This is pretty random, but now that everyone's talking about Hillary Clinton's Sopranos spoof, I remember an ad I saw that I thought was pretty amusing: Georgia's (the country's) advertisement for investing there. It looks and feels rather like a sports talk/commentary show like you'd see on ESPN and uses the right music, except that they talk about what a neat place Georgia is. It was a hundred times better (in my opinion - though I am not exactly their target audience, not having any money to invest overseas) than those so-serious, so-earnest ads-for-countries you sometimes see. It gave me a really positive opinion of their country, not so much because of the business data they presented but because of how they did it - it showed that they understand enough about us to (or to hire people who) parody our pop culture in a clever and amusing way, without patronizing us, insulting us, or making themselves look silly. They deftly prevented confusion due the fact that we have a state called Georgia which is our default when we hear the name and that most of us don't know offhand where Georgia is. So anyway, good job, Georgia, you caught this American's attention for longer than the thirty seconds it took to watch the ad.

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