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You can tell just from the guy's back that it's Robert Downey Jr., but I'm mostly happy to see Jon Polito again after several years of absence from Coen brothers movies, and a great shout-out to Downey Sr.'s masterpiece of advertising and race relations, Putney Swope. This is a fun ad, although it's a lot more expensive than it needs to be for a fairly simple concept. (Also, the less outrageous gags are the best ones—"Hold This Cat?" Right on.)
Downey is one of those guys—like Charlie Sheen or Nicolas Cage—who's never not "on," and that's got to be good for the sponsor, because they paid him what I would imagine is quite at bit of money to back the brand for a long time ("and we got off easy!").
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