Commercials

Jackie Gleason's My-Show-Sucked Rant

On Jan. 20, 1961, Jackie Gleason hosted the pilot episode of the CBS game show You’re In the Picture. The show was received so poorly that on the following week, instead of doing it again, Gleason talked to the audience from a stripped-down set and ripped his own program for the whole broadcast. Video from this turned up on TV writer Ken Levine's blog. ... (read more)

2010/03/17

Meet Apple Switcher Janie Porche

Janie Porche is so effusively perky in her ad that I googled to see if she's a real human or some kind of test-tube baby cultured in a secret lab at Apple. It appears that Janie is a senior at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who was on the school's golf team last year, though some of her rounds were not pretty (116!) [Google cache link]. At Trinity in 1999, she was ticketed on a "minor in possession" alcohol charge with nine others and they printed Mu Iota Rho (MIP) T-shirts, ... (read more)

2002/10/14