This instructional video for how to take apart your Showbiz Pizza Place is strangely fascinating and horrifying in the same way it would have been when you were eight years old. We all loved our Showbiz/Chuck E. Cheese’s, but those singing, whirring bastards were more than a little creepy; they only sang to calm you before you started crying, and the moment as the curtains parted before they started moving and talking always sent a little jibbly-chill up my back. Now, you can relive that moment at your leisure, with the additional element of seeing the creatures dismembered as a calm, clinical voice intones, “Next, remove the drumsticks and face. Set the drumsticks aside; you will be using them again later.” For what? Oh my God, for what??
(i love you, youtube)
December 11th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXEbohjrx9Q
This commercial plays on ESPN in NYC. Unbelievable.
Consider that design meeting
“Hey guys, and I’m just spitballin’ here but what if aliens came to our strip club and liked it so much they decided that they didn’t want to go home but their commander tells them to go home so they pretend they’re having engine trouble or something and then we see them getting lapdances. I mean, I don’t know, I think it could work.”
December 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Youtube is a beautiful miracle.
Wow. I could spend all afternoon trying to reverse engineer that commercial, but I’m not sure I’d ever get close to what its creators were actually thinking. You own a gentlemen’s club; you want to entice people to visit your club; where do sucker-fingered reptilians wade into your stream of consciousness?
This could be one of those situations where the guy behind the ad just thinks about aliens all day long. His house is just full of X-Files posters and E.T. figurines, and whenever they have to do a spot for a local insurance company or used car lot, he keeps pitching, “What if aliens crash their space car, and they have less-than-perfect space credit?”
“Oh, Steve, that is every pitch you have.”
“But I already have the masks at home. Pout.”