Filed under: , , Wow, there's a sentence I never thought I'd say. I'm talking about that commercial for Pepto-Bismol, the one where the advertising icons come to life and start attacking the city. They're crushing buildings with their feet and generally causing havoc everywhere. And then they get upset ...

Filed under: , , colgate total I was just watching a commercial for Colgate Total, and the woman in the ad is going on and on about how much she likes it, that her doctor recommended that she use it, etc, etc, and then she uses this line: "It's the only toothpaste I use." Well, so what? I'm sure the ...

Filed under: , , , , If you rub some of the ads the Wall Street Journal is planning to run then you'll be able to smell them. The paper promises that the scented ads will be much classier than the fragrance inserts in glossy magazines. It's hard to figure out what the actual advertising angle is to ...

Filed under: Stephen Baker is decrying his inability to escape from annoying and intrusive ads during a recent flight he was on. The ads, not confined to tray tables and such, were blaring from the TV sets in the cabin. Baker raises an interesting point that the thinking on advertising has changed, ...

Filed under: , , This must be how the characters in movies like The Blob felt when they saw the creature, or how people must react to seeing a family member they just heard was horribly disfigured buying a non-fat latte just minutes later. Suffice it to say that Digital Orville Redenbacher, the centerpiece ...

Filed under: , , , Humane Society The Humane Society wants everyone to know that trapping is wrong, and they are doing so by airing a 15 second anti-trapping spot on Fox Sports Network (in December 2006). Fox even ran the ads at no charge. The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance is urging all hunters, trappers, ...

Filed under: , , , Folgers I'm sorry, call me stuck-up, call me pious, call me midwesterner (I am in fact) but I don't like to drink me coffee right out of the street. You don't know where that cup of coffee has been, or rather what (or who) has been near that cup of coffee. What if bird poo lands in ...

Filed under: , , I'm not sure how else you would explain these ads for Sprite Zero, which use the same "Fold-In" technique that have been a part of Mad Magazine's back page for many, many years. Basically, you fold the paper a certain way so that the image changes and the words scrunch together to form ...

Filed under: , , , leeches Has there ever been an anti-drug commercial that didn't treat its target audience like they were complete idiots? If there is, I haven't seen it yet. The latest one to go in my "WTF? file" is this spot created for the "Above the Influence" campaign. In it, a new fad called ...

Filed under: , , , General Stupid jingle that is stuck in my head, *singing* "call 1-800-GENERAL now!" Please tell me that your brain has not had the unfortunate displeasure of processing this dumb ad. A 3D (very poorly animated) character called the General (as in military general) answers the phone ...