Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Ad Out
I'm going to continue my break from poetry-oriented posts for at least another two days (for a week total). Today, instead, here are a few things about television advertisements, simultaneously worthless and cash cows.
- Creepiest ad campaign: the Burger King ads featuring the guy dressed up as "The King," complete with mask--first because of the blank eyes and smile, second because he's showing up in inappropriate places like someone else's bed or a football play that was actually made by a real person. Brrrr.
- Most hubristic slogan: "Somebody up there loves you, DirecTV!" Uhhh, DirecTV came straight from God?
- Most obnoxiously catchy jingle of the past year: Coke with Lime. I haven't seen one of those ads for months, and I still sing my misheard version of the song ("You put the lime in the coconut") and further corruptions of that ("You pet the cat on the coconut"). Yes, I am insane.
- Only TV show I go out of my way to watch, thus ensuring I may actually be exposed to advertising: House, MD. Hugh Laurie demonstrates that he's a good dramatic actor in addition to being funny, and Jennifer Morrison as Cameron is spectacularly beautiful. She's also younger than I am, goddamnit.
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Awesome blog, I completely agree with you on those, except for house MD only because I haven't seen it. Nice poetry too!
Glad to hear I'm not only the only one disturbed by the BK king. Though I saw Ronald McDonald on TV recently and that dude has always weirded me out too! (I think it's the fire engine red early 80s hairdo.)
I kind of like that BK King *because* he is creepy. Like, I think they are trying to make those ads creepy. It's working.
They should do an ad campaign where Ronald McDonald and the Burger King stalk unsuspecting children while brandishing butcher knives.
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