lockjaw radio DOSE #19: Home Depot vs. Lowe's
Home Depot vs. Lowe’s, Sony Bravia TV for Men and Women, Volkswagen GTI Unpimp Your Ride Commercials, American Express M Night Shyamalan Ad, NBC pulls SNL Videos, engrish.com.
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In this dose of lockjaw radio, we’ll discuss the following topics:
- It’s time to umpimp your ride
- Customer assistance required in lumber
- Leather gloves pork joy sure will be your hands good partners
- Jose Castillo: hairstylist
- Note to Sony: If i’m a lizard, can I buy your tv?
- NBC stands for “no borrowed clips”
Listeners who wrote us…
- Joe, Co-Host of The SalesRoundup Podcast
- Joe Muse
- Tatiana
- Lynda H. Donati (who says she’s glad we aren’t podfading)
- Justin Farrey
- Patrick Savage
- Austin Moody
This week in brand2brand combat:
Spring home improvement is in the air, and it’s orange vs. blue as Home Depot takes on Lowe’s in an all out big box battle.
RESULTS: Your votes are tallied, and Lowe’s edged Home Depot. Thanks to all who voted!
Ad of the Week
You’ve seen it—the Volkswagen GTI “Umpimp your ride” hilarity put together by Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The online tie-in rocks, too. A must see.
Ad that sucks
Ok, we’ve given Sony a hard time about the Bravia campaign. First it was for men, now it’s for men AND women?? Isn’t a television for EVERYBODY??
Website(s) of the Week:
There’s two this week: Monty Python’s Silly Walk Generator and Engrish. Just take a look.
Mentions
- Apple
- Volkswagen GTI Spots
- American Express My Life, My Card
- Lovemarks
- Bandwagon Radio
- Sales Roundup Podcast
- AdRants Article on NBC/SNL Video
Forward delete: (fn+delete) for laptop, and I think (alt+delete) for desktop. Haven’t used a desktop in a while so don’t quote me on that one.
Georgia boy born and bred. I love the Falcons (ergo Mr. Blank $), the brand new GA Aquarium, and I am a card carrying, debt machine since buying my house. I guess you could say I am a “Homer” kind of guy in more way than one.
I will admit that this series of VW comercials is kitchish, but so were the last series of VW commericals. Remember the JJ Schmigal (SNL Cartoonist) series of “Speed Racer” copies for the last GTI revision. That was about three-years-ago, and I think this new campiagn for the Mark 5 GTI hits the same feel. The lab, the strange dictation and over-all farse feel, I believe are standard VW commercial apeals. Remember this is the car of the people, so making fun of the people should be ok. I love each one of them. I hadn’t checked out the webiste yet, but that was incredible. Unlike Jason, this campign doesn’t get an “F”.
Guess I better get back to work. Keep up the great show.