Sunday, November 22, 2009

Gee Wiz Bang #$@&!!!

Somehow the ad executives at Magnavox never realized how deeply they were undermining their own message with their print campaign for The Voice, a voice synthesizer peripheral for the Odyssey2 videogame console.

Despite the ad copy's emphasis on "demanding answers to math and spelling problems," there isn't a kid in the world who didn't look at this ad's central claim and think of a few choice words to type in an effort to upset Grandma and frighten the cat:




Gee Wiz Bang indeed.

1 comment:

  1. Indeed, only after typing up the gruesomest literary constructs ever known to mankind, one begun to realize the educational uses this device could have ;-)

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