I RATE ADS

sjbooher: Pandas are awesome. Some time ago, I learned on some sort of Discovery channel that Pandas are extremely lazy. They sit around all day eating only bamboo, which as it happens, has no nutritional value for them! And yet they still stuff themselves with it. They are the equivalent of a human that sustains themselves on Skittles alone. Great. What I really wish I could show you is the new Panda Express billboard that hits on this theme exactly. It says something to the effect of “Don’t be bamboozled like these Pandas, try Panda Express Beijing Beef!”. I love the play on words… get i? Bamboo? Bamboozled? Pandas? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. If I ever get my hands on a picture of it, that billboard will get an A+.

Unfortunately I have not mastered the art of taking pictures while driving, so you’ll have to settle for the above tv spots. I love the idea of the talking Pandas, and they even resisted the horrid idea of using offensive Asian accents, but the writing just is not there. The idea is funny, but the end result is not. They do a good job of featuring and describing the new menu item, but they managed to blow a comedic slam dunk. C+.

jtherkal: Wait, the name is Panda Express and they use talking pandas? The somehow took the most obvious advertising answer, one with a lot of promise, and made it boring and dumb. And real writer would have had a field day with this concept. Instead, blah. F.

And for the record, koalas are even lazier, and therefore better. They sleep 23 hours a day, then wake up only long enough to eat enough to sustain them for the next 23 hours of sleeping. That, my friends, is a smart animal. I didn’t know that bamboo has no nutritional value for pandas. It’s fantastic they still love it so much. And Kung Fu Panda!