Robblink asked earlier "why was the where the cheese at ad pulled?", as ad age revealed that Pizza Hut was returning to more traditional advertising.

Clayton found the why: Black Family Sues Pizza Hut - Thirteen members of a family are suing the operator of a Pizza Hut for $2 million, alleging they were refused service because they are black.

Colonial Foods LLC maintains that employees tried to explain to the family that they couldn't be served because the restaurant had run out of cheese and couldn't make any more pizzas.

Remember the Diet Coke commercial where cheeky female office workers organized "Diet Coke breaks" to drool over a construction worker named Lucky?

Well, they're back again (at least the creative concept is) and they now have eyes for an Imagistics photocopier repairman!

How many buff construction workers you know drink diet soda? Maybe the repairman should fix the ladies' Gay-dar!

This month the ict have brung down it`s axe on many ads.
XBOX
CHAMPAGNE
BBH bartleboglehegarty.com

This ad,which featured a very short life (Literally,it lasted thirty
seconds) received 160 complaint`s resulting in it being banned from TV.Although,as with French connection,this don`t stop them keeping it on their website at http://www.playmore.com
i can see why this one was banned,as i didn`t really like it.
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We all know that Google came from nowhere, and now rule the search engine web. How do they keep a large company innovative and the employees productive, rather than going flat hieararchy FBI-ish and loosing important ideas on the way?

Google google themselves.....

Badland hypothesis 1: It's bad enough when you're forced to use stock footage. It's worse when the money guys are too cheap to buy exclusive rights to the scenes.

Badland hypothesis 2: An agency with two clients. Brainstorm! We'll use the same location and crew for two different clients, air both at the same time and bill each one the full charges. Ka-ching! No one will ever find out!

Badland hypothesis 3: A 1-in-a-bajillion freaky fluke. At least one agency had the aesthetic good taste to get rid of that annoying power line.

"Read more" to view the clips.

The five steps to badland infamy*
1. You can't come up with a concept to sell State Fair Corn Dogs.
2. You see an Extra Gum commercial and dig the idea.
3. You rip the idea.
4. Extra's agency renews gum ad for another 13 weeks.
5. Your corn dog spot runs immediately after gum spot during commercial break.

"Read more" to view the ensuing 45 seconds of mirth and doppelgänger mayhem (if you're a super adgunt, that is).

Barking Billboards is a new media company, attaching small billboards to dogs with velcro.

Charles Schwab Corp dropped BBDO nyc after four years of dating. They said their Dear John's on friday (research shows that staff cuts and agency dumping is best done on fridays..) and BBDO has declined to comment.

Good Grief - How blatant can you get?

Two products: Evian and Aquafina
Two awards shows: The 2002 Academy Awards and MTV 2002 Movie Awards
Two spots each.
Too many similarities to mention here, so read more to see more...

What do eggs, tanks, dryer sheets, bunnies, lions, lobsters and bears have in common? No, it's not The Wizard of Oz II -- They're all part of the latest Badland entry, with one helluva twist. (Read more for more and two - count 'em two QT's)

What do eggs, tanks, dryer sheets, bunnies, lions, lobsters and bears have in common? No, it's not The Wizard of Oz II -- They're all part of the latest Badland entry, with one helluva twist. (Read more for more and two - count 'em two QT's)

Happy go joy joy for all of those who tired of the lack of regional cool ads at the big sites. Not only will Resume add more and more films to their site of the creme de la creme of swedish advertising, Sourze.se/reklamtoppen and Comhem.se just opened a joint venture in showing swedens best ads as well. All the mentioned will be using realplayer.

The European Space Agency is looking for agencies to help brand and promote the International Space Station.

The ESA, in conjunction with the Canadian Space Agency, is seeking a company with expertise in areas including public relations, advertising and brand development.

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So what's sweet ol' Tonya Harding been up to since her failed Olympic scheme in '94?*

(click "read more" below for more)

Distracting TV!

An email dropped in saying these four films were ready for Badland, since they are all based in the distracting TV idea, with various executions. Click on and follow links to see the four films from two different campaigns.

Will Farquhar and Ian Ducke formerly with Legas Delaney the last decade and the team behind that by now infamous "perfect day" BBC advert have decided to leave their agency and join the growing pool of freelancers in order to "work on bigger accounts".

As you know, the flagship adidas account left Legas earlier last month, and they have been forced to cut 10% of their staff.
Move over freelancers, we're getting big company. ;-)

Tyler Whisnand, ex KesselsKramer copywriter who left Amsterdam to head up Ground Zero in New York two years ago has now returned to the land of canals, round cheese and infamous bananabars in the Red Light District. Rumours has it, he missed the canals. ;-)

Tyler will be part of the KK management team and will surely feel like a fish in water at his old home reunited with his old collegues.

In the personal ads in the village voice this week a "dark Eyed Palestinian Temptress" says she's ready to to settle down "and go home" with a Jewish man who will "get me there." She's not alone, 16 other personal ads were placed with similar messages.

Us adgrunts loove ads. Us adgrunts know adhistory. Us adgrunts are sometimes waaay up our own butts with self referential ads. Yes, we're wankers.

I mean really kids, look at this. A wee bit too much of an injoke you think? Maybe. Perhaps. A tad underinspired? Maybe. Perhaps. Or maybe it's just a homage to a better ad?

(read more to see a QT clip and double page spread..)
Us adgrunts loove ads. Us adgrunts know adhistory. Us adgrunts are sometimes waaay up our own butts with self referential ads. Yes, we're wankers.

I mean really kids, look at this. A wee bit too much of an injoke you think? Maybe. Perhaps. A tad underinspired? Maybe. Perhaps. Or maybe it's just a homage to a better ad?

(read more to see a QT clip and double page spread..)

Everyone is streamlining their operations. Staff is cut. Fallon in NYC fired all creatives (20 people from the agency) except their CD whom we assume, will have to do all the work now. Vardag a swedish agency that for once is not located in Stockholm, has come up with an unusual way of shortcutting the ordering of ads process.

Read more to see their "applications for personal art by mail form" form.

Some thought it the minute they arrived - but now the rest of the planet will think it too. News later this Monday will announce the über-cool flat iMac.
In fact - TIME will probably have it on the cover.

Quick - sell that blueberry iMac before it's too late!

The rumours are all over the web. The photographer is Michael O'Neill. You can read more at about the 15inch desklamp iMac.