NOTE: This video will make absolutely no sense if you've never seen There Will Be Blood. I would say it contains spoilers, but since it won't make sense, you can probably watch it.

Goes on too long and other Oscar movies are shoehorned in awkwardly, but it's still pretty good. What puts it over the top, for me, is that a vast majority of the audience will have no idea what they are talking about. I imagine the standard reaction of the uninitiated would be, "That's just bizarre...I don't know too much about the movie, but one thing I'm pretty sure of, the movie doesn't end with Daniel Day-Lewis screaming about milkshakes." And those people would be wrong, so very wrong.

Ah, 1975...a simpler time, when one could market a board game like this with a straight face: Seriously, does the phrase "ball-buster" in its colloquial sense really not go back to the mid '70s? I have to think this is an intentionally racy ad campaign, because otherwise an enraged man screaming "you're a ball-buster" at his wife seems an odd way to sell wholesome family fun. Actually, any way you slice it, it just doesn't seem right. I suppose it was just a flawed marketing campaign, and that's why I'm not playing Virtual Ball-Busting on the Xbox tonight.

UPDATE: The OED traces "ball-buster" back to 1954, and "ball-busting" to 1944, though it seems to have really come into its own in '74 or so. In fact, a 1975 citation describes the term as a "graphic, forceful expletive," which makes its use in a television commercial the same year a bit odd. I'd say it's some sort of dry-witted parody, but apparently it ran during the Super Bowl.

The cycle of life, or NEVER piss off a water buffalo: