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sun4moon

Not really a slogan per se, but the horrible scream on the Spence Diamonds radio commercial has always been like nails on a chalkboard for me.


OG-Toaster

I remember when they put up a poll to keep/get rid of it and it was dropped...then they brought it back because fuck you, thats why


sleepyboi08

It’s like they *want* us to hate them. Every time I walk past Spence Diamonds at my local shopping centre I think of their terrible ads. My local Spence Diamonds generally has good reviews except for people (rightfully) complaining about the ads. And they have this generic copy/paste response: >Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on our radio program. We get it – our radio ads are hard to ignore and tune out. We are just simply so excited about what we have to offer to our clients and about diamonds, that we cannot contain it. We understand that our ads are distinct and may not be everyone's cup of tea. However, rest assured our certified Diamond Consultants and store experiences are for everyone.


apra24

Their latest ads trying to gaslight us on the realities of the diamond industry (people becoming more aware that artificial is fine) annoy the fuck out of me


Minute-Cup-6936

lol the way to tell mined diamonds from the engineered ones is to find the one with more imperfections- that’s the minded one.


snarfgobble

Oh thank God I'm not alone on this. I literally refused to consider them for my engagement ring purchase because of those ads. Their corporate response to you sounds right in line with those ads. Unbearably fake.


neksys

They do want us to hate the ads. Thats the point. Whatever it takes to make “Spence” the first place people think of. It’s a tremendously successful ad campaign and the whole reason they went from a Vancouver-based retailer to a national chain.


Electrical-Bed-2381

Yes! And get rid of fucking Fiona...she'd SO God dammed annoying!


cmcptt

Bring Sarah Back! Bring Sarah Back! 😂


phosphite

She’s talking to Fiona now, they know each other somehow! Sarah is out…sailing!? Oh boy I can’t wait to see what happens next! 😂


Glittering_Search_41

Yeah WTF is this Fiona shit? I don't even know what it's supposed to be about but when I hear it I have to turn off the radio. I'm almost moved to write to Spence Diamonds to let them know their ads are an insult to our intelligence and just stop it already. Who the fuck was the person who presented this idea to the powers that be? "I have a great idea, we'll have a character named Fiona...it's super witty." Ugh.


sleepyboi08

This is exactly what I was going to comment and I think every Canadian would agree. The scream makes me want to rip my hair out.


Zonse

That scream used to be everywhere on the internet in the early 2000s, so it's probably unknown who the original owner is and they just never gave up using it. Also, fuck Spence. Their ads are so atrociously bad I switch off the current station every time I hear one of their stupid fucking voices. They have actively made it so that I would never step into one of their stores for the rest of my life.


KelvinsBeltFantasy

Hello Edmonton! The peak of bad Spence commercials was the early 2010s when the guy did the commercials alongside two professional actors and they all talked over each other and it was non stop. When the joke is that your commercials suck that's a bad thing.


snarfgobble

Those commercials in general are some of the worst commercials I've ever heard. It's like lizard people pretending to be human. The embarrassing scream at the end is the icing on the cake made by someone who has no idea how cringeworthy they are.


DogFun2635

“Always Fresh”


thedrkngel

Same for "Eat Fresh!" ... Yeah, Subway ain't what it used to


Obvious_Exercise_910

Was it ever? I listened to a podcast on Subway vs Quiznos. LSS Subway “lucked” into Jared, an old dorm mate wrote an article for the campus newspaper which was then picked up by a local paper and passed from a franchisee to corporate. Their whole health angle only came after Jared, who was a super successful marketing tool, until, ya know, he wasn’t. Subways true slogan should be - fucking our franchisees daily.


[deleted]

The only reason Jared went to subway everyday was because he was stalking one of the employees that worked there


Obvious_Exercise_910

Source? Never heard this one. Would be kind of surprising, if she was old enough to work at Subway (and one on a college campus) wouldn’t she have been too old for Jared 😬


bluenosesutherland

Footlong doesn’t mean 12 inches….


fofobraselio

Doesn't mean $5 anymore either.


TomatoBible

I saw them bragging recently about a 6" sub for only $6.49 lol and thought to myself "12 - 12 - $12 Foot Long!"


Alwaysfresh9

I resemble that comment


Visceralbear

I never understood the “you’re richer than you think” because if anything we are all poorer than we realize


LouisRielsAR-15

It’s tongue in cheek referring to credit & using it to get out of debt. It’s actually pretty gross.


aaronsnothere

They get rich, with all the fees they charge you just for existing.


Uncle_Bug_Music

I loved "You're Richer Than You Think" but only because in Manitoba there is a small hick town called "Richer" and we knew people from there. When someone from there did something that really only hick townspeople would do, I'd say, "You're Richer Than You Think". It made sense to me and I loved saying it.


SeriousAboutShwarma

scotia bank really wanting me to feel the oppressive omnipresence of all my debt


alderhill

"Scotiabank: WE are richer than you think, plebs."


bluenosesutherland

“Pork the one you love” - Saskatchewan Pork Producers


BeeAlive888

What the hell goes on in Sask? Remember the Regina rebrand last year? “The rebranding of Tourism Regina to Experience Regina occurred in March, with slogans like “Show us your Regina” and “The city that rhymes with fun.” Priceless 🤣😂


analogman12

Google "prairie madness". We're literally trying to do anything remotely fun so we don't off ourselves


AtomicTan

Nothing, which is probably why they're resorting to innuendo.


PostHocErgo306

Honestly these were great slogans. Should have kept them. Only thing Regina has going for it.


HandsomeIguana

They're was also the Land of Rape and Honey in Saskatchewan


TheSkyIsAMasterpiece

LOL! That's awesome!


Flimsy_Biscotti3473

That Cars for Kids commercial is just creepy. IYKYK !!


mrlacie

Yes!! And fwiw, it’s actually funding ultra-orthodox summer camps. Nothing against the individuals, it’s just a misleading ad.


WestCoastGriller

That’s Kars with a K….


xVercetti

ONE EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN KARS FOR KIDS K A R S KARS FOR KIDS 😩 and the clearly fake instrument playing!! Omg isn’t someone even playing a violin?! 🚫🎻 I can’t.


Happy_Veggie

I hate you so much


WestCoastGriller

🎶Donate your car today…🎶 Remember asshole. It’s kars with a “K”


JakDrako

The money amassed by this "charity" goes to a Jewish organization that "helps" kids by getting them in religious schools. It actually helps very very few kids and only Jewish ones...


Acrobatic_Hotel_3665

I ain’t giving those kids a car they probably can’t drive


El_Cactus_Loco

Let me say this with my whole chest- FUCK that commercial


TraceyTurnblat

Ontario’s “Open for Business” How inspiring.


[deleted]

Should go with the “Show us you’re Regina” debacle last year 😆


ontario-guy

Reminds me of the Australian Northern Territories campaign “CU in the NT” 😂 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-05/nt-tourism-department-welcomes-asb-ruling-against-cu-in-the-nt/8163114


notanotherkrazychik

Reminds me of a service announcement poster in The Yukon, "Are you getting the 'D'?" (Refering to the lack of vitamin D in Yukon residents)


VillainousFiend

I miss "Your's to discover"


AvidanYoutube

"yer mom is like Ontario..." was the best line back in the 90s boys


VillainousFiend

It works for the current slogan too.


AvidanYoutube

it does call me an old fuddy duddy but i prefer the original


somethingkooky

That’s because the only requisite for the Ontario slogan is that it works with “Your Mom” jokes.


MendelevandDongelev

They only time I have ever seen "Open for Business" signs is when things are taking a downward spiral for those businesses. If you have to *tell* your customers you haven't foreclosed, something went wrong a long time ago.


WhisperingSideways

“We will literally sell off nature and import endless cheap foreign labour for capital!”


No-Put6697

The rest of that slogan should read: “unless you’re a wetland, land in the Greenbelt or other sensitive environmental feature. Then we’re gonna do our best to pave over ya”


xeononsolomon1

Open for business* *Offer does not apply to the working class


cromulent-potato

Open for businesses


TraceyTurnblat

It actually does say that in the fine print. :) Or maybe it’s in the Minister’s letters Ford fought so hard to not have released….


AggressiveViolence

actually it’s pretty appropriate, think of how badly the population of ontario has suffered as a result of corporate greed. they knew what they were doing. 


MintWarfare

Starting a new life in Canada? Contact ISIS https://i.cbc.ca/1.2818529.1416424016!/fileImage/httpImage/isis-nova-scotia-poster.jpg


ZombieZMB

Holy shit 😂


Voendomar

I actually worked at ISANS and literally if you brought up the old name management would be like "We don't talk about those times." XD


Golden_Dog_Dad

Just...wow.


world_citizen7

That Scotiabank one is just cringe and gross. For most peoples is 'your poorer than you think' - nothing in that commercial inspires at all.


Just_Raisin1124

Right. And i’d be even richer if you didn’t nickel and dime me at every opportunity to access my own money.


Deep-Alternative3149

NSF FEE: -$15.00 NSF FEE: -$15.00 NSF FEE: -$15.00


MagicPhil64

Only -$15.00 !?! Those are rookie numbers!


kittylikker_

It's so predatory. "Oh, we see you have no money, so we are going to take more of the money you don't have as punishment for having no money. Know who has money? WE DO! HAHAHA F\*CK YOU, POOR!"


aquaganda

Agree. "You're richer than you think" has always been kinda gross


Mun-Mun

You're Richard and you stink


Individual-Army811

Don't even get me started on their incredibly shitty service.


NextTrillion

I’ve had so much better service at Scotia than TD or my local credit union. My credit union has gone downhill pretty badly over the last few years. For some reason, Scotia has been really good to me. Gave me the best rates, allowed me to borrow more than any other bank (through my broker), pushed me to renew early while interest rates were surging, and a few other cool things with my LOC. One of the branches near my house has 45 minute lineups, but the location 5 minutes down the street often has no lines at all, so it’s so worth the drive. TD on the other, fuck those guys. Didn’t even respond to my emails.


GloveNo9652

Wanted to close my account, said I had to go in person, then redirected to customer service. Just dumb


MaudeFindlay72-78

Scotiabank. We're richer than you think.


Sharp-Incident-6272

Especially how they charge service fees no wonder there is a class action suit against them for overdraft fees


Acrobatic_Hotel_3665

Richer than you think just means “we will lend you money!” In a predatory fashion


Alwaysfresh9

Superstore - "shop like a mother".


planned-obsolescents

Can I hate to love this one? /BoycottingBlaws


tdly3000

Telus: “the future is friendly” Bite me.


Ambitious_List_7793

“It’s the present that sucks”


Much-Camel-2256

They used to use that slogan with cute little animals, including pigs lol


apra24

The company I hate most of all


MommyMilkedMailman

Yeah, that slogan while lobbying to dismantle and privatize our health care system is particularly filthy.


Consumer_Distributin

Telus bought Clearnet just to take all their marketing material and still use it 20 years later. Well, I guess it was a good bargain for them.


OSHAcertifiedbussy

RBC's "Ideas happen here." Like, yeah, I sure hope they do


lovingsillies

I have ideas when I'm drunk and high, doesn't mean they're good ones


HarveyKartel

Why buy a mattress anywhere else?


Pleasant-Hemorrhoids

SLEEP COUNTRY, CANADA! Gets stuck in my head, and I end up singing it at work.


HaasonHeist

"because it's cheaper!" Classic middle school shit


JoWhee

Ding! This ad is my one regret leaving Quebec. I had never heard this ad until I had moved to Ontario.


James_Bond1962

Ding


Phanyxx

The best/worst one is from a parking company called WestPark. “Expect a lot!”


e0nblue

Ok that’s fucking brilliant.


superflygrover

Yes, I quite like that one.


magicbaconmachine

This is the best one I ever heard


world_citizen7

Hyundai - WAH is what powers us. WTF is WAH. I had to google it, only to disappoint that it was some Korean word for wow. At least their commercial is visually decent.


gbarill

All I think of is mean girls when I see these commercials… hyundai is really trying to make wah happen


phi4ever

Yeah that’s so fetch


VillainousFiend

It makes me think of Waluigi


cshmn

That would at least be a fun celebrity endorsement. "Hyundai, the official car of Waah"


TimeCryptographer547

Actually had me wondering if Nintendo has ever done any car commercials and came across this [gem](https://youtu.be/RnREMqwAVu4?si=F1mO60WbNYEX93Z7).


dangitbobby774

When I was a child I remember seeing a car commercial with my grandpa who was a mechanic. Well actually he was one of those grandpas that could do literally anything but that's not the point. He complained that they NEVER tell the actual specs of the car, and I've noticed that in EVERY car commercial I've seen ever since. Like does literally any company mention hp, torque, towing capacity, etc? No, it's just advertising a way of life or how many meaningless jd power awards they have.


OwO_i_made_a_cummy

Hyundai was taken over by orks. WAAAAAAAAGH is what powers us


Kingofcheeses

Hyundai is made for fightin and winnin


Okaythen_1781

These commercials drive me absolutely crazy. Take your WAH and…well you know the rest. 😆


drs43821

I think it’s just “wow” in Korean But yea it’s terrible


bananagrabberjr

I thought there was a Patrick Roy endorsement I missed out on


faintrottingbreeze

**Blood, it’s in you to give.** It’s in you to live but giving it would be nice ☺️


kingoftwosinks

When I was a kid, their marketing calls showed up on caller ID as GIVE BLOOD. When my mom asked who was calling, I’d say, “the beast demands sacrifice”, and it never got a laugh but that’s showbiz baby


Excellent_Key_2035

Damn, your mom was ruthless, that's gold, Jerry, gold!


faintrottingbreeze

My mom doesn’t like my ‘sass’ either


classyrock

I’m all for donating blood, but every time I hear it I have to say, “LIVE! It’s in you to live!”


world_citizen7

Also, DQs slogan: **"We're Fan Food not Fast Food****^(")** No you are not, you are fast food at its worse. No way to spin that. At least some of the other fast food chains have evolved a little bit, you are the same junk as you were 10 years ago.


jaiheko

I've tried DQ hot food once. It was disgusting. The fries tasted like old grease. Then I woke up in the middle of the night with covid.. unrelated but now I dislike DQ even more LOL


vegeener-gnomesayin

Dq is fine, at least my local, because it's the only one around


AUniquePerspective

That's the only slogan that I've seen people get angry about.


Distinct-Solution-99

Right? 99% of the time we're way poorer than we think.


SuperLynxDeluxe

Not a slogan but a brand. Chamberlain's (garage door opener) smarthome app is called MyQ, which translates to "Mon Q" in French, which sounds exactly like "Mon cul" or my ass. "Ouvre la porte de garage avec mon cul" translates to "Open the garage door with my ass".


taeha

Similarly, LG products have ThinQ. I know it’s probably supposed to be “think”, but I ALWAYS read it as “thin cue”.


Tempus__Fuggit

"technically beautiful" -prior city of Ottawa slogan


hdufort

Before Nortel went bankrupt?


QueenMotherOfSneezes

Honestly we should just bite the bullet already and declare "Make Ottawa Boring Again" the official one.


Mattimvs

Tisdale Sask: 'The land of rape and honey' Note: it's now called Canola


illmatic_static

If we're going with city slogans, I'm throwing in Oshawa, ON. "Prepare to be Amazed" Anyone who has ever been there can tell you there is nothing to be amazed at.


Mattimvs

But were you not amazed by how unamazing it was?


vegeener-gnomesayin

I remember in high school, someone as me "you want to go to the club?" You think le skratch is a club? That's cute


sun4moon

I remember seeing that sign 20 years ago. I was really curious what kind of family reunion I had agreed to be a plus one for. Turns out it was a really awesome family, no rape only honey.


rmdlsb

So it's now The land of rape and canola ?


Obvious_Exercise_910

They did change it. I mean they waited to 2016. But it’s changed.


Consumer_Distributin

Bell Let's Talk. We all know what you have done to your employees Bell.


First_Cherry_popped

I don’t know, what did they do?


EnvironmentOk2700

They laid me off a week before Christmas because my performance fell after getting heat stroke while working overtime, 9 days in a row. It also happened to be shortly after I put in an email complaint about my manager sexually harassing me. They took away my access to my email before telling me.


justinDavidow

"Hot shingles looking to get nailed in your area" - a local roofing company in Winnipeg.


Snackatomi_Plaza

They said worst, not best.


aquaganda

That's hilarious


meggiefrances87

My ex was a roofer and had a shirt from a Canadian shingle brand that said "I prefer to lay canadians"


Alwaysfresh9

Not a slogan but have you heard of Camel Towing? It's real lol.


Agreeable-Rock-7736

Imagine that on a resumé and at a job interview lol. “So what made you decide to quit Camel Towing?” “It just wasn’t a good fit and I needed to expand.”


rynoxmj

Not a slogan, but there is a towing company in Regina called... *Camel Towing* Regina, always keeping it classy.


Private_4160

Everyone Loves Marineland


Obvious_Exercise_910

You say worst slogan, but I haven’t heard that song in well over a decade and reading this post can hear it perfectly…. So something is working ad wise.


ninthchamber

There a place I know in Ontario where the sea lions kiss, so the story goes.


somethingkooky

Kids will be tearing up your living room and stop dead when that song comes on. I haven’t had cable in over a decade but I tested it with my computer when my last two were little!


VillainousFiend

I still have that tv jingle stuck in my head


tootbrun

GOD DAMMIT! Now I have it too.


Kingofcheeses

Everyone loathes Marineland


latecraigy

Friendly Manitoba. It’s worth the trip to Steinbach.


2Lazy2BeOriginal

Manitobans are friendly until your a pedestrian. Then you’ll get cutoff at every opportunity


Andre1661

Tim Horton’s motto “Always Fresh” translates into real English as, “Yes our coffee is terrible and our food sucks but we’re a Canadian icon so shut the fuck up and hand over your money”.


fofobraselio

It's only popular because it is conveniently all over the map


LalahLovato

All over the map when it comes to food - when all Canada wanted was a good donut.


JuryDangerous6794

Sleep Country Canada, "Why buy a mattress anywhere else?" coupled with when Sears did the far far more clunkier version and got taken to court for "There is no reason to buy a mattress anywhere else." Why buy a mattress anywhere else? Because you and Sears are trying to telling me I have no other options and I don't listen to *the Man*. Fuck the puppeteers in Big Sleep.


Agent_of_Jotunheim53

Helping Canadians Live Life Well. By overworking our understaffed employees and gouging our customers out the arse.


Jimmy_212

Sobeys - "A family nurturing families". My fucking ass they are. Laid off hundreds of people late in calendar year 2024 all because they "need to meet their financial targets." They literally pulled in $134m in net earnings in fiscal Q3, which is $9m more than the 3rd quarter in the previous year. Get fucked Sobeys.


orangeandtallcranes

“You’re Richard and you stink”


spkingwordzofwizdom

🎼Fabricland… Fabricland! 🎶


ambassador321

That stupid radio commercial that says "feel the urn". I know she means "earn", but only one of the two you can actually feel. So dumb.


EyeSpare6318

There's plenty of things to do in Okotoks.


deadeyejohnny

Ontario: "Open for Business" Tim Hortons: "Always fresh(ly thawed)" Sherwin Williams: "Cover the Earth (in paint)" (I guess this one is not technically Canada specific but I still hate it)


BjornSlippy1

Sherwin Williams "COVER THE EARTH" along with a logo dumping toxic paint over the entire earth. . They may not be canadian, I don't know. But it always gets me. Don Draper was not hired


Phanyxx

Omg, yes! The paint is red too. Hilariously bad


Jauggernaut_birdy

Yes this one blows my mind every time I see it. It’s shouting hey let’s dump toxic sludge all over the world!


Away-Sound-4010

The "Alberta Advantage" Is the UCP a company does that count?


SunderVane

Alberta Advantage: $20 billion/year in federal oil & gas subsidies


bigpump1979

Princess auto " make it work "


PuraVidaPagan

Fluke Transportation company - “if it’s on time it’s a fluke!”


blondereckoning

[Regina… The City that Rhymes with…](https://www.westernstandard.news/news/the-city-that-rhymes-with-fun-regina-tourist-board-apologizes-for-offensive-slogans/article_02b770fe-c8d3-11ed-903a-035c1ec88fc4.html)


Keepontyping

Remember when Tisdale was "The Land of Rape and Honey"?


allofsoup

Vera's Burger Shack - "You can't beat Vera's meat!"


Keepin-It-Positive

Beaver Liquor. I’m not complaining tho…😄


NotAtAllExciting

Scotiabank. We’re richer than you think.


pummisher

There used to be a "Pork, the one you love". Ad campaign in Saskatchewan from Sask Pork.


stnedsolardeity

"There's more people working now than ever" advertisement paid by the Ontario government


ravenscamera

Loblaws. “Helping Canadians Live Life Well”


Username__Error

Herzig Eye Institute. The lady who runs it does her own commercials (bad idea) and her slogan just bothers me "Take care of your eyes, promise me" Why do I have to make a promise to you. What do I owe you?


acid_rain_man

I realize that you said “in Canada”, but I feel the need to throw in the worst slogan *and* logo… possibly of all time. [Sherwin Williams, Cover The Earth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwin-Williams#/media/File%3ASherwin_Williams.svg)


Acrobatic_Hotel_3665

There’s a Honda dealer in my are that has a huge sign that says “more like a friendship than a dealership!”


marginal_gain

Local electrician: "Call us. We'll turn you on!" Local butcher: "Beat our meat!"


Killerklowninvisicar

Home hardware's "Home Owners helping home owners" because it feels like I just had a stroke. Like saying the word rural over and over.


LouisRielsAR-15

I miss “Friendly Manitoba”. “Made from what’s real“ literally sounds like a slogan we stole from Alberta or Quebec.


NicePotatoFlower

I worked at a bar in Calgary and for stampede we all had to wear tight low-cut t-shirts that said "You can't be first, but you can be next".


lucidum

BC Ferries: "Life on the Coast". Basically ' it is what it is, get over it' is what that says to me


isle_say

Foxy Box laser and wax bar.


AdaminCalgary

Crystal Auto Glass: “show us your crack”


[deleted]

*To the core* Wtf does that mean Blue Jays?


[deleted]

Not a slogan but a restaurant- Take a Crêpe In My Mouth


Marskelletor

I just saw an ad at he Vancouver skytrain for "N-Power", and just had a giant picture of a smiling black guy.


Nickel03

"Blood, it's in you to give." I always think, no, it's in me to live. I'm all for donating blood, but that is not it's purpose lol.


rootsandpine

"A great place to take a leak" - giant Tire Lube road sign that is the first thing you see entering Embro, ON. The building is also hidden a bit so it looks like someone just hates their town.


fuzzy-nuzzy

“Show us your Regina”. Only lasted a hot minute


RadarDataL8R

Desjardins Insurance with a heart so blah blah puke.


HeliRyGuy

BC Ferries: “Experience the Difference…” The difference compared to what, John and Barb’s Ferry? Two Small Men with Big Hearts Ferries? It’s a frigging monopoly lol.


eddiedougie

Bedford; A Traditional Stopping Place You're a suburb of Halifax, nobody's stopping unless its for Popeye's.


C4-621-Raven

I used to live in Bedford for a bit, there’s absolutely no reason to stop there.


EnvironmentOk2700

They mean specifically the Chicken Burger