Arby's Commercials Are Just The Worst: An (Incomplete) Historical Accounting

Categories: Media
"But surely," you ask, "Arby's ads haven't always been this bad?"

Check out this spot, which manages to be terrible and to insult Arby's target audience. Though it does get points for not mentioning the food.

This ad, from the height of Pac-Mania, manages to make the iconic video-game character seem as limp and bland as...well...a freshly sliced piece of Arby's roast beef.

Frankly, Arby's should follow countless ad campaigns before it and embrace irony. This might be a good place to start:

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carey529
carey529

critiquing arby's ads????

really?

and, ian froeb, who has obviously never seen ANY perfume ads, gets paid for that?

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