Ad of the Day: Comcast

'Don't be a Dish Head,' the cable company warns in a pair of wacky new Xfinity spots from Goodby

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The advertising coming from pay-TV providers is increasingly populated by characters as wonderfully wacky as anything in their programming. Satellite company DirecTV featured Gregor the gold-plated Russian billionaire, with his mangled English and miniature giraffe. More recently, Dish Network brought us ridiculous cowboys with gargantuan hats and out-of-control facial hair. Now, it's Comcast's turn.

To promote its Xfinity offering, Comcast today debuts the "Dish Heads," satellite subscribers with parabolic appendages around their necks that get in the way at just the wrong moments.

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