As the chilly pangs of winter draw nigh, it’s a great time to remember that, hey, if you were living in South America right now, it would now be summer. It’s because hemispheres and weather patterns and poles and the Earth’s rotation and other things I don’t quite understand, but the southern hemisphere experiences opposite weather patterns that we have up north. This is why there is an air conditioner ad in your AgencySpy this morning.

This spot for BGH comes from Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi Argentina. The concept evolves around a creepy voyeuristic shut-in being the personification of an air conditioner. As things end up taking a pretty bad turn around the 45-second mark, it’s hard not to reflect on two things: 1. This spot would never run in the U.S. and 2. Your own demented broadcast concepts will never be made unless you leave the country.

So, as you give thanks this holiday weekend, remember that your life would be so much better in you were in Argentina. Then laugh, because we all know that’s not true. I mean, football, AMIRITE? Credits after the jump.

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From Del Campo Saatchi and Saatchi comes yet another spot for Argentinian beer Andes, a product of Anheuser-Busch InBev that is (maybe, but probably not) the brew giant’s equivalent of Michelob. We meet an attractive young man with a horrifying affliction–he has empty beer bottles for hands. It’s kind of like (¡EL SPOILER!) Edward Scissorhands, except with beer bottles, you follow? Okay, cool.

Anyway, we can assume the team at Del Campo Saatchi and Saatchi decided to have a little fun of the brief, taking the ol’ “What problem does this solve?” approach to Andes’ new wide-mouth bottles and making up a silly non-problem for “A Singular Man.” I mean, really, the only reason we have wide-mouth anythings is because the developed world contains a bunch of fatty-fat-fats who feel the need to consume food and beverage in greater volumes in order to support their bloated stomachs. It’s either that, or, you know, people who self-medicate by binge-drinking away their problems.

We wish you well, Argentinians who inevitably will smirk like idiots when they replicate this spot and dunk their fingers into their bottles. We doubt that Budweiser introduces their own bottles of similar design to the States with a spot that doesn’t feature a bunch of young models chugging beer at a beach party or something. Credits after the jump.

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