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Honda's Tetris-tastic Jazz/Fit commercial
Who could forget Tetris, that most addictive and iconic of video games. Honda calls on our nostalgia with this ad for its European-market Jazz (which debuted at Detroit as the Fit for the North American market).
The jazzy TV spot shows how much you can fit in the versatile 5-door Honda hatch. (The ad's in German, though the only voice-over is for a second at the end. Wunderbar!)
(A sharp commenter on the source site pointed out a similar clip from The Simpsons. "Simpsons did it!")
[Source: paultan.org]
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jonathan 8:37PM (9/17/2006)
That is directly ripped from a Simpson's episode. Where Homer works out one arm after buying a dumbell from that Arnold Schwarzeneger type character's yard sale.
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Car chops and Discussion 9:52PM (9/17/2006)
I was going to point out that it was a simpsons knock off before I finished reading the article :P but you guys beat me to it.
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jonathan 10:05PM (9/17/2006)
This site edits news posts without marking them? That's interesting, because not only did I not get credit for pointing out the Simpsons thing, the newspost was then edited to make me look like an idiot who just repeats what's been already been stated.
Um. Nice.
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Ted K 10:29PM (9/17/2006)
The Fit doesn't need advertisements. Everyone I know wants one.
The Fit needs bumped production. Honda literally can't build them fast enough for demand.
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Jeff Crew 10:52PM (9/17/2006)
Either way, Simpson's or not, well done ad.
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DPC car videos 3:40AM (9/18/2006)
Yes, I did see that episode from the Simpson's. Great commercial.
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Kris 8:21AM (9/18/2006)
This was on Joystiq a couple weeks ago:
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/06/german-honda-ad-apes-tetris-simpsons/
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Mattazuma 9:22AM (9/18/2006)
If you can't get the commercial to load (like me), it's on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dR3VNH0UjRk
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