Badvertising
Badvertising – McDonald’s, Coming Back For A Big Mac
McDonald's seems to appear again and again on this feature. Before you all think we must have got food poisoning off them once and subsequently hate Ronald McDonald, we don’t. Honestly, their advertising is just complete and utter pants. Nowadays, they have improved, but we’re still unconvinced that farmers hug all the cows before slashing their throats. This time we’re travelling back to merry old 1978 where everyone in this advert seemed to be quite posh. Maybe McDonald's wanted us to believe that people with class dined in their restaurants and not just scummy kids who’d steal the free straws, napkins and packets of sauce. Contain yourself, it’s after the jump...
McDonald's seems to appear again and again on this feature. Before you all think we must have got food poisoning off them once and subsequently hate Ronald McDonald, we don’t. Honestly, their advertising is just complete and utter pants. Nowadays, they have improved, but we’re still unconvinced that farmers hug all the cows before slashing their throats. This time we’re travelling back to merry old 1978 where everyone in this advert seemed to be quite posh. Maybe McDonald's wanted us to believe that people with class dined in their restaurants and not just scummy kids who’d steal the free straws, napkins and packets of sauce. Contain yourself, it’s after the jump...
Badvertising – U2 And Blackberry
Do you like facts? Well it just so happens that we have one that will not only enlighten your day, but that of your friends and family. Take Bono’s name and remove the b, n and one of the o’s. With the singular o add a G in front of it and the letter d after the o. What does this give you? A complicated sentence and the word God. You see this is what Bono is, God. He is able to do anything. From releasing crap record after crap record to saving the world, Bono does it all! After whoring out U2 to Apple and the iPod campaign, he has now turned to bloody Blackberry.
Do you like facts? Well it just so happens that we have one that will not only enlighten your day, but that of your friends and family. Take Bono’s name and remove the b, n and one of the o’s. With the singular o add a G in front of it and the letter d after the o. What does this give you? A complicated sentence and the word God. You see this is what Bono is, God. He is able to do anything. From releasing crap record after crap record to saving the world, Bono does it all! After whoring out U2 to Apple and the iPod campaign, he has now turned to bloody Blackberry.
This Ad Will Make You Never Want to Drink Sprite Again
There is a new soft drink advert that is doing the rounds online. Most are claiming that the promotional video is taken from a banned German advertising campaign for Sprite. The commercial is ten kinds of gross. Thank heavens that wherever it comes from, it seems not to actually be on the air in any country. Watching this oral sex-based advert will make you never want to drink Sprite again. Well, Sprite or any other drink that even remotely has the consistency of semen. So that includes milk, eggnog and perhaps even Baileys.
There is a new soft drink advert that is doing the rounds online. Most are claiming that the promotional video is taken from a banned German advertising campaign for Sprite. The commercial is ten kinds of gross. Thank heavens that wherever it comes from, it seems not to actually be on the air in any country. Watching this oral sex-based advert will make you never want to drink Sprite again. Well, Sprite or any other drink that even remotely has the consistency of semen. So that includes milk, eggnog and perhaps even Baileys.
Badvertising – Dynamo Washing Powder
Unless you’re Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter or Jonathan King the beginning of the advert for Dynamo Washing Powder won’t do much for you. Last time we remembered, watching children taking their clothes off is just a little bit wrong. But who are we to judge when we smother dog food across our genitals for some easy loving? Maybe there is a market for paedophile washing up powder. It’ll get those greasy stains right off. Even the white ones.
Unless you’re Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter or Jonathan King the beginning of the advert for Dynamo Washing Powder won’t do much for you. Last time we remembered, watching children taking their clothes off is just a little bit wrong. But who are we to judge when we smother dog food across our genitals for some easy loving? Maybe there is a market for paedophile washing up powder. It’ll get those greasy stains right off. Even the white ones.
Badvertising: The Flintstones Have A Smoke
This isn’t so much of a bad advert as a “what the hell were they thinking?” advert. As most people will know, The Flintstones was a programme for children, set in the time of the Stone Age. Because animators were lazy at the time, the same plotlines happened in The Jetsons, which was based in the future. With the average age of a child watching The Flintstones about ten and under, you’d have thought Barney and Fred would be flogging sweets, army propaganda or toys. In a very odd twist, they are in fact puffing away on a Winston cigarette. Something that any sane parent wouldn’t give to their ickle child.
This isn’t so much of a bad advert as a “what the hell were they thinking?” advert. As most people will know, The Flintstones was a programme for children, set in the time of the Stone Age. Because animators were lazy at the time, the same plotlines happened in The Jetsons, which was based in the future. With the average age of a child watching The Flintstones about ten and under, you’d have thought Barney and Fred would be flogging sweets, army propaganda or toys. In a very odd twist, they are in fact puffing away on a Winston cigarette. Something that any sane parent wouldn’t give to their ickle child.
Badvertising – Japanese Tranny Ronald McDonald
When you think of delicious meaty burgers oozing with grease, most people will imagine the golden arches of McDonald's. The core spokesman for the burger giant is Ronald McDonald. He is a larger than life clown who makes children plump by giving them fatty treats and artery clogging drinks. At one point, McDonald's appointed another clown like character by the name of Justin Timberlake. He was in charge of flogging off McDonalds limp salads that we’re designed to make you feel less guilty about visiting the fast food chain.
When you think of delicious meaty burgers oozing with grease, most people will imagine the golden arches of McDonald's. The core spokesman for the burger giant is Ronald McDonald. He is a larger than life clown who makes children plump by giving them fatty treats and artery clogging drinks. At one point, McDonald's appointed another clown like character by the name of Justin Timberlake. He was in charge of flogging off McDonalds limp salads that we’re designed to make you feel less guilty about visiting the fast food chain.
Badvertising – Cadbury’s Eyebrows
This isn’t so much a crap commercial where an advertiser thought of the idea ten seconds before the pitch. It’s just really annoying and pointless really and we don’t understand what it does to promote slabs of chocolate. Whilst we get slight amusement at laughing at two stupid-looking children with some sort of facial deformity, it gets boring after a while. In the future, the childstars will develop a sense of dred after being recognised when being let out in public.
This isn’t so much a crap commercial where an advertiser thought of the idea ten seconds before the pitch. It’s just really annoying and pointless really and we don’t understand what it does to promote slabs of chocolate. Whilst we get slight amusement at laughing at two stupid-looking children with some sort of facial deformity, it gets boring after a while. In the future, the childstars will develop a sense of dred after being recognised when being let out in public.
Badvertising: Woman Having Stroke
Sometimes things can be so misjudged. Take that anti-drink-driving campaign from about ten years back. Remember the one? Some bloke called Dave was in the pub with his mates, who were urging him to sink another pint with the refrain "just one more, Dave." In the next scene, Dave has a horrific ...
