Folks, today we add a new category… “parody” ads. These are not actual ads, but brilliant knock-offs on them.

We’ll keep these to a minimum, since we know you’re here to see the actual ads, but… sometimes a parody is so amazing, so over the top, that it just conveys the essence of a (stereo)typical ad in a way that no ad could.

And here is one of those. An ad for “Shining,” a re-imagination of “The Shining” — not as a horror story, but a heart-warming family tale. I can’t do it justice via mere description… you’ve gotta watch it: