Coons Campaign Commercial #1

Filed in National by on January 29, 2010

CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL # 1: A series of photos of Mike Castle with those giant faux Federal checks. (Wacky Warner Brothers-style cartoon music in background).

COPY: (Light-hearted voice redolent of faint ridicule) “What two things do these pictures have in common? One, each shows Mike Castle presenting a giant  check for a Delaware program. And, two (music stops), Mike Castle voted against each and every one of these programs.”

“Mike, who do you think you’re fooling?” (Close-up on his gargoyle standard-issue photo grin.)

Use the ‘Clutch Cargo’ moving lips technique (or, I think, the Space Ghost popsicle stick mouth technique) on last photo w/Castle ‘trying to talk’, but only sputtering out the ‘Porky Pig’ stutter.

Announcer says, “That’s all, folks”.

You’re welcome.

Pay me what you can…

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  1. hey anonny nonny says:

    The point that Castle’s people have made is that there’s a difference between stimulus-funded projects and regular appropriations projects. Just got to make sure we’re being intellectually honest here and just use ARRA grip & grins.

  2. Obama called out Republicans who criticize ARRA and go to ribbon-cutting ceremonies (*ahem* Mike Castle). Perhaps we can add that to the commercial.

  3. John Manifold says:

    Hey anonny nonny’s name is a beaut.

    Based on a commercial for Ballantine beer?

  4. Based on a Ballantine Beer commercial by way of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”:

    “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more;
    Men were deceivers ever;
    One foot in sea and one on shore,
    To one thing constant never;
    Then sigh not so,
    But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny;
    Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey nonny, nonny.

    Sing no more ditties, sing no mo,
    Or dumps so dull and heavy;
    The fraud of men was ever so,
    Since summer first was leavy.
    Then sigh not so,
    But let them go,
    And be you blithe and bonny,
    Converting all your sounds of woe
    Into. Hey, nonny, nonny.”

    Ballantine and Shakespeare together, only here at DL. Leaning toward the Ballantine…

  5. John Manifold says:

    Ho ho spirited spirited beer.

    2,500-year-old brewmaster’s “hey nonny nonny” memorialized here:

    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,834281-1,00.html

  6. hey anonny nonny says:

    Actually, my moniker’s origin isn’t as erudite as El Som posits.

    Watch the cinema classic “Robin Hood: Men In Tights” sometime, and pay attention to the rap interludes. That’s from whence it came.

    But Shakespeare does sound better!

  7. Mel Brooks and Shakespeare have more in common than you might think–neither ever shied away from a cheap laugh in their respective comedies.