This is not the type of commercial we usually see in the Commercial Break, it's an advert that is really two commercials in one. On one hand this is a commercial for Nintendo's GameCube and the game Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, but you can't forget that this is also an advert for Wal*Mart, a company that really knows very little about video games. Wal*Mart is far from my favorite retailer, but I assure you that my hatred of them has nothing to do with me selection this commercial. This is a horrible commercial, and I would say that regardless of whom it was advertising.

It would be one thing if this advert was just stupid, but this is one commercial that is fairly confusing. There are a lot of ways you could go when it comes to advertising the GameCube and Metroid, but I bet nobody else considered comparing the GameCube to a sugar cube. Or, if they had, they quickly sobered up and realized it was an awful idea that doesn't help anybody involved. So let me get this straight, they've shrunk your "average teenager" down to make him perform the tedious task of putting GameCubes in a bowl with a HUGE spoon. Who thought this would be an effective commercial? Is their target audience people who suffer from OCD and can't stand sugar cubes lying on the table.

Maybe I've just been looking at this commercial for too long, but why does that teenager need a giant spoon? Wouldn't it just be easier for him to go up and grab the GameCube and throw it on top of the pile?? It's the GameCube; for crying out loud it has a handle build right in! This is really an indictment on the intelligence of our youth, how stupid does this guy have to be to not just grab it by the handle? Or maybe it's not the youth, it's those Wal*Mart shoppers they are talking about. Either way, playtime is over for this kid it's time for him to get back to studying!

FROM: New Adventures of Bad Advertising