Why These Museum Ads With Will Ferrell Make Me Really, Really Mad

Everything should work. And yet...

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The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum commissioned a campaign from creative agency Imaginary Forces to celebrate its renovation. They somehow got Will Ferrell to help them out, and from there, it's pretty clear they didn't know what to do. They got access to one of the funniest men in America, someone who could have catapulted their campaign to instant Internet hilarity and stardom. And they wasted him. 

In the series of what will eventually be nine videos, Ferrell takes questions from kids and ad libs funny answers.

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