The following frames are from a 1997 campaign for The Select Network, a dating service that was using segmented spots to appeal to different market segments. This spot, Beatnik, was a loving parody of GenX poetry slam.
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"I am looking at you but you look right through me...
I pass you on the street but I am invisible to you..."
"I am not a window pane. I am a human being!...
Bad connections baby, like a telephone call to Beijing..
two hip cats passing in the night..."
foam like a triple latte,
burn my copy of the Kama Sutra,
for you my love."
"I would even... Do the dishes!"
Girl: "Wow.. Heavy, man!"
