Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Brett Favre Wrangles In Two Endorsements at Once

Here is a Wrangler Jeans ad featuring Brett Favre that has been running recently during football:


While this ad campaign has been going on for a couple years, notice the subliminal messaging:

Is the ad about Wrangler jeans or Jeep Wranglers? Did Jeep pay off some prop guy to use their car or did Favre get to keep the Wrangler if he throws near it? More recent versions of the ad include the Target logo, which would make sense if they had a deal with the clothing distributor, but to purposefully place a Jeep and the logo together is just weird. Imagine this Jacksonville Jaguars season tickets commercial with a player driving around in a Jaguar instead of an Audi. Even worse, the Denver Broncos could have an ad touting their star running back driving a white Ford Bronco to the stadium. Wait, what is that car next to Favre in the picture? Oh no, the Juice is loose again!

Thanks to reader Nat Fraser for the idea submission.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Professional Chefs at Taco Bell?

Here is another Taco Bell ad to make this blog:


Despite the flashy ad, there is some fine print to notice:

There are professional chefs working for Taco Bell? I doubt that. Throwing the food in the air and touching the food with bare hands is more believable though.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Does ETrade Baby Their Audience?

Here is a relatively old ad from ETrade that is still airing:



Obviously everybody has seen the baby ads before, but I had not noticed the fine print before:

Does ETrade expect people to think that baby is actually trading stocks online? I do not see fine print when other babies on TV do crazy things, like shoot nuclear power plant owners or attempt world domination. Then why does ETrade worry about getting sued by babies? Oops, too late.