Ads We Love: Badger Car Salesman

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He may look cute and cuddly, but when you're not looking, "Poweee!" He just sold you a car!

 
 

From: Johnson Automotive Center | Ad Firm: The Martin Agency

Why They're Cool?

For starters, it's an animatronic badger in a cheap suit selling cars. They're also funny and edgy without crossing the line. And most importantly, these ads are for a local car dealer! 

Why We Love Them?

These ads have killer watchability. They're as sharp as they are funny. And we repeat: they're for a local car dealer! This campaign proves once and for all that local car ads can be so much more than a guy in a giant cowboy hat screaming numbers at you. 

What You Can Learn From Them?

Don't be afraid to tackle your industries negative stereotypes head on.What makes the humor, and more importantly, the message succeed is that almost everyone can relate to a bad experience they've had with a car dealer. Too often, advertisers are in such a rush to sell you their product or service, they forget to relate it to your problem or past experiences. Without that vital connection, you don't ask or have answered the key question anyone watching an ad asks: 'what's in it for me?' In this case, it's a car buying experience without being badgered.

The badger ads work because they emphatically signal to customers that Johnson Automotive Center truly understands the pain they experience when buying a car and the Johnson. 

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Patrick Kirk

No one knows the exact day Patrick Kirk was born, because he was carried into town by a pack of wild coyotes, but the end of March seems to have some consensus built around it. The townsfolk hadn’t much need for a coyote-raised wild boy seein’ as they already had a town idiot. So, they set Patrick off with the next traveling circus that rolled through town. It was there that the young boy learned of books and math and writing and other cultural offerings from Martha, the kindly old bearded lady, and her husband, Harold, the world’s tallest midget. In between shows, he would explore each new town, never having the chance to make friends with children his age, mostly because they didn’t speak coyote… However, it was on one such trek in his later teen years that Patrick happened upon a small cinema playing an engagement of Major League II. From then on, he knew that he must dedicate his life to motion pictures. The members of the circus were sad to see him go, some angry calling cinema ‘beneath them’, but Patrick took his leave and headed off to university to study the filmic arts. Over nearly half a decade of study, Patrick learned from notables such as Fritz Kiersch, director of Children of the Corn, and Gray Fredrickson, producer of the Godfather Trilogy. Patrick has worked locally in the Oklahoma City market as a grip, camera operator, and editor. He has directed a number of short films and commercial projects and aspires to do more. When not in the editing suite or on set, Patrick can be found relaxing at local sporting events or playing a round of golf. He is particularly fond of poker and has been known to frequent the local casinos. Patrick also experiments with cooking and can make a mean batch of tacos. Among things he still would like to accomplish, Patrick hopes to fly to the moon one day and get into an old fashioned pistols at dawn duel; preferably both at the same time.