Subway's Incorrect February FebruANY Ad

Here is the latest installment of Subway’s $5 foot long ads:



This version is not an interesting fine print but a visual error. Among all the cliché things associated with February, one stood out:

There are three things wrong with Benjamin Franklin's appearance in this ad. First, Presidents Day only celebrates Lincoln and Washington. Second, Franklin was born in January. Third, and probably the most common misconception, Benjamin Franklin was NEVER PRESIDENT! You could have easily switched roles in the ad with Washington to hide him or even used February 6^th born Ronald Reagan instead. Apparently they have enough quality control to account for Leap Day when showing the calendar of February later in the ad, but not a grade school knowledge of American history. Maybe that is why comments are disabled on the YouTube page.

Chevy Sonic’s Super Pointless Ad

Here is an ad from Chevy that aired during the Super Bowl:

Even though there is fine print that was very obvious and deliberate in the beginning, the smaller one later caught my eye:

The car in the ad is not even the car you can buy, but modified for the ridiculous stunts. While it is refreshing to see real stunts instead of computer generated graphics, the fact that the stunts are real does not detract from the pointlessness of the ad. No one is going to take their new Chevy kick-flipping, bungee-jumping, or sky-diving, so why even bother? You can throw any car out of a plane with a parachute to show it can fall with style. While over the top Super Bowl Ads that do not sell the product are nothing new, this one probably cost millions to show no capabilities over a Ford Fiesta or Honda Fit.

Taking Trucks to the Next Frontier?

This week’s edition is from Nissan:

This is a double fine print edition:

This one can be put into the very obvious category. Clearly there are computer generated graphics to show the truck doing absurd stunts, but I’m sure there are idiots out there who would try to imitate it. Now if there were videos of people attempting it, I would be impressed.