Sometimes you have to wonder how smart advertisers are. I mean obviously, all of them are manipulative swine who love nothing more than to take all your money, but there are certain things that make me wonder if they realize what they're really doing. As an example, I'm going to use Vince Offer, the Sham-Wow guy, because he is completely insane and apparently punched a hooker in the mouth once.
Now, as anyone who's seen the commercials he's in can tell you, Vince has some unbelievably stupid lines and looks like a weasel suffering from a severe tic. And wouldn't you know it, everyone loved it. And to be fair, I do too, because that man is clearly out of his mind. And that's what makes me wonder, did the people who put this commercial together KNOW that this was ridiculous? They had to, didn't they? Did they make a commercial absurd and laughable because they KNEW people would find it funny, thus giving their product far more exposure?I don't know, they might have. It depends on how evil they really are.
It's the same thing with the Shake Weight, and pretty much any other product that isn't sexual, but so obviously is. The people who made this CAN'T have been that ignorant. These are full grown men. They HAVE to notice these things. The question is, are they doing it on purpose? Either way, it worked, because they sold like a billion of them. Great, now we've told the advertisers that we will fall for their ploys, if the ploy is even there. I guess that's fine though, because eventually we will reach a point where every commercial is unintentionally hilarious. I could live with that.
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