Comments on: Bad Idea Jeans

Question: Bad Idea Jeans

namewithhe1d — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:57:11 -0800

Bad Idea Jeans could easily be one of my favorite commercial parodies of all time. Did they exist in real life? Is the reference on the bottom of this page real?

I would love to see the actual commercial of this if it exists...

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:09:38 -0800

There's this...

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:11:54 -0800

OK, yeah, here's the one referenced in your link.

Looks like H&M used the Bad Idea Jeans thing for an advertising campaign.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:13:41 -0800

It is a parody of an old Dockers ad, which does not seem to exist in easily-findable form on the Internet.

By: bottlebrushtree

bottlebrushtree — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:45:47 -0800

I thought this was also a play on the "No Excuses" jeans line.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:27:09 -0800

I just want to say that for some reason this parody quickly became an in-joke in my circle of friends, and to this day when one of us proposes a bad idea it's quickly answered with "Bad idea jeans".

By: Dunwitty

Dunwitty — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:06:48 -0800

Come on... when are you going to have sex in Haiti again?

By: bjrn

bjrn — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:06:45 -0800

They had those Bad Idea commercials in Sweden in the mid/late 90s somewhere (and no, they weren't banned as the title of the first youtube video suggests). There might have been a third ad as well, but I remember the two linked to by phunniemee.

By: namewithhe1d

namewithhe1d — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:05:57 -0800

"You're renting right"?

Thanks again for the the help everyone!