Advertising
Follies of the Mad Men #125
1) Our food product is so dense and indestructible that it can serve in place of a football.
2) It is not sold on merits of taste, but simply as a "bulking-up" agent.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 12, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sports, 1960s
The Single Greatest Commercial of all Eternity
I don't know the back story behind this, but Burger King does have some of the strangest commercials on television so I'll assume it is real. I don't know what I like more, the brainmeltingly weird plot or the amazing background music, but somehow this commercial is pure genius. Now if only there were a Burger King nearby...
Posted By: Salamander Sam - Sun Nov 07, 2010 -
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Category: Food, Restaurants, Advertising, Surrealism
Follies of the Mad Men #124
It must indicate something about capitalism circa 1949 that both ad campaigns chose this gigantic, brutal, triumphalist imagery. (Perhaps the two campaigns were created by the same agency even?) The postwar reign of corporate overlords has arrived. "Beware, puny humans! Our glorious products bestride the landscape and will crush you, unless you buy and consume mass quantities!"
Could there be a less-enticing public face for a company?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 14, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Dreams and Nightmares, 1940s, Alcohol
Follies of the Mad Men #122
More ill-conceived use of music in advertising.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 15, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1950s
Follies of the Mad Men #120
[From Life magazine for January 10 1949.]
This hideous Donnie Darko-style image will haunt you forever, and make you swear off beer-drinking at once.
Furries and beer: two things that must never mix.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 25, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Alcohol
Another PES Film
Old-time WU-vies will surely recall the stop-motion video of furniture sex by PES. Here's another neat one, shorter and tamer, since it's an actual commissioned ad.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 21, 2010 -
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Category: Games, Advertising, Stop-motion Animation
Follies of the Mad Men #119
Mad Men, here's a secret: music is the realm of emotion and poetry and piercing observations, of romance and satire, of history and dreams.
So when you create a song that is full of boring statistics about a boring object, you look like an idiot, and so does your product.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 19, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Music, 1960s
Follies of the Mad Men #118
It's all fun and games until someone gets their chest burst open.....
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 13, 2010 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Products, Movies, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #117
Can you imagine Angelina Jolie touting a Kia? No? That's because there is no more glamour in Hollywood or Detroit.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 07, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, ShowBiz, 1950s, Cars
Follies of the Mad Men #116
Airplanes, what airplanes? There were airplanes in this ad?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 19, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Travel, Transportation, Russia
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