There are only a few products that should use a crazy person as a spokesman. Straight jackets, padded rooms and maybe government loans.
That’s why we’re a little worried about the new GotVMail viral campaign going on right now. It features the one and (please God) only Gary Busey doing what he does best. Being really, really crazy.
The first time we watched this video we enjoyed it thoroughly. Internet+Crazy=Automatic Win in our book. But shortly afterward we realized they were actually trying to sell something. After each hilarious/frightening rant by Busey the GotVMail logo appears. Attempting to convince us to buy into this new entrepreneur’s phone system. Crazy people don’t make us want to buy phone systems. They make us want to buy a stun gun.
We think the ads should go a little more like this:
Busey does his spiel. Then, instead of GotVMail a logo for Mace® Pepper Spray appears. Maybe throw in the tagline “Because Gary Busey could be anywhere.”
Mace®, we expect a cut.
