Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged asian steroetypes, Entertainment, funny ads, Humor, old advertising, racist ads, stereotypes on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, I don’t know what year this would have been?
Maybe, 19-Oh-Racist?
The message seems clear. You want to get rid of rats, mice, bedbugs, flies or roaches? Buy a box of chinamen for 15 cents! They will eat you out of your problem. Ugh.
We are making fun of the diets of coolie-hat wearing asians, right? Good [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged funny advertisements, odd ads, old ads, racist ads on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Awww. A favorite of ours. Fertile ground in a bygone era. I love the smell of racism in the morning.
We acknowledge Indigenous Americans as having a rich full history. We acknowledge that they have their own culture and heritage, customs and traditions. But mostly we just remember that they used to scalp people. Everyone remembers that.
So, we’ll use [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged aztec, Entertainment, funny ads, Humor, odd ad, old advertising, racist, stereotypes, xenophobic ad on April 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So, tough sell…trying to make a language course into a sexy, interesting or otherwise note-worthy advert.
Hu-zzah! Learn On The Go language courses.
Body copy reads:
“They Used to Sacrifice People Here - If they start old habits, wouldn’t you like to talk them out of it?”
If this isn’t exactly racist, then at the very least it’s xenophobic. [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged Entertainment, funny advertising, Humor, old ads, sexist advertising on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am not quite sure… is there a subliminal entendre somewhere in this ad? You get a fat knuckle sandwich if you find it! Excuse me but it seems she is opening her mouth to drink in the awful stench of a penny cigar? That can’t possibly be right!
Bottomline: Women find a cigarello the epitome [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged funny ads, old advertising, old crow ad on April 2, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Are you a go-getter? Got things to do? Places to be? Well, then Old Crow is the liquid depressant for you. Stop Ambition in it’s tracks. You don’t want to be tied down with a job, a mortgage, or responsibilities, do you? Take up a life drinking and those worries will be a thing of the past.
Another solid [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged Entertainment, funny, Humor, odd ads, weird on March 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
The first 2 sentences of the copy read:
Though she was a tiger lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her.
It starts off sexist and then… goes [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged ads, crazy, Entertainment, Humor, oddball, weird on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week we’re focusing on a contemporary advertisement. Because ads don’t have to be old to be odd. You can be both kooky and creepy.
This week the question we put to you is:
How would you sell a pair of sunglasses?
D’ya have some ideas?
Are you going the Ralph Lauren way with maybe a handsome family, dressed conservatively, [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday on March 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This one disturbs me.
I understand that times have changed. I understand that Coca-Cola used to indeed have cocaine in it, that there were headache remedies with heroin, that opium-based laudanum was formerly medically recommended.
And we can (or we choose to) have a little bit of fun with that. But there are somethings that I can’t [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged funny advertising, old odd ads, Reviews on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Settle in, people; this one is seriously text-rich. And it involves the old gimmick where Kleenex doesn’t need to pay their ad agency because they ask people to send in their stories gratis. Unless it was the agency’s idea - then, Kleenex pays them but they don’t actually have to do any work. Whatevs.
Posted in Advertising, Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged advertising reviews, clothing, funny ads, Humor, old ads on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Who doesn’t want to look good and loose weight?
The theory behind these is solid. For years wrestlers and boxers have run around in garbage bags trying to loose a little extra to make weight, so the sweat out pounds while your body is encased in plastic, is not breaking any new ground. But these do certainly [...]
Posted in Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged funny dandruff, silly old ads on February 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here’s the thing… Dandruff? It’s contagious.
See, I didn’t even know that.
Thanks, Advertising!
Who knows what other germs lurk within if your scalp is telling tales out of school!
Germs, Flakes, SCALES! The madness.
Ladies aren’t stupid. You might have grown up being told dandruff was just dry skin but women know it’s pure germitude! You have filthy, dirty microorganisms [...]
Posted in Advertising, Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged old ads of the past on February 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is a good ad.
This woman is dazzlingly beautiful but now we know the horrors that lurk beneath her smile. She’s hiding a mouth full of unspeakable stink. (Yay!). Sometimes we can thank our lucky stars that we cannot smell a photograph. (Shudder). I only wish there was some sort of colorized green mustard-gas escaping from her [...]
Posted in Reviews, Wow! Ad Wednesday, tagged Advertising, funny old ads, Humor on February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yes. It’s that time again.
We’re introducing another weekly feature.
This time, advertising doozies (or don’tzies) of the past.
All in all this was a more effective remedy than the hammer and mallet remedy of the previous decade.
But this product obviously fell by the wayside with the introduction of the much more affordable Crack Rock Headache and Toothache [...]
