I Can’t Wait To be Slaughtered!

Maybe it’s just me but when I see ads for meat with animals as cartoon characters, I feel worse when they’re made to look happy.

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Pigs don’t smile before they’re slaughtered.  Pigs don’t smile.  Period.

Marketing Madness Rule #12 – Word Play Is Hard Work

You’re a chimney sweep so why not use the verb sweep in your copy! Except it reads like…

Don’t buy a used car from a used car salesman. Buy it from me: A Used Car Salesman!

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And let’s not forget Faceless Gold Figure on the Ladder to Heaven … which was at one time the working title to Wim Wenders’ movie “Wings of Desire”

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Because It’s Illegal To Be Naked?

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Because otherwise we would scare the children?

 

Why?  Did I screw up getting dressed again??  Shit!!

 

I dunno.  Why do you advertise?

 

Because loincloths are SO 10,000 BC?

 

Because you came up with an ad campaign so stupid I could write these jokes all day

Dr. Superhero Alarm Truck Metaphor Mess

You’re a doctor, but you’re in tights like a superhero.

You don’t have a cape but you have a white coat on.

You’re clearly about all kinds of alarms, but you just happen to throw in “medical alerts too?!”

DUDE … WHAT ARE YOU!?!?