Family-Friendly FaceTime Commercial Gets Dysfunctional Family Parody Ad [VIDEO]

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Brenna Ehrlich
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Family-Friendly FaceTime Commercial Gets Dysfunctional Family Parody Ad [VIDEO]

If you cried during the iPhone 4's FaceTime commercial (directed by Sam Mendes), you might want to grab a huge box of tissues before checking out College Humor's parody of the ad.

Yeah, FaceTime will likely be a great way for folks in distant lands to keep in touch (folks with an iPhone 4 and access to Wi-Fi, anyway) -- and to discover that they have no friends to call -- but this spoof on the extremely sentimental original spot does make an interesting point: It's increasingly possible to substitute digital interactions with real human communication nowadays.

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