Monday, December 4, 2006

WHERE'S THE BEEF? Memo to the editors of Giant: The word greatest usually means something along the lines of "highest in degree or quality." Thus when labeling an online feature "The 50 Greatest Commercials of the '80s" naturally the reader would expect to find a selection of '80s TV spots which the editors, after at least some consideration, deemed to be, well, "the greatest." Instead, what you seem to have assembled is "The First 50 Commercial of the '80s Our Interns Could Find on YouTube."

Sure there are some amusing spots in here (bravo for unearthing the Freedom Rock spot, which we actually owned on cassette back in that dark decade) and some, such as the Brooke Shields Calvin Klien ad, might actually make a true "greatest" list, but besides the aforementioned Wendy's spot, where are Apple's 1984 commercial, Reagan's Morning in America or Willie Horton? What about "It's got to be the shoes" and "Bo Knows"? Where is "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV"? Hell, even Herb the Nerd deserves a mention.

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