This Hilariously Campy Fake Movie Trailer Is the Best Ad of 2016 That You Never Saw

The story of Robert Graham's 'Second Sound Barrier'

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In this last week before Christmas, we're catching up on a few ads from 2016 that slipped through the cracks. And foremost among the advertising films we didn't cover is this mini masterpiece from Moxie Pictures and the fashion brand Robert Graham—a wonderful fake trailer for a fake '70s-style car movie called The Second Sound Barrier.

The four-minute spot was written by Michael Showalter and directed by David Wain—the creative pair behind 2001's Wet Hot American Summer (they also worked together on the '90s MTV sketch comedy show The State).

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