Awesome Gorilla Suits

Sixty Second Television Spot
Awesome Gorilla Suits

SPOKESPERSON [35-ish white male in dressy casual on a small, all-white stage]
SATISFIED CUSTOMERS [various actors in various, celebratory settings—all are happy-quirky, dressed in gorilla suits but holding the heads of the suits so that we can see their nice faces]


SPOKESPERSON
At Awesome Gorilla Suits, we make awesome gorilla suits.  Don’t take my word for it, listen to this satisfied customer.

                                                            SATISFIED CUSTOMER ONE
I wear my awesome gorilla suit to company parties and family events on my inlaws’ side.  People often confuse me for a paid entertainer, and when I reveal my true identity, people gasp every time.  My Awesome Gorilla Suit sets me free.  I can do all kinds of silly dances and skits, and really express myself when I'm wearing it.

                                                            SPOKESPERSON
That’s right.  An awesome gorilla suit can be more than a costume.  It can be a gateway to a better you.  And there’s more: believe it or not, people everywhere are getting lucky in their Awesome Gorilla Suits.

                                                            SATISFIED CUSTOMER TWO
I was always the guy girls could talk to.  Know what I mean?  I was desperate to lose my virginity is what I mean.  Then my grandma gave me an Awesome Gorilla Suit for Christmas right before she died—people called it dementia but I tried it out and I call it Ticket to Paradise.  In my Awesome Gorilla Suit, ladies can’t keep their hands off me. 
 
                                                                                                [ENTER LADIES]

                                                            LADY ONE
Every hotty wants a party animal.

                                                            LADY TWO
And a beast in the bedroom. 

                                                            SATISFIED CUSTOMER TWO
You’d be surprised how much girls love back hair when it’s fake.  [Points to the sky and pounds chest].  Thanks Grams.

                                                             SPOKESPERSON [now in his own gorilla suit]

What about you? [points to camera].  Do you sometimes suffer from a vague sense that life’s not all it’s cracked up to be?  Like there’s a curious little monkey inside who wants to come out and play?  That’s what it was like for me before I bought my first Awesome Gorilla Suit.  Every day was a disappointment.  But in my Awesome Gorilla Suit, I can really make it happen, and so can you.  MAKE IT HAPPEN today.  Call now.  Gorillas are standing by. 

                    [all join SPOKESPERSON]    

                                   ALL
AWESOME GORILLA SUITS!  MAKE IT HAPPEN!


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