For your Tuesday pleasure, a smattering of old TV commercials starring not-yet-famous stars.
John Travolta, soaping up with a few fellow young actors in the shower:
Brad Pitt, snacking on Pringles and checking out the ladies:
Keanu Reeves, flexing his magnificent acting chops as a dancing, thieving waiter:
Morgan Freeman, going all Amos-n- Andy for Listerine:
Prepubescent Leo DiCaprio, flacking Bubble Yum to impressionable youngsters:
Ben Affleck, playing a horndog would-be Burger King delivery boy:
And, lest you think it was only the young male stars who sold themselves to the Commercial Gods, here is Evangeline Lilly, selling herself in quite another way:
Hat tip to the various “10 Most Embarrassing” websites out there. I just cherry-picked the ones I liked the best.
Awesome. At low resolution, that Brad Pitt one is just orange man-flesh, orange woman-flesh, BRAD PITT’S FACE, orange man-flesh.
Also, I had to look up Evangeline Lilly. I see she’s in some show called “Lost,” probably a reality show.
“In quite a different way” isn’t quite right, is it? I mean she is not being a prostitute, she’s making a commercial even if for a service that people confuse with prostitution. I look forward to watching these videos but need guidance in appreciating the post title.
Nice idea for a post, I liked it!
I was especially fond of the Morgan Freeman bit — I love the friendly-conversation-commercial; it’s sort of a lost art.
3: Watch the first video. Soon that phrase will be stuck in your head for days.
What’s the title about? Is this some Matrix reference?
oh no, just watched #1. OH now i get 6. I though you were saying watch 3 FIRST!
God the internets! so wacky sometimes.
That first video is excellent — but I wish they were singing “Ted, Woody and Junior”.