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HeadOn Collision
Advertising is a field that requires a lot of creativity. You want to find a way to pitch your product that grabs at the attention of your prospective audience while ensuring that they remember the...
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Cute And Crispy
I can haz breakfast? Once, twice, thrice I have featured commercials for kids’ breakfast cereal on my Retro Ad Tuesday feature. One thing each and every one of those posts did was expose the...
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Minds In The Gutter
Because this is a pussified country that doesn’t believe in making kids go to school 24/7/365 until they turn 21, one of the challenges facing parents is trying to find things to keep their little...
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Don’t Suffer In Silence
Hey! What are you going to do with that glove? This will be my first attempt at “scheduling” a post… I hope it works! I will spend much of tomorrow today on the road and watching baseball, so as I did...
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Throw It Back!
Advertising geniuses have been turning to mascots to pitch products ever since the Greek philosopher Testicles invented the concept of creepy in 500 BC. It is important to remember that a mascot is...
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Toker’s Delight
Don’t use drugs! If you grew up anytime in the last five decades, you undoubtedly heard this message screamed at you from all those unfun authority figures in your life…. from your parents, teachers,...
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I Am The Walrus
Coo coo ka-choo! Ladies and gentlesquirrels, today The Nest would like to pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s living legends… the one and only Wilford Brimley. You know the name, you know the face, but...
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Who Are You?
Identification. Don’t leave home without it. If you’re in the younger set, you can’t drink or legally gamble unless you can prove your age. Government issued picture ID only, please… oh, and make...
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Refreshing Violence
To be fair, slugging people wearing Hawaiian shirts isn’t really all that bad of an idea. Since the days when the first troglodyte clubbed an unsuspecting woman and dragged her back to his cave by the...
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Shake It Up
At Mecca, we would have to send this can to the claims desk because it’s quite severely dented. We are told time and time again as we go through life that we are perfect just the way we are. This...
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The D List
And celebrities wonder how they get typecast… No sector of corporate America loves their mascots more than the fast food industry. McDonalds never would have gone on to serve billions and billions of...
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Mint Condition
More fun than the chocolate fountain at Golden Corral. There’s a lot of hard work behind the scenes that goes into pretty much every commercial you see on TV. Trying to find the right way to promote...
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Live For Today
More 80′s lameness than you could ever hope to handle… Fame is fleeting. Just ask any has-been who was once famous enough to date a supermodel, but these days can’t even find anyone who wants to flirt...
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Keep Our Backyard Beautiful
For too many people out there, nature is something that was given to us to use and abuse as we see fit. So long as we don’t have to put up with the mess left behind, why should we care, … Continue...
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I Heartily Endorse This Chair
For many of my fellow bloggers, our best days have long since galloped off into the sunset along with our hair and creaseless skin. Even though we may still have many years, and even decades ahead of...
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Lie To Me
In a civilized society, we have expectations that all advertising directed at us is going to be honest and straightforward. These expectations are about as realistic as every world peace aspiration...
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Bad Animals
If you watched any Nickelodeon in the late 80’s, you almost undoubtedly saw plenty of this commercial for some kind of early educational aid called “Sweet Pickles”… The commercial is the typical...
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Full To The Brim
Coffee. To some people, it’s a pick-me-up in the morning to help shake off the cobwebs of sleep and dewdrops of wet dreams. For those who work the night shift, it’s a vehicle to help stay awake so...
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Seventh Heaven
This past Sunday, the wonderful world of retro commercials lost one of its icons when the talented Geoffrey Holder passed away from complications of pneumonia at Age 84. Holder’s contributions to...
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Bringing Sexy Back, Jack
If there is one maxim in advertising that has been tried and true since the very first caveman went through puberty, it’s that sex sells. Companies that sell beer know that the best way to cater to...
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