Unfortunate grocery store context

Via The Consumerist

Or is it? Happy weekend.

Organic market billboard offers sexual Rorschach test

Via Copyranter

"Vat do you zee here? Now tell me about your muzzah..."

How to sell bikes: a historical perspective

These pics are from a sponsored Buzzfeed post by Schwinn. It's a good strategy, really, and the ads are really interesting.

But a few jumped out at me:

Golden Age Hollywood Endorsement

"You know how to pedal, don't you Steve?"

And what a celebrity! There is no way anyone classier has ever sold bikes, like, ever. (and that includes Joan Crawford and Doris Day, who are on the complete list.)

Cowboy Endorsement

Complete with awesomely awkward headline!

The "Substitute for Parental Love" Angle

Years later, McDonald's would base its entire brand on this con.

...Great White Hunter Endorsement

As soon as the illustrator was done, he skinned the tiger to make a swell rug!

Sexual Innuendo

Does the seat vibrate or something?

Which leads us, naturally, to: 

Blatant Sexual Exploitation (of women)

Why does that always happen?

So there you have it: even in bicycle advertising, all roads lead to smut.

"Free small hot... redhead" #FdAdFriday

The Consumerist shared this unfortunate bit of Wendy's marketing that has been circulating on Reddit. Their coffee brand is, indeed, "Redhead Roasters" — a reference to founder Dave Thomas' daughter who is the fast food chain's namesake.

And that's what makes this extra awkward, considering the entire brand is built around a pig-tailed red-haired girl...

Footnote: Coincidentally, a GIS for "Wendy's" turned up this fan art in a link.

This is an example of what is known, in internet land, as "Rule 34"

Via xkcd

The naughtiest children's spoon-and-chopsticks set you will see today #FdAdFriday

"Happy Time" indeed...

Via Buzzfeed

With two words, I will completely ruin this campaign for you.

BLOW

JOB

Sorry.

Via Ads of The World