the other day at the yonge/bloor subway station, i came across this fellow:



cuz the picture is slightly blurred, let me "clear" things up (HA). That guy was the pizza pizza guy. I didn't know there was a pizza pizza guy, but whatever, that was fine by me.

what was more disturbing was that right after I took that shot, a small kid ran up and hugged this clown. this was very reminiscent of the children i saw running up to mickey mouse at disney world. except this was the FRIGGIN pizza guy. at least mickey was a cartoon. this guy is just a walking advertisment for pizza for pete's sake. "kids love me! because i provide the world with pipin hot and fresh out of the oven pizza! LOVE ME DAMIT!"

but that wasnt the only thing. naturally, if i'm gonna take the picture of the pizza guy, i better take one of the flyers he's handing out, otherwise it just wouldnt be very nice of me. so one would think that a pizza pizza guy would be advertising pizza pizza in some way right? well maybe thats why i'm not in marketing, because that was not the case. instead, he was handing out flyers for a dragonboat event. i look closer, to see if pizza pizza is a sponser for this event. no again! marketing idiots.

so i walk onto the subway confused, and because i was still thinking about the pizza pizza mascot, i forgot to pick a good subway section to ride in. i ended up in the section canadian idol had bought out, meaning that every single ad on that subway section was canadian idol. and not different ads, ALL THE SAME. so hey marketing geniouses (man that looks wack), if the FIRST ad did not convince me to watch your inferior canadian product, the next 30 ads or so will only make me MORE ANGRY at your stupid show.

lesson learned. marketing is very rarely done correctly these days, and i have a sudden craving for pizza.