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There’s Probably A Whole Generation Now That Thinks This Is An Homage To That Friends Poster

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If you feel like you're getting déjà vu all over again, it's because we monkeyed around with this theme before:

It's New! It's Different! Okay, Maybe It's Neither

It's Still Number One

Men In Black And White And Sepia

Dear Edwina,

Is it another spoof poster from Tyler Perry or just coincidence?  Signed, Anonymous Snark

Trend Spotting

Stop! You're Frightening The Horses!

And the winnwer is...

It’s Easy When You Know How

Okay, the title has “In Progress” in it, so we can do something like Jake in Progress, that gives us a park bench, right? So now we’ve got two females on a bench, let’s add a loose-line illustration of a city skyline in the background. Check. All righty, nothing even remotely original here. We are good to go!

It Ain't Worth A Crap If It Don't Got That Scrap

Dear Edwina,

Inspiration for The Iron Lady poster… or just a coincidence?

I love your blog. I am new to this business and its crazy how much direct and blatant stealing goes on.
I may go back to real advertising where original ideas are celebrated, not glossed over because I don't 
have enough "scrap."

Image on the left is from Double Exposure Portraits

We love that you love our blog, comrade, but you’re missing a vital point in regards to scrap. By attaching those "references" to your sketch concepts you are simply assuring your client that you aren’t doing anything so alarmingly original that it might confound their target demo.

Uh, Okay… Part Deux

Dear Edwina,

Seems rather ironic that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard emblem is pretty close to Saul Bass’s Exodus poster.

Signed, Surfing the Web Instead of Working

Dear Surfing the Web Instead of Working

While we acknowledge that our blog would go unnoticed if not for solid goldbricks like yourself, we find your comparison a tad weak. Nonetheless, if an image of an upraised arm holding a rifle is your criteria, how about this one:

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Street Art

This pair of posters was recently sent in by one of our readers with the terse message:

Dear Edwina,

Too obscure?

If by "too obscure" our reader means is, “Is this antediluvian Steve Martin Goldie Hawn laff riot so forgettable a film that no one will recognize the key art?” we certainly agree.

Regardless of our newly de-regulated Monkey See Monkey Do category, we nonetheless feel obliged to beef up this submission with these comparisons:

Uh, Okay...

From time to time we receive submissions for our Monkey See, Monkey Do category and, if the similarities are not readily apparent to us, we don’t post them.

However, it occurs to us such editorial oversight might imply that we have some journalistic integrity and, frankly, there is no room for that sort of rectitude here in the blogosphere.

With that in mind, we are pleased to share this example sent in by a reader:

Dear Edwina,

I thought you might want to take a look at this: the new Smash poster (NBC's midseason show). It's like a new cycle of Top Model...

Bye...

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On The Road Again

One of our readers sent us this somewhat dated father and son road trip twinset from moviecultists.com. Interesting to us only because that particular one sheet for The Road is not on IMPAwards - which poses the empirical question: did it ever exist at all?

It's Not A Xerox, Dammit. It's An Homage

 

Source Code

By far the most popular topic among our readers is our Monkey See, Monkey Do category. Nonetheless, we were surprised to find this pair in our mailbox along with the message, "Coincidence: Impossible."

The comparison is a bit of a stretch, isn't it? And as Jesus said, “Let he among you that has never submitted a comp with code superimposed on a person’s face fling the first poo.”

So let us move on to our next category: Badasses In Hoodies.

Yes, But Ours Is All Caps!

Maybe If We Set It In A Really Small Point Size No One Will Notice

Dear Edwina,

What about posting the drive campaign 'there are no clean getaways'... more like 'there are no original lines left'

Signed, Miko

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