F'd Ad Fridays: The Official Worst Ad in America for 2011

"According to The Consumerist, anyway:


For the second year in a row, we asked you, the readers of Consumerist to nominate and vote on the worst ads airing on American TVs. And after more than 115,000 votes, you have made it quite clear which commercial deserves the dishonor of being labeled the Absolute Worst Ad In America — Luvs Diapers' 'Poop, There It Is!'

The ad, which features an animated baby talent show where the only talent being judged is just how much fecal matter each of the three grunting tots can dump into their diapers, earned slightly more than 32% of the vote, beating out the AT&T ad (23.98%) in which a man's wife decides to unload what appears to be decades of pent-up anger after he tells her he signed the family up for some sort of unlimited texting plan."

So here it is...




I've seen worse.

Anti-merger AT&T/T-Mobile parody ads: perhaps truth, but poorly told

Via savetheinternet.com, this series of ads simultaneously parody T-Mobile ads and the Mac series that inspired them to protest the AT&T/T-Mobile merger:









Cute writing, but the subpar acting (especially by the men) really detracts from the serious message, which is all about the threats to jobs, innovation, competitive pricing and even free speech posed by a telecom monopoly.

Plus, the faux T-Mobile woman is no substitute for the sparkle of Canada's own Carly Foulkes...