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