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30 Jan 2024, 4:26 am
cyberdad wrote:
Aspinator wrote:
An ad that I find annoying features a talking blob of snot (in US)
You clearly haven't seen talking poo or bacteria or flies in adverts. I particularly dislike constipation and bathroom adverts.
Must be an Australian thing. Talking poo.
Here in the states that talking blob of snot character (I think that he is patterned after Ralph Kramden in the old Honey Mooners show)is only about as gross as it gets.
But "When you have...indigestion, constipation, diarrea" the actors in the TV spots suddenly have matching outfits (like Fifties singing groups) and then magically take to the stage and sing those exact words in doo wop style harmonies.
Its as if the copy writers are addressing the TV viewer directly by actually saying "we know its tacky and stupid but we hafta move Pepto Bismol ...so what do you wanna us to do?"
And actually it IS a rather entertaining ad campaign.
30 Jan 2024, 6:59 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
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Must be an Australian thing. Talking poo.
Here in the states that talking blob of snot character (I think that he is patterned after Ralph Kramden in the old Honey Mooners show)is only about as gross as it gets.
But "When you have...indigestion, constipation, diarrea" the actors in the TV spots suddenly have matching outfits (like Fifties singing groups) and then magically take to the stage and sing those exact words in doo wop style harmonies.
Its as if the copy writers are addressing the TV viewer directly by actually saying "we know its tacky and stupid but we hafta move Pepto Bismol ...so what do you wanna us to do?"
And actually it IS a rather entertaining ad campaign.
Must be an Australian thing. Talking poo.
Here in the states that talking blob of snot character (I think that he is patterned after Ralph Kramden in the old Honey Mooners show)is only about as gross as it gets.
But "When you have...indigestion, constipation, diarrea" the actors in the TV spots suddenly have matching outfits (like Fifties singing groups) and then magically take to the stage and sing those exact words in doo wop style harmonies.
Its as if the copy writers are addressing the TV viewer directly by actually saying "we know its tacky and stupid but we hafta move Pepto Bismol ...so what do you wanna us to do?"
And actually it IS a rather entertaining ad campaign.
The talking poo is likely a take off from South Park's Mr Hankey the christmas poo. We have a plumbing company called the drain man who uses it.
My point is that stupid advertising works because it likely hits the funny bone or infuriates/repulses the viewer. Like the old days when you had a bikini clad girl lighting up a cigarette for a man to advertise smokes...the goal is to arouse the viewer so that they don't forget the product or service.
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