Johnson Automotive: We Don’t Need No Badgers
This is a series of five brilliant commercials produced for Johnson Automotive. They’re hilarious and on point. The commercials cleverly use the badger character to parody car salesmen and let the...
View ArticleSoyjoy Does a 180
When I first posted about a Soyjoy ad back in 2008, the ad was so bad that it made me want to cry and scream and throw things around the room. The second time I posted about the product, I … Continue...
View ArticleThe Hamilton Collection Redefines Art
This might be the worst ad ever for the worst product ever. According to this ad for The Hamilton Collection, today’s hottest new artist is someone named Margaret Le Van. That sound you hear is the...
View ArticleBetter Marriage Blanket Filters a Mighty Wind
This is a TV commercial for something called The Better Marriage Blanket. It has a layer of activated charcoal that is supposed to filter out your “flatulence molecules.” My favorite part of this...
View ArticleEDS Keeps Those Doggies Rollin’
These are two of the funniest commercials I’ve seen in a long time. Priceless line: “It ain’t an easy job, but when you bring a herd into town, and you ain’t lost a-one of them, ain’t a feeling like it...
View ArticleHonda Insight is For Plain Volks
Most cars are targeted at a specific niche market, but the folks at Honda have designed a car for the masses. This ad for the Insight proclaims: This car is for everyone! Buy one and be like everybody...
View ArticleHellmann’s Real Mayonnaise: Be Careful What You Ask
In this ad for their Real Mayonnaise, Hellmann’s (there really is no Hellmann’s anymore, it’s actually a company called Unilever) asks the question: If we knew more about our food, would we eat...
View ArticleCharmin Ultra Strong: Enjoying the Go?
Unless you’ve been hibernating, you’ve seen the animated commercials for Charmin Ultra Strong featuring bears and their dingleberries. Are these commercials annoying? Does a bear sh*t in the woods? To...
View ArticleSaturday Night Live Black Friday Commercial Parody
This link is to a Hulu video of a Saturday Night Live commercial parody. I would have liked to embed the video in the blog, but there’s no way to do that with a video on Hulu and a WordPress.com …...
View ArticleWhere to Go When You’re In Boston
Right. Where was I … I don’t have an ad today. Instead, there’s this, sent in by one of my friends, who discovered that the people at the hotel he’s staying at in Boston thoughtfully left a...
View ArticleThe Flintstones: Fred And Barney And Winston
Return with us now to 1966 — the good old days — when you could sit down with the family to watch The Flintstones, while the folks at Winston Cigarettes marketed cigarettes to your kids. As Fred says,...
View ArticleMovado: An Ad Worthy of an Art Museum
There’s a class of ads for luxury brands found in upscale magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair that utilize images and little, if any, copy. The advertisers take it for granted that the reader is...
View ArticleXerox: Real Business, Complicated
This ad for Xerox isn’t visually appealing and the copy is filled with marketing-speak gobbledegook: Order-to-cash lifecycle, scalable solutions, measurable process efficiencies. I don’t even know...
View ArticleTV Commercial: Japanese Advertising Secrets
An interesting and unusual TV commercial for sushi from Japan.
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