Car manufacturers and dealerships love federal holidays. Toyota and Presidents Day is no exception. The Japanese motor corporation aired the following television spot promoting their holiday sales event back in February 2011.
Do those dead president heads on the dancing tuxedo bodies against an old timey theater backdrop look familiar? Aaron Simpson at Cold Hard Flash certainly thinks so. So do the lawyers of a 12-year-old digital entertainment studio famous for putting goofy looking visages of famous individuals on top of uncharacteristically coordinated physiques.
JibJab saw the above advertisement and found it to be uncomfortably familiar. In March, the company’s legal counsel issued an official complaint for damages to the California District Courts. The complaint claims:
San Francisco-based advertising shop Hoffman/Lewis created the TV spot. As Simpson says, they “simply shoulda known better.”
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