F'd Ad Fridays: 12 awkward days of Xmas from down under

Adrants shared this weird Australian underwear and sleepwear promo. It starts averagely enough, with cute little kids, but as the metaphors get stretched further and further in the quest to relate the song's gifts to people in their gitch, it just gets weirder and weirder.

And occasionally, sort of insulting.

The baritone singer is Jack Ladder. I would have preferred Tay Zonday.

Monday morning Danish comes with a cup of sexual objectification

Helloooo, target market!

This softcore pornvertising video for Denmark's JBS underwear brand manages to insult men and women at the same time, by limiting (t)its appeal to adolescent boys. Whatever.



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F'd Ad Fridays: Original Awkwardness by Munsingwear

Original Penguin is one of my favourite shirt brands. And the brand has made lots of adblogs this week and last with this cool retro video of a car jumping rope:



But the company behind the Penguin brand, Munsingwear, doesn't have quite as awesome a history as they let on.

For one thing, it made its name as an underwear company. For another, it made hilariously unitentional homoerotic ads like this:

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It also perpetrated fashion crimes against humanity, like this:

And more homoeroticism...

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And... ummm...

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Happy weekend, everyone.