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Streeter Knows Nothing Of His Work

By Jonathan Goldsbie

streeter_graphic4.jpg Subway northbound from Eglinton station. Three girls on their way home from high school. One of them puzzles over a semi-cryptic movie ad she spots on the wall.
Girl: “You do look fat in that, Sarah Marshall”? Is she related to Marshall McLuhan?

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  • David Topping

    To utterly spoil the fun for those who haven’t seen the ads in question yet (here’s a photo of them), those “Sarah Marshall” ads (and the associated website) are, as Jonathan hinted at, part of an advertising campaign for the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Obay it ain’t.

  • Ben

    Movies with marketing campaigns are generally horrible.

  • james a

    On the subject of viral marketing.. What the heck is going on in dundas square?

  • rek

    ^ Are you part of it then, James?

  • Doggiez

    Good ad campaign… if you are 15 years old.

  • james a

    Heh… I suppose I am now.

  • unbrelievable

    The thing that bothers me most about these ads is the terrible punctuation.
    They need commas desperately.

  • paigesix

    Yep.. it was intriguing the first time I saw a Sarah Marshall banner ad on Perez, but overall not a very successful campaign at all…
    But what’s going on in Dundas Square now?

  • AR

    Finally, another streeter!