The voice over tells you there are two sources of cholesterol. . .one you get from food, and one from your parents.
Then, they proceed to show you all the food that looks like people. The black woman with grey hair is compared to a big chocolate souffle. The Indian guy somehow looks like the grilled cheese sandwich with the olives (that one is kind of impressionistic).
Great commercial, IMHO.
Two comments:
Number one: I saw the commercial like 10 times before it dawned on me the people look like the food. I think it was the woman in the blue dress with the white hair next to the blue jello with whip cream what finally hit me in the forehead with a hammer.
Number two: Hey Asian Guy! Your face looks like a big sloped ham! That’s right. The folks at Vytorin have put your happy, grinning mug right next to a giant, pink, sloping ham and now I’m unable to look at asian people without superimposing a big pink ham in place of their head. Way to go.
I always noticed the people look like the food, but then I think that’s because I first saw a amgazine ad for it with the picture of the bald white guy with the ywllow glasses on the left, and a couple of fried eggs on the right. Clicked right away, so I was looking for them to match when I saw the commercial.
It was either the chocolate souffle woman or the blue jello woman that made it click for me. I think it’s rather creative, it makes me wonder what type of cholesterol laden food I look like.
They’ve changed the ham-head guy. It used to be a sort of smug, former-football star looking guy, with maybe a crew cut. He was a perfect ham.
I look forward to that commercial. I think it’s wonderfullly creative. I must say, though, I do like their other one with the hunky older man getting ready to swim and the women giving him the eye, while a suggestive version of “I Only Have Eyes for You” plays. Then he does a belly flop.
Yeah, the blue Jell-O lady did it for me too. Also the black lady with the Carmen Miranda hat (or whatever – I don’t think she’s been in it lately). Liked the “Italian ham” guy also.
As far as I know, the Italian/ham guy is gone. It seems they changed the commercial to be a little more multi-cultural. Though why any ethnic group would bemoan the absence of their presence in a commercial comparing them to high cholesterol foods is beyond me.
While I thought this too, I had the impression that the guy was more specifically Hawaiian. I think part of that was because he looks pretty Americanized and is wearing a Hawaiian Shirt (covered with pinapples to match the pinapple garnish, you got that right?). Due to that I think he made a better Ham than the other guy…plus Hawaiians love SPAM!
I liked the commercial like this one, but with cars instead of food. It’s more clear that the cars are supposed to look like the people. I don’t remember for sure which car company that was–maybe Honda. It was funnier, trust me.
I remember that one. It was funnier because it played a love song over the visuals of the people and the cars. I forget exactly which song, but that’s what made it better.
That’s one one that did it for me, too.
