With my wife and daughter out of town, my son and I are playing it lazy on a beautiful late summer day – like laying around on the couch lazy. Laying around on the couch watching “Josie and the Pussycats” on Universal HD lazy. Yeah, the movie from 2001, not the old cartoons.

So one of the commercials that runs grabs my attention for it’s silliness. It’s a Franklin Mint commercial selling the set of all 50 state quarters in uncirculated condition. First thing that struck me about the commercial was the sales angle of having people talk about times in the past when they had thought about purchasing something because they had a weird instinct that it was valuable, but passed and regretted it and then flipping that into a reason to hurry up and buy the quarters set.

On top of that they mention several times that some of these coins have appreciated in value up to 400%! Yes, the math on that says some of these coins are worth up to $1. Woo!

And as a minor note they also mention at one point that less than 1% of all Americans will have a set of all 50 quarters like this. Again, the math on that tells us that around 3,000,000 people will have a set like this.

On top of that, the damn thing was like 4 or 5 minutes long. I looked for it online, but only found a couple of shorter, edited spots. Really, the long version is a gem in it’s suckiness. Do watch if you come across it.

Then a few breaks later a slap chop commercial begins, but suddenly starts stuttering and breaks into an Auto-Tuned, remixed masterpiece of musical infomercial proportions. Turns out the thing has been circulating the internet forever and I’d just managed to escape it’s greatness. It got so hot that the Slap Chop folks realized they could run it and get a better reaction than the original commerical, I suppose.

Here is the version running on TV and here is the original.

The only difference is the extra footage. Apparently they couldn’t clear the clips from Breakin’ for the TV airing so they substitued really generic footage of a people (including someone in a rabbit suit) dancing. Quite frankly, I prefer the generic footage to the Breakin’ footage. If you have seen these, watch them now. I can’t get enough of it.

Now someone just needs to remix the Franklin Mint commercial and my world will be complete.