I bet you don't remember that both William Shatner and Isaac Asmiov were pitchmen for PCs. Well, people who had "home computers" back in the 1980s do. Here's a collection of insanely great (and greatly insane) computer ads from the days of WarGames and Tron.

I don't really know how to feel about Vampire Diaries' bad boy Ian Somerhalder's "Generation Extinction" campaign. First, what message does it send when the guy famous for playing a bloodthirsty vampire is pimping joining the extinction generation? Second, is snarly shirtlessness going to save the frogs?

Robots can do so many things. They can explore worlds humans can't yet reach. They can perform feats too delicate and subtle for humans alone. They can build massive, mighty works, far quicker than humans could achieve. And sometimes, they can also just try to sell things.

The Denny's/Hobbit second breakfast cross-promotion makes a weird kind of sense, even if it forces us to link J.R.R. Tolkien with Moon Over My Hammy. And the Hobbit slot machines have landed the movie's producers in hot Mordor with the Tolkien Estate. But are there other, even more bizarre cross-promotional…

Elections tend to be a surreal time, what with motormouthed candidates perpetually promising a chicken in every underfunded classroom and gasoline pumps that shoot champagne instead of petrol. Here are eight times politicians channeled the realms of science fiction, horror, and fantasy for the express purpose of…

After reading this advertisement, how many artisanal bassoon rental shoppes thought to themselves, "Well, that's what I've been doing wrong. Time to hire the Green Goblin and the Thing to hang outside my store for three months straight." (It's also worth mentioning that if you recruited Captain America for your bookmark…

The world rejoiced when Bic finally unveiled a "Pen for Her" — as Jezebel put it, "Finally, A Pen Ladies Can Use." But you may not have appreciated just how fantastic this product really is, and how much it was needed.

This honor goes to Sugar Rice Krinkles, which inflicted incalculable psychic damage upon children of the 1950s with this commercial featuring a goggle-eyed clown proselytizing about carbohydrates. As the YouTube uploader notes, "Ever wondered what would happen if John Wayne Gacy made a cereal ad?"

Who needs a fairy godmother when you've got a doctor with a knife? Venezuelan ad company ZEA BBDO is ready to lure all the kiddies into the operating room with these fairy-tale-friendly, straight-up Prince Eric and Ariel rip-off ads for plastic surgery. Horrifying? Indeed!

This New Zealand billboard for True Blood pretty much wraps up the entire fifth season of HBO's vampire series in one striking image.