September 2007 - Posts
In general, offers that begin with a “Have you ever wondered?” or “Have you ever wanted to?” make us immediately go “no” and move on.
But we were more than a little intrigued with an ad we stumbled over on the Web asking, “Trying to catch hepatitis C? Not sure where to start?” Not particularly. Wait -- what?
The animated spot features a little doodle of a guy, who evidently is named Dennis. An onscreen narrator asks the question (at the time Dennis -- obviously highly-motivated -- is licking the jagged rim of a tin can) and offers some ... er ... helpful information on ways he could have already caught it. These include, but are not limited to, sharing a razor, getting a tattoo and spending a holiday doing drugs and listening to techno music. (We pause at this point to remind all our readers that if you or someone you care about listens to techno, get help immediately).
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Sometimes it’s not so much the ad that’s weird, it’s just pimping a product that’s so strange weirdness can’t be helped.
We haven’t actually tried Domino’s new Oreo Dessert Pizza, so we can’t comment on whether it’s any good or not. But it sounds like something concocted in a pothead’s dorm room VERY late at night. It looks like a pizza crust with crushed cookies and a lot of frosting.
Not that we’re pizza snobs. We spent the longest year and a half of our life in rural Oregon and the chain definitely had the best pie within 100 miles. And at least Domino's has avoided serving up that barbecue-sauce-and-chicken abomination that seems to be on every place’s menu.
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Back in the 1990s, Sir Mix-A-Lot made a lot of women with a little extra bootie into lifelong fans with his instant classic “Baby Got Back.” Before that, Van Halen helped cement its ’80s-era big hair/bad boy image with the classic “Hot For Teacher.”
Now along comes Carl’s Jr.
Just in time for back to school, the fast food restaurant’s latest ad features a teacher shaking her booty in front of a classroom of ogling, pubescent white boys rapping about how they like “flat buns” - on their patty melt, that is - while their teacher bumps and grinds. Sample lyric: “Stand sideways, girl, you disappear.”
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Everyone knows that kids love potty humor, but how well does it go over with adults?
Kellogg Co. is testing that notion with a new ad for All-Bran, a cereal touted more for its fiber than its flavor.
The commercial, targeted at consumers ages 45 to 75, features a burly construction worker strolling around a job site boasting about how All-Bran has helped make him regular. Just like the recent ad featuring a group of men jamming about the wonders of Viagra, the first question that comes to mind is, “Do guys really hang around talking about this stuff?”
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