Talking Recliners and Sub Ovens that have Children.

Do you find watching TV a little depressing lately? Well I do.

One evening of viewing and one can’t help but wonder what happened to the creative advertising industry.

Take for example the series of spots that recently aired for Lazy Boy. In each spot we are asked to believe that recliners can talk. Wow what a premise!  Can you imagine the creative brief for this one? If that unbelievable premise ain’t bad enough how about a sub oven that, under physcotherapy, confesses to being a guys parent.

Neither of these spots is funny. Some lazy bastard, or worse a group of them, foisted these pieces of excrement on the client and beat their asses home – where being creatively responsible is not a prerequisite.

Al Graham

From People or Planes 1974 Gordon Willson

Al Graham is a veteran of the advertising wars who once smoked like Mad Men’s Don Draper. He is also a veteran of many social conflict wars and has been actively involved in protesting dumps, airports, expressways and urban sprawl.