Anybody see the Olympics’ closing ceremonies? Let’s just say the Chinese aren’t losing their title as the best spectacle ever any time soon. And the William Shatner monoogue with slide show? I just don’t know what to say. People are paid a LOT of MONEY to produce and write these things. And I’m as big a Shatner fan as the next Trekkie, but is he really the guy you want representing your nation? As a funnyman? The whole thing was just plain weird, and tacky, and more than tacky (the peeing-your-name-in-the-snow graphic comes to mind). Was Jim Carrey not available? We know John Candy wasn’t in town. What on earth were they thinking?

That said, and without deconstructive analysis, here’s my favorite commercial of late, that played quite a bit during the Games. Quetion, is this guy a famous person? Old Spice has used famous people before, but I don’t recognize him. He does a bang-up job. I love the beginning most: “Hello, Ladies, look at your man. Now back to me, now back at your man, now back to ME.” I lol every time. It stops me from crying.

Hmmmm. Once again, I can’t seem to embed the video, so here’s a link to it.

One little bit of old-school MAID analysis. This commercial pokes fun at both genders, but in a gentle, playful, nonsexist manner, at least to my eye and ear. And it nudges women for objectifying men, and the average man for being less than aesthetically ideal/physically fit, a refreshing flip-flop. I don’t ask that much, I really don’t.