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== Cars == |
== Cars == |
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* Volkswagen's ad campaign for |
* Volkswagen's ad campaign for the Routan (a model they made between 2009 and 2014), is just...baffling. Apparently, according to [[Brooke Shields]], women everywhere are having babies—sometimes with men they barely even know--''just'' to get the new Volkswagen Routan, and any of them that say otherwise ("No I'm not! And this is my husband!") are merely in denial. This fake public service announcement would be funny if it weren't so mind-bogglingly stupid. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDZSxFLcMVg And LONG!] |
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** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Um... that's kind of the point.]] |
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Um... that's kind of the point.]] |
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** [[Harsher in Hindsight]] |
** [[Harsher in Hindsight]] after VW dropped the car due to poor sales. Total U.S. production was around 20,000, or less than 5% of the sales of its Chrysler platform mates during that period. |
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* A disturbing variation has people doing awful things ''to each other'' for the sake of the product, such as a car owner sticking pins into a voodoo doll representing the neighbor who spilled coffee in the car. |
* A disturbing variation has people doing awful things ''to each other'' for the sake of the product, such as a car owner sticking pins into a voodoo doll representing the neighbor who spilled coffee in the car. |
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* Yet a third variation (from...Toyota? I forget) features people describing the crazy-ass rules they've made for keeping their new car nice. One of them is a woman who has decided ''not to let her kids get a dog'' based solely on the fact that she has this car now; and this manages to ''not'' be the craziest thing someone says in this commercial (it's up there, but it's not the crowner). |
* Yet a third variation (from...Toyota? I forget) features people describing the crazy-ass rules they've made for keeping their new car nice. One of them is a woman who has decided ''not to let her kids get a dog'' based solely on the fact that she has this car now; and this manages to ''not'' be the craziest thing someone says in this commercial (it's up there, but it's not the crowner). |
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* One car ad featured every man in an entire city ripping off their clothes and dancing erotically because they just ''really'' like this one car driving by. |
* One car ad featured every man in an entire city ripping off their clothes and dancing erotically because they just ''really'' like this one car driving by. |
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== Drink == |
== Drink == |
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