So one of my favorites is “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner...”. It actually makes me want to eat a hot dog (generally, ick), which I never want to do unless (1) it’s July 4th and I’m in the town park in Lake City, CO watching old-time foot races, shoe kicks, and egg tosses, (2) it’s covered in cornmeal and fried at the Fletcher’s corny dog stand at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, or (3) I’m at a ballpark watching the Texas Rangers beat any team (but especially the Houston Astros). So, yes, your advertising point is a good one. 😉
i’m letting the Astros slander stand because you brought a fabulous example with the Oscar Meyer Weiner! a friendly fellow who just wants to sell me a hotdog from his weiner mobile is my kind of mascot 🌭
Wait - what’s the background on this one? Maybe I missed in the article (sorry Katie, sometimes I read your blog with the same scrutiny I read most everything else…. Minimal)
in the uk we had an advert for the car insurance company called 'Go Compare' and it was about a huge opera singer whose whole thing was that everyone HATED HIM. like, he would turn up and sing about car insurance and people would hate it. eventually they killed him off in an advert and it was honestly the most unnerving thing. i think they brought him back but yeah. thats the kind of advertising i can abide.
I love the bracketed asides and agree wholeheartedly that modern advertising needs more goofy little guys. More goofy little guys telling me to get myself a treat, please!
Literally my favorite ad ever. I can hear it just from the first lines. Now heading to my kitchen to get a snack, the closest I can get to following the directive in my work-from-home environment. As you note, so effective! Thanks for the reminder!
i might be willing to make a pass for car commercials that are just fancy cars being filmed by drones driving in incredible landscapes with a more-or-less silent background... that’s a lifestyle i may be willing to buy
okay this is brilliant and once this blog starts earning “buying commercial spots” money (that’s after it starts making any money), i’ll have my lawyer get in contact with your lawyer about setting us up this lucrative contract
i maintain that the 2013 superbowl advertisements were a flashpoint that made all commercials race to the bottom of being outlandish in the pursuit of humor (see Go Daddy). now we're left to bathe in the blood and ruins
So one of my favorites is “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner...”. It actually makes me want to eat a hot dog (generally, ick), which I never want to do unless (1) it’s July 4th and I’m in the town park in Lake City, CO watching old-time foot races, shoe kicks, and egg tosses, (2) it’s covered in cornmeal and fried at the Fletcher’s corny dog stand at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, or (3) I’m at a ballpark watching the Texas Rangers beat any team (but especially the Houston Astros). So, yes, your advertising point is a good one. 😉
i’m letting the Astros slander stand because you brought a fabulous example with the Oscar Meyer Weiner! a friendly fellow who just wants to sell me a hotdog from his weiner mobile is my kind of mascot 🌭
P.S. Any jingle that uses “chicken pox” and still works to get you to eat a food item is genius.
Wait - what’s the background on this one? Maybe I missed in the article (sorry Katie, sometimes I read your blog with the same scrutiny I read most everything else…. Minimal)
first of all, i’m better than “everything else,” so read more closely!
second, we’re mixing hotdogs here, but i believe this should clear things right up for ya: https://youtu.be/3fQwJdXFQlU?si=gbbBO21s-ZOPtuXF
third, embarrassing you didn’t know that reference, as they use it in the simpsons #dobetter
lol what an ad. That’s amazing
appreciating the classics is classic Stump behavior
advertisers take notes... link ✍🏻 more ✍🏻 diseases ✍🏻 with ✍🏻 food
in the uk we had an advert for the car insurance company called 'Go Compare' and it was about a huge opera singer whose whole thing was that everyone HATED HIM. like, he would turn up and sing about car insurance and people would hate it. eventually they killed him off in an advert and it was honestly the most unnerving thing. i think they brought him back but yeah. thats the kind of advertising i can abide.
nice. Very jealous you have an editor, less jealous that you have 4 jobs
all you need to do to acquire an editor is bully someone you know into checking your blog for typos in exchange for nothing <3
This made me hungry though
go get urself a treat!
I love the bracketed asides and agree wholeheartedly that modern advertising needs more goofy little guys. More goofy little guys telling me to get myself a treat, please!
goofy little guys are what life is all about [second place is snarky asides]
Literally my favorite ad ever. I can hear it just from the first lines. Now heading to my kitchen to get a snack, the closest I can get to following the directive in my work-from-home environment. As you note, so effective! Thanks for the reminder!
if i can remind one person to get themselves a treat, i’ve done my duty today!
Are you trying to tell me that you don’t feel inspired to find your true self after watching a Jeep Wrangler commercial?
i might be willing to make a pass for car commercials that are just fancy cars being filmed by drones driving in incredible landscapes with a more-or-less silent background... that’s a lifestyle i may be willing to buy
Have you seen those commercials for The Dump furniture store?
“To the Dump. To the Dump. To the Dump, Dump, Dump!”
(My wife swears she will never set foot in a store called The Dump.)
But I just had a branding brain flash. Dig this:
“To the Stump. To the Stump. To the Stump, Stump, Stump!”
Like it?
(If yes, I accept PayPal.)
okay this is brilliant and once this blog starts earning “buying commercial spots” money (that’s after it starts making any money), i’ll have my lawyer get in contact with your lawyer about setting us up this lucrative contract
I will represent both sides and take a small 25% cut (from each)
i maintain that the 2013 superbowl advertisements were a flashpoint that made all commercials race to the bottom of being outlandish in the pursuit of humor (see Go Daddy). now we're left to bathe in the blood and ruins