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Too much going on here....

I took this photo over the weekend, and because you know that sometimes I like to deconstruct advertising right here on Funny Strange, I am just going to open by saying--- WHOA, SUBWAY.  TOO MUCH GOING ON!

First of all "Dinner Two Night" sounds like it should make sense, but it kind of doesn't.  I think the point is that you can get two full sandwich dinners at Subway for $8.99, which I guess is a good deal, except who PLANS to eat Subway for dinner?  Dinner at Subway is something you do if you're going somewhere else, or you're out and it's 7:00 and you're totally hungry.  It's not something you'd really go the extra mile to get two of, then take them home and put them on the table on your fine china. 

Also, the sentence "All Day Sunday Two" makes me die inside a little.  The "Two Night" pun at the top obviously wasn't enough, now they have to really hammer it home with ANOTHER play on words, the "two" instead of "too," which I'm sure isn't going to confuse people at all who are already staring, eyes aglaze, at this poster that has so much going on. 

I'm just saying, that sounds like a pretty good deal on sandwiches and I'm sure the purpose of it is to try to get people (in my neighborhood, at least) to start thinking about Subway sandwiches for dinner, but this poster is too much information at once, and someone needs to tell someone at an ad agency that two puns in one poster-- just, oh my God. 

Speaking of stink....

                                
I found this during Operation Stink and thought it was so funny, I couldn't resist taking a photo.   You can barely see the word "small" on here, so it just looks like "All Mighty" on the bottle.  God Soap!  Who knew?  I don't think this is just a test-market product, as I saw it in several stores.  This leads me to my common-sense question I always ask-- did no one, from the design/ concept phase all the way through to production and packaging, ever look at it and think "All Mighty"-- that's what some people call God, and maybe it would be confusing to put that name on a bottle of detergent.  Nope.  Apparently not.

Really, though, "All small and mighty" is a hilarious name for a product as well.  "Don't get all small and mighty with me, detergent!  Who do you think you are??"