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more about #ads more comments → BytheSea: Um, yeah, they've sold these for years. But you get a star for finding it last! Amish people aren't actually *allergic* to electricity, ykno. They're... more » Zombies make the heart grow fonder: I cracked up when I saw one of these awaiting its new owner in the package department of my apartment building. Here I was, thinking that no one ever ... more » Valkyrie607: I don't live in Amish country, am not particularly fascinated by the Amish, yet somehow I am aware that the Amish do not rigidly prohibit themselves f... more » Flackette Goes Retro: So my grandparents actually have one of these "Amish" heaters and I have to say, it does keep you warm. The "fire" is just a glowing screen. And to a... more » wordinedgewise: [www.nytimes.com] more » spamanda: My favorite part about this ad is that there are fires IN THE FIREPLACES while the Amish men are working on them. more » EdnasEdibles: I've seen the infomercial on these. to be fair, they just use their Amish craftmanship to build the mantles. I think the guy in the black suit makes t... more » token_illiterate_commenter: One of the great things about "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is that it moves at a slower pace. There are no quick cuts. The characters are allowed to go... more » femme-bot: I don't like Charlie Brown. I do, however, enjoy crass consumerism. :P more » Tippi Hedren: Not only did they cut it, they played some crappy newer "winter" Charlie Brown movie immediately following it. more » scullymurphy: What!? This is sacrilege! I think people just need to buy the DVD and stop watching network TV. more » amazoncowgirl: This ad is targetting a group of people who use the word "slacks"? Is it possible to even find a smaller target market? more » Teh Indiciiia, professional flower whore: I wish sexism would stop selling. Actually, I wish the whole 'make customer feel like shit, customer then buys shit' school of advertising would go d... more » likepenguins: Ads like this always baffled me as a kid, and even now. My dad shops at Burberry and various suit stores, while my mom watches football all day on Sa... more » Ginmar Rienne: Oh, another company to write to, telling them I won't be buying their damned products and that I'll be blogging about it, too. Also: when the inevitab... more » -
#badvertising
WTF: The Amish Sell Electric Fireplaces In Star
Spotted in the back pages of this week's Star magazine: An ad for handmade Amish electric fireplaces. They're how the Amish keep warm while getting their weekly Kardashians fix! (Click to enlarge image.) -
#peanuts
Good Grief.
Angered by ABC's cutting A Charlie Brown Christmas for ad-space, Leon Lynn writes that the special "has spent 44 years now trying to remind us that Christmas is supposed to transcend crass commercialism...Do you have no sense of irony?" [MediaBistro] -
#badvertising
Sexism Sells
Hot on the heels of the "Man-Ifesto" comes this obnoxious ad. Because what's funnier than making fun of your servile wife, who only does boring shit like buy your clothing, while you, you handsome slob, watch TV? [SociologicalImages & Pandagon] -
#domesticdisturbances
"Looking Away Supports Violence"
A German ad agency recently put up a series of fake scenes of violence in windows of high visibility apartments to raise awareness about domestic abuse. Like the Keira Knightley clip, it is brutal, but effective. [Copyranter] -
#badvertising
Ladies: "Be Prepared This Festive Season" By Carrying Mace
Three new ads for Lynx Bullet body spray (the U.K. version of Axe) show snowy imprints of figures fornicating in dark alleys and parking lots, with only one set of footprints leaving. Should we "be prepared" for non-consensual sex? [AdWeek] -
#badvertising
Ladies, It's Your Fault That The Perverted Bubbles In Your Shower Exist
The folks at Method soap believe that you deserve to know everything about the chemicals you place in your shower. And if you don't, well, then you deserve to be sexually harassed by a group of perverted bubbles. More » -
#dirtymovies
Harder, Harder: You Missed A Spot!
Are women actually turned on by men doing housework? Pine-Sol sure hopes so. More » -
#crappyads
Diaper Ad Coins New Term For Poop Explosions
Regular diapers can take care of babies' number ones and number twos, but the Australian ad at left claims only BabyLoves diapers, "can handle a 'poop explosion,' or 'number threes' as we politely call it." [AdWeek via Jalopnik] -
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#leftover
Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
• The British Ad Standards Authority have decided to go ahead and give this ad for Lars von Trier's new film Antichrist a pass because even though it shows a little naked ass, they don't find it particularly arousing. • More » -
#badvertising
Encourage Men To Focus Less On Your Words, More On Your Ass
The woman in the commercial at left has such a great butt thanks to Reebok EasyTone sneakers that the cameraman can't help but zoom in on her backside. She just smiles and takes his creepy ogling as a compliment. [AdGabber] -
#timeandtide
Laundry Fetishists Rejoice: Tide Has "What You Want"
Apparently "Tide's a sudsing whizz even in hardest water." It's enough to make you want to embrace your box of Tide so tightly that little hearts squirt right out of it. If you're into that kind of thing. [Vintage Ads] -
#oldiesbutgoodies
"1950s Remedies For Abnormal And Normal Men And Women"
"Don't be old-fashioned," says this sex manual from the oh-so-enlightened 1950s. Topics include "first bridal sex act" (hottt) and "sensation parts of woman" — but why is the very first one on the list "blood relation marriage?" [Vintage Ads] -
#badvertising
Piece Of Meat
Oh. God. This Slovenian sausage ad, which shows a sausage nestled suggestively between a pair of naked breasts, almost makes America's strange bukakke obsession look subtle in comparison. Image (NSFW, obviously) after the jump. [Copyranter] More » -
#oldiesbutgoodies
Or What?
I'm imagining an avenging army of steely-eyed white-gloved girls descending on some Madison Avenue office-building, Orpheus-style, to retrieve the stolen temp. [Vintage_Ads] -
#badvertising
Something Stinks
Sociological Images has dug up this nasty ad from Australia. Watch as a Brut deodorant robot modifies a Barbie until she is the "perfect" woman, which he then dumps in onto a pile with all his other possessions. [Contexts] -
#oldiesbutgoodies
The Secret
On the one hand, I really want to take an easy shot at the notion of an electric blanket making for a "happy marriage." On the other: One of these has changed my parents' life. [Vintage_Ads] -
#reproductions
Maybe We've All Been Watching Too Much AMC...
But at first glace, this recent play on Canadian Club's stodgy image seemed totally authentic. (Vintage_Ads took it down when they realized only the photos themselves were vintage.) But would Peggy approve? [via Vintage_Ads, JoeydeVilla] -
#naturallyirresistable
Fabric Softener Comes Between Nudist Couple
In the British commercial at left, a nudist comes home and finds his wife with another man. She's not exactly cheating, but Comfort fabric softener has driven her to do something even more unforgivable. [AdWeek] -
#glovelove
Selling Safe Sex
Durex is trying to carve out a space for itself between Trojan (the boyscout of condoms) and Lifestyles (the slut) in its new ad campaign, which caters to "mature pleasure seekers," or as Durex awkwardly calls them, the Pleasurati. [AdAge] -
#gildingthelily
Give Your Lashes A Sense Of Inadequacy!
Is "inadequate or not enough lashes" even grammatically correct? At least it doesn't involve the letter X...[Sociological Images via YouTube, NPR]
