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Vampires in Advertising
 | Source:http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0406/ice-cream04/10.html
Garlic Ice Cream(Dorakyura
Aisu)At last! An ice cream that lets everybody around you
know you've eaten it! Garlic-flavored Dracula Ice Cream is a summer delight you can really
get your teeth into. Designed to ward off vampires, the irregular selection of flavoring
may ward off a few ice cream lovers, too. Garlic may well be a wonderful condiment for an
assortment of foods, but, appropriately for the substance vampires really hate, this is
bloody awful. Incidentally, Garlic Ice Cream was made in the tiny Aomori Prefecture
village of Shingo, which claims to be the place where Jesus Christ's grave is located.
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| Source: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/vampires/step9.html
The scene: A group of average looking people are sitting on some stairs outside, in
predawn light, facing the sea. As the sun begins to rise, they all put on their Ray Ban®
sunglasses. One latecomer to the group fumbles around, not finding his. The sun rises over
the ocean, the light falling on them. The hapless guy zaps into a smoking pile of dust.
"Looks like someone forgot his Ray Bans.®" All the normal looking people laugh,
flashing their vampire fangs. |
| Count Chokula Cereal made by General Mills |
| Anti Smoking Ad "Ashes of Doom"
“Ashes of Doom”: This is the shortest piece on the disc: an anti-smoking PSA
done as a parody of Dracula.
....great little anti smoking film called "Ashes of Doom." It ran about 2
minutes and was hilarious. The set is a gothic bed chamber. It is storming outside and the
curtains are blowing into the room. A woman in a night gown is frantically chain smoking.
Her ash tray is stacked about two feet high with cigarette butts. Suddenly there is a
flash of lightening and a clap of thunder, cut to a close up of evil eyes looking in her
window. She screams and falls onto the bed in a faint. "Dracula" comes in
through the window, leans over her, grins and bends down out of camera range. Then he
suddenly pops back up with a horrid expression on his face and coughs out a ton of smoke.
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| An article in the Chronicle pointed out Reebok's gross error in naming one of its
athletic shoe models "Incubus." Only after 53,000 of these shoes were shipped to
America was it pointed out to a horrified Reebok spokesman that "Incubus" refers
to the evil medieval spirits believed to attack sleeping women and have sex with them.
source: http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/engl12/whystudy.htm
If you wanted to buy a pair of Reebok's "Incubus" running shoes for women, you
are out of luck. They were yanked off the market last month after a TV reporter in Phoenix
pointed out to Reebok executives that an incubus was a medieval demon that had sex with
women while they slept (as Jay Leno noted, today we call them "husbands").
Nobody at Reebok would admit to okaying the name, or remembering how it came to be chosen,
or knowing the first thing about mythology. At least, they didn't try to argue that a
woman being descended upon by a horny demon could use a really good pair of running shoes.
source: http://www.ntskeptics.org/1997/1997march/march1997.htm |
| Givenchy lipstick" Red mirror ". |
| Leslie Nielson doing a dracula parody in a "Got Milk?" Ad |
Count Dracula as a spokesman for products as diverse as men's toiletries (from Gillette
Industries) to sugarless gum (Trident) to copper-top batteries (Duracell). [Notation: the
product line doesn't stop there either; over the years, the vampire image has been
associated with mouthwash, cat food, alcohol, fruit juice, pizza, security systems, and
two dozen other items. During the Halloween season,the product line nearly doubles with
the large variety of greeting cards, party favors, candy, centerpieces, napkins, and paper
plates that feature Count Dracula or some other noted vampire (Vampirella, Vampira, Elvira
- to name a few).] Source:http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/vamp.html
If you remeber any ads using the living challenged, please email me at sarafina@delcarsdungeon.com
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