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February 4, 2008
Onion Swagology: Mad Money Master Lock
Item: A Master lock
Promoting: The Queen Latifah/Katie Holmes/Diane Keaton buddy comedy Mad Money
Relevance to product promoted: Perversely cryptic. The words Mad Money don't appear anywhere on the lock or the packaging. The only indication that this was designed as a Mad Money promo is a tag with the film's release date (01-18-08), an M on the plastic cube housing the lock, and the tagline "Will They Get Away With It?" Since Mad Money revolves around money-robbing wackiness, locks play a sort of vague conceptual role.
Item quality: 3. The lock itself is a sturdy, no-nonsense theft deterrent, but whatever goodwill it might engender (key word: "might") is offset by the fact that it's packed in tiny, clingy fake-money confetti guaranteed to slip out of the box and get into all sorts of annoying, inconvenient places. Do you really want to associate an already-dodgy new film with irritating messes and staticky debris?
Posted by mark at February 4, 2008 2:58 PM
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