Ethan Kaye Upsets the Apple Cop

July 30, 2008 on 4:39 pm | In Insanity, advertising |

Like all good things in life, humor in this blog comes in twos. Yesterday I found something weird in an Amazon ad, today I find something weird in a banner ad. Sometimes this world just makes no sense, and sometimes the creative decisions that go into our advertising just defy explanation. Take, for instance, this banner ad that I saw across my email this morning:

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Apples are cute! (but not as cute as Bouncy Bee) They can be used to describe careers! This one’s a nurse! That one’s a teacher! O ho, that one’s even a clown! And then there’s a…

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So…when you become a cop you get bizarre facial hair? A Fu Manchu mustache and a goatee? That’s what being a cop means to this artist? Do you automatically get this cheesy hairstyle when you join the force? Unless…

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No, it can’t be that. It just can’t. You don’t need to go to school for that.

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  1. Its an apple of color.

    Comment by Esbat — August 5, 2008 #

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