Unhinged Advertising: The Power of the Absurd
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, we look at weird, unhinged advertising.
Like the “PuppyMonkeyBaby” Super Bowl commercial.
The sad Skittles commercial where everything a man touches turns to Skittles.
A leather diaper you can wear to heavy metal concerts so you won’t miss any songs.
And a pizza that takes a year and a half to be delivered to your home.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't like ads on this, a podcast about advertising? |
| 0:05.7 | Listen, ad-free at the link in the description. |
| 0:11.6 | This is an apostrophe podcast production. |
| 0:24.0 | We're going to show you our big new studebaker. |
| 0:25.7 | Start the car! |
| 0:33.9 | Mama me, that's a spicy meatball. |
| 0:35.5 | What love doesn't conquer. |
| 0:37.5 | Al-Caseltzer will. |
| 0:38.6 | What a relief! |
| 0:49.5 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. At a farmer's market in a Chicago neighborhood, |
| 1:01.0 | a man named Jacob Reno set up a table. |
| 1:04.3 | He wasn't offering fruit or vegetables. |
| 1:07.0 | He was offering portraits. |
| 1:09.6 | Terrible portraits. |
| 1:11.5 | His sign said, |
| 1:12.5 | Terrible portraits, $5 in five terrible minutes. |
| 1:16.6 | Dressed in a blue painter's smock and a cravat, |
| 1:19.8 | which is hilarious, |
| 1:21.3 | Reno sits at a small table with a small array of colored pencils |
| 1:24.6 | and an egg timer. |
| 1:26.8 | And every week, people line up to get the most terrible portrait of themselves |
| 1:30.7 | as hand-drawn by Reno in under five minutes. |
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