New Year’s Eve is rapidly approaching. And so are the parties. Oh yes, the myriad of parties.
I can say with 100% conviction that I’m not the only one who has greeted the first glorious morning of a new year by hurling the contents of my stomach into a toilet… or on a carpet… or the lawn… or pretty much where ever I happen to be at the time.
This is unpleasant, to say the least.
But why, oh why, dear readers, do advertising companies decide to use something like puke to sell a product? It seems counterproductive.
But they’ve done it many times, my friends. And I’ve gathered a few of them to show you, with the notion that it may temper the champagne intake on New Year’s Eve. It may also be the finest example I’ve found yet to display the unbelievable lengths that marketing firms will go to in order to sell a product.
I start off gently… but things will rapidly get more… pukey.
Puke Ad # 1: Jat Pat Digest
Believe it or not, the little person in this ad is eating what’s coming out of the package… not hurling it all up. The tagline reads "Keep Eating, Keep Digesting." There are three versions of this campaign, all pretty much the same. After a bit of research (including translation software), I’ve not been able to figure out if this is an ad for a magazine or some sort of delicious food product. I’m leaning toward food product.
Puke Ad # 2: Sour Marbles Candy
Puke or get digested by reptilian wildlife? I’ll puke, thank you very much.
I think these candies should be required field equipment for anyone in an area crawling with alligators and snakes.
Puke Ad # 3: Chupa Chups
Ewwwwww….
I used to like these lollipops. Instead of thinking "Yum! Look at all of the fruit pulp in this yummy treat!" I’m thinking, "This guy must have eaten a burrito."
I don’t think that’s the intention of this ad…
Puke Ad # 4: Bloodbuster.com
Oops. A social faux pas.
Methinks this young lady doth drinkith too much champagne.
Puke Ad # 5: Swift
The day that my own imagination pukes on me is the day I strip off my clothes and run naked through town while waving a high powered rifle and shouting, "I’m a little Ewok!"
Puke Ad # 6: 3M
This
is another example of something eating… though it sure doesn’t look
that way. You have to read the little ad copy on the right side of the
picture to understand that what you’re looking at is an ear plug and
that it is absorbing all of the sounds made by the items it looks like
it’s barfing up. "Foam ear plugs swallow every kind of noise," it
states.
Personally, I’d rather it be the other way around. Keep
one of these giant ear plugs around to puke up all of those
instruments, then sell them on eBay. I’d make a fortune.
Puke Ad # 7: Unwired
Get out!
I’m sure that some of you out there have experienced the horrors of a bad room mate. I know I have.
This
is the kind’a thing that I’d stumble into my living room to find not
only on New Year’s Day, but generally every weekend. Just replace the
word "bed" with "couch." And it wasn’t his couch, of course.
Puke Ad # 8: Smart Week
Yuck.
This has to be fake. Please, for the love of God somebody e-mail me to let me know it’s not real.
While
I love the artwork, I can’t wrap my mind around a drink called "Smart
Fish" with a catch phrase stating "Fruit & Fish Mixed Like Never
Before."
Not only does the thought make me feel like yakking,
but the meatball looking thing vomiting up a fish skeleton (on the
bottom right) doesn’t endear me to the product much either.
Puke Ad # 9: Play Land
Poor Bo-Bo.
At least stuffing doesn’t smell and is easy to clean up. I suspect that this ad was a prototype for this:
Puke Ad # 10: The Roy Awards
Um… WTF?!?!?
What
kills me is that this is an ad for an awards ceremony for advertising.
How in the hell would this attract people to the event?
"Great
Advertising and Open Bar" touts the little catch phrase. An open bar
can do wonders for attendance. I’m guessing that Koko here had a few
too many White Russians…
SOURCE: Ads of the World
