The Creation “Museum” is advertising on Nickelodeon with commercials aimed straight at your children.
Notice that nowhere in their ads do they mention biblical literalism, young earth, god’s extermination of most of mankind, or that their audience are all damned sinners. Instead, we get dinosaurs and animals and a lot of false implications that the museum is a fun place for kids.
It isn’t. It’s a pretty dry series of exhibits, full of earnest sincerity, and a good bit of it in the middle is an attempt to scare everyone away from hellbound evolution.
Oh, well, I hope they’re spending a lot of money on advertising, and that it all contributes to this year’s red ink.
I don’t think I have a puke bucket big enough.
We’ve been seeing them here in Cleveland for a few weeks now on Comedy Central – during the Daily Show! Almost ruined my dinner.
There is always the Addams Family.
I demand to see live film of the trained T-rex he advertised there. Truth in advertising, an’ all that.
Is this how the state of Kentucky is hoping to increase the tourist trade?
Wow. Rosy cheeked Ham? Disney-esque music playing in the background? Random cartoon hijinx that isn’t at all indicative of what the Museum actually has to offer? Disgusting. Gotta give Ham and his advertising team credit though: they did a damn fine job of polishing a turd.
Nickelodeon went from Mr. Wizard to this????
Are the commercials being placed by the network, or by the local cable channels? I’d like to know who gets the boycott notice.
They really do get off on lying by omission, don’t they?
Fuck. I don’t even have a bucket. Excuse me…
And Americans wonder why other countries laugh at us…
Fucking capitalism.
But remember, it’s Atheist TV that’s putting so much effort and money into arguing against something they don’t believe in.
Since this is airing on Nickelodeon, I like to think there’s some gritty director’s cut of SpongeBob SquarePants where SpongeBob and Patrick drag the animated Ken Ham off to the Pacific and drown him at the bottom of the sea. (Hey, if dinosaurs get to wear saddles, then sea sponges and starfish get to be anthropomorphic and vengeful.)
And if anyone was wondering, even SpongeBob SquarePants has been targeted by the Christian Right–back in 2005, James Dobson accused him of being used in a .
That was dumb in so many ways.
There is a Bible like object in the background, so you know it’s a bunch of lies. Besides that, it’s advertising. He’s such a sleaze which the ad accurately reflects.
So.
Is that ‘when accompanied by a paying adult’ thing mean ‘one-adult-one-child’?
because I can rent a bus…
Why’s he scared of the T-rex? Is he a nut?
I’ve already seen the pic of PZ riding the dino. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the pinnacle of the Cretin Museum experience, and there’s no need to go even one step closer to the place.
Yeah they show those commercials here too. One thing I noticed is that they never actually say the name “Creation Museum” out loud – it’s on the banner behind animated Ham’s head and the URL of their website is on the board that comes up at the end of the ad, but the name of the place is never mentioned even when it would flow more naturally than what Ham actually says. It’s funny, because they show it on channels aimed at kids who may or may not be quick readers yet and many not pick up on subtlety – like the banner hanging over his head – even if they can read. I don’t see how it could possibly serve its stated purpose of getting kids to ask their parents to go to the creation museum when many of those kids won’t even know what it’s an ad for.
How telling that he never mentions the museum’s primary purpose. It’s almost like he knows that if he does, he’d be labelled a kook.
I wonder why that would be a concern now?
@jerthebarbarian:
Best-case scenario: They get all fired up and ask their parents to take them to “that museum with the dinosaurs”, and the parents take them to the AMNH. :-)
was half expecting that after the dromedary, the comet, and the T-rex were all *cough* hilariously put back in their places, that an animated PZ would shamble amiably in, to be met by the adorable Ham cheerfully admonishing: “Hey, haters, you belong outside”, followed by a big cheesy grin and a thumbs up.
*and yeah, add more puke to the pile*
Maybe Bill Nye could do a Public Service Announcement …
Let’s not forget the name of the place itself is a lie. It’s not a museum: “a building in which interesting and valuable things (such as paintings and sculptures or scientific or historical objects) are collected and shown to the public”, but rather a Creation Theme Park, akin to Disneyworld’s “It’s Small World After All” exhibit.
We really should stop calling it a museum.
Pging Mr. Creosote. Mr. Creosote to the white courtesy phone.
And I thought Nickelodeon couldn’t sink any lower than giving Fred his own TV show.
Honestly, I’d love to go to this place. Sounds like a hilarious thing to witness.
However, I suspect the hilarity would wear off once I saw children viewing the exhibits…
The real disturbing thing about this is that Nickelodeon ever greenlit these advertisements on their channel. You would expect this kind of crap on an explicitly religious channel, but not on something secular and wide-reaching like Nick.
And to think I loved Nickelodeon back in my childhood.
I do, in fact, genuinely have a bucket (well, old ice-cream tub) to hand.
Happily though, I will never have to see this ‘in the wild’ as it were, because I don’t think nickelodeon uk will advertise American tourist attractions to kids here. Also I don’t think I even get nickelodeon, so there’s that, too.
But yikes.
It’s the very first thing I learned about religion:
The whole thing is nothing but a giant bait and switch game.
what? you think Hamster wouldn’t be ecstatic you brought an entire busload of impressionable kids to his place?