Jan
29
2006
QuietAgent’s “Banned” Superbowl Ad

QuietAgent.com invites people to view the Superbowl ad they don’t want you to see. It was banned by ABC! Censorship! Political Correctness! You know, it’s a lot cheaper to generate publicity by having an ad rejected by the TV network than by actually running it during the Superbowl. If you want to go this route, like QuietAgent.com did, you may want your ad to include shots of:

  • a dog taking a dump
  • a set of horribly rotten teeth
  • a pair of diseased feet
  • a close-up of the innards of a dissected frog
  • a man getting strangled

Oh, and put a picture of the president in front of it all.  All I’m saying is that this “rejection” couldn’t possibly have been intentional, could it? Naaaahhh…

All that said, the concept is pretty funny, but in an “Ebaum’s World” kind of way (where it will inevitably turn up).  Running it during the Superbowl would be unbelievably tasteless, and methinks QuietAgent.com knew that quite well.

However, now that I check on Technorati and Digg, the manufactured controversy isn’t spreading quite as quickly as I assumed while writing this post.

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6 Responses to “QuietAgent’s “Banned” Superbowl Ad”

  • Help make the Day After the BIG GAME on Feb 5th a national holiday! Just visit http://www.DADAY.com and sign the petition to help! Wouldn’t it be great to have another day off our business calender each year?!!?

    Angela 1/29/06 @ 1:58 pm

  • Another way to get cheap publicity is for a company like White Castle to spam blog comments with thinly veiled viral promotional campaigns.

    Jeff 1/29/06 @ 2:43 pm

  • Is this a day for celebrating everything our trusty District Attornies do? Kinda like Secretary’s Day?

    Or is it a day for celebrating Dada?

    Or is it “the day” in ghetto-speak? Nah, that would be “Tha Day”. Ooh, can we sign a petition for “TehDay” instead?

    Dave 1/30/06 @ 6:09 pm

  • You Can’t Handle the Truth! Or, For That Matter, a Dog Taking a Dump…

    Check out this entertaining but rejected Super Bowl commercial, for an outfit called QuietAgent.com. Then read the amusing rejection letter (note: pdf file) from ABC. The network objected to, among other things, a scene of “a dog squatting to go….

    Wonkette 2/1/06 @ 5:31 pm

  • White Castle Hamburgers

    They are delicious.

    Eat White Castle.

    Yum, yum, yum.

    As featured in Beastie Boys songs too.

    White Castle 2/1/06 @ 6:25 pm

  • http://technorati.com/search/www.quietagent.com

    stuart* 2/2/06 @ 10:31 pm

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