it’s always fun to go searching for these! Here are some I’d never seen before:
This one just seems a bit mean.
Somehow I don’t think they’ll be getting the message intended…
Yuck. Not so much unfortunate ad placement as…unfortunate mud placement.
Oh, now…that’s just not right.
Sometimes I wonder if a portion of resources should be removed from advertisement research and placed into some constructive planning for placement. Nah, then we wouldn’t get gems like these.
Too bad they never showed this European commercial in the U.S., I think Americans would get a kick out of it.
Whenever I’ve seen someone in distress, I’ve always come to the “It’s a trap!” conclusion as well. I guess there’s good reason though - instead of some innocent young lady locked out of her car, I typically happen upon some fat sweaty guy in cutup jeans and a sleeveless t-shirt leaning against the side of his mid-eighties Chevy.
Yesterday’s fun with old cigarette ads inspired me to continue, broadening my search to just any old ad — any old ad that’s really weird. As it turns out, no website on the internet is big enough to contain the amount of weirdness in the advertising world.
OH NOEZ IT’S INFECTIOUS DANDRUFF YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN MY HOME.
This is so frightening. Look at her eyes! I can’t…look…away……from the…hypnotizing…fruit spread…
Because when I think “fancy” I think “batteries”…and also “man with his hand over his head looking up at…something…”
So good, it’ll melt your pasty white face right off!
Pear’s Soap: It’ll crush your babies!
Once my house burned down and my dog ran away and lightning ruined my car and I lost all my hair. Then, someone gave me a plastic harmonica. It was all I needed.
You know what? I’m not even going to touch this one. This one is to look at and think about and not talk about. If you post a comment taking the obvious joke, I’ll lose respect for you forever, and write you out of my will. It’s a gum massager. That’s all.
Cleaning through a neighbor’s old house turned up a lot of interesting things: old bottles, toys, newspapers, and magazines. Most interesting were the magazines from over thirty years ago. They still had cigarette ads in them, and I thought, jeez, this is some crazy stuff. One quick search later, and I discovered that some old cig ads were really over the top:
Yeah! All the good things cigarettes do for you! Like lung disease! And cancer!
Yeah, dad! Thanks for smoking! I love developing asthma!
Not one, but TWO layers of cellophane! So it’s fresh! Like…eggs?
Right. If a man blew smoke into my face, I’d sure follow him anywhere. With a steak knife.
Not sure how well you can read this one, but it suggests that every puff of smoke cleans itself. Which is pretty much a lie, but check out the cute kitty cleaning itself, like the lying smoke!
Heh…a man kept a dog with no legs. He named it Cigarette, because every night he took it out for a drag.
I’m so sorry.
Smoking is bad for you, kids. No matter what the lady in the white powdered wig says.
A couple months ago, Bunk sent me this advertisement for a Spam Sandwich sold at Freshness Burger, a very popular fast food chain in Japan and South Korea:
For about $4 U.S., you can have a big hunk of spam, lettuce, tomato, and an over-easy egg. So yummy, you’ll go “Boing” when you eat it.
Anyone know if Freshness Burger still sells Spam Sandwiches?
Okay, Okay, Okay…I know. I am a video fiend. But I promise (promise promise) I’m planning an update with words. Real words, and not just words that lead up to a video.
This is not that update.
But, this may be one of the funniest (and genuine) series of commercials I’ve ever seen. The comedy is entirely in their poor choice of product name, and if you haven’t seen them yet, enjoy:
Taste, chew, and Enjoy!
Try new peanut butter Ayds! I wonder why this stuff isn’t around anymore!
Thank goodness, indeed! This next one I find funny mostly because of the images they use…
In today’s overweight, yet thin-obsessed, society it’s hard to imagine a time when gaining weight was a major problem (and goal) for many young women. Here’s an advertisement from the November 1934 of Physical Culture, aimed at quickly providing women with those few extra pounds (click for full size pic):
Who wouldn’t want to gain “at least 5 lbs. of good, firm flesh in 1 week”? For some reason Kelp-A-Malt doesn’t seem to be on sale anymore … maybe McDonalds, Häagen-Dazs, and Television proved to be too much competition?
There’s nothing better than a really cool purse. OK, maybe there’s quite a few things better, but I always like seeing other women carry around atypical purses. Such as this:
This just screams “don’t even THINK about asking me if I’m a vegetarian” or maybe “I’m available”. Guys, what would you think if you saw a young lady walking around with that? Grade A, right?
Or how about this bacon briefcase?
Now THAT’S professional. Personally, I’m more dairy inclined, so I’d probably prefer a cheesier purse:
Too bad these food purses aren’t real. I’d buy that ground beef purse just for effect.
These were all part of an ad campaign for some diet program. Oddly enough, it actually made me want to eat a big plate of overcooked bacon. I guess I’d be a bad candidate for their program. Pics taken from Amazing Design World via Spluch.
While researching to see if there were any real beef purses, I did find this limited edition purse by Mark Ryden and Paul Frank, but come on, it’s not really the same, is it?
Plus, they typically sell for over $100 on eBay. That’s right, $100 for a signed white pleather purse with a steak painted on the side. Note to any purse designers out there - maybe it’s time to start looking in the meat aisle at the grocery store for inspiration.
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