This McGraw-Hill Spot 'Grows' on You

NEW YORK Anyone who watches the commercials on Sunday morning’s public-affairs broadcasts has been trained to expect banal corporate advertising. It’s a bit startling, then, to see a corporate spot for the McGraw-Hill Cos. (via Cossette in New York) that’s not banal but weird. With anime-style visuals accompanied by a British-accented voiceover, it starts by showing cows grazing in a field. Looming over the cows is a tangle of what look like black-and-white pythons caught in mid-tryst.