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queencallipygos ([info]queencallipygos) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-05-02 09:25:00
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Reaffirming Your Faith In Just About Everything
*ahem*

If you have not yet seen this new ad for the Discovery Channel, you totally should.

It's got everything -- astronauts, singing Egyptologists, Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls serenading a tarantula, giant squid, Adam Savage with a flame thrower, and Stephen Hawking singing -- and wraps it all up with an old campfire song and tops it with the best slogan ever: "The World Is Just Awesome."

(If you have seen a version of this on the network, you may have seen the shorter, Hawkings-less one -- this is still worth a gander.)

I have watched this about 58 times already. :-) If this thing doesn't win a Clio award I'm going to kick someone.

Edit: This just in! Apparently there was some Yay-Discovery event, at which some stars appeared with a chorus of kids and did a live version of this! No Mythbusters, but you get Mike Rowe, Bear Grylls, the guy from Cash Cab, and -- yes -- some of the crew from DEADLIEST CATCH! Singing live!
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[info]cygnia
2008-05-02 01:53 pm UTC (link)
That is a cool ad...brings a smile to my face every time. :)

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[info]alya1989262
2008-05-02 01:55 pm UTC (link)
This is so brilliant! "I love the Giant Squid"!

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[info]xturtle
2008-05-02 01:59 pm UTC (link)
Oh, my goodness, I was already in love with the short version! And it uses one of my favorite camp songs ever (my dood thought I was nuts, because this sent me on a crazy camp-song-finding rampage).

Epic win.

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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-05-02 02:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 06:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]palabradot, 2008-05-02 08:13 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 11:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]youngcurmudgeon, 2008-05-03 05:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2008-05-02 08:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 11:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]magnolia_mama, 2008-05-02 09:28 pm UTC
Yep, that one! - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 11:20 pm UTC
Re: Yep, that one! - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-05-02 11:41 pm UTC
Re: Yep, that one! - [info]fallingmallorn, 2008-05-03 12:38 am UTC
Re: Yep, that one! - [info]xturtle, 2008-05-03 03:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fallingmallorn, 2008-05-03 12:37 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]rosehiptea, 2008-05-02 11:42 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]xturtle, 2008-05-03 03:37 pm UTC

[info]tinsolitus
2008-05-02 02:06 pm UTC (link)
Okay, I think I'm gonna be smiling because of that all day. Thanks. :D

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[info]gunshou
2008-05-02 02:24 pm UTC (link)
This ad gives me warm fuzzies every time I see it. ^.^

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[info]iwanttobeasleep
2008-05-02 02:31 pm UTC (link)
That makes me want to turn on the Discovery Channel and never turn it off. ♥

Also, not just Adam with a torch, Adam lighting Jamie's arm on fire!

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(no subject) - [info]queencallipygos, 2008-05-02 02:33 pm UTC
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[info]tiye
2008-05-02 02:37 pm UTC (link)
I was hoping the singing Egyptologist would be my adviser, who is trufax in a barbershop quartet and also does Gilbert and Sullivan plays from time to time. :p

Aside from that, all I really have to say is . . . D'AWWWW!

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2008-05-02 04:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 06:35 pm UTC

[info]aristaea
2008-05-02 02:58 pm UTC (link)
This plus the SciFi 'Imagination Lives' commercials are the best things evar. And now I want to watch me some Mythbusters.

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[info]miss_padfoot
2008-05-02 03:18 pm UTC (link)
Awww, this is great! I want to hug someone now.

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[info]tarash
2008-05-02 03:21 pm UTC (link)
I was wondering where the Mythbusters were :D

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(no subject) - [info]reginagiraffe, 2008-05-03 06:22 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2008-05-04 02:30 pm UTC

[info]jhaelyn
2008-05-02 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that's awesome. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Now I'm wishing I had cable so I can watch Discovery channel 24/7. *goes to futz with her budget to see if she can squeeze the money for DirectTV in it*

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[info]braisinhussy
2008-05-02 03:26 pm UTC (link)
Neat. I saw the long version last weekend, and I wanted to show my roommates the "arachanids" part. But they've only been playing the short version whenever I click over to Discovery.

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[info]mistal
2008-05-02 04:19 pm UTC (link)
I love commercial like that.

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[info]singe
2008-05-02 04:22 pm UTC (link)
This thing choked me up when I first saw it. It's such a lovely little break from all the DISASTER FIRE STARVATION PANIC BULLETS BULLETS BULLETS that we get hit with every day.

"The world is an awesome place." And it IS, damn it.

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(no subject) - [info]onaga, 2008-05-02 06:55 pm UTC

[info]azazello
2008-05-02 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Aw, that's lovely. Thanks for linking. I also have an earworm of the song.

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[info]luthe
2008-05-02 05:07 pm UTC (link)
This makes me think of the Mythbusters cameo on CSI last night, which was hilarious. Grissom would so fit in on that show.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2008-05-02 05:11 pm UTC (link)
I love that commercial. Mostly because it's funny to imagine the Deadly Catch guys breaking out in song in the middle of catching pots. It makes me "hee!" every time I catch it.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-05-02 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Every single time this commercial is on and the boyfriend's in the room, he runs over and makes me do a swaying dance with him. Sometimes we're FIVE GODDAMN YEARS OLD.

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[info]xero_sky
2008-05-02 06:17 pm UTC (link)
I love this commercial! Except for the fear that in the next scene, Bear Grylls is gonna start talking about the protein value of large arachnids and about whether you need to cook the adults or just pull the legs off and swallow them down.

Man vs. Gag Reflex: no lie.

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(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2008-05-02 06:29 pm UTC

[info]mariann
2008-05-02 06:17 pm UTC (link)
I get shivers every time I see that commercial in any form. I'm getting shivers now, just thinking about it!

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[info]hallidae
2008-05-02 07:25 pm UTC (link)
Oh, man, I saw that on TV the other day and thought I had to be hallucinating, it was so cool.

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[info]thoms
2008-05-02 07:26 pm UTC (link)
I love that commercial so much. It's always so fun for me to picture Edgar Hansen from Deadliest Catch bursting into song.

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[info]wtf
2008-05-02 07:32 pm UTC (link)
OMG. I've seen a couple links to this video and hadn't watched it til now. I'm like, misty-eyed and grinning. XD

I even stuck this in my folder of CHEER UP EMO KID things! :D

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(no subject) - [info]eleutheria, 2008-05-03 10:29 pm UTC

[info]palabradot
2008-05-02 08:07 pm UTC (link)
That looks like the setup for the best modern pulp campaign EVER.

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[info]hurricane
2008-05-02 09:09 pm UTC (link)
That's the one ad that we always unmute the TV to watch. ♥

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