Friday, May 22, 2009

Off her gourd

Maybe I've been working in marketing for too long (or maybe I just have a dirty mind), but does anyone else wonder WHAT ON EARTH that woman was thinking before she let this serve as an advertisement for her nutrition company?



Let me reiterate: this is an ad. It's not some unfortunate candid shot that slipped past the photo editor in a rush to make deadline. Someone paid actual money to have it look like this, and had final approval before it ran.

I'm guessing the intention of the ad is to show that eating vegetables can be fun. Except, the only people that really look like they are having fun are Dr. Dildo there and maybe Granny in the second row. Both the redhead and the broccoli bouquet woman appear appropriately mortified, and smartly hide behind their herbage. Ms. Artichoke might be trying to express something, but her face is too frozen with fillers for me to guess what.

It turns out that Sra. Squash is not a doctor, but does hold degrees from Princeton and UCLA. Which, at the very least, should show that all the intelligence in the world still can't buy a lick of common sense.

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2 Comments:

At 7:54 PM, Anonymous Noj said...

Having experience with retail of produce, times are difficult and bad advertising is still better than no advertising. As for the subtext, is bad subtext better than no subtext?

 
At 1:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heh. On my first glance at the ad the first thought I had was "Go Grandma!"

So bad...

 

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