Jimmy John's fuels your cowboy threesome

Sub shop Jimmy John's has been hitting pretty deep into left field lately with new spots by The Ad Store. A few weeks back, the college-centric chain unleashed a flood of new ads that feature Jimmy John's as a vital component of childbirth, bomb defusing and extramarital affairs. But those were downright bland compared to the cowboy-themed threesome going on in the spot above. Still, they've done weirder. Via Adland.

—Posted by David Griner

Previously on BrandFreak:
Jimmy John's delivers in a flash, particularly to college students

Published on October 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Lungs live the life with Drager medical gear

Not too many medical-equipment ads feature guys dressed in giant puffy pink lung suits, but this one does. And these lungs are living the high life, being chauffeured around the countryside, playing tennis and croquet, dining on lobster, having a threesome with a lovely pair of ladies—pleasantly removed from whatever medical crisis has landed their owner in the hospital. All of this is apparently thanks to a Drager oxygen mask, which seems to be delivering more than oxygen to the patient. The tagline is: "Technology for life." Via Adrants.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Published on September 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Calvin's orgy ad causes predictable scandal

Calvin Klein doing something risque? I know you're all shocked. But an enormous billboard in New York's SoHo district, which has been up for a month, has people talking again. The controversy concerns a topless young girl lying on top of a bare-chested dude while kissing another dude—total threeway, unless you count the guy lying in the foreground, who obviously passed out before things got really good. I maintain that CK is actually giving SoHo its first relevant PSA: Don't party too hard, or you'll miss out on the group sex. You'd think that after all CK has done in the past people would just go, "That's Calvin for ya, always racy!" and look the other way. But the coverage by CBS's Early Show (with a cameo by our own Barbara Lippert) proves that prepubescent threesomes never get old. But the best part of the clip is the woman who admits that if that's what the jeans do for you, she'll certainly buy a pair. You've come a long way, baby!

—Posted by Rebecca Cullers

Published on June 16, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (11)
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Remy can cause same-sex necklace biting

A woman flips her head back, as though in the throes of ecstasy, while another looks on, lasciviously biting the first woman's necklace. The caption: "Things are getting interesting." I guess they are. A casual viewer of this out-of-home ad might conclude that the advertiser, Remy Martin, is advocating sapphistry. But Remy rep Marie Christina Batich tells us that's not so. "It's highly interpretive," she says. And yes, that is one interpretation. But unlike IBM, Ikea and some other companies, Remy isn't taking a stand on homosexuality so much as endeavoring to "uncover an avant-garde world," if a press release about the campaign, via Miami's La Comunidad, is to be believed. Nor is it apparently advocating threesomes, which are hinted at in another execution showing a man canoodling with two women.

—Posted by Todd Wasserman

Published on November 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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PTC can't wait for the '90210' threesomes

With the political season in full swing and the fall TV season near at hand, can the squawking of the Parents Television Council be far behind? That was a rhetorical question, and we all know the answer. The PTC's latest target is the remake of 90210, which hasn't even been screened for advertisers. The group fears the show might "glamorize drug and alcohol use along with casual teen sex, including threesomes." On a CW show featuring randy young hardbodies in Beverly Hills? I should hope so! The PTC is, of course, urging advertisers to take a pass. Threesomes, huh? Back in high school, I'd have settled for a decent onesome and a B in chemistry. Maybe they'll get lucky and the premiere will deliver a foursome. Then they'll really have something to TiVo. Er ... I mean boycott.

—Posted by David Gianatasio

Published on August 26, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Runners dream of three-way with victory

It's not that we don't appreciate New Balance's "threesome" metaphor to keep this poor guy running (and buying their running shoes), but they're biting off more than they can chew. An actual threesome is, much like communism, an ambitious theory that fails in practice due to confusion, frustrating boundaries, and general human error. A better model for running is that it’s the C- girl at the bar who, when engaged with enough tenacity, grants you a shot at her A+ friend: Victory. Via splendAd.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on May 12, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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A threesome is next logical step for DQ ads

This Dairy Queen ad is pretty funny in a “thank heavens for these food suits, otherwise this would be really awkward” sort of way. In fact, without the food suits, the ad would have to get pulled. In a later spot, we find out that Mr. Wafflecone is actually married to Ms. Ice Cream, or at least they're shacking up. The other way to go would have been to have El Waffle and some of his buddies try to spy on Ms. Ice Cream while she enjoyed her chocolate sauce. But either way, it’s good to know that waffle cones aren’t a recommended source of fiber, moral or otherwise. Read more here and here over at Make the Logo Bigger.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on June 7, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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VW Rabbit cozies up to ‘Playboy’ bunnies

We sort of predicted this a few days ago. Volkswagen has taken its “Rabbit is back” campaign to Playboy magazine, placing this ad on the back cover of the September issue. (Click image to see a bigger version.) It shows the same three women who are looking out the window on the front cover—Bridget Marquardt, Kendra Wilkinson (“K-Dub”) and Holly Madison, the “buxom threesome” (Hefner’s words) stars of The Girls Next Door, the Sunday-night Playboy show on E!, which we’ve never seen. Holly is apparently the one in the middle, sporting the red Rabbit tattoo, which doesn’t look airbrushed in the least.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Published on August 2, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (2)
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Sprite knows teens can’t keep a secret

Enjoyable Sprite commercial here from Ogilvy in Buenos Aires in which teenagers stuff their bras and have threesomes and then get ratted out by their friends and family, all in good fun, of course. After all, this is just “things the way they are.” How better to appeal to teens than through their catty, gossipy side? Via ’boards.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Published on April 13, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Can you find the link between Richard Branson in a hot tub and home loans?

Note to Richard Branson: just because a marketing message is meant to be viral doesn't mean that it has to have shoddy production values. This is not something we are saying out of the blue. Branson is branching out into home loans in Australia via this peculiar video which shows the billionaire in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two young, topless lovelies (one of whom we thought was destined to have a Tara Reid moment (caution ... link might be NSFW), but, thankfully, did not). But the sound of the hot tub effectively, well, drowns out the dialogue—such as it is. And, since the link between threesomes in a hot tub and home loans isn't exactly intuitive (unless, maybe, you are a member of the cast of Big Love), the entire effort is all for naught, except for the the thrill someone might get out of seeing Branson in a hot tub. This story from a blog published by The Sydney Morning Herald, asks, " What other CEO of a major corporation would allow themselves to be filmed sipping champagne in a spa with naked ladies?" Well, actually, we can think of one.

—Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

Published on March 30, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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