January 27th, 2012 at 10:43 AM ^
Yeah, not really.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:44 AM ^
I'm sorry but that might be the single funniest thing I've seen on the internet in a LONG time.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:47 AM ^
I was so apprehensive about posting this thing, but come on ... it's funny, right?
/ doesn't want to go to Bolivia
January 27th, 2012 at 10:50 AM ^
it's a pop-up ad on the internet. not exactly groundbreaking.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:54 AM ^
Look closer.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:01 AM ^
The Jeep appears in the same spot on the screen as Joe's casket.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:19 AM ^
Look closelier
January 27th, 2012 at 11:05 AM ^
I'm with unWavering on this one. Am I just missing the punchline? The ad comes in over the picture of JoePa's funeral... is there something else that I'm missing?
January 27th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
I find it hilarious for two distinct reasons.
I work for a gigantic Ad agency. Pulling off a piece of creative like this takes months of work. It requires significant media planning, ideation, selling to the clients, development, test runs and finally launching it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least 100 folks involved in it from start to finish. There's egg on someone's face, and because I dig a little schadenfreude from time to time I like this.
Also, it's a pretty solemn article about a man's death. It usually would require deep thought, sympathies and cordial well wishing. But instead, you've got an overpowering ad for a car. It's the juxtaposition. It has all the subtlety of a brass band in the middle of Mass.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:47 AM ^
Ah, I see. I thought you were coming at it from the disrespect angle, since that's the vibe I get from whoever posted the video on YT.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:10 PM ^
ya, i got it.
i just really don't find it that amusing. sorry.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:35 AM ^
I just coudn't get it to embed. I tried the lightbox method and the embed thing, but neither worked.
And this is probably why I don't write code anymore. :)
January 27th, 2012 at 10:49 AM ^
Maybe it's because I don't have my speakers on (at work), but I didn't think it was that funny.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:00 AM ^
due to you being sober.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:22 AM ^
That's what you think
January 27th, 2012 at 10:50 AM ^
I'm only slightly embarrassed to say that I don't really get it....
January 27th, 2012 at 11:37 AM ^
are looking too deep. It is a somber funeral with a casket presumably with amazing grace playing in the background, and then bam, a jeep is driving at you spraying up mud and dirt on the screen. There is no hidden humor, grand irony, or anything else to get. It is funny in the same way as an unintended fart or somebody accidentally blowing snot out of their nose while laughing. Funny like American Pie or Jackass. lowest common denominator stuff.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:52 AM ^
I lol'd
January 27th, 2012 at 10:57 AM ^
It's not like it was a live broadcast of the funeral or something. Just a picture.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:12 AM ^
I don't even think it is a pop-up. I see the arrow cursor change to the point / click cursor and hover right at the very edge of the jeep banner at the top of the page.
January 27th, 2012 at 11:16 AM ^
Blew through his funeral! Yeah kids!
January 27th, 2012 at 11:27 AM ^
How can it be disrespectful
If he doesn't deserve any?
January 27th, 2012 at 12:46 PM ^
Can't view it from work, so that'll have to wait.
But my first thought when I heard you say "creative" was that you were in the ad industry. Nobody else talks like that. I only know this because I consulted with the largest advertising group in the world. Spent a lot of time talking with folks from the different operating companies, from very small to very large. It's a unique world.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:50 PM ^
Its ESPN, there is a story. There is an ad that goes full page when you mouse over it. What else is new.
January 27th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
Apparently, winter doesn't stand a chance against Paterno's funeral. That actually was pretty funny when you realize that the Jeep is essentially driving right through where the casket is.