The Museum Of Marketing Madness – Page 14 – Curating, skewering and roasting the worst of advertising to comic perfection

Never Eat A Fruit By Its Cover

I bought it because of the package. I knew it wasn’t fresh fruit. I didn’t mind that it would be dried.

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But how to contain my disappointment when I open and see this?

This Is Not A Dream And Jasper Is Not A Writer

Everybody knows writers are tortured souls who only have nightmares, not “dreams.”

You Mean THAT Victoria’s Secret??!

“OMG!!? The one in Shanghai??! And Moscow?!”

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A non-event: opening yet another Victoria’s Secret.

Same store as Paducah KY and Wauwatosa WI and Tusaloosa AL and Schenectady NY and Fargo ND and …

If You Buy This, Something Will Happen … Can’t Explain It. But It’s Something

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The copywriter stared at a lamp too long, got hypnotized and the lamp wrote the copy so the premise is that the lamp gets to stay on. Huh?

Well, see, you’ll get energy so cheap from Energy Plus, that you’ll leave lights on. And while those lights are on, you’ll earn miles. And the jet engine’s silhouette will glow an eerie white on the lampshade. And you can fly all over the world…for free. And burn jet fuel…and increase your carbon footprint…and all these good things happen just because you stared at that lamp.

Love the Lamp…it is your friend.

Adult Pretzels

There really is nothing “adult” about these pretzels. In fact, I’m feeling immature making fun of this.

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But I mean, c’mon! Nutzels and Rods???

Remind me to use this one when I present The Museum of Marketing Madness to high school boys.

Coke Friends Lie Nonsense

Srsly??

Skymall Body Shaming Page, Part 1

For this page of the Skymall catalog, the editors figured:
“Let’s put all these together…just get ’em out of the way. They’re all kind of related, right?”

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