Friday, February 26, 2010

Sub-morons

The other day on the BS Report, Bill Simmons said that Subway's $5 Footlong jingle had a pavlovian effect on him;  this was odd because I'd always felt that, on his podcast, the ads for Subway had conditioned me to hate that restaurant.

They place an ad right after each episode; this is like if they played a Subway jingle for a baby every time they took its rattle away (in this simile, I am a baby).  The announcer for these ads is an obnoxious radio-douche who always makes the same joke;  hearing this shit about three times a week, every week for the past year, I've sincerely come to hate this guy.

Most ad campaigns associate the product with something great, Subway has associated themselves with an annoying chore that means something great has come to an end.  If some ad campaigns are like being with a sexy girl, this ad campaign is like wiping jizz off your stomach after masturbating (while being hectored by an obnoxious radio-douche). 

She could sell me AIDS, but only if they were her AIDS.

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