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FBI Offering $10K "Quick Christmas Cash" for Help Apprehending Bank Robber

You really have to hand it to the FBI. For an organization that doesn't seem really funny at all, their press releases seeking the help of citizens to apprehend criminals can be hilarious. Take this "digital billboard" effort to catch Victor Dwayne Johnson, who is charged with bank robbery for the r ... More >>

Trend Alert: 10 Artist/Brand Partnerships We'd Like To See

One of the most notable trends emerging from SXSW earlier this month was the increasing prevalence of financial partnerships between artists and brands. The highest-profile example of this phenomenon came courtesy of Lil Wayne, who taped a Mountain Dew spot from the stage at his Young Money/Cash Mon ... More >>

Super Bowl Ads: Bud Skews Decrepit, Clint Endorses Obama -- 5 Things We Learned

Another Super Bowl, another series of high-priced, high-stakes TV ads. What did we learn? These five things: 5. Budweiser has a hard-on for Prohibiition Because your target demographic is, we guess, is prople who remember fondly when beer was made legal again in 1933. 4. Never ever believe a baby ... More >>

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Comment of the Day: Sexist or Silly?

Here on Eating Our Words, the commenters absolutely make the blog, and our Comment of the Day honors the best of the bunch. Every day, we read you guys and pick the commenter, or commenters, who made us laugh, cry, salivate over something delicious, or think about things in a new way. In return, w ... More >>

Is J Lo the Calmest Driver Ever?: Five Questions About Current TV Ads

We got some questions.​Given the confluence of football season and the World Series, we're watching a lot of TV these days. Unfortunately, there's often not something to switch to during commercial breaks, so we're seeing more ads than usual. They've left us with a few questions we hope the w ... More >>

St. Ides & Hip-Hop: Would Today's Rappers Endorse Malt Liquor?

​The early '90s was a time when some of the best hip-hop music ever was being made, and the beverage of choice was malt liquor. Before rappers glorified Cristal, Ciroc and even their own branded alcohol, there were many hip-hop-inspired malt liquor ads. St. Ides in particular enlisted several ... More >>

My Personal Funeral For Don Lapre (w/ 6 Videos Of Other Terrible Infomercials)

We lost another icon of my youth over the weekend when Don Lapre, best known for his promises of mountains of wealth by merely placing tiny classified ads in newspapers around the country, committed an apparent suicide awaiting sentencing on fraud charges. The late `80's and early `90's were the he ... More >>

An Awesome Houston Oiler Public Service Announcement

Granted, there's plenty to be entertained by in this collection of early-`70s TV ads. If you don't love the huge land-yacht 1973 Lincoln-Mercurys, which look big enough to land helicopters on, you're bound to like the "small" version which retains all the luxury in a more efficient body (that nevert ... More >>

Mayonnaise vs. Miracle Whip: Kraft's Clever New Ad Campaign

"Is that a commercial for mayonnaise?" my boyfriend asked as he glanced at one of the new Miracle Whip ads on TV last night. I found myself responding quickly and almost furiously: "No, it's for Miracle Whip!" "Jesus. Okay." It was almost as if the commercial had stirred some mayonnaise demon w ... More >>

Women's Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science

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Super Bowl XLV Commercials: The 5 Best And 5 Worst

Baby Darth Vader is soooooo cutesy-wootsey​From Audi to Groupon, yesterday's Super Bowl Commercials ran the gamut. There was less blatant sexism than previous years, and a lot more CGI, and a few commercials sure to have people talking either due to their shock value or outright offensiveness. ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV: Livebloggin' the Commercials!

Betty White enjoys a Snickers.​For someone who watches the biggest television event in America strictly for the breaks, last year was a bummer. Betty White's Snicker's ad, and the Kia commercial featuring a posse of partying toys were two standouts in a year of boring, sexist and outright dumb ... More >>

Super Bowl Sunday: Live-Blogging the Commercials

You may be asking yourself WTF is going on in that wacky 1970s Laugh-In-esque commercial above, starring Joe Namath and one incredibly frightening woman. Well, that commercial is the one that started it all, the era of billion-dollar Super Bowl spots, the most coveted 30 seconds of advertising on ... More >>

5 Memorable Foods Advertised During Saturday Morning Cartoons

If only they'd been edible, Madballs would have been the perfect product. It's difficult for me to believe that I used to set my alarm to get up on Saturday morning, but I did. If there was a show I wanted to see that was on before sunrise, sometimes I would even set it for earlier than I did on a ... More >>

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Metro May Take Bold, Courageous Step Of Accepting Ads On Buses

Well, maybe not so modern​Back in July, when then-interim Metro head George Greanias was making an introductory set of meetings with groups and media outlets like us, we asked him something that had been bugging us -- with its money woes, why didn't Metro accept ads on buses?Found money, right?The ... More >>

Dr. Michael Brown & The Astros: What Gives?

You must be watching an Astros game...​If you're like me, you've always been bugged by those ads for The Brown Hand Center that are shown way too much during Houston Astros games. Maybe it's that whole Stepford family thing, or the way the wife looks terrified, or the girl talking about being dadd ... More >>

Five Absolutely Cringeworthy Restaurant Commercials

By now, we've all seen the commercial for Jones' Good Ass BBQ & Foot Massage. Sadly, the video with the dancing chickens, catchy jingle and promise of a pedicure with the finest honey barbecue sauce in Illinois was too terrible to be true. Fortunately, there are plenty of actual commercials for r ... More >>

Funnel Cake Sticks at Burger King

Photo by the impulsive buy​We never fall prey to fast food commercials and their new twists on old dishes, but...we saw the ad for funnel cake sticks at Burger King, and our munchie-having stoner inner child awoke inside us. We just had to have them. We know, we know...What can we say, you can ... More >>

Kroger Fired Him, But They Kept Using Him In Ads Because He's Black, Man's Lawsuit Claims

Kroger will do anything to lure African-Americans inside their stores. At least according to one former African-American employee who is accusing the grocery store chain of repeatedly airing a TV commercial that he starred in -- aimed at buttering up a black audience -- well after the company had fi ... More >>

The Eagle Has Landed

Rocks Off only listens to Houston rock radio in small doses, but when we do it's usually of the classic variety. When our usual diet of AM talk radio veers into the right-wing ditch and becomes annoying instead of amusing, we pretty much shuffle between Country Legends 97.1 or the 93.7 the Arrow. On ... More >>

Mexico Protests Tex-Mex Commercial

The Mexican ambassador to Spain has written a letter to Burger King objecting to a new ad campaign for the "Texican Whopper." The print ads and commercials, which appear only in Europe, feature an unlikely pair of roommates--a tall cowboy who travels by horse and short Mexican who answers the fro ... More >>

Burger King Pulls Little Spicy Mexican Ads

Burger King has announced that it will withdraw its European advertising campaign for the Texican Whopper out of respect for the Mexican culture. The Mexican ambassador to Spain wrote a letter to the company complaining about the campaign, which features a tall Texas cowboy and a short Mexican wrest ... More >>

These Houstonians Are Shocked About That Super Bowl Ad And Want To Talk About It

Although Houstonians who watched Superbowl XLIII didn't get to see the porn that those lucky Tucson folks witnessed, they got something almost as juicy: an ad for AshleyMadison.com, a website aimed at married people who want to boink someone other than their spouse.This outraged the concerned folks ... More >>

Miss Pop Rocks Watches the Super Bowl

Oh God, my stomach is so distended. WHY do I do this to myself every Super Bowl Sunday? I watch one football game each year and it's this one, and the only reason I watch it is to have an excuse to eat snacks and watch commercials. A few thoughts on this year's game: First of all, choirs are ver ... More >>

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