'Ice Cream and Cake' tests limits of sanity
Say what you will about this brain-drilling new ad for Baskin-Robbins, but you have to be impressed by its ability to mention "ice cream and cake" 16 times in a 15-second spot. If the tune sounds familiar, that's because it's "the other song" by The Buckwheat Boyz, who penned the legendary Internet anthem "Peanut Butter Jelly Time." This is definitely one of those polarizing ads, with people either loving it enough to make it a ringtone or hating it enough to shoot their screens.
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