Advertising

The New Poster Is Yet Another Ominous Sign For The Arthur Remake

Uh-oh. Here is the new poster for the Arthur remake to be directed by Modern Family's Jason Winer starring Russell Brand as the titular alcoholic. The bad news is it looks like a poster for a generic but undoubtedly terrible Fox sitcom, the good news is I just came up with a new name for my solo project: Titular Alcoholic. The logo will just be a giant pair of boobs holding a bottle of Jack Daniels, which coincidentally is also the only image I remember from the time I spent with your mom. Boy were we drunk. Unfortunately between this and the incredibly meh trailer from last week things in the Arthur remake world aren't exactly looking Danza. 

Arthur hits theaters on April 8th, presumably with a lot more funny than has been revealed thus far.   [via the daily blam]

Kevin Love Has A New Eau De Toilette, All-Star Campaign

Yesterday saw the NBA officially announce the starting lineups for this year's All-Star game complete with Yao Ming as the starting center. Considering the Yaoster may never play another NBA game, let alone this year, it's pretty clear that the voting process is absurd, highlighted by the fact that there are no Celtics in the starting lineup. For anyone that has followed the NBA this season it's blatantly obvious that the Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love is a surefire All-Star, granted he still has to fight through the popularity contest which is why we have this awesome campaign above.

"The Numbers" come with an aftershave, an eau de toilette, and many other assorted goodies including some nice modeling poses. Love it. You can check out more of the extremely impressive resume over at the campaign's official site 612AllStar.

The Black Keys And Vampire Weekend Have A Sell-Out Off For Colbert

On last night's The Colbert Report, Steven reminded everyone about his Grammy win from last year, and the subsequent affect it has had on his life. Most importantly, aside from a Black Eyed Pea hotline, Colbert has now earned the right to vote for this year's nominees like all other past winners. To do his Album of the Year vote as diplomatically as possible Colbert decided to bring on Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend and Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys for what Koenig aptly calls a "Sell-Out Off".

Also "Bring it on Cape Cod".  [via vulture]

Learn About The History Of Product Placement In Film

Here's a nice little bit from the awesome Filmdrunk's video editor Oliver Noble that not only offers empirical evidence in the case against Michael Bay, but also helps to expand your knowledgebase. Titled A Brief History of Conspicuous Product Placement in Movies, the name is pretty literal so don't be expecting subtlety. As with any good video that talks about selling out in cinema, Wayne's World gets a nice little segment, although I'm not sure why there is no "Ah, Nuprin. Little, yellow, different."

South Park Spoofs Mebron, Coon & Friends Saga Continues Tonight

When we first saw the abomination that is the new Mebron James advertising campaign we were so excited that we had to start a Douches In Advertising section. What that may have lacked in execution and hilarity certainly was compensated by a large heaping with heart. Thankfully some people much funnier than I went on ahead and did their own little parody of the commercial on a little show known as South Park. In the second of a three part super hero episode, Captain Hindsight is forced to question his actions and image, much like the Queen does in her new ad, although this one has a lot more honesty involved. The final episode of the Coon & Friends saga "Coon Vs. Coon & Friends" airs tonight at 10pm EST on Comedy Central.

Douches In Advertising: The Mebron James Edition

It's no secret here at SHA that we think Mebron James is a world class douchenozzle, so much so that we are pretty sure he wets his bed at night, granted peeing on sheets of gold isn't nearly as bad as what we are all used to, believe me, I looked it up on the internet. Well after the Mebacle back when we all learned where someone "takes their talents", the Mebron machine went in to image restoration overdrive, unfortunately they apparently attended the Tiger Woods school of image restoration, which has since been closed down due to incompetence. Here is the latest ad campaign for the Nike employee, which is not too dissimilar to the self-appointed King's recent Twitter declaration to retweet some of the Twitter hate he receives, which itself is not unlike what a 13 year old girl might do.

I've questioned some of the marketing moves with the Queen's newly tarnished image, but this one really takes the cake. Essentially the 90 second ad - yes, 90 seconds - blames the audience for buying in to the carefully crafted image Team Mebron has been working on for the last eight years, claiming Mebron doesn't have to be what we want him to be. It's pretty classic that he jokes about acting considering he has several ad campaigns which feature more of him acting than doing sports, not to mention he has a movie project in the works. Then there's the idea "should i be a villain"? You don't have a choice you mutant that lacks any sense of self-awareness, you are a villain because you are a world class douche. No stolen routines of the clapping of chalk or team dances are going to change that.

Also calling out Barkley in the commercial?  Can someone please give this moron some advice that doesn't resemble what the worst kid in third grade would recommend to his friends?

Kenny Powers Gets All Scientific In New K-Swiss Ad

As you may remember from the incredible video of Kenny Powers meeting with K-Swiss executives, the rocket armed mullet owner is now a company man. The good thing is he's an amazing salesman, so much so that I've already ordered my own set of Tubes. This is the longest of the commercial spots and features all three of the campaign's athletes which includes NFL players Jeremy Shockey and Patrick Willis, as well as MMA fighter Urijah Faber.

Not sure if he ever officially took up scientistery but KP certainly knows how to rock a lab coat. Also amazing dumbbell explosion.

Kenny Powers Has Some Awesome Ad Ideas For K-Swiss

I love everything about this campaign so much it hurts. I'll go ahead and give you the NSFW warning on the video but this is Kenny Powers we are talking about here, one of the greatest athletes of his generation, and a very creative wordsmith in his own right. With the looming September 26th return of HBO's Eastbound & Down, I'm very happy to report to you that this isn't just a one and done Funny Or Die video. It's a legit, incredibly awesome K-Swiss ad campaign that will also feature NFL players Jeremy Shockey and Patrick Willis, as well as MMA fighter Urijah Faber.

Also no mercy to be had by the Tubes, not today.

The Tiger's Dead Dad Video Mashup To End All Tiger's Dead Dad Mashups

Obviously you have heard about the ridiculous new Tiger Woods commercial that features his deceased father's voice questioning Tiger about life as the camera zooms in on Tiger's face.  This is really confusing to me considering he insisted in his press conference that he doesn't involve his family in his public life, yet there it is, the voice of his deceased father, as in dead, being brought into a marketing campaign designed specifically to repair Tiger's image.  It's almost like Tiger is a liar that doesn't think he should be held accountable for anything?  No, that's just crazy talk.

Anyhoo, I'll get off the soap box considering I'm listening to countless douches cheer him on at the Masters while the announcers commend him for being so brave for participating.  What is important is this uneblievably great mashup of the commercial which cannot possibly be topped so everyone out there on the internet should just stop trying.  I don't want to ruin the surprise but if you are a fan of Tom Cruise or Paul Thomas Anderson I think you're going to enjoy what you hear.  NSFW is probably in play here, although it's not any worse than digging up your dead dad for a voiceover.   

I photoshopped the pieces together after the jump if you feel like getting a hint, which to be fair you should have probably picked up on by now anyway.   [via gawker]

Cesar Millan And Panda Bears Having Sex

I thought this was a rather interesting way to try and get people excited about the Cesar Millan Live Packpower Tour.  I mean, clearly those who are going to attend a live Cesar Millan show are into pandas.  I get that.  What I don't really understand is why he kept that tired dog in the middle in all the pictures.  The dog looks exhausted, and an exhausted dog is not going to get me to Cesar Millan Live Packpower Tour.That dog is simply not performing, someone call Michael Vick.  What?  Too soon?  It can't be too soon when he's already got his own reality show coming.  Sometimes I hate everything.

And for anyone that plans on attending Cesar Millan Live Packpower Tour at Gibson Ampitheatre, I pity your soul and here is the presale password: PACK.  

Pages