Ban The Ray-Bans: A Retrospective Look at Cheesy Specs in Advertising

Best we can tell, they finally took down those billboards for the CBS show Shark. Why they left them up for so long is anybody’s guess. The billboard (which we’ll have to describe here because we couldn’t find an “official” reprint anywhere online) features James Woods peering out over his very black sunglasses with the L.A. skyline just over his right shoulder.

This is a classic pose — as in classically lame. Just as the Gap has no business whoring

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