Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Ads

Okay, we’ve all seen them: ads with hipsters and kittens and puppies and stuff, and the tagline is: “Just the right amount of wrong.” But seriously, they’ve got animals, especially young ones, running around their hotel without supervision? That’s going to mean a lot of animal poop in the hallways and elevators! And isn’t that going to smell really bad when you’re all hung over and sick from all the sick and twisted partying that’s mandated there? I should think so! And that must be why their flagship commercial has a scene with lots of kittens and puppies running all around, and then they have a singing group singing: “doo doo de doo, doo de doo”: to indicate that there’s going to be a lot of doo doo if you stay there! Plus, by incorporating that song in the ad along with the kitten and puppy footage, you can’t sue them for false advertising when you end up walking through piles of steaming excrement as you walk up to your room.

Here’s the animalistic ad: