Worst Advertising Slogans
 

I was watching TV earlier and saw a commercial for the new product, Childrens' Pepto Bismol. Children's Pink, it does more than you think! It reminded me how bad some advertising taglines really are. Another example would be Pepsi's "Brown and bubbly" that they introduced during the superbowl.

What are some other terrible slogans you've heard?

Got milk?

Only because so many people have copied it.

The whole retarded "PSP: it's like carpet that you can look at outside" or whatever.

Those ads are incredibly NOT cool.

There's a local university in my area that held a contest for a new advertising slogan. Their mascot is a snarling dog, and the line that won was "Unleash Your Potential." It was a cute pun, which was why everyone liked it.

But the PR people that were designing the campaign didn't like it, and they decided to throw out the popular choice in favor of "Imagine More."

What the hell? "Imagine More" sounds like something someone would say about a dumpy school, or maybe an empty field. You can "Imagine More" at a crummy school as much as at a good one. In fact, the fact that the school will allow to to "Imagine More" makes it sound like there's nothing to engage you. At least "Unleash Your Potential" told you what the college was going to do for you. [/rant]

Word.

"What are you doing down there?"
"I'm listening to cheese!"

Way to make a totally invalid analogy regarding the mobility of handheld media :(

You mean the nigger squirrels, cholo dust bunnies, and what have you aren't retarded PSP advertisements?

Every time I see a PSP I'm filled with indominable rage. I don't remember what the actual slogans are, but they eventually boil down to something retarded like, "Yeah, it's got big guns." What the fuck ever, faulty disc drives a disclauncher do not make.

I adore the one: "It's like a nut you can play with outside." :lolsign:

Ugh. McDonalds. "I'm lovin' it." Who the freaking hell? And what does "Bah dah, bah bah baaah" have to do with anything?
:confused:

I believe that was sampled from a Justin Timberlake song that didn't take off like they had wanted.

THEY'RE IRONIC OR WHATEVER. THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO APPEAL TO OUR AGE GROUP BLAH BLAH BLAH.

At Christmas the past two years, there's been a jingle on the radio here: "Everything Westfield Shoppingtown do, we do it for you!" That might not be it exactly, but the subject and verb don't agree, and it's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

Some airline used to have the "Ride Me" slogan, for the life of me, I can't remember which one though.

i think it went along the lines of "you envy me" on a car add - DUDE DON'T TELL ME WTF TO ENVY YOU STUPID THING! >___> I just remember the ad was another abuse to comummer whoring that um... I ranted about for a good week.

Kellogg's Frosties.

Oooh! Oooh! I just thought of another one.

The slogan for the gama "Daikatana" which appered in gaming rags:

"John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch."

Nothing about the game, no screenshots, just a red ad with those immortal words, some company logos, and another bad slogan at the bottom: "Suck it down." I think it's funnier if a lousy ad is for a lousy product, don't you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtUpPDuMfk

This commercial is from before the AIDS virus hit. It's funny to listen to now.

"Eat me" from those Burger King ads- it may not be a slogan- but it is damn annoying- the whole bunch of ads just pisses me off.

"Live in your world, play in ours." -Sony PS2

"Your world delivered." -AT&T

I never liked Capri Sun's slogan for their drinks. I think it said something like, "It's liquid cool." I don't think they show commercials for that product these days though.

Well, McDonalds had the whole "Have You Had Your Break Today?" line, but it didn't cater to their target audience (urbanites living off of welfare who lack a job). Hence the added slang, too ;D Plus almost every commercial has a hip-hop rhythm to it, it seems (at least the sung ones :()

"Do What Feels Right" -- Wendys

I'm sorry Wendys. I don't want to "do" a double classic with cheese no matter how delicious it is.

The GBA Zelda III - Link to the Past advert.

"Wilst thou save the girl?

Or play like one?"

Way to not only make an embarrassing use of "ye olde english", but also insult nearly every single gamer's intelligence with a creepily bad pun.

Don't you hate it when non-profit organizations (charities) have horrible ad campaigns?

I know it's not really a slogan, but this one commercial--from what i can remember--went something like :

"What she wanted was a bottle of pop from the corner store. What she got was killed!"

And they played this sad horrible music in the background, but as soon as I heard those sentences, I broke out into laughter. I know it's horrible, but I hate it when good organizations have bad campaigns.

I think

"Wake up with the King" is a pretty bad one. Burger King breakfasts suck, too.

There are so many

- "vroom, vroom", from mazda. that kid is annoying

- "It's not restaurant, it's delicio". WE HEARD IT ALREADY!!

- ANY labour union ad. Hoping that Charest will crush them somehow

- In a TV show, the host "uncovers" old TV clips. There was an ad by the Liberal Party that sounded really retarded (a kindergarden song almost)

- Any bullshit uttered by a separatist party in Québec

this could go one for days :D

But George Foreman's a legend. George Foreman > You

That's actually "Zoom, zoom..." and a friend of mine who lives up in Three Rivers was the one who came up with that whole marketing campaign for Mazda and it was actually a pretty catchy thing. It was originally only meant to be for the RX-7, but they just kind of moved that over to the rest of their vehicle line.

As for the worst marketing tools EVER used for anything? Well... Just look at this:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...znosratWTF.jpg

No really... Think about the mindrape that this was for everyone who saw this! A genetically deformed rat with the dental structure of a bum who sucks dick for crack is singing off-key and telling me to buy a "toasty sub"?

Nuh uh, nigga. You're on your own. :/

That actually reminds me of some fast-food placed that used "I'd hit it." or something similar to that as their tagline for a commercial or two. Then maybe they realized what that meant.

Okay, seriously, that entire ad campaign scared the crap out of me. That King was creepy as Hell, especially in the early days, when he would wake up in a random guy's bed, or be in the back of a dude's car. I was watching SNL one night, and that commercial (with the King in the back of some guy's car) came on, and it came on in a way that I thought it was an SNL mock ad. But then... there was no laugh track... and it was a real ad. It was ridiculous.

Disney commercials are pretty fucking annoying: "Imagineer that!" What the hell are they even advertising?

HBO. "It's not TV, it's HBO." What the hell? I get pissed off every time I hear that. What, do they send out a signal that pipes directly into your brain or something? Does it appear in the sky? No! It comes on TV! With all the other channels. It just makes them seem stuck up. Well, until they invent a method that doesn't involve TV to air their programming, this slogan is shit.

Yeah, I would find it terrifying if I woke up and that giant king head man was under the covers next to me. The football ones with the King weren't too bad, though.

[eardrumburstingscreech]EAT QUIZNOS SUBS[/eardrumburstingscreech]

Apparently those little hellions are called spongmonkeys, created by Joel Veitch in 2004. Some drunken quiznos exec saw the "We love the moon" video online and called Veitch for the rights to use them in an add. He must have been HAMMERED! Those things always creeped the shit out of me, I hate those little evil buggers! They look alot like this band in fact, Death From Above 1979, well, maybe only the one on the right...lol:p
http://www.spin.com/features/exclusives/2004/12/dfa.jpg

Hah! That one was rather creepy. Actually, I didn't really like McDonald's new slogan either. I preferred the "We Love to See You Smile!" one better. Taco Bell's "It's good to go!" is also annoying. Every time I hear that line, my opinion of Taco Bell drops. It's even worse with the hand motion from the commercials. :p

http://www.sevenbits.net/imgbank/meat46txt.jpg

Ah, 1956, when the American Meat Institute was every diligent in reminding the public in the ehtical and moral merits of MEAT

"If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face."

Yeah, and then Paris started acting for Carl's Jr.

Qwest, the midwest telecommunications company, had the slogan "That's our Spirit of Service". Then there was a big joke that they only give service in spirit, because they're known for having AWFUL customer service. Then they changed it to "Our Spirit of Service in Action". Good Times.
I also hate Subway's slogan "Eat Fresh", but love to make fun of it saying "Eat Flesh".
Kay, a local jeweler, uses "Every Kiss begins with Kay", and I hate that they think they own every kiss. Bastards.
Slim Jim a whil eback had those "EAT ME!" with the guy dressed as a slim jim popping out of the wrapper.
"That's Comcastic" is also pretty annoying for our cable company.
What about Nintendo's old slogans? "Now you're Playing with Power", or "Play it Loud".
Give me a week and I'll come up with an even longer post.
I really hate ads. Marketing is so not cool.

Well, "kiss" technically begins with the letter "k"... so it's a phonetic pun. That still doesn't make me want to but a diamond.
Yeah, all those marketing people are so not cool... ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK.

Come on everybody, say it!
"SET IT AND FORGET IT!"
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Kay is a local jeweler for me too, but around here not every kiss begins with "Kay". Every blowjob on the other hand... >__>

Says those of you who purchase no consumer goods. I, on the other hand, make my living off of it and you know what? I'm not complaining.

Mmmmm. That really makes me want a hamburger! :sick:

I acually liked that one. It sounds even better in song mode. At least it isn't something like, "We have awesome diamonds!"

Funny thing about those Qwest commercials that I noticed. At first the people saying the slogan always sounded like they were saying "Inaction". Lately I've noticed that they've put a definate pause between "In" and "Action".

Too bad the morons only realized this about a month late.

You think these are bad, try living overseas and watching the commercials they'll play on AFN (which stands for Armed or American Forces Network, I believe). My older brother jokes how he should've recorded these when our family lived over in Germany so he could play them to his kids as a form of punishment. Here's one example:

The commercial is two Navy chicks playing racquetball, and the one girl goes 'You're off your game today. Is everything all right?' the other one goes 'There's this guy at work; he's been asking me out out, making these, you know, suggestive remarks. It's just getting to me, you know.'

Girl 1: 'Have you tried talking to him about it at all?'

Girl 2: 'No. I just figured... ya know. Well what if I tell him, and he doesn't stop?'

Girl 1: 'Then you report him. I'm sure he'd rather hear it from you than from his supervisor.'

Girl 2: 'Yeah, yeah, you're right. I'll talk to him about it first thing tomorrow. It's your serve.'

Grade F acting on junk like this. And sexual harassment isn't the only thing. Try three years as a 10-13 year old with commercials being nothing but stuff like this or junk about writing bad checks, wearing every piece of safety gear known to man, contacting your legal assistance office, etc.

I would've leapt for joy back then at seeing TV ads for the stuff you guys are saying is crap. Seriously. That's how bad these AFN commercials are. They'd beat just about every single one of these, hands down.

Another one that pisses me off is CBS with their 'Welcome home' slogan. I don't if they still use it (since I barely watch CBS anymore), but it angered me to no end when they were using it, since it makes no freaking sense.