Big Love for Network Solutions

I like these banners for Network Solutions where the old man’s mouth moves like a marionette’s as he talks about his 36 brides in some sort of unsubtle joke about polygamy. The casting is great, if you can call picking a picture of an old man for a banner campaign “casting.”

It’s the crude cutout nature of it that works for me. Not unlike the men’s faces affixed to screaming girls in the Baconator spot.

Not that the ads get me to go to Network Solutions. GoDaddy stole my “mindshare” for that market years ago when they undercut everybody on domain name pricing.

And doesn't "Network Solutions" have such a late 90s ring to it? So World Wide Web. But I guess they were ahead of their time, since the company was founded in 1979.

The Scent That Sets Her Apart

Big Pharma for Big Love

HBO's show about a polygamist family in Utah is just plain bizarre - and well written. This spoof ad promoting the show is excellent. But I love spoof ads, especially ones with lots of juvenile not-so-subtleties like bananas, hotdogs, sprinklers popping up and more. (Note the extra special gag with a very high MSHI* rating as the husband holds the rake in the background as the three wives sit at the table.)

*Middle School Humor Index