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Slick Green/Crude Oil

By scornado • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Advertising, Media, Politics
Slick Green/Crude Oil

Whether you know it or not, i’m sure you’re all familiar with the delightful trand known as Greenwashing. 
  The same way every company in America wrapped itself in the flag in the aftermath of September 11th, the last two years have seen a swell of interest and awareness in the environment.  Marketers have responded by painting the […]



Burger King Wants You to Spank It & Get On With Your Day

By Nate • Mar 27th, 2008 • Category: Advertising, Media, TV
Burger King Wants You to Spank It & Get On With Your Day

My wife, Sara, brought this lovely little nugget of advertising gold to my attention last night by screaming “OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD!! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT!!!” from halfway across the house.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAoYQzkW4Gw

Yeah, Morning Tongue. There are so many jokes here. Let me collect myself.

Okay, first of all, isn’t this ad basically stating that this cheesy hashbrowns […]



Fun with Google Ads.

By Erik Hagen • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Advertising
Fun with Google Ads.

If you’re one of those anal retentive types who notices every little detail of most everything you ever come across, you might have noticed the addition of advertisements to this site. This may have caused you many a sleepless night, wondering if I’d finally sold out to “the man.” Well, I haven’t. I just decided […]



Skittles Hits the Chronically Depressed Demographic

By Nate • Mar 3rd, 2008 • Category: Advertising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJ4uorYPoY

Doesn’t that just make you want a big bag of Skittles? Don’t you just want to tear into that colorful bag of fun and think about how that poor man cannot touch his child, for fear that he turn into the very candy that you’re now enjoying?
Really?!
There’s something wrong with you, kiddo.
If anything, that commercial […]



Sod just watches for the ads.

By Erik Hagen • Feb 7th, 2008 • Category: Advertising, Media
Sod just watches for the ads.

I can’t say for certain, but I’m told there was a Super Bowl on Sunday that involved one team prevailing over the other. I wouldn’t know. I prefer billiards. But in years past, I have made a habit of watching this so-called “football game” for the sake of the advertisements. But now, thanks to this […]



Your Sod wants sausages.

By Erik Hagen • Jan 21st, 2008 • Category: Advertising

I myself have never actually talked to a dog before, but I always had an inkling that this would be how a conversation with one would probably go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UHKB6nQrzM

That line at the end about “the ability to talk to animals is no longer available in Bud Light” is a compete lie, by the way. If you […]



That’s How I Tanqueray

By Nate • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Advertising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFA3JNPsxUY

For whatever reason, I hold an inordinate amount of hatred for Tony Sinclair.
Maybe it’s the posh accent, maybe it’s the above-the-fray air that he has about or the feeling that I most likely will never have as much fun at one time as he appears to be having in these commercials. Of course, it’s more […]



B.F.D.?

By Nate • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Advertising

I don’t eat a Dominos. Haven’t since freshman year of college. It’s just not a good idea.
Speaking of things that aren’t a good idea, check out this latest promotion from the leader in cheap, greasy pizza. The B.F.D.
Now, I cannot be the only one who, when presented with the acronym B.F.D. doesn’t immediately think, Big […]



Sod can has cheezburger?

By Erik Hagen • Dec 19th, 2007 • Category: Advertising, Sod that is bad

So who wants to watch a video that’ll have you questioning the validity of civilization? Anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMOPj6-4nDU

(WARNING: Clicking “Play” on the above video will subject you to 7.5 minutes of viral marketing for which the writer of this blog was paid absolutely nothing for subjecting you to. So everyone’s a victim here really.)
Far be it for […]



Planes, trains and Sodomobiles

By Crystal • Dec 5th, 2007 • Category: Advertising, General Sod

In case the two people who read my blog have noticed my absence (my boyfriend and, of course, Seth Rogen), it’s because I’ve been traveling. Don’t worry, I’ve decided to never do it again. The stress of getting from one mode of transportation to the other nearly made my little head explode at least three […]