Dreadful Tourism Ad
A Puppet's Ramblings - from Chip Martin, Mannequin American Marketer
Arrive a Guest. Leave a Legend. Better Yet, Don't Go.
Apparently the North Dakota Tourism agency hired an agency based somewhere in 1977 to produce the ad above, where two men in a bar sporting high-fashion items such as a teal shirt with the collar popped out on the blazer and those fancy zip-up boots, ogle giggling women parading outside on the street. The headlines - there's two of them - read Dinner. Drinks. Decisions. Arrive a guest. Leave a legend.
I don't even know where to begin pointing out all of the downsides to this ad ... so I'll just leave it up to you to find the things that disturb you the most.
Best Non-alcoholic Beer Ad Ever
Infomercials Get Away with Gobs of Double Entendres
Schtick it to Him
If you always wanted to "Schtick it" to your husband ... here's an infomercial for Schticky that gets away with double entendres that would never fly in other forms of marketing.
Hot Booties ... No Not That Kind of Bootie
And while we're on infomercials, here's one that's so bad I bet it sells a ton of product. According to the ad, "Much, much more than just slippers, Hot BootiesTM are the perfect accessory for your Snuggie." It's also an indicator of America's lazy descent from being an economic powerhouse to nation of hoarding, comfort-seeking shut-ins.
"Just place the booties in the Booty BagTM and microwave for 60 seconds." Laugh at the name, laugh at the production values of the ad, but don't laugh when they bring in more money in a day than you'll make in your entire life. The lazy consumer has arrived as an important market player, and he's not getting up anytime soon.
Vintage Ad of the Day
Just to prove that when you use sex to sell, you don't need words, here is a vintage ad featuring Sophia Loren for Honda mopeds. It doesn't matter the copy isn't in English ... you wouldn't read it anyway.
If you're wondering why they don't show her riding a scooter it's probably because she doesn't know how. But it's nice how her breast points to the product. You can't ask for a better endorsement than that.
Tormenting Babies for Laughs
Okay, just for laughs click here to see babies tasting lemons for the first time. I bet you catch yourself making a face while you're laughing.
