Volkswagen cuties

Guys like this are why I do this blog. I stop what I’m doing every time this commercial comes on. The dealer in the backseat looks a little to me like Bradley Cooper. I don’t know of a celebrity counterpart to the husband/boyfriend, but the encouraging look that he gives the dealer to come in and meet the family just pushes buttons for me that I can’t explain. The interracial component just adds to the cuteness and hotness. They’re all one big sexy family. Extra props to the woman for being funny and not doing anything corny or annoying.

The only version of this that I can find on youtube is coupled with the other commercial in this campaign, where they leave the dealer in the snow. That one makes no sense to me, but the dealer in that one is at least vaguely cute.

Alabama vs. Auburn: College football cutie in the crowd

Once again, a crowd shot has caught a cute college boy wearing no shirt for the entire game. It pains me to wonder who got to do the bodypaint.

 

Petco bear

I have no problem with a man with a belly, especially a hairy one. This man is supposed to look ridiculous, but if I walked into a store and saw him standing that way, I would be hypnotized and make up any excuse to stay there until he left.

Kenny Chesney for Apple Music

Kenny Chesney is one of country music’s top hunks, and country music has a lot of those. The silhouette of his shoulders is mesmerizing in this ad.

 

Throwback Thursday: Tim McGraw

Tomorrow’s update involves one country hunk, so here’s another — Tim McGraw, who actually looks better in the more recent photo than in the commercial. His physique and his appetite for wearing tight clothes makes him a gay hick’s best friend. I do wish he would leave the clippers alone and let nature take its course.

Does anyone else think the manager in the ad is a little precious?

When Bad Commercials Happen to Good Hunks: Build a Bear

The guy is hot, and even through the sweater, you can see how defined his lats are when he hugs that stupid girl.

Karl E. Landler for Halos

I like this commercial both for the hunk and for the devil child (a subtle play on the name of the product, which took me a while to notice). The fact that she is brushing the headless horse, and that they are both standing in the store in their bedclothes adds just the right touch of ticky-ticky-boom realness to her character.

Karl looks a little like Kerr Smith of Dawson’s Creek fame.

I said a little, okay?

Budweiser “Principles”

The dorky blond dancer in the Budweiser commercial is weirdly compelling.

Jude Law for Johnnie Walker

In my mind, I was giving Jude Law a lot of credit for being that handsome “at his age.” Turns out he’s only 42. I became aware of him in The Talented Mr. Ripley, when apparently he was only 24. He was a raving beauty in that film, but I did not have any idea he was that young.

If only Sharon Stone had directed that film.

Throwback Thursday: Gillette Atra

Long-form commercials of this sort are harder to find now. Ripped men running through the waves in shorts are harder to find, too.

I love remembering when “astronaut” was a thing to aspire to. I guess Sandra Bullock, Matt Damon, and whoever was in that forgettable Interstellar are trying to make it that way again.

 

The daddy holding the baby is definitely the most riveting part of the montage for me, aside from the men on the beach. Of course the baby is just a compulsory reminder of his heterosexuality, but if you were a gay boy watching TV in the 80s, you had to take the crookeds with the straights, as it were.