Yeah, all Houston ads that aren't national accounts with a big firm somewhere else are really bad. Love my city, but man do we have some bad ads. Conan O'Brien actually held a contest a while back making fun of Houston letting people vote on the worst Houston ads. Of course the ads were Hilton Furniture, Mattress Mac and someone else. I think the winner - Hilton - was flown to NYC to do a live ad on Conan. Sealy's about the only example of a local business with decent ads that I can think of, but that's a national account - you know the one, it's the little computer animated sheep that goof around. IIRC, Love Advertising is probably responsible for setting the tone of Houston's horrible advertising. I think they started the SAVE YOU MONEY thing doing Mattress Mac's ads as well as OOH AAH Mattress Giant. Pretty much if you sell mattresses and want to annoy Houstonians into buying them, they're the firm for you. For my money though, the worst current ads are these ads for a local church with freaky looking people that run on Time-Warner cable (I forget the church name) and the Mattress Mac/George H.W. Bush Tsunami ads where Mac looks like he's coked up and thinks the former President is going to whip out a gun and shoot him at any second. He's so damn fidgety and nervous it makes the ad unbearable. Honest to God, if Apple computer - who have some of the best advertising historically - were started in Houston, the ads would just be Steve Jobs standing on a pile of Macintoshes with a chainsaw, wearing a Superman outfit and screaming incoherently at the camera.