Together with pleasant evenings based on VHS cassettes and pop-corn blowouts, I think Carl & Ray are the best idea Blockbuster Inc. have brought to us.

I really love these funny original testimonials, even because I had the chance to work on them with my friend Nicolas a few years ago, delivering an amazing interactive home-page and some cute banners for Blockbuster Italy.

Voiced respectively by Jim Belushi and James Woods, Ray the guinea pig and Carl the rabbit observe life from their pet shop window, just in front of a shining Blockbuster videostore.

Conceived and computer-generated by the talented guys at Tippett Studios, Carl and Ray have soared at the acme of their TV stars career in 2002, when one of their funniest commercial was broadcast during the Super Bowl.

Here follows a selection of their performances…