Sunday, April 17, 2011
"Well I'll be a son of a...."
This Oreo Fudge Cremes commercial annoys me for lots of reasons. First because I detest the idea that any one food or snack can inspire such over-the-top reactions. Add to that the fact that the family is partiicuarly obnoxious and toss in that all their comments reek of copywriter-written. But most intriguing is that this spot, which appears to be a family oriented commercial, has the mother exclaim "Shut the front door" a frequent euphemism for "Shut the fuck up." I don't know if the the writer knew what he or she was doing, but cozy kitchen Kraft Foods certainly must have been in the dark as I can't imagine they gave the agency the go-ahead to tear down decades of family values. This spot has already gotten a lot of attention and I don't think it's particularly positive. Wouldn't be surprised if the Oreos client shut the front door on this agency.
My only question is whether the copywriter knows who Franklin Delano Roosevelt was.
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