Personally, I had noticed that most ads used a combination of humor and logic to really make a person want a product. Some ads obviously show this more, some less. Two ads that I had found that worked fairly well were, Skittles “Portrait” ,and Honda “Cog”. The ad that I found that worked the best, would be Skittles “Portrait”, uses humor as the strongest benefit. In the beginning Steve Tyler walks into a room with a portrait of himself that can talk, then of which proceeds to say, “Dream on”, in different tones, until it gets so high pitched that the portrait explodes into a pile of skittles. Then the usual “Taste the Rainbow” background appeared and says “Rock the Rainbow, Taste the Rainbow”. I think that we think that things exploding or live things exploding is funny. This only shows that humor not the logic of course, of which is shown with the ending basically saying that Skittles are so crazy and amazing that they can cause anything to happen. This shows that Skittles can show that humor and logic do infact, make you really want their product. …show more content…
This advertisement has a cog start a huge chain reaction that causes some of the car’s functions to activate, like automatic foldable chairs, Automatic opener for window, Automatic windshield wipers that react when water comes into contact. The humor isn’t as powerful here, but it shows more so as awe in the fact that they had made such a complicated machine. And the logic is very strong as it creatively shows how each part of the car works. Thus proving that the advertisement Honda “Cog” shows that humor and logic work well together in advertisements. The last two paragraphs show prove my claim. They do this in many ways, like having humor and having some form of proving how they are good products. My claim being that humor and logic work well together to make people want and like a