The list for June 17, 1998
The Top 16 Rejected Advertising
Slogans for Summer Movies
Slogans for Summer Movies
- The X-Files: “The Merchandise is Out There.”
- Can’t Hardly Wait: “**** – Pedophile Weekly”
- The Horse Whisperer: “Filmed in Glorious Viagra-Rama”
- Almost Heroes: “Almost Watchable!”
- Godzilla: “His turds are bigger than your Winnebago.”
- The Horse Whisperer: “It’s like ‘The Electric Horseman’, but this time Bob’s only stunts involve bladder control.”
- Saving Private Ryan: “Serious-Schindler-Spielberg, Not Cool-Dinosaurs-Spielberg.”
- The Horse Whisperer: “Just keepin’ the chicks happy between asteroids.”
- Hope Floats: “Never mind the Sex Pistols; here’s the Bullock”
- Godzilla: “The last time a film sucked this much, Traci Lords was in it.”
- 6 Days, 7 Nights: “Try to guess what Anne Heche is thinking about while she kisses Harrison Ford!”
- The Horse Whisperer: “Take Your Woman To See This, And She’ll Owe You Sex For Months!”
- Black Dog: “No one with a three digit IQ admitted without a country & western singer.”
- The X-Files: “Like you could stay away if you tried, Nerd Boy!”
- He Got Game: “But he ain’t got passing SAT scores!”
And the Number 1 Rejected Advertising Slogan for a Summer Movie…
- A Perfect Murder: “Two Thumbs Up! – O.J.”
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CREDITS
Selected from 112 submissions from 43 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Carla Brandon, San Diego, CA — 1 (1st #1!)
- Peter Bauer, Rochester, NY — 2
- R.M. Weiner, Somerville, MA — 3
- M.J. Finan, Cleveland, OH — 4
- Michelle Burke, San Francisco, CA — 5
- Paul Schindler, Orinda, CA — 6
- Shel Rozan, Montreal, Quebec, Canada — 7 (Rookie!)
- Larry G. Hollister, Concord, CA — 8, RU List Name
- David Kass, Brooklyn, NY — 9, Topic, Banner Tag
- Daniel Weckerly, Limerick, PA — 10
- John Treusch, Burlington, NJ — 11
- Kevin Freels, Sun Valley, CA — 12
- Boyd Johnson, San Diego, CA — 13
- Lloyd Jacobson, Washington, DC — 14
- Matt Chaput, Calgary, Alberta, Canada — 15
- Rob Seulowitz, New York, NY — 16
- High Llamas, Cork, Ireland — Ambience
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