Poke Star

Montreal Poke Store Advertises With Hilariously Awkward Computer-Generated Video | Eater Montreal

"I watched a hilariously awkward, roughly two-minute-long Facebook ad that dropped last Sunday for Poké Star, featuring a clunky CGI animation and computer-generated voices between Jenny and a nameless bureaucrat with Clark Kent glasses; it sits somewhere between the deliberately funny Taiwanese animated news network NMA and the bizarro, possibly AI-generated kids’ ad “Johny Johny Yes Papa.” The two coworkers talk about mundane work things until Jenny, in an emotionless, robotic tone, declares “I am really hungry. Let’s discuss after lunch. I have to go,” and then launches into a spiel about the menu, calling the poke “very healthy and trendy” and even revealing that their ramen noodles are made with cricket flour (made from ground crickets). Jenny also extols Poké Star’s “detox” drinks while clapping her hands, and the ad continues for another minute of unintentionally awkward CGI-voice foibles; it’s so clunky and earnest that I found it oddly charming — certainly better than other restaurants’ less wholesome attention-grabbing attempts — and it ends with the nameless coworker’s toneless, possibly dead-inside line: “Oh, that’s good.”" - Tim Forster