Mon, Jun
12
2006

Call Us...OR ELSE...

These days, it’s very rare that a TV commercial can make me sit up and take notice…but I’ve got to hand it to those smart boys and girls at 1-800-GOT-JUNK, for creating the most brilliant-yet-cheap marketing campaign in years.

It’s very simple. The company will clear away all sorts of junk and trash…but to ensure that you will call them…the will send you…

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RATS!

Dressed up in GOT-JUNK uniforms, a crafty army of white rodents will invade your house, and search out all your useless junk…then SIT ON TOP OF YOU until you call 1-800-GOT-JUNK!

The commercial is sublimely funny…a man runs screaming from his house, covered in uniformed rats…a poor woman calls GOT-JUNK, with a uniformed rat calmly sitting on top of her head, waiting…

And the final catch-phrase from the pleasant, smiling, uniformed man?

“Call us…before we send you rats.”

I laughed until I nearly wet myself. smile

Bravo! If you’re interested, watch it HERE.

And if that one didn’t make you laugh, try THIS one!

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