The Return of Bad Idea Jeans

Some of my favorite “Saturday Night Live” sketches were the fake commercials for “Bad Idea Jeans.” Here are a few classics (thanks to SNLtranscripts.jt.org):

Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, “When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?”

After each of these “testimonies,” on the screen you would see “BAD IDEA” in big letters.

Another one:

Well, he's an ex free-base addict, and he's trying to turn around, and he needs a place to stay for a couple of months.

BAD IDEA

After a few of these, you’d see the logo below appear, and the announcer would say, in a classic advertising voice: “Bad Idea Jeans.” These segments crack me up just thinking about them.

It’s time to bring back these commercials, and I’ve already got a couple of ideas, taken from real news stories:

We at GM may have had some problems recently, but we’re betting our recovery on large pickups and SUVs.

BAD IDEA

I was losing sleep over whom to appoint to FEMA, but then I thought, what’s the worst that could happen?

BAD IDEA

Let's just tell people that we're not sure if global warming exists.

BAD IDEA

More to come…