This is a video of a forced perspective billboard in Times Square where a licker escapes its glass cell as a promo for the upcoming Resident Evil series on Netflix. Obviously it’s pretty cool, but it only really works from this one particular angle. From any other angle it will

This is a 1992 commercial for the latest and greatest in spreadsheet applications: Microsoft Excel. In the ad, a businessdude makes a super shitty 4 x 4 spreadsheet on what appears to be the world’s first laptop that blows everybody’s minds and saves the day. Full disclosure: I hate, and

This is a commercial for the Yomega Brain yo-yo (Amazon ad link) aired during Saturday morning cartoons in the 90’s. It perfectly encapsulates the nineties in a now painful to watch 30-second ad. God, I was one of those kids. Toss in a kid with terrible hand-foot coordination playing hacky

This is a 1977 television commercial for the original Star Wars film focusing on the romance between Luke and Leia. In hindsight it seems super creepy, but Luke and Leia being siblings was never part of George Lucas’s plan when the movie was made. Or even when The Empire Strikes

How about those Super Bowls, huh? Not really that super. Nobody even managed to bowl three strikes in a row. Even I’ve gotten two before. This is the full version of Cadillac’s Super Bowl ad for their all-electric LYRIQ vehicle, starring Edward Scissorhands’ son Edgar (plus mom Kim, Winona Ryder)

Since they’re both owned by Yum! Brands, the Colonel has decided to take another page out of Taco Bell’s ‘Think outside the box’ playbook (not that he hasn’t been for quite some time) and developed a high-end bucket-shaped gaming PC in a collaboration with PC hardware manufacturer Cooler Master. The

This is a marketing video of a leather-vest-with-no-undershirt clad Vin Diesel playing with some Street Shark toys at the 1994 Toy Fair, at age 27. Man, he is INTO those Street Sharks. I don’t even think this is acting, I think he really feels a connection to those toys. “You’re

This is some behind-the-scenes footage from an Esurance commercial starring a couple on a roller coaster, and the guy clearly isn’t a big fan of roller coasters (a person working on the commercial said it was actually one of his greatest fears). You’d never be able to tell from the