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Forever Linked With Furby!

It's been a pretty special day for me. I've slowly gotten into the producing side at Nick, meaning, on occasion, I get to produce the spots I write. It'd take me eight paragraphs to explain what that means, but essentially, you stay with a project from start to finish and direct every creative aspect of it. About a month ago I won a pitch for a Furby-related "giveaway spot" (this is why I went to Toronto a few weeks back), and today, the bitch hit the air. I love it. It's so me. Love it so much that I'm going to put up with a 20MB download to let y'all see it, because I doubt very much that I can persuade the site's audience to watch Nickelodeon all week until my spot happens to come on. It wasn't too terribly long ago that I spent my days hunting down Furbies at toy stores during their initial hot run to make a fast buck on eBay. Now I've done a commercial for 'em. My dreams are twisted, granted, but it's nice to see some of them come true.

The Halloween Countdown rolls on with September 13th's tribute to McDonald's Halloween Gift Certificates, a free ticket to cheeseburgers for any trick-or-treater who was lucky enough to find the holy house that gave them away. Last call for the Halloween Art Contest, as I've already gotten plenty of entries, including a few that are quite clearly awesome in every way possible.

Posted by Matt on 09/12/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 83 comments

Lucky. I have never been to a Halloween party in my life. When I was a kid we came in with our costumes on 1 day and they paraded us around the streets for the villagers to see. Now they don’t even have THAT anymore. They have the PC "Fall Celebration." What a crock. I don’t even get trick-or-treaters. Last year I got a total of 0. I’m not even kidding. 0. And my town has trick-or-treat for TWO nights. My only salvation last year was that a local theater was having free showings of Teen Wolf. I hope they do that again this year, as last year I was not aware of the allegid "penis" in the end scene.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 09/13/2005 8:44 PM

I do remember the McDonald’s Halloween gift certificates. I think we had a few around for years we never used.

As for Halloween parties, no, we never went to one, either. We always did our school Halloween festivies during school hours, and as far as I know, they still do the parades around the schools in most towns.

Carri, we had a town Halloween Parade, too, only ours was usually about a week or two before the big day. Same deal, only our parade ended at a local museum/park and was always held during the day. I hope they still have that parade. It was always a blast, and I looked forward to it more than trick-or-treating in some ways.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 09/13/2005 10:45 PM

Given the fact that it’s practically Thursday already on the cool coast it doesn’t look like I’ll be getting in my contest entry in time. Good luck to everybody else!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/13/2005 11:34 PM

Congratulations on the cool commercial, Matt! It’s always neat to see people you enjoy do well )

Chestnuts roasted by meredith @ 09/14/2005 12:18 PM

Matt, as a former production intern who directed two public affairs segments for CBS-3′s Sunday morning newscast, that was a great commercial!!!!! Congratulations!! I would like to get into production to do fun stuff like that. Great job!

Of course, I still miss how every contest would say "Brought to you by the first network for kids, Nickelodeon!" Or, what it "the only network for kids"????? You think about it, it was the only network for us at one time.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 09/14/2005 1:21 AM

I think the audience of this website is more apt to watch Nickelodeon then most other sites. I watch it all the time.

Great commercial Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by mutton72 @ 09/15/2005 11:39 AM

aaaah … Halloween certificated from the early 90′s. i SO useta use my allowance to buy these at one MickeyDee’s (said my mom sent me to) & then take them to another one & use them on myself.

Yet, i retrained my weight & have not eaten every baby in site (baby back … ribs …)

(PS) Furby’s? geez, my wife has 4. ugly little critters … but they do liketa curse :)

Chestnuts roasted by Steven @ 03/01/2009 1:51 AM

URL has expired :( lol I wanted to see the commercial!

Chestnuts roasted by Jaclyn @ 11/13/2009 5:55 PM

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