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GoNintendo — gt 1 2 1 2 Personal Trainer: Cooking - Fred Willard Trailer This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm and is filed under DS , News by RMC . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

Actor Fred Willard promotes the DS and Personal Trainer: Cooking to fail results
Destructoid — Disclaimer: I fully understand that this ad is not intended for me and for pretty much the majority of you out there watching this. With that said, this is one of the worst ads for the DS yet. Last year, Nintendo got the likes of Liv Tyler, Nicole Kidman and other female celebrities to promote the Nintendo DS. While those ads did nothing for non-casual gamers, it did at least get the point across that the DS can be accessible to anyone. This year, Nintendo has started a new promotional campaign staring Fred Willard, one of the Bob’s ...

Fred Willard shilling for Personal Trainer: Cooking. I...
Tiny Cartridge — > > Fred Willard shilling for Personal Trainer: Cooking. I can’t tell if this is infomercial-level cheese or extremely deadpan anti-comedy — is this so intentionally unfunny it’s funny, or was it just written by Nintendo PR? Willard’s career in general, and work with the Spinal Tap guys in stuff like Best in Show in specific, makes me lean toward “intentional”. Either way, it makes me kind of uncomfortable. ...

Video: Fred Willard Rescues Cooking, Geography, & Nintendo Celebrity Campaign
GayGamer.net — I've been a little creeped out by Nintendo's celebrity campaigns of late. Not only do Liv Tyler and Carrie Underwood fail utterly to convince me that they enjoy their DS games, but Lisa Kudrow's latest commercial for Personal Trainer: Cooking ...

Fred Willard's Nintendo Shilling Lets Us Down [Clips]
Kotaku — Nicole Kidman. Liv Tyler. Fred Willard? Nintendo has roped in Spinal Tap actor Fred Willard to promote Personal Trainer: Cooking in this disappointingly disappointing clip. Be warned, the below clip is blergh. And it's not because it's for some casual cooking game — that's not the problem at all. It's that it's something like seven minutes long. That's not casual! Casual is two minutes long. (Then again, Crecente's video of this same game is fourteen minutes long — but doesn't feel like it's fourteen minutes long.) We hate this Willard DS clip so hard. ...

Media: Fred Willard Next in Line to Pimp Personal Trainer: Cooking
Kombo.com — Move over Lisa Kudrow, there is a new celebrity shill in the house. Hollywood journeyman Fred Willard has been seen in just about anything that you could imagine. I remember him best for his guest spots in sitcoms like 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and such disastrous flicks as 2007's 'Epic Movie'. Speaking of disasters, this ad looks like another stellar edition to that resume. I use the term ad loosely, because if it clocks in at over seven minutes long, it is practically an infomercial. Watch at your own risk!