With a few days left in the contest, I want to thank everyone for your support of “Brother, Can You Spare A Job?”. As a “thank you” for all of you who went through the trouble of trying to vote for our ad, we’ve worked with the Internet Archive to host a higher quality version of the commercial complete with credits. You can view the upgraded version by clicking on the picture below :

It looks like the movie page still doesn’t have a link up. Until then, you can access the short directly by clicking here.

And while I’m on the subject of “Bush in 30 Seconds”, I hope this doesn’t come off as petty, but am I the only one that thinks 95% of those ads are complete crap? I’ve seen some really great ones, but for the most part, the ads tend to fall into one or more of the following formulas :

Man/Woman yells at the camera

“How will we explain it to the children?”

The “You wouldn’t take this kind of crap from your friends/family/work/etc.”

“Even children know it’s wrong to lie”

Home video of a guy running around in a Bush Mask

Game show parody

Filmmaker interviews friends and family on the street

Faux-quiz with obvious answers (QUESTION : “Who’s the biggest liar ever?”)

…and the absolute worst….

parodies of nursery rhymes or other popular sayings (ex. “I pledge allegiance, to Halliburton, and the Corporate States of America….”)

I wish I had saved the URLs for the really good ones I’ve seen. I searched around on google for some good ads, but I couldn’t find any of the ones I really liked. I did find some pretty good ones here, here, and here. If you saved any links for the ads that you loved or hated, please post them in the comments.