Actually, I believe those things weren’t stimulants. They were a topical anesthetic, like Novocaine. Making your tongue numb made you not wanna eat I guess…
It used to kind of bug me as well, but it occurred to me that I kind of like imagining, for instance, Johnny Yen actually being on one of those cruises with the freaked-out regular folk. And I love being able to spill the “Hey, d’ya know what that song is REALLY about?” news to the unsuspecting.
Charmin, Charmin, and again Charmin. Not satisfied showing bears in the woods and alluding obviously to the elimination they do there, they now assure viewers that no leftover bits of paper will adhere to their butts. Does anyone, anywhere really have that problem? If so I think they have a far more urgent and pressing problem; namely, they’re walking around with leftover feces. For how else would traces of TP stay there? It’s just gross.
Well not amphetamines, really, although the main ingredient phenylpropanolamine could be called somewhat amphetamine-ish.
One of our local gas station/convenience store chains has a sign reading Beer Cave, on which they post the weekly special offers. Recently the feature item listed under Beer Cave was “Mocha Lattes - 99 Cents”. I enjoyed the thought of the Neanderthals hunkering down in their beer cave with mocha lattes.
Almost as good as the convenience store near my home in Texas whose sign advertised Live Bait, Ammunition and Lattes.
There’s a place near my father-in-law’s house called “Snack ‘n’ Tackle”. Every time I see the sign, I wonder if the snacks and the fish bait come from the same big bin…
McDonalds recently followed up their “I’d hit it” campaign with a similar blunder.
Releasing their new McDonalds “sandwich wraps” that have all the ingredients of a burger in a wrap instead of on a bun, they launched it with an ad campaign “Hey, Mac”. I can’t find online.
It shows lots of young folk talking to their wrap like it is a former lover they are coming back to. “Hey, I haven’t seen you in a while, you look good.”
KFC had a wonderful campaign blunder tied in to the Battlestar Galactica final season. They put together this ad campaign with a slogan for the show and an ad during the program, with some sort of call in component and prizes. What did they call it? The “KFC Frak Pack”.
Wait, let me get this straight, I can go to KFC and get a box of chicken, a biscuit, and a quick lay? Does it come with a drink and a side?
That ran for, like, 2 weeks on the show (IIRC- I think I saw it twice) before it was yanked for a week, then returned as the “can’t say that word on TV” campaign.
Which is hilarious in another ironic way, because “frak” can be said on network tv - that’s why they created the word in the first place. It just is mind-bogglingly misplaced to use it as a food slogan simply because it rhymes.
Waffle Decider said:
To be fair, it’s just a typo putting in a comma where an apostrophe belongs. “Girl Scouts’ Peanut Butter Patties”, not “Girl Scouts, Peanut Butter Patties”.
Chronos said:
Bugs me too. Can’t come up with examples right now, but annoying when witnessed.
This advert by Vaillant is not bad visually. But I find it very offensive and typical of the current fad in advertising of making males look stupid.
The tag line is something like, “so simple even Dad can do it”, spoken shortly after said Dad is shown next to a bookcase or shelves which collapses obviously showing his complete ineptitude.
I know it’s not a big deal, but it smacks of sexism disguised by alleged humour.
If you changed the word Dad to “a woman” or “a black person” the complaints would flood in and quite rightly so. But apparently slightly overweight white males are fair game.
Am I overreacting?
There’s an advert for some phone (I think) with a woman dressing her kid up in a dog suit and putting him in a crate on an airplane. Baggage handlers look somewhat mentally challenged, the woman clearly is and these people think that they are encouraging me to use their phone service.
Not exactly an ad, but one of the units in our commercial building has signage that says
This message seems a bit ambiguous to me…
Any use of CCR’s “Fortunate Son” just to use the “red white & blue” lyric. :rolleyes:
About 20 years back I saw a sign advertising a sale at a gas station. It read:
“7 gals for the price of 1.”
Had to add to the Ad Fail thread…
Car commercial, shows a boy at a party trying to break a pinata that looks like a car. Well, an SUV. A boxy SUV. He keeps hitting it with a bat, but the car won’t break. I think - “Ha ha, I get it, Hummers are so tough even the pinata won’t break.” Eventually I see it’s got a logo for VW. Wait, that’s a VW commercial? But the commercial is obviously selling Hummers. Definite Ad Fail when the first thing the audience thinks of is a competitor.
It wasn’t put out in all markets, so it wasn’t as infamous as it should have been, but OK Soda was an unappealing product promoted with an unappealing yet heavily saturated marketing campaign designed to appeal cynical gen-Xers.
What could possibly go right?
mmmm… glycerol esther of wood rosin…
Another ad with poorly chosen music is a current Maple Leaf commercial featuring their Natural Selections products. You recognize the music as the ad shows all the lovely meats with their natural ingredients and as the ad ends the first line of the lyrics is played.
The problem? the song is Buffalo Springfield’s “For what it’s worth” . So the line is " There’s something happening here". My brain fills in the next line… "What it is ain’t exactly clear. Its even worse when I think of the next line after that. " There’s a man with a gun over there, telling me I have got to beware.
Thanks, I now associate nitrate free ham with being oppressed by the Man.
" Paranoia runs deep, into your life it will creep" :eek:
Chevy has a new slogan: “Chevy Runs Deep”
What the hell does that mean? Chevy runs underwater? And do they really want a slogan that sounds like “Chevy runs away”. Run, Chevy, Run.
“Still Water Runs Deep”
Therefore, logic indicates:
Chevy = Still Water
So a Chevy is like a stagnant pond.
Yes, I’m not seeing why that is something to advertise.
Ha. Being a gentleman of a certain age, my primary association with the song is this Muppet Show sketch from 1978, so there’s already a pretty strong connection with organic meat… for what it’s worth.
Not precisely an ad, but I went into McDonald’s today and discovered that they are currently marketing an “Angus Third Pounder.” Maybe it’s just because I happened to be narrating everything in a poor approximation of a broad Newfoundland accent for the amusement of my daughter when I serendipitously discovered the existence of this new offering, but it seems to me that the entire school-age male demographic (and a fair number of immature types across the entire gender spectrum besides) are going to have a hard time looking at this without some permutation of ANUS TURD POUNDER presenting itself to their troubled imagination. Google suggests it ain’t just me.
Actual McDonald’s ad (from Finland) confirms that McDonald’s doesn’t care how squeamish you ought to be, anyway. Hell, I’d eat a McProstate patty if they threw enough bacon and cheddar at it and served it on a Wonder bun that was made to resemble ciabatta. I’m not proud.
Trust me, there are some cheap toilet papers that disintegrate when they come in contact with what moisture there is in your poo.