"It's a Totzilla...and I baked my butt off!"
This is the 150th anniversary of the Utah State Fair and the slogan for this year's event is "All Your Wildest Dreams Will Come True." And in an ad campaign that's sheer genius, they've recruited none other than Napoleon and Pedro as spokesmen. They appear in three TV and five radio ads and the result is, well, freakin' awesome.
The 30-second videos are in RealPlayer format; you can download them here, here and here. Make sure you don't have a mouth full of delicious bass or something while you watch them or you'll have a monitor cleaning job on your hands.
Watching these videos, there's no doubt in my mind that someone needs to get a sequel to the big screen, and muy pronto!
Update: I just listened to the radio ads (they're linked on the Fair's home page) and they're even funnier than the videos...especially #5. "The Utah State Fair is really sweet...the cows will soon turn into meat."
Tip o'the hat to AdFreak, who's finding all the sweet stuff nowadays.
Technorati tags: Utah State Fair | Napoleon Dynamite | Totzilla
Jeff, sorry that Ad #5 isn't working; I'm sure it's just a temporary thing...unless the tremendous flood of traffic from the Gazette has brought the State Fair's server to its knees! ;-)
Posted by: Eric at August 23, 2005 05:03 PMEric, SWEET! The ads were terrific, and all of the links worked. You are the blogger-MAN. Gosh!
Posted by: John C at August 23, 2005 06:15 PMHey, John, glad my skills were helpful to you! ;-)
Posted by: Eric at August 23, 2005 08:28 PMAbout the publisher
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LOL !!! ... Dang! Those were, like, the funniest spots in the history of time!
Eric, thanks for sharing!
Unfortunately, the file for Radio Ad #5 (on the state fair home page) is broken, so I'll check in on them later.
Posted by: Jeff at August 23, 2005 04:30 PM