Saturday, December 09, 2006

It's a Beautiful Day in the YouTube Neighborhood

Fresh from Yewknee is this quirky and unintentionally hilarious McDonald's commercial from the 1980s:



These are the kind of things YouTube was made for. I mean, it's got all the elements:

1. It's classic retro.
2. It prominently features a celebrity (Jason Alexander) while he was still in pre-celebrity status.
3. It's long. Over a minute, so there's plenty of ridiculousness to go around.
4. The product these whacked-out people (Alexander included) are selling is totally absurd. It seems so psuedo-futuristic to put the lettuce and tomato in its own, separate container!

Plus, now that the whole Michael Richards thing is behind us, it's nice to see another Seinfeld alumni back in the limelight. I'm sure Alexander doesn't care that this commercial's out. He did hawk Kentucky Fried Chicken shortly after Seinfeld!

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