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Parodies of the "Got Milk" campaign
14 years ago
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I'm so thorougly sick of these, and as the "got milk" campaign gets older and older, the parodies get weirder and more confusing.
I don't even know if Milk still uses "Got milk?" commercials, any recent commercials I've seen have consisted of women in long flowey dresses drinking milk in their apartments. if you ask me, they need to bring back those age progression commercials where the nerdy preteens get bigger and bigger.
But yeah, what really set me off about this was a cryptic black sign with white writing i saw recently on the side of the road, it said "GOT CHILDCARE?" and then a phone number. That's it! i'm not sure if it's meant to be funny or witty, or what! Or if people think the "got" thing just excuses them from writing anything substantial about themselves, like it's short hand for EVERYTHING. If I put "GOT" before whatever i'm selling, people will just get the point, and they'll appreciate the commercial parody, so they'll totally hire me. ( i would not hire this person to look after my kids! )
The first got milk commercial i remember was the "Aaron Burr from almost 20 years ago! Since then there's been a slew of parodies, "Got brains?, Got Albert?, Got Bovine Growth Hormone?, Got Christ? Got Blood?" All of them less funny than the one before, and creepier and creepier! I think it really jumped shark when churches and weird youth groups started using it, "Got Salvation?" Got Jesus? Got Foreskin? Got Faith?"
I consider this "got childcare" sign to be one of the worst and tasteless ones yet! The sign is just super weird, the paint is all drippy, the phone number looks squished and uncomfortable. And why would they be asking "got childcare"? As if someone is just sitting alone in their house with a bunch of kids and suddenly realizes they don't have childcare. I almost want to call them and say "YES I'VE GOT CHILDCARE THANKS FOR ASKING. ARE YOU DOING A SURVEY??"
Which is worse? Got Milk parodies? Or LOLCAT speak???
I don't even know if Milk still uses "Got milk?" commercials, any recent commercials I've seen have consisted of women in long flowey dresses drinking milk in their apartments. if you ask me, they need to bring back those age progression commercials where the nerdy preteens get bigger and bigger.
But yeah, what really set me off about this was a cryptic black sign with white writing i saw recently on the side of the road, it said "GOT CHILDCARE?" and then a phone number. That's it! i'm not sure if it's meant to be funny or witty, or what! Or if people think the "got" thing just excuses them from writing anything substantial about themselves, like it's short hand for EVERYTHING. If I put "GOT" before whatever i'm selling, people will just get the point, and they'll appreciate the commercial parody, so they'll totally hire me. ( i would not hire this person to look after my kids! )
The first got milk commercial i remember was the "Aaron Burr from almost 20 years ago! Since then there's been a slew of parodies, "Got brains?, Got Albert?, Got Bovine Growth Hormone?, Got Christ? Got Blood?" All of them less funny than the one before, and creepier and creepier! I think it really jumped shark when churches and weird youth groups started using it, "Got Salvation?" Got Jesus? Got Foreskin? Got Faith?"
I consider this "got childcare" sign to be one of the worst and tasteless ones yet! The sign is just super weird, the paint is all drippy, the phone number looks squished and uncomfortable. And why would they be asking "got childcare"? As if someone is just sitting alone in their house with a bunch of kids and suddenly realizes they don't have childcare. I almost want to call them and say "YES I'VE GOT CHILDCARE THANKS FOR ASKING. ARE YOU DOING A SURVEY??"
Which is worse? Got Milk parodies? Or LOLCAT speak???
Or this creepy preteen girl talking to her brother http://youtu.be/oGnd8OsKVfI
or this super 14-30 year old high school progression. http://youtu.be/xowksv9HIs8 (milk = smoking cigarettes?)
and there's also this ad http://youtu.be/up4XM48cStA
MILK it will make you large enough to push around the jocks that once bullied you and see how they like it also maybe see them naked.
GOT CHEEZBURGER???
The scare tactics seem to work for most of the population. I think there are two things that really bother me about religious organizations using the "GOT" slogan, one is that Milk is a corporation, and corporations are pretty much the epitome of greed and excessiveness. It's like letting satan design your stain glass windows. The second reason is that i picture a bunch of gaudy middle aged white people coming up with the "got jesus" or whatever and thinking it's super clever and getting a big kick out of it. It makes me want to barf.
"Soy Milk: Lighten Up, Milk! You Haven't used that Slogan for Like Ten Years! This Is Why You Don't Have Any Friends!"™
"Milk: It Won't Shrink Your Nads Like Soy Milk."™
"Soy Milk: It Won't Really Shrink Your Nads. Don't Listen to Milk, He's Just Pissed Because Everyone's Copying His Slogan."™
"Milk: Seriously, Stop Copying Our Slogan."™
"Suicidal Fox: Posting Journal Comments That Make No Sense Since 2007."™
dun
dun
DUN
nothing like an ice cold glass of mayonnaise
and then you have to wonder..who had the honor of applying mayo to notable and less notable celebrities/slightly famous people's upper lips???
.....................Son, i love you and I'll support you no matter what you do.
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It wasn't that clever to begin with! It's like the lowest form of advertising...not even communicating anything about the product, just brusquely demanding to know if you already have any of it. But I guess they were successful in implanting it in people's minds.
For me, it feels like a giant cop out, like "I can't think of anything to put on this shirt, I'll do this overused minimilist parody of a commercial", but i wonder if the people behind these abominations think they are being super clever.
It's legitimitely been around 20 years already, it needs to die.
Remember when they started making those "police state commercials". The basic story was always the same: Someone is using the rival brand product, suddenly two people in police uniform, wearing badges with the advertised product's brand broke into the house and informed him/her about the violation they were commenting by not using their particular brand. Those were as disturbing as lame, because they implied some kind of society where uniformed officers can invade your home at any moment to (en?)force you to use a product.
I remember for some time practically any kind of stuff had at least one of these product cop commercials. I guess advertising companies just copy and repeat any formula they perceive as successful.
A lot of commercials seem to follow a pattern or a parody of a pattern, at least parodying an already used commercial concept you can still have room to be creative. The awkward police state commercials can at least be altered a little and have new dialogue. Just taking the "got" and putting whatever you sell after it is sort of wierd. Also, it's mostly independent companies, they are free to do whatever they want, yet they choose to copy an 20 year old ad that barely makes sense for its original product.
Scurrow, I fully think starting a "Do You Have Milk?" campaign would rule :) Maybe "Got Grammar?"
or BUH SCUSE ME DO YOU GOTS SOME MILK? For the younger more abrasive generation.
What i wouldn't mind is a shirt that says "Got Malk" and has a picture of Ernest T. Warren holding a bottle of Malk from Ernest Scared Stupid.
I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits...
Unrelated, there's a floppy disk hanging on my wall in my room, my friend who's 20 years old had never seen one before!