Category: 2000s

In a world where Don LaFontaine does a commercial for GEICO

Donald LaFontaine (born August 26, 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota), is a legendary voice actor famous for recording over 5,000 movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers. Due to the sheer volume of trailer voiceovers LaFontaine has recorded, he has become identified with the phrase “In a world…”, which has been used in movie trailers so frequently that it has become a cliché. He has also parodied this cliché several times, more recently in a commercial for GEICO insurance.

Trailers or previews are film advertisements for films that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, on whose screen they are shown. The term “trailer” comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a film programme.

[GEICO] commercials use a variety of fictional characters such as Speed Racer and Bill Dutchess as well as real people such as Tony Little and Don LaFontaine spoofing themselves.

The New 12 and 17 inch PowerBooks

In 2003, the 15-inch [Apple Macintosh] PowerBooks were redesigned and featured the same aluminum body style as their smaller and larger siblings, and with the same feature set as the 17-inch model (including the backlit keyboard).

Verne Troyer (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor and stunt man. Verne is notable by his dwarfism, as a result of which he stands 81 centimeters (2 feet, 8 inches) tall. Troyer appeared as himself in an Apple Computer commercial for its 12-inch and 17-inch PowerBooks, in which he used the larger computer and Chinese NBA star Yao Ming used the smaller one.

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; pinyin: Yáo Míng) (born September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, standing at 7’6″ (2.29 m). Yao Ming has several sponsorship deals, including the 2008 Beijing Olympics, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Visa, Apple, Reebok,and Garmin.

Purex Naked New Neighbour

A sock is a knitted or woven type of hosiery garment for enclosing the human foot. They are worn on the feet.

The meanings of nudism and naturism are very similar, and refer to a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and public spaces.

The Dial Corporation is a maker of personal care and household cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It began as a brand of deodorant soap manufactured by Armour and Company, the legendary Chicago meatpacking firm, and through a series of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, emerged by the 2000s as a stand-alone leading personal care and household cleaning products company. As well as Dial soap, major brands include Purex.

Cheetos Laundromat

Cheetos are a crunchy, cheese-flavored cornmeal snack made by Frito-Lay. They were invented in San Antonio, Texas by Fritos inventor Charles Elmer Doolin along with a potato product called “Fritatos”.

A self-service laundry is a facility where clothes are washed and dried. They are known in the UK as launderettes or laundrettes – and in the USA as laundromats or washaterias.

Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actress.

Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated English film, television and stage actor. He is perhaps most widely known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as Professor Xavier in the X-Men films.

Chevy Chase won’t fall for Aflac

Aflac Incorporated sells supplemental health and life insurance in the United States and Japan. In the United States, Aflac is known for its policies which “pay cash” to supplement or replace a policyholder’s income when an accident or sickness prevents the policyholder from working.

One of [Chevy Chase‘s] early, and most memorable trademark moves were his pratfalls during many of the show’s opening skits, which often poked fun at President Gerald Ford. Chase opened most SNL shows with “The Fall of the Week,” after which he would exclaim “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”. It was during one of these skits (during the second season) when he was injured on an unpadded podium, which bruised a testicle and forced him to broadcast two of the show’s segments live from his hospital bed.

Bud Light Sausage Talk

The existence of the Czech beer of the same name has caused problems in some markets. A long-standing agreement with the Czech brewery divided the rights to the name “Budweiser”, so that the Anheuser-Busch product is marketed as “Bud” (in France and elsewhere) and “Anheuser-Busch B” (Germany), where the Czech beer has the rights to the name. Anheuser-Busch has made offers to buy out the Czech brewing company in order to secure global rights to the name “Budweiser” for both beers, but such offers have been refused.

Sausage is a logical outcome of efficient butchery. Sausage-makers put to use meat and animal parts that are edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing, such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat, and that allow the preservation of meat that can not be consumed immediately. Hence, sausages are among the oldest of prepared foods.

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.