S5E24 - Commercial Parodies

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

Cbc, Terry O'reilly, Advertising, Marketing, Under The Influence, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Business

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a peek into the risky, yet delicious world of commercial parodies. Some spoof ads are created just for the laughs, while others are sharp critiques of questionable products, overzealous advertising claims and self-congratulatory corporations.

We'll look at a magazine that satirized one of the most controversial court cases of the century, a company that parodied the competition, then sued another company for parodying their parody, and unpack the Saturday Night Live skits that brought commercial parodies into the mainstream. Commercial parodies didn't just lampoon the ad industry, they influenced it.

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