As a Tivo user I am generally one of the last to see a commercial. Tonight I saw the iPod Nano commercial and afterwords I had an unreasonable hankering for a muffin with way too much butter on it. Apple has always taken interesting approaches to advertising, but re-inventing the old country crock commercials seems avant garde even for them.

The country crock commercial series was this whole obnoxious series of commercials where you just see the hands of this lovey dovey couple. They are always very sweet to each other but fight over the country crock, and always always always use a frightening amount of it in the end. I guess their arteries hardened too far, because their ghosts seemed to be back in the last half of the iPod Nano commercial where it is zoomed in on too hands playfully fighting over the iPod.