We came across what, in our humble opinion, is the worst advertisement of all time. It’s a billboard that we snapped a quick pic of as we got on the subway here in NYC, because we needed to see it again to see what we were missing with our bare eyes, and as it turned out, we still didn’t have a clue to what the billboard was advertising. Our wife saw the pic, and without even hearing us say that we thought that it was the worst billboard of all time said, “Oooh! That’s the best billboard of all time!”
So, here it is, the best and worst billboard of all time:
If you think that it’s the best billboard of all time, then you know what the billboard is all about, but, for those who are like us and had no idea what the blank slate and March 25 stood for, the billboard is an advertisement for the return of Mad Men to AMC.
Apparently the guy in the suit is part of the cartoon beginning that Mad Men has. Based off of this newly learn fact, we suspect that the theme for this season of Mad Men’s advertising must have been: let’s only try to get our core audience to return after being off the air for over a year and not even try to get any new viewers, because let’s face it, we’re definitely not going to get any new viewers. To each their own, we guess.
In any event, whether or not you think that this Mad Men advertisement is the best or worst advertisement ever, we can all probably agree that this ad is a graffiti artist/tagger’s wet dream. We can’t wait to see if someone draws a big penis that was used as a diving board and a toilet that will be used as a pool in all of that open white space.
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