U.S.S. Spam Supplemental

This is supplemental to the video found here.

Fun Fact: The original line in the script was actually “A&W Brand Root Beer” but when I went to buy the props, my local store didn’t have cans of A&W so I went with Mug. Now you can impress your friends with that little piece of information.

For any of you who didn’t get the joke at the end of the credits, Arby’s has a promotion going on where they want people to submit their own commercials to them about how Arby’s is “good mood food” whatever that means, and to incorporate that new tag line into the ad. Unfortunately, the guy who tells you this in the commercial seems douchey enough from the get go, and then they decide to auto-tune him saying “Arby’s is Good Mood Food” and it sounds just awful. I guess that’s why they need Joe Shmo to make commercials for them, as their ad execs hire this douche and come up with craptastic slogans like “Good Mood Food” because “I’m thinking Arby’s” was soooo bad a slogan.

If I were to make a commercial for them, I’d have two people, probably mid-twenties men since that seems to be who they’re targeting with aforementioned douche commercial, sitting around talking about how crappy they’re feeling, then one says to the other “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” and they look over at each other to see the Arby’s hat floating above each others’ heads and both go “Aw, yeah.” Cut to them eating at Arby’s and obviously having a great time, over which an announcer, not a jackass with baby’s first vocoder but an actual announcer, say the slogan. I, however, don’t really have the technical know-how to do the whole hat thing, nor do I have enough people around here to film that with, nor do I think the local Arby’s would want me just filming in their place. That’s because for some reason the person who came up with that awful ad I hear quite often starting up a Blip video is a professional at making ads while I am a jobless guy making silly internet videos in my infinite spare time.

Back to the subject of the video, that whole thing with “Sorry Again” is actually more true now then when I recorded the video. Why in the world do the spambots all go to that one page? Seriously, is that page highly frequented so they think it will reach a bigger audience there? Why? This world is a strange place.

You know what, just for fun, I think I’m going to allow all the spam that shows up on this page. We can see how much of it accrues over time.