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As George Lucas proved with his fuzzy-cute Ewoks, people will swallow anything if you can find an adorable spokesperson to push it (also of note in this rubric: the Geico gecko). Chronicling this trend in recent ads, this edition of Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos is given over to commercials that assault us with sweetness then [...]

The beloved Warner Bros. animated water fowl character Daffy Duck made his first appearance 72 years ago, when the short Porky’s Duck Hunt first aired on April 17, 1932. Somehow, in the decades since, his brand of insane, non-squiturial humor has aged terrifically. As proof of his timeless humor, and in celebration of his momentous [...]