Spock! Sheep! NOW!

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 36 Comments

World of Warcraft has new commercials from people you may know.

Actual discussion from work:

Me: “They’re literally raping my childhood.”
Sean: “To be fair, your childhood was pretty much asking for it.”

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  • PM

    I’d love to know how you can literally rape a period of time.

    No, wait. I’ll stick with my 3-dimensional world view, thanks.

  • http://www.thisisnotacommunity.org D-0ne

    We used to play Star Trek on the monkey bars… I was Scotty. /cry

  • http://teengle.wordpress.com/ teengle

    So wait forget the game where can I get more of this Jade? lol :)
    -Mr.Teengle

    visit me @ http://www.teengle.ca

  • Aufero

    This is what you get when you go looking for celebrity spokespeople who are a) easily recognizable to geeks and b) cheap.

  • http://www.independentcreator.com Matt

    “I’d love to know how you can literally rape a period of time.”

    See, son, normally two periods of time only have sex when they love each other very much. One duration sticks his fourth dimension into the other one’s, uh… I give up. Ask Mom.

  • Soulflame

    I find it difficult to believe that either of them play WoW.

  • Diamodns

    Everyone at my office thought the commercials were great. I was the only one who thought that they were campy and crappy. The Orange Box is the only TV commercial for a game that I’ve ever thought was good.

  • HitNRun

    I’m eagerly anticipating the Sean Connery and Chuck Norris spots.

  • Bregor

    Man, it’s gotta be great being Shatner these days. All you have to do is be willing to mock yourself, and you have work whenever you want it :)

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    Well he is pretty good at it…

    Plus, what the fuck does he care? He was James T. motherfrakking Kirk. His image and body of work will quite literally, live forever.

  • http://www.tprjones.com TPRJones

    That phrase is so annoying. *sigh*

    More on topic, I do like the ads. Amusing. I hope they make a whole series of them with other people.

  • Igniferroque

    Do you think it is a sign that their American base of customer’s is dropping? Starbucks is also in the process of launching a television ad campaign. It announced it at the same time they indicated that same store sales dropped for the first time in their history.

  • BadMisterFrosty

    They’re nicely done and with these guys they target exactly people of a certain age to remind them of their childhood. Still won’t make me play WOW though. ;)

  • Simond

    “Do you think it is a sign that their American base of customer’s is dropping?”
    Only foolish companies start advertising when things are going wrong – smart companies advertize when things are going well so that they keep going well.

    Besides, the latest Vivendi shareholder report said 9.3 million subs.

  • kalain

    People keep being really hopeful that WoW is dying. *shrug*

    Anyways, this are really stupid, but I think I’ll always be a generation that stares at videogame TV spots and fondly remembers when gaming wasn’t mainstream. Then I’ll go back to waiting for my new favorite underground game to come out on vinyl.

  • Oz

    I’m sure they already have asked Chuck Norris. I mean seriously, how could they not?

    That’s going to be my claim to fame…I’m going to camp out on his doorstep until he decides to do an ad promo for some random game. It will make millions. All he has to do is go “Hi, I’m Chuck Norris. This is insert_game_here.”

    Start printing my moneypants!

  • kalain

    “I’m chuck norris. In my spare time, I fly to the Barrens and start the Chuck Norris jokes.”

  • Scott(Not Lum)

    IM IN U R CHILDHOOD RAPING U R MEMORIES!!!!11!!1!

    - Love, Blizzard.

  • Ajeba

    “Hi, I’m Vin Diesel … and I play a Gnome Rogue.”

  • neko wa jitenshade kisatenni ikimasu

    Oh Mr. T, I love you no matter what you do.

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    Only a fool would doubt the T’s ability to hax Blizzard’s Gibson.

  • Tony H.

    Actually, the Mr T one is pretty spot on for Mr T and genuinely funny. Pretty rare combination there of keeping true to the spirit of a celebrity/IP and keeping the humor rather fresh.

  • ubvman

    Chuck Norris being a X-tian right wing fundamentalist (check out his web page) now may not want to endorse a game with demons, blue skinned elves and cloven hoofed shamans.

  • http://socialistgamerreview.com Jeremy Williams

    My hero, tarnished. D:
    Oh, woe is me, Shatner, why dost thou have to be so easily bought for commercials?

  • http://www.scifimassive.com Union

    If PriceLine didn’t shatter Shatner’s credibility into a million tiny little pieces, WoW certainly isn’t isn’t going to do it. At least WoW has aliens :P

    But seriously Jeremy, you seem surprised that Bill would do a commercial?

  • blachawk

    “I was the only one who thought that they were campy…”

    Uhh… that was sort of the point…

  • Xanthippe

    Fine, if they can’t get Chuck Norris, maybe they can get Jack Bauer.

  • Fr. Guido Sarducci

    Oh, my eyes! My eyes! Retched world!

    And, did William Shatner actually use “dog” in a sentence?!

  • http://wowpanda.blogspot.com/ wowpanda

    Come on guys, I watched it and it is not too bad. Give him a break!

  • Staryx

    Scott, I feel your pain. Being one who grew up in the 80s, I’ve had my childhood violated, sodomized, raped and definitely touched in more than one no-no spot.

  • Flim

    Despite being evil and WoW and all it’s a superb bit of advertising (IMHO).

    That said, I’m disappointed there’s no spoofs on youtube yet (I’m thinking the stereotypical basement-player saying “I’m a ” – please excuse my lack of WoW knowledge, I managed to resist playing past the free trial)

  • Flim

    meh, mental note – don’t use angle brackets – that should have been an “I’m a *insert scantily clad female char here*”

  • Ironwood

    “I’m chuck norris. In my spare time, I fly to the Barrens and start the Chuck Norris jokes.”

    Genius. Well played sir.

  • =j

    Actually… Chuck Norris never made it out of the Barrens.

  • yunk

    And, did William Shatner actually use “dog” in a sentence?!

    I think he said “dawg”

  • yunk

    Actually it reminds me of the Top Ten Priest Concern post.

    “I put points to get shadow laser spell and put points into discpplin to get shiled spell, so now I’m basically the starship enterprise with shields and lasers, but sometimes I still die to monsters b/c my technology is too low.”

    ah fond memories