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This is one of the most beautiful advertisements I've ever seen...



And yes, that is Animal House...  The ad was broadcast for just one day, on Thanksgiving Day during the NFL's traditional broadcast of a Detroit Lions football game. It's an implicit thank-you to America from GM for bailing out the struggling automaker, and it was produced by the ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners.

It splices together scenes of some of America's greatest comebacks. There's Popeye, just before he's had his spinach, and the discouraged frat boys from the movie Animal House. I'd like to know who's the boxer in the ad, but the symbolism of the NASA rocket is pretty obvious.

Now we'll see if GM can roar back to life just as dramatically...