"How do you feel?" "Shiiiiiny."

This music video has been floating around the Internet for a little while, but its utter strangeness never fails to get a smile out of me.



It's like a badly-drunk fantasy artist is vomiting book covers into my mind.

"Advertising is a necessary evil. When it's not necessary, it's just evil."

So I was putzin' around the Internet like I usually do, doing some low-key maintenance edits at TVTropes--the pop culture fanatic's favorite time-waster. We Tropers, as we call ourselves, have a certain perverse fondness for our ad server. Some of the strange stuff it pops up now and again, like dubious dating site ads and humorous juxtapositions between pages like "Bad Bad Acting" and a California character actor's webpage, are pretty amusing.

When it dropped this particular nugget on the page I was viewing, though, I couldn't help but giggle. Not because of the corrolation between it and the page--I.E., none--but because of the ad itself:



"See who has a dead-eyed, slack-jawed stare in your area today!"

There was also this one. While it's not quite as "lol, trying too hard" as the above, it's still quite the cornucopia of fail:



Let's go over your problems, shall we?

1) On the upside, that's a nice color sceme! On the downside, I'm now blind.
2) "Is that Comic Sans?" No, but that font manages to be just as aggressively ugly.
3) My hed iz pastede on yey!

All I know is, I'll be keeping my eye out for more bad banner ads. There's got to be more hilarity where this came from...

"Japan" should be sufficient explanation for this one.

Being a fan of anime, I have a certain affection for Japan. I find it interesting how their attitudes on most everything in life--dour, serious, busy, and unflinchingly polite--contrast sharply with their pop culture, which is loud, erratic, candy-colored, and, above all else: Really, really bizarre, and really, really cute.

This inaugural video is the perfect combination of both of the above. It's cute, it's weird, and it's cutely weird and weirdly cute. It's a promotional video for de Blob, a 2008 video game for the Wii. (I totally recommend it, by the way.) While de Blob is actually an American-made game, this ad for it--and the catchy little song that goes with it--is so darn Japanese you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.



I hereby dub you Tuwinkuru-toes-san.