Eppendorf's new ad campaign features this inexcusable yet mesmerizingly cheesy boy-band ode to something called "epMotion." Even though they are individually reminiscent of various best-forgotten members of N'Sync and Color Me Badd, the crooners satisfy the needs of a lab-coated blonde graduate student with too many 96-well plates. Girl, it's time to automate!
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And there are folks who say that scientists are all stuffy and have no sense of humor... sigh...
Not only do we totally lack a sense of humor, as you've no doubt heard, we have a severely limited capability to review films. ;)
That is totally bizarre! Funny, ROTFLMAO, but bizarre.
Just for the record, this doesn't hold up alongside the hot single dropped by Bio-Rad, "The PCR Song."
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