You know it's time to fire your ad agency when ...

Like pants, if you wait long enough everything will come back into style. In this (Captain's Quarters) case that's probably not a good thing.

Does everyone remember how well the last time the Germans began an aggressive strategy to strengthen their national identity worked out? Apparently not the PR company hired to run the governments latest campaign.

Just keep an eye out for that real 'canary in the coal mine' moment when Chancellor Angela Merkel takes to growing a peculiar style of facial hair.