Mr. Clean Magic Eraser (or, The Commercial that Never Was)

Late last June, I saw an ad on the back of Student Filmmakers Magazine for a Mr. Clean commercial contest. Essentially, Procter & Gamble wanted people to create a sixty second commercial advertising the "Mr. Clean Magic Eraser" (for the record, the thing hardly works), and whomever created the best one would win $10,000. I checked out the contest website (mrcleanscenes.com), and after realizing how bad most of the entries were (for example: http://mrcleanscenes.com/mrclean/en_US/viewvideo.do?videoid=BCS0sSRolvU), I decided it'd be a good idea to submit something.

Unfortunately, I had found out about the contest about a week before the deadline, and it also happened to be finals week for the first summer session, so I had very little time to create anything. However, I was able to recruit the help of Greg "Sgoast" Reynolds to help me develop my idea and Jason Engstrom and Asa Tims to pose in front of a green screen for about an hour as I took silly pictures of them pretending to interact with a large bald man. Sadly, on the night of the deadline, my computer froze up as I was editing the voice-overs and sound effects and forced me to manually restart, which resulted in losing several files I was using for the project. At the time, I only had a few hours left to finish the project, and there was no way for me to recover everything within that amount of time and finish.

Despite missing the deadline, I decided to finish a director's cut (essentially, it's about seventy two seconds long with nearly every joke that Greg and I wrote left in) of the commercial so that all of the effort put into it wouldn't be lost due to my virus infested hard drive. I hope you all enjoy it, and I would appreciate any constructive criticism.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Mr.
• Clean
• Magic
• Eraser
• commercial
• silly
• ghost
• dirt
• 50's
• Sgoast

[moparpictz]

yeah lol

[heine71]

A magic eraser just erases!

[MizKriss]

that was cute... bugger about not being able to enter it...

[Microfoot]

Anyone else reminded of Tom Goes To The Mayor?

[Phatrician]

I was going to watch this then I saw Louis CK's stupid dog video in the upper right hand corner, so I clicked that instead.

[Corinelson]

That was actually pretty cute. Shame about the deadline.