Which is the most amazing commercial?

[jmowreader]

EDS' Cat Herders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmgLtg1Izw

or

Honda's Rube Goldberg Accord

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzr0naZnZ0

I can figure out how the agency did the Honda ad--MONTHS of experimentation with the parts, and hundreds of takes. (The ad wasn't computer-generated or cut together--this is one seamless piece of film.) What I canNOT figure out is how they trained a cat to ford a stream.

[rug]

1. They probably threw it in and had it swim out.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. What's more amazing is the idiots on YouTube saying the Honda commercial was fake.

:banghead:

[billyskank]

3. There's definitely some fakery going on in that Honda advert

Check out the way the tyres roll uphill. Not natural.

[DS1]

4. it's done with weights near the top of the leading edge

:P

[billyskank]

5. Uh huh.

And why does the window wind down? :P

[jmowreader]

7. Accords have power windows

The ramp the metal cylinder rolled down either (1) had two wires--substituting for the switch--taped to the top of it (when the metal cylinder landed on them, they'd short together and make the window come down) or (2) had a little stick running between the ramp and the standard issue switch.

[Common Sense Party]

8. Not fake at all. That was the whole appeal of the commercial. nt

[LynneSin]

6. Snopes on the Honda commericial (and it was real)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/hondacog.asp