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They are created by Tim and Eric of Awesome Show fame on adult swim. They also created this commercial which is distilled genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0QtJMKt1s

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Tim and Eric did do some commercials for Old Spice, but none of these. All of the ones with Isaiah Mustafa are from Wieden+Kennedy.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieden%2BKennedy

Here's a link to a compilation of Tim and Eric's Old Spice commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PD4f5uTOU

This video shows how that Old Spice ad was made --- minimal CGI! And incidentally, another Eric was involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDk9jjdiXJQ (They smell like redditors...)

I watched that and kept waiting for it to be funny. Then I went to reply "That's not funny" and realized the genius of the clip.

Well Played Sir.

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