Can we make some awesome commercials in 30 seconds flat?
Let's talk about that.
♪ (theme music) ♪
- Good Mythical Morning! - We have a track record of making
television commercials, specifically of the local commercial variety
- Mmhm. - over the years. We even had a little
- television show that we made - Oh, we did, huh?
- a little while ago. - I almost forgot!
... about that. Today we're gonna make some commercials of a slightly different
variety under slightly more high-pressurized... environs.
That's right. Over on the YouTube AdBlitz channel, our good friend Harley from
Epic Meal Time has come up with some rules for making amazing commercials.
And today we're gonna use those rules to play a game that we call:
(Rhett, over dramatic music) The Random Commercial Challenge!
Okay, here's how it works: We have two hats as you can see.
- Two hats. - In this hat, we have sheets of paper.
Written on them are Harley's rules of awesome commercials. Basically,
ingredients that, if you have one of these to promote whatever product you have,
it's pretty much guaranteed to be a great commercial. In this hat, we have written
on sheets of paper products that we have to promote. We do not know what these
products are, but we are gonna pull out a product and a method for promoting said
product, put the two together, and each of those is a round or a challenge
- Right. - that we're gonna have to individually
- create a commercial. - Right. And here's how we're gonna
do that. We have a green screen set up right over here off of the set and we
will go over there. We can grab the prop, which will probably be the thing that
we're trying to sell, and some other have been made available to us.
- Mmhm. - Then we have 30 seconds--
a live 30 seconds-- to actually make our commercial. And then we can do whatever
we want to in post. We can add music, we can change the background-- that's why
we're doing it on the green screen-- we can do effects... 'cause we will be
sort of directing these commercials in post. So we may not know--
- I don't know how to do effects. - exactly how it's all gonna come out.
Okay, so just to summarize: Once we get everything ready and we're on the green
screen, you're gonna count down and then we have 30 seconds to perform our
- commercial live. - Yep.
And then do our little stuff to it afterwards.
And then you're gonna tell us who made the best commercial.
- Or what's your favorite commercial is. - We've got a number of rounds.
- All right, round one! - I'm gonna go first.
- Okay! - Just because... can I?
- Sure! - Of course I can!
All right, so I'm gonna reachy reachy reachy and feely feely and pully pully...
- All right, first... - Why do you put the Y on the end
- of all the words? - I am promoting the product of a
yardstick, and the way that I am promoting it using Harley's rule of an awesome
commercial: Nothing says "buy me" like a good old dose of American patriotism.
- American patriotism... - Selling a yardstick!
- Selling a yardstick. - Good luck with that, Link!
(Link) Thank you.
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(Rhett) Okay. Link, you have your yardstick I see. (laughs)
(Link) Yeah, gimme-- (laughs) and my flag. Gimme a second.
Okay, Link, you have 30 seconds starting in three, two, one, go.
- ♪ (country music) ♪ - Woosh! Hello! You don't know me and it
doesn't matter. I'm an American and I Iike to measure things just like you,
fellow American. Check this out: it's a stick that'll measure... approximately
a yard. If you wanna measure less than a yard, it's got increments on it. And you
can use those, Americans, just like me. You can be like me, and I know you wanna be.
If you wanna measure something larger than a yard, I don't know how to help you.
- (Rhett) Time's up! (claps) - (Link) How was that?
That was good, Link! Almost perfect 30 seconds and I wanna buy a yardstick.
- Can I have this one? - Yeah. Do you think that I can
- greenscreen a shirt back on? - (laughs)
- 'Cause I think I'm gonna-- - No, that'll lose the effect!
- I am going to regret that choice. - Okay, now it's my turn.
- I got a zit on my shoulder. - Please don't point that out.
- I'm gonna have to cover... okay. - Mmkay. So I've got a rule here.
The first thing I'm gonna be selling is... a log.
- (both laugh) - I'm gonna be selling a log and I'm gonna
be using the rule: A good tagline makes your product unforgettable.
- Good tagline. All right! - Okay, here we go.
Get out there, Log Boy! That's what I'm gonna call you if you do good at this.
♪ (harp strums) ♪
(Link) Take your place. You're gonna have 30 seconds for your ad beginning in
- three, two...
- ♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - Hello. Would you... like a log?
Would you? (laughs)
What would you do if you had a log? Would you burn it? Would... you burn it?
Would you? Would you like a log? You could hit somebody with it, if you're mad
at somebody. If I gave you this log, would you hurt someone with it? (laughs)
What would you do with a log? Would you like a log?
- (all laugh) - (Link) What? Okay, time.
- (laughs) - (Link) I was so-- Get over here!
I was so mesmerized, I totally forgot about the time.
- (Rhett, laughing) Yeah. - I was like, when is the actual ad
- gonna start? - (Rhett and crew laugh)
- (Rhett) That was the ad! - That was like--
- I said the word "wood" about 17 times! - I loved it.
- Um... wow. Is there gonna be like... - Every time I say "wood" something's
- gonna happen. - Oh, really? You don't know what yet?
- (laughs) Yeah. - We'll have to figure that out, but just
the sheer repetition I think was the strength of that one.
- Yeah. Hm. - I'd like to put a shirt on, so I'm ready
- to go for another round. - Okay, sure.
All right? So I'm gonna pick my product. Here it is: a hubcap.
Oh. Wow, you got a lot of... hold on, don't go back into the same thing!
- What? - Oh, you picked-- Oh, good.
- I'm sorry, I thought you were-- - I'm going into the other thing.
- Yeah. - All right, here's a long one: You can bet
that if a celebrity is using your product, everyone else will want to use it too.
- Celebrity endorsement of hubcap. - Okay. All right.
- (Link) Plus a shirt. - ♪ (harp strums) ♪
- (Rhett) All right, Link, you ready? - (Link) Yeah. I have a celebrity...
Goorgen. Okay, can you stand... stand right here and... this is the hubcap.
You need to just take 30 seconds to sell hubcaps.
All right. You start in three, two, one.
- ♪ (Bollywood music) ♪ - Possibly you know me, I am Goorgen
from the Shift It! Shift It! guys. Today I have a hubcap for the everybody.
This hubcap perfect for any car for any style of car. A lot of different!
Have a 4, 5, any any hubcap you need it, we have it. But today we sell this type
of it. Hubcaps! If you interest, ready for the sell.
♪ (Bollywood music continues) ♪
(Rhett) Time! Oh, I love the freeze at the end!
- (Link) Perfect! (laughs) - (Rhett) The freeze at the end was good!
- I want this hubcap. - (Goorgen) Was it good?
'Cause of the freeze at the end, you can put something over the top of it like
a little jingle or something. 'Cause there was a good three seconds there.
- All right, come over here, Link! - Yeah, yeah.
- Is okay almost? You want-- - No, it's okay perfect.
- Uh huh. - Perfect, Goorgen.
- All right. Okay. - Wanna buy a hubcap, dontcha? (laughs)
Good job, Director Link. Let's see what I'm gonna be promoting is...
- a jumbo pencil. - Okay.
And I'm gonna be applying the rule: Nothing provokes the phrase "I want that"
quite like a beautiful woman. (laughs) Okay. All right!
- Beautiful woman! - ♪ (harp strums) ♪
Okay, commercial begins in three, two...
- (slightly higher voice) Hey. I'm up here. - ♪ (romantic music) ♪
Hello. I'm Rhettina. I'm a beautiful woman. Sometimes us beautiful women...
our little delicate hands (laughs) have trouble with normal-sized pencils,
so that's why I use a... (laughs) a big pencil. I never have trouble finding it
and I can write really big. I write circles and swirlies.
- (laughs) Get a big pencil. - (Link) Time up!
- (crew laughs) - Oh, gosh.
- (Rhett laughs) - (Link) I don't know if I want you to...
(Link) Come back over here. I don't know if I want you to come over here.
- (Rhett laughs) Ah, sorry. - Are you having back pain?
(Rhett) No, if I lean over, my breasts will fall.
Well, that's fine at this point, Rhettina. Again, I forget to look at the 30 seconds...
- Yeah. You're horrible, man! - Because I'm mesmerized by your, ah...
- The timing! - your acting ability. All right.
Your only responsibility is to say the time!
My turn to promote an ear of corn by using the technique of... babies are
- adoya-- adorable... doyable... - Adoyable!
- selling machines. Babies... - And corn!
and corn. All right, lemme rustle up some corn.
- All right. Have at it! - ♪ (harp strums) ♪
(Rhett) Oh, look at that, Link, you found a baby.
(high pitched voice) I did. Hello. It's Evie. Evie, look out here.
- Look at this camera. - Okay. Start in three, two, one.
- ♪ (cheerful music) ♪ - (Link with a deep voice) Hello. I'm a
baby. And if I know anything about babies-- 'cause I am one-- is that we love
corn. Corn is the most amazing yellow thing that we like to consume and we
recommend it for all babies because it can make all types of stuff, especially corn
syrup, which is very healthy for you and goes into everything.
- (Rhett) Time! Well done, Link! - (Link) Well done, Evie.
- I don't know. I've got a plan for post. - I think I know what you're gonna do.
- Hopefully that worked out. - Okay, last one. I'm gonna be selling
toilet paper and I'm gonna be using the rule: You can melt consumer's hearts
- with cute animals. - Cute animals.
(Rhett) Oh, sorry! I'm not used to being a woman.
(laughs) What, you knocked over the chair with your... bosom?
♪ (harp strums) ♪
- (Link) Okay, looking good there. - Ah, Link, I really like what you did
with the last ad, so I'm taking a point of inspiration.
Okay. In three, two...
- ♪ (cheerful music) ♪ - (Rhett, gruffly) Hey. I'm a chinchilla.
You know they say the thing that separates the animals from the humans is that humans
use toilet paper. Not me. I like to put my little hands on this and wipe my butt.
I got the cleanest butt in the animal kingdom because I use toilet paper just
like the humans. So take it from me, a chinchilla: use toilet paper.
Wipe your butt with it.
(Link) Cut! Come over.
- (Rhett) Okay. - A.J., making an appearance! The fluffy
chinchilla! Thanks to Google for sponsoring this episode and thanks to you
for liking and commenting on this video by letting us know your favorite ad that
- we made. - You know what time it is!
- Hi, I'm Bran. - I'm Carly.
- And I'm Rusty. - And we're at the North Carolina State Fair.
(in unison) And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
Make sure you watch and vote for your favorite 2015 Superbowl commercials
starting February first on the YouTube AdBlitz channel.
I had a false spin and then I brought it in. Click through to Good Mythical More
where we hang out with our two favorite people: Goorgen and A.J. the Chinchilla.
(Rhett) Link owns a watermelon farm.
- (deep silly voice) Welcome. - Hey.
Here it is. My watermelon farm. Check it out.
Okay. You talking to me? I'm here. Hey man.
- You. Check it out. - Do you trade chinchillas for watermelons?
- Hah. Well take a look, man. There it is. - Is it one watermelon?
Bingo. She's big, ain't she? I bet a whole farm for this puppy. Well it's not a
- puppy, it's a watermelon. - Oh.
- But it's pretty large. - Okay.
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