Random (A)Musings

The Seth MacFarlane Formula

It's been said that 90% of genius is knowing who to steal from. Nobody said that the genius you steal from couldn't -- or shouldn't -- be yourself!

 

You can't argue with success. Via Things That Make Me Giggle.

4 Sale: Barely-Used Late Night Talk Show

This ad on Craigslist kind of says it all, doesn't it? Any takers?

Via The Frisky

Enjoying the Flavors

Talking pigs ruminate on the superiority of Boost Mobile over other carriers while "enjoying the flavors of a fallen friend."

This is disturbing . . . and wonderful . . . and so very, very wrong.

Clearblue® Easy

TV and print ads for the Clearblue Easy Digital Pregnancy Test ask:

 

Hmmm . . . any chance that these are the same women who couldn't figure out birth control in the first place?

Trimming the Bushes (Updated)

I rarely "watch" TV ads. I sometimes see them in passing, and only because something happens to catch my attention. So the first couple of times I actually tuned into this ad for the Schick Quattro TrimStyle for women, it was because I did a double-take about 16 seconds in.

Are they really doing what I think they're doing?! Why, yes! Yes they are!

Here's the entire 30 seconds of personal topiary maintenance for the self-starter. Hilariously tacky? Or totally brilliant? You decide!

UPDATE: After receiving an email from a woman who felt "they were awful awful awful ads clearly written by men!" I dug deeper to see what I could find out . . .

1) A team of women created these ads (credits below the second vid).

2)  Women heart this razor.

3) Women either hate the ads or love them. Haters think a man created the ads; admirers think they were done by a woman.

Below is the European version, never released in the U.S., which went viral on the Web. Depending on your point of view it's either edgy or completely tasteless.

Either way, it's also hilarious.

Client: Schick
Agency: JWT, New York
Executive Creative Director: Sarah Barclay
Creative Director: Lisa Topol
Art Director: Megan Penmann
Copywriter: Margie Chidley
Senior Agency Producer: Kirsten Larson
Production Company: The Directors Bureau
Director: Mike Maguire
Executive Producer: Melissa Culligan