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Re: Rejected Marketing Slogans
Posted By: Gahalia, on host 216.3.252.5
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001, at 23:04:03
In Reply To: Re: Rejected Marketing Slogans posted by Brunnen-G on Friday, March 30, 2001, at 22:51:20:

> There was a series of ads here for some soft drink brand, a couple of years ago, which used that idea. It was great. I think it was for 7-Up, or maybe Pepsi.

> My favourite showed this uncoordinated, pudgy little kid trying to play basketball against a seven-foot-tall pro basketballer and being generally slammed all over the court. Then the little kid drinks a can of 7-Up (or whatever it was) and suddenly starts acting all cool and funky and says ominously "You're in MY world NOW." They start playing again, and the pro basketballer CONTINUES to slam the pudgy little kid all over the court.
>
> The ad ended with the slogan, "If it made you play sports better, don't you think it would cost more than $1 a can?"
>
> Brunnen-"or however much it cost at the time"G

That sounds like a Sprite ad. I love their commercials.
Ga"Actually just had Sprite today for the first time in about two months."halia