The Scary Side
Sometimes advertisers don’t seem to understand how things will look or read after they spend their 9-5 day creating the ads.
 JD and Their Ducks |
It’s very good that Jack Daniel’s would like to let us know about their expert quality controllers. I am sure they provide a lot of benefit to the end product. However, I am very very unsure how employing ducks could in anyway improve the quality of a fine American Whiskey.
I also would like to ask a few questions to the makers of Old No7: Was the ducks involvement in the process limited to any particular component? Perhaps ducks have taste buds that can discern between a quality and a shitty whiskey. This is a fact I would expect to see on Wikipedia. Can ducks hold their alcohol? I suspect that due to size restrictions on a duck the tasting of alcohol could lead to severe drunkeness and perhaps odd duck-behaviour. How do you slur a quack? |
| Does anyone look at this and see a severe case of some communicable disease? There are clearly disease sores covering this person’s lips.
I am also not sure why lips were chosen for this ad. Is it not common knowledge that taste buds are on your tongue? And what is wrong with this person’s face. usually the chin kinda “rounds off” below the mouth, here it looks like Jay Leno’s chin if he portrayed Carrie. |
 Do I have something on my lips? |
 Gremlin Earth man to the rescue |
Why must every product or ad have a mascot? It isn’t necessary and all it causes is people trying to come up with something “new and clever”.
Unfortunately as Hollywood proves with every single movie they release since Usual Suspects “new and clever” means attempting to combine a couple ideas into one and passing it off as unique. Exhibit A: Scary Gremlin Earth man. How the hell can a mutant earth with a patch of “ice cap” hair and zits be considered a mascot to help conserve energy? Aside from the disturbing image of the puffy eye’d monster with Africa as a goatee, I don’t think with a hairpiece that bad you can even pass off as “receding” anymore, you are pretty freakin’ bald! |