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The 5 Most Ridiculous March Madness Ads. 5. Dick Vitale Eats DiGiorno Pizza, Has a Terrifying Psychotic Episode Plot: Dick Vitale eats some DiGiorno pizza, which is laced with a psychotropic. Everything around him goes hazy. When he wakes up he is dressed up as an offensive caricature of a black guy. A bunch of real black guys are rightly offended and come after him. Fortunately, because he has an afro wig on, he's able to jump really high. What Digiorno Was Thinking: College basketball fans will tolerate two hours of Vitale rambling about how Coach K's ejaculate cures cancer, so it stands to reason that they won't mind 30 seconds of him spewing incoherent bullshit about pizza. YsahsCreativeHobbies's Channel.

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Amazon Prime launched in 2005, offering two-day shipping on any of its productsRedbox made it possible for legions of supermarket shoppers to pick up a movie on the cheapAt $8 a month, Hulu Plus offers instant streaming access to a wealth of TV shows (WIRED) -- The curtain hasn't even opened on Netflix's new DVD-by-mail spin-off company Qwikster, and many customers are already walking out.

The company recently revised its quarterly projections of net subscribers to show 1 million fewer customers than it had previously expected. Much to Netflix's chagrin, folks are realizing that the king of mail-away media isn't the only game in town. We've taken a look at some of Netflix's (and Qwikster's) main competitors, and judged each service accordingly. Netflix/Qwikster Also known as Netflix: Redux. WIRED: It's been around the longest, and is the most familiar service.

Amazon Prime Redbox Blockbuster. The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You. #3. Fake Berries Imagine a blueberry muffin. GettyOne muffin, you greedy bastards. Even with your freshly gained knowledge that there may or may not be some cellulose in the cake mix, it's pretty impossible not to start salivating at the thought. GettyWe could taste delicious if we wanted to. Everything is better with blueberries -- that's why they put them in so many foods. The Horror: ... not that it would do any good, as the number of blueberries you've eaten within the last year that have actually come from such a field is likely pretty close to zero.

GettyWe can almost hear the muffins mocking us. Studies of products that supposedly contain blueberries indicate that many of them didn't originate in nature. They do a damn good job of faking it, too -- you need a chemist's set of your own to be able to call bullshit. Natural News TVNothing says "nature" like petrochemical-derived food coloring. Kelloggs This is somewhat recognizable.

GettyAll but three of these are made of plastic. #2. . #1. Art Of The Heist: Why Did Audi Cop Chrysler's Eminem Super Bowl Ad? Some say copying is the highest form of flattery. If that's the case, German automaker Audi must really admire Chrysler. The German luxury company, part of the Volkswagen Group, is being sued in German court by rap music star Eminem and his music company Eight Mile Style for infringing on his song "Lose Yourself, " which is the basis of Chrysler's "Imported from Detroit" ad campaign launched during last February's Super Bowl.

Worse than copping the music in an unauthorized way, though, Audi and the ad agency it worked with in Germany, lifted the whole idea behind Chrysler's ad, which caused a sensation when it broke. Chrysler spent millions advertising an unprecedented two-minute ad during the Super Bowl. The Audi version of the ad, which obviously borrows heavily from the Chrysler work, is for the new A6 Avant. One man's copying is another man's parody or homage Copying goes on all the time in advertising and film. European companies are known for heisting music.

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