Nerding Day: The Legend of Zelda TV Commercial
Added 2022-06-28 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
Welcome, everyone, to the PoxCo Experimental Theatre’s first no-act production, The Legend of Zelda [Ad]. Told entirely through a single TV commercial, this avant-garde play dares to defy what little expectations 1987 had of video games already. You can watch it here, but should you? Only if, like me, you want to spend the next three decades haunted by its Dadaist take on one of the greatest video games ever made. Protect your thoughts by reading the stageplay at an ironic distance.
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Brendan’s fine, kid, thanks for asking. Here, have a free joke to take home to your ma.
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Comments
I have never felt more like Rusty Venture.
Bill D
2022-07-03 22:26:03 +0000 UTCMy work here is done.
Matt Edwards
2022-07-02 22:00:32 +0000 UTCThanks to you, I now know “sega” is “ages” backwards. I have no idea where to go from here. But existential confusion seems like an appropriate feeling to attach to this article, so…good job?
toasty god
2022-06-30 21:27:38 +0000 UTCApparently, he’s on the cartridge too (can’t post pics but it’s on Amazon if anyone dares question my word). That hillbilly and his banjo were vital to the Phalanx game world.
toasty god
2022-06-30 21:15:25 +0000 UTCThe only good Nintendo ads were the Rik Mayall ones. Other than those, I'll take a Cybo Razor Cut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDvq9C8E_c
Matt Edwards
2022-06-30 16:28:52 +0000 UTCI just tried to sing the words on the screen to the melody.
Matt Pedone
2022-06-30 11:28:36 +0000 UTCYeah, VERY strong Peter MacNicol presence. Who, by the way, I'm convinced played Rorschach in Terry Gilliam's alternate-universe Watchmen adaptation.
Brendan McGinley
2022-06-30 03:02:21 +0000 UTCCastle theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0qH018MIiI
Brendan McGinley
2022-06-30 02:59:54 +0000 UTCWere the FF lyrics sung to the prologue music or the overworld music?
Zach Dewoody
2022-06-30 02:47:00 +0000 UTCCan’t believe I wasted so much of my gym class learning line dances and not this dance.
Nick Gilbert
2022-06-29 18:42:13 +0000 UTCThat was amazing! I want a copy of that song.
Matt Pedone
2022-06-29 15:06:03 +0000 UTCTo each their own on his attractiveness. He's got a Peter MacNicol vibe going on that's not for me. Now, had I seen the Japanese commercial Nick Gilbert posted below when I was 9...
Matt Pedone
2022-06-29 15:04:32 +0000 UTCThis kicks ass
DustysRadTitle
2022-06-29 14:53:27 +0000 UTCMr. McGinley, are you okay. Do you require a lozenge. I can provide multiple fine ones.
Robert K.
2022-06-29 00:45:38 +0000 UTCI need to watch that commercial again when I am relatively free of illness, right now it just seems normal, I'm just nodding my head and thinking "Yeah I know how all this relates to Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System."
Flippant Sausage
2022-06-29 00:24:07 +0000 UTCI see EVERYONE's jumping on the Billy Karate bandwagon now
Daphne Lawless
2022-06-28 21:59:36 +0000 UTCI was warned against clicking. I cannot say I wasn't warned.
Katherine
2022-06-28 20:17:18 +0000 UTCWas I the only person who looked up if there really was a Tropical Storm Irwin in 1987? It turns out there was. Imagine having your life destroyed by a Tropical Storm Irwin. I mean, Hurricane Katrina always makes sense to me, because I had my heart broken by a Katrina. But Irwin? Wow.
Matthew Harris
2022-06-28 18:00:43 +0000 UTCSame, only I thought Link was really cute. I don't know if that's more or less lame, just that for a few months he had my 12 year old heart.
Bonnybedlam
2022-06-28 18:00:02 +0000 UTCFor contrast, the Japanese commercial for Zelda is a low budget but surprisingly earnest offering: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=umhKcl1Z52I I recommend checking it out if you haven’t seen it. It’s a trip.
Nick Gilbert
2022-06-28 17:50:00 +0000 UTCBrendan, do you need a hug? Scream random video game words in a closet while fighting DTs if you need a hug.
FancyShark
2022-06-28 16:14:11 +0000 UTCMan, I still remember quoting this commercial with friends at recess when I was 9. We thought it was strange, but unironically awesome. What's lamer than a dweeb? Me.
Matt Pedone
2022-06-28 15:58:07 +0000 UTCI remember this commercial vividly and how fucked it was. My brother and I talked about it a lot... he will still randomly shout, "LEEVERS!" to this day. But after we moved, later that year, none of my new friends had any idea what we were talking about. If my brother hadn't also remembered it, I think I would have chalked it up to a fever dream.
Jeff Orasky
2022-06-28 15:54:26 +0000 UTCI legit thought you were joking about that guy going on to play The Cryptkeeper. But you weren't! This is now a Learning Day!
FancyShark
2022-06-28 14:23:00 +0000 UTCIf I have touched the soul of Sissyneck, I should retire at my peak.
Brendan McGinley
2022-06-28 14:09:44 +0000 UTCBrendan stop trying to trick me into going into your soul labyrinth. I don't care how many videogames are in there.
Vooster
2022-06-28 14:03:11 +0000 UTCThere was a Super Nintendo game called Phalanx and on the box cover there was a picture of an old guy with a banjo. I remember as a kid I racked my brain trying to understand what that had to do with a game about a spaceship shooting aliens. I eventually made up a story in my head that the old guy was sitting on his porch telling his grandkids the story about how he was in an intergalactic war. What I'm saying is that game's box cover was just as nonsensical as this commercial.
Max Rockatansky
2022-06-28 13:50:33 +0000 UTCI'd watch this.
Ulmeck
2022-06-28 13:37:54 +0000 UTCThis is deliciously hilarious food for my soul.
LyraV
2022-06-28 12:58:07 +0000 UTCwell i havent seen much of in the live theater (they do a melodrama evry year over in Bancroft but thats about it) but i might have to start because i have been brought low and weepin by that mornful sooey after such a motional build-up i kinda feel like i'm gonna throw up but also sexy?
sissyneck
2022-06-28 12:50:35 +0000 UTC*appreciative finger snapping*
Clementine Danger
2022-06-28 12:40:46 +0000 UTC
