I have to confess I just roll when these commercials come on. They are for a local car dealership group, Johnson Automotive. The spots are the work of the infamous Martin Agency of Richmond,VA, responsible for the Geico campaigns. They feature a "surly badger" as the sales manager at a car dealership, giving customers the stereotypical obnoxious hard-sell. The point of the campaign is to say this is what you won't experience at a Johnson Automotive Group dealership. Watch the commercials here.

P.S. Hey Martin Agency, WHY don't you have these on YouTube? Come ON guys this should be a layup.

New in the Kristasphere: Randy Parton = Randy Watson?

Update: For the backstory on these commercials, see my update post here.

Picked this up from the AdRants blog. It's for the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail. The agency gets extra props for using 'Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood as the soundtrack.