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The Sonic guys finally get out of their car Thank you, Marc Forster, for providing a little fodder for ad geeks (and AdFreak) in your latest film, Stranger Than Fiction. Sharp-eyed students of advertising will note that two of Will Ferrell’s IRS co-workers in the movie are the same actors, T.J. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz (shown here), who playfully banter in Sonic Drive-In’s long-running ad campaign. (Sonic apparently doesn’t put its commercials online, but it did respond to all the Sonic ad spoofs on YouTube by posting this humorous video with Jagodowski and Grosz.) In the movie, they’re the ones who quiz Ferrell about complex multiplication problems. They don’t play their characters from the ads, which would have been nice (sound of heads being slapped at Sonic), but it’s nice to see them up and walking around for a change. —Posted by Aaron Baar

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Sonic and it's agency, Barkley, don't put the commercials online because the actors were not paid for Internet distribution. Also, the video on YouTube cannot be embedded outside the site.

Brilliant marketing.

Posted by: KFad | Nov 22, 2006 10:23:30 AM

I wouldn't know. I've never seen a Sonic Drive-In nor a commercial for them. They're not in my region.

Posted by: Timm | Nov 23, 2006 5:59:20 AM

I look forward to seeing these commercials on TV. That dude is hi-larious. I like stupid humor, what can I say?

Posted by: | Nov 28, 2006 11:24:13 AM

What about the woman who appears with her husband in the Sonic commercials. She/they are as good as the 2 guys.

Posted by: Philip | Jan 17, 2008 11:29:43 PM

Did you ever notice their seatbelts are attached to their shirts and are not through the guides attached to the vehicle

Posted by: Philip | Jan 18, 2008 5:41:37 PM

Trying to figure out the name of the movie in which Peter Grosz played a police officer. Please help. Thanks.

Posted by: stitchywmn | Jun 4, 2008 1:21:10 AM

haha.. i never noticed that about the seatbelts! thats funny.

Posted by: lindsey | Jul 20, 2008 11:01:54 PM

you can watch some of the videos on the creative director's own site.

Posted by: Zac | Jul 30, 2008 12:50:11 PM

you can watch some of the videos on the creative director's own site.

Posted by: Zac | Jul 30, 2008 12:50:12 PM

^MattMckayCreative.com

Posted by: Zac | Jul 30, 2008 12:50:50 PM

Thanks for being a dick hole

Posted by: John Doe | Aug 2, 2008 2:05:13 PM

Thanks for being a penis hole^2

Posted by: | Aug 2, 2008 2:07:38 PM

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