Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 30, 2022

Just DON’T “do it”!

Careful, the Kiwi’s are no sheep…. just a bit fruity!

Jan Eliot lives in Eugene, Oregon, the birthplace of Nike.

Does she really think that there are no ads in New Zealand?

If you don’t like billboards, come to Vermont, there ain’t any.

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I always assume that a product that needs to be heavily over advertised is defective and should be avoided. Give me plain old store brand generic products any time.

The newest trend is for movie ads in ads for other things.

Won’t help. Bananas in New Zealand probably have stickers advertising LOTR.

Things have gotten worse since 1999, when this strip was first published. Sports broadcasts are the biggest offenders. Everything must now have a sponsor’s name attached to it like the [sponsor name] Halftime Show or the [sponsor name] Play of the Game. When stats are shown, the on-screen graphics have an attached logo. Product logos are scattered all throughout the venues and even the stadiums and arenas themselves are named after some corporation.

The latest offense started about 3-4 years ago. It has now been deemed necessary to insert a five-second split-screen ad when there is some pause in the action. NBA games now have these messages between free throws!!

Then there’s the cable/satellite channels with the one-hour broadcast slots comprised of 40 minutes of the actual program and 20 minutes of commercials and endless repetitions of promos for upcoming shows.

This is why I no longer watch much TV.

Who ever wrote the script for Demolition Man, several decades ago, was eerily prescient!

“Is nothing sacred”?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/121526889914495142/

Don’t forget your masks, vax passport, covid tests, and quarantine time. Or just eat the banana and throw away the peal…..

The way I look at it, the more ads there are the more desensitized we become to them. When ads are plastered over every available surface, nobody will notice them and they won’t influence our purchase decisions anymore. And that’s when ad companies will start developing functional mind control.

Exploited Banana= Band name.

Yeah, Nike where the Uyghur’s in forced labor are exploited. Hey, they had to cut something in order to pay Colin Kaperkneel.

Don’t ever try to watch a video on Youtube.

I really like that expression (verbal, not facial) in the final panel. In the future, if someone bails on me at a bad time, instead of “you left me holding the bag,” I think I’ll say, “You left me holding the exploited banana.”

Drives me bananas when i have to wait through an ad in order to see an add for a movie (aka movie trailer.)

Adds in school for healthy foods and milk.

We will live to see the day when large cooperations will be projecting their logo as holograms on the moon.

And living in the land of Nike, no less … Jan.