By special request of fellow Hathor writer SBG, Media Monday this week features one of the Electrolux appliance commercials which star television personality Kelly Ripa. I chose the “Juggle” commercial, which advertises a washer and dryer, largely because I find the use of the music from Bewitched too obvious not to comment on. An embedded version of the commercial follows. You can also view it [...]
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We’re trying something new at Hathor starting this week: having a short post on Mondays with some kind of media, a transcript of it, and an invitation to discuss. Conveniently enough for me, reader ACW sent us a link to a video promoting Target’s upcoming Jean Paul Gaultier clothing line just in time for me to watch it over and over and over for transcription [...]
If I had any true power, I’d wage a damned holy war on Kellogg’s for its Special K products alone. Seriously, you all, I would be in full mad scientist mode right now developing some formula to nuke Special K right off the supermarket shelves, and I’d do it wearing blue rubber gloves and with an intense, head-tilted-back mwahahahahaha! Why the rage all of a [...]
CBS has decided to run an ad for fundamentalist Christian group “Focus on the Family”, in which Pam Tebow discusses how she ignored doctors’ advice to have an abortion: The ad… is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987 with a theme of “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation [...]
I think most of these speak for themselves. Rather than embed, I’m going to provide links where I can – I don’t want to blow up the front page. First up: Just when I thought Twix couldn’t really get any worse with their “Need a Moment” campaign (Seriously, people need a moment to decide whether or not to be jerks, or how to try to [...]
Nearly a year ago, Jenn posted about a Nivea commercial for men’s body wash as an example of decent marketing. And it was – I still enjoy that commercial. Lest we give Nivea a free pass, though, I have to say that their marketing for women’s product is slightly problematic for me. Case in point: Sigh. It took me a while to pinpoint what bothered [...]
Ah, those words spoken by people who are stressed out: I need a drink. That’s been me, in a nutshell, all summer so far. My drink of choice tends to be a vodka lemonade or vodka sour. Want to know which brand I won’t be drinking? This one: Want to know why? Because I am not invited. Ketel One vodka is apparently for white men [...]
