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Peanuts

From 1946. (via Weird Universe) 

Little Hubert Takes A Bubble Bath

I remember this ad well. At the time, I thought, "Hey, it's Mr, Magoo as a woman!" Mr. Bubble might have left no bathtub ring, but it could be hell on a little girl's private parts. (via Memo of the Air) 

One of These Things...

...is not like the others. (via Bad Newspaper)

Medium Honor

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Fulfilling His Dream

Will always wanted to be an air dancer, one of these "tube men" that dances by  blown air power to catch your attention. And he got his wish! Not only is he a tube man, but a professional tube man! The kicker is that this is a real ad, a local commercial for a car dealer. It matters little that you see any of the actual products for sale. If you live in the local area, you'll remember the ad, and the name of the dealer. (via Tastefully Offensive)

Useless Advertising

This vintage ad is pleasant enough. It has cats! But what is it advertising? A servant cat is either dressing or undressing a kitten, so... children's clothing? Laundry soap? Nannies? No, this is an ad for the White Sewing Machine Company, despite no text or illustration of the product. I ran into this a lot in radio advertising. Clients would write their own ad copy and never mention where the store was or what they sold, besides "merchandise." They assumed everyone already knew, which undercuts the very purpose of advertising. (via Undine) 

Handy Kitchen Gadgets

I want these, especially the waffle fries slicer. Too bad I would have to go back to 1952 to get in on this deal. (via Nag on the Lake) 

Wanted

From 1915. (via Undine)

What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials

Dodge aired an ad during the Super Bowl in 2018 that used a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. It was supposed to be inspirational, but there was no hiding the Dodge Ram trucks. Then Nathan Robinson overdubbed a different part of the very same speech to show us what King actually thought about advertising. I am not at all surprised. (via Astead)

Good Things to Eat

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Unloved

When a young man receives a Christmas gift that he doesn't like, it's time for a story. And it's a beautifully animated story about a wolf -the very first wolf- who finds he has no friends. Like the description says, "It's not easy to make friends when you eat them." Can this poor wolf change his life in such a way as to make the other animals tolerate him, or at least stop fleeing in fear? He gets some helpful advice from a hedgehog and other animals along the way. 

"Unloved" is an ad for the French grocery store chain Intermarché from the studio Romance Agency. You won't mind that, because the actual advertising is only a few seconds at the end. You won't mind it being in French, either, because there are subtitles for the scant dialogue. However, the focus is still food, and that comes across as very French as well. (via Metafilter)