On Wednesday night we posted a video of the Old Spice Guy plugging libraries. Today one of our interns sent us this brilliant Old Spice parody filmed at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library. More like this. Please.
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21 Responses to ‘Anything Is Possible When You’re in the Library’
jairrels - July 16, 2010 at 7:15 am
Love it!
lhornega - July 16, 2010 at 8:57 am
Very funny!
lizgibbons - July 16, 2010 at 10:05 am
I laughed so hard 3 students in the lounge turned around.
lesliemhaas - July 16, 2010 at 10:22 am
Love it!!! I wish we had thought of it first!
cjones599 - July 16, 2010 at 10:46 am
The college librarians are in live with this very funny piece!
socialsciences1 - July 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Fantastic!! Can’t wait to share with my students and our librarians.
jleah - July 16, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Has anyone else noticed that, with the exception of the New Spice Guy, everyone else that can be seen in the video seems to be white?
knuckleball22 - July 16, 2010 at 4:07 pm
LOVE IT!
performance_expert2 - July 18, 2010 at 1:33 am
#7. good point and thank you for saying something. probably these marketing types just live in very white areas and do not know any better.
humoru - July 18, 2010 at 6:24 am
The student in this video is named Stephen Jones and he is the president of BYU’s stand-up comedy club, Humor U. BYU is home to the largest comedy club between NY and LA and it turns out some serious talent. You can learn more about them by going to humoru.org. I am the adviser for the student club. They perform over 40 shows a year to over 12,000 people. BYU has some very funny and talented students, and arguably the largest college comedy club in the nation.
honore - July 19, 2010 at 9:54 am
jleah, now don’t you know that we are now allegedly “post-racial”?
moni4936 - July 19, 2010 at 10:37 am
Love this! Sending it to my Librarian Mom now for a laugh.
merriealynn - July 19, 2010 at 11:41 am
It’s on this librarian’s guide to library resources!
soundguy - July 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm
jleah, we are talking Utah, here. I count 5 or 6 persons of color, as near as I can tell in the fast-moving video, out of maybe 40 that appear in the frame. Probably pretty representative of the population around there. I’m more interested to know how many takes it took to get him to catch the backpack without looking!
jpetit - July 19, 2010 at 1:55 pm
jleah, BYU is a predominantly white campus. Their website says they have a minority population of 13%: http://yfacts.byu.edu/viewarticle.aspx?id=135 (and 98.5% LDS).
kaglib - July 20, 2010 at 7:03 pm
for still shots of the making of vid: http://newspicepromo.blogspot.com/
11188056 - July 21, 2010 at 9:04 am
Mr. Jones acting is very good in this promo for the BYU library, and yes…he is quite handsome!
honore - July 21, 2010 at 10:42 am
wow…it’s a different Mormon world
11231643 - July 21, 2010 at 10:43 am
Gotta be careful, though. Sales for Old Spice have gone down since the advent of their new ad campaign. Don’t wish the same for libraries.
hcfeldman - July 21, 2010 at 1:48 pm
In the “more like this” department, our Student Ambassadors put together this riff on the SNL “I’m On a Boat” video, changed to “I’m on a Tour”: http://www.clark.edu/student_services/visit/on_tour.phpI realize that I am 100 percent biased on this, but to me this is a case where the remake is better than the original. “That’s right, I’m on a campus visit! That’s right, it’s so exquisite! … Benjamin Franklin, look at me now!” Lurve.
lhollinger - August 3, 2010 at 3:48 pm
I will be showing this on our professional development day!