― MarkH, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The whole Shampoo = sex thing is utterly cringeworthy. The only "urge" I get during the Herbal range ad is to dive for the off button on the TV remote.
[And I wish Jason Euell HAD ran out of the stadium on Wednesday - I would have settled for 4:3]
― Trevor, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Somebody on the best ads thread mentioned the Lupo ads, but the big flashing face that pops up every time you click on *anything* at nme.com is really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying. Grrr!
― Madchen, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Also, Argos.
The Virgin Mobile advert with Nicole Appleton photocopying her knickers is also rather shit but then again they have ADAM AND JOE (!!!!) on another advert so perhaps I'll have to sign up with them. I hate Vodafone. Bastards bastards bastards. Adverts are SO GREAT though, I love adverts. They are often better than the telly.
― Sarah, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Wil, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. Argos christmas ad using Slade and the cheapest, shittest, most fucking awful bogus product montage ever. Totally moronic, makes all the goods look like the heap of crap they are - when that fucking cut- out Santa comes by on his skis it might as well be Jive Bunny. There's a real trend lately for mass-market store ads to be this low- rent and vile, probably because the ad people all want to work on high-budget drinks brands and actually lavishing any skills on an ad aimed at the proles would be *so* uncool. Or of course it might be that the focus groups saw the ad and wuvved it, grr.
2. Harry Potter computer game - "FOOTAGE NOT IN GAME" i.e. the game itself has graphics that would shame an Oric. Not in itself a terrible ad but seen five times an hour it gets wearying.
Also! "I'd rather have a bowl of caramelflavouredcocopops" and the Olly the Octopus choosing his cereal are vile, the latter because it is untrue - every child knows which are the nice cereals in a variety pack and it's simply a matter of getting to them first, it's not a dilemma at all you eight-limbed sea bastard.
― Tom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alext, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for the Nivea "you know, I might buy some" ad, you can gain some kind of succour by imaging what he's going to be getting for Christmas from all his hilarious mates...
― Mark C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
BUT WAIT NOW THERE IS ONE FOR AMERICA WITH THAT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS HERO SONG. oh no wait it's for jeep! jeep LIBERTY, at that!
― maura, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Can I just say that I think the Argos ads are totally wicked.
― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Then at the end of the ad there's the final insult, that annoying high pitched "life tastes good coca cola" jingle. It reminds me of those films where one corporation runs the radio stations and keeps pumping out muzak to keep people happy. it's ok everyone, LIFE TASTES GOOD!!! and you're all allowed to try it!
― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jonnie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
2 The fabric conditioner one where the people are made out of - duh - fabric. It is disturbing to look at 'people' made out of fabric, and in fact they look horribly disfigured, like burns victims or people with hypothermia.
― Ellie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)
― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Blimey, isn't it usually the other way round?
― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Wine ads infest the London Underground system. That and ads for ten- week 'philosophy' courses.
― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Must. Calm. Down.
― Jonnie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Lambrini girls are classic. As David Bell, chief executive of Cheetham Bell JWT, which devised the campaign said:
"It is a drink for salt-of-the-earth girls to drink before they go out, maybe while chatting or putting their make-up on. While they do that, they probably crack jokes about their boyfriends. I've never heard of any men being offended by these ads. They're quite clearly just a bit of fun.'
Who'd have thought that one day computers would allow us to watch adverts at work
― Nick, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Millions of years of evolution and THIS is what they expect us to aspire to.
― Trevor, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Anna, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I LOVE the Link advert, but I'm prepared to accept it's for similar "ah - a good old fashioned cheery crappy ad" reasons as my fondness for the never updated Argos campaign.
creepy animated babies who discuss personal finance.
Ooh yes - that's the original 'I have to change channels cause this makes me nauseous' ad. Apparently Madchen's gran loves it cause it reminds her of Madchen's dad at a similar age.
i'm sure you could sleep forever on a series of 100-day loan matresses
― koogs, Thursday, 1 February 2024 08:30 (three months ago) link
stereolab. lo boob oscilator is used on some ad. see the future of stereolab thread.
― koogs, Friday, January 5, 2024 12:16 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is one of my favorite songs. Thankfully it hasn't ruined it for me yet.
The commercial that I hate more than anything is that Jet2Go one with the "I'm ready for this . . ." song. MAKE IT STOP.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 1 February 2024 10:13 (three months ago) link
"All he ever spoke about was bike this, bike that". Boring cunt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5CMmjj_SU
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2024 07:47 (three months ago) link
... by the way, is that The Shend playing Tony the dead biker?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2024 07:50 (three months ago) link
I think so! As someone said elsewhere, how have they fitted The Shend into that coffin?
― Michael Jones, Friday, 2 February 2024 09:27 (three months ago) link
The thing about the Stereolab ad is it makes me so relieved it's not that horrible cover of "Roam" that I don't have much energy left to feel outraged.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 2 February 2024 09:53 (three months ago) link
It's one of those tracks I don't mind hearing for whatever reason. A bit like those Marc Jacobs ones that used Suicide...
― Mark G, Friday, 2 February 2024 10:11 (three months ago) link
Fuck that daisy daisy daisy shite though.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2024 10:12 (three months ago) link
Oh yeah..
― Mark G, Friday, 2 February 2024 10:14 (three months ago) link
used ITV X for the first time and was repeatedly faced with a terrifying Wiltshire Council advert about flytipping (you MAY be prosecuted) with a banner at the bottom throughout with an owl staring into my soul. this was the only light i had going at 3am.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:29 (three months ago) link
I loathe the daisy daisy daisy ad beyond comprehension. My least favourite advert of the past few years.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 10 February 2024 17:30 (three months ago) link
Martin Rev being paid makes that go away pretty quickly.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 10 February 2024 23:36 (three months ago) link
itvX is messed up on my t.v.. often the ads will flicker past then pause for a few minutes, or a show will come back after the ad break with no sound. I did watch Heathers on it yesterday though and it worked well enough.
― kinder, Sunday, 11 February 2024 07:56 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscMMieVuzY
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 11 February 2024 08:09 (three months ago) link
proving "Charlie Bigham" exists by showing a *cartoon* of him is like saying Garfield is a real cat.
― koogs, Sunday, 18 February 2024 22:39 (three months ago) link
the Fixodent advert where a middle-aged couple apparently on a date eat burgers with huge white plastic chompers is one of the funniest things i've ever seen
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2024 21:53 (three months ago) link
hate the Dominic West adverts where he's a bank executive
― koogs, Saturday, 24 February 2024 06:51 (three months ago) link
Too cowardly to go properly nasty because they're still advertising banking services, and still somehow written really stiltedly
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 February 2024 06:54 (three months ago) link
I can't help thinking that now we've reached Stockholm Syndrome with the wombat as we did with the meerkats, Compare the Market will introduce an even more annoying character *shudder*.
― Grandpont Genie, Saturday, 24 February 2024 07:40 (three months ago) link
"that true, restful sleep"
yeah this is some fucked up Americana shit, fallout from a very strange mattress culture
To return briefly to Dormeo. I'd forgotten that in one of their adverts where they're talking, sorry, shouting about having guests staying over and sleeping on one of their mattresses - which you absolutely know are going to be completely underwhelming and look nothing like they look in the advert - that it'll be on a "mattress you can be proud of".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 10:22 (three months ago) link
I kind of hate that AA advert where bank robbers rush out to find the AA man working on their getaway car - potentially a good idea rendered completely meh. Apart from suggesting the AA have no qualms about helping criminals commit crime and ignoring the fact any bank robber worth their salt will have a getaway driver, it's the bit where the AA man offers them Bombay mix that annoys me most - is it supposed to be funny? Quirky?
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 07:38 (two months ago) link
the bombay mix guy IS the getaway driver.
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 08:36 (two months ago) link
which is why he says 'it's ok *I'm* with the AA'
Oh right. LOL you can tell I'm not a driver. I still don't like the Bombay mix line.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 08:48 (two months ago) link
(have just realised that 'I'm with' could mean 'i am employed by' as well as 'i'm a member of')
he's far too chill given the circumstances
― koogs, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 08:54 (two months ago) link
someone should tell Pot Noodle that just because something is intended to be disgustingly obnoxious doesn't mean it isn't disgustingly obnoxious
― or something, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 12:46 (two months ago) link
New Verisure advert looks like it was improvised during a teabreak in the recording of a proper Verisure advert - with the crew as actors.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 1 March 2024 09:59 (two months ago) link
Dr Ranj, thank you for knowing the price of cashew nuts in Grape Tree
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 March 2024 10:04 (two months ago) link
xp I think I'm part of the problem when tom's description means I'm looking frwd to seeing it now. can't see how they'll top the golf one but I'm excited.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 1 March 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link
just seen the pot noodle slurping video with some kind of electronic noise rather than the slurping. wasn't paying enough attention to understand why that was.
there's a second slurping ad at the moment as well though, macdonalds perhaps.
― koogs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:24 (two months ago) link
The Hertz car rental ads I have been getting on youtube for about a year are driving me mad - one is a parody of Oprah saying "you get a car!" and the other is a parody of Tom Cruise on Oprah, both are just shit in every way possible.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:26 (two months ago) link
haven't seen in a week but i'm still irritated so the sara cox radio 2 promo. is it calling her listeners 'you absolute legends' or the digital landscape of sad commuters making their 'everyday less everyday' by having hung up played to them, the 'less everyday' to the 'everyday' train rhythm beneath?
not that bbc radio promos don't usually annoy me, mind
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:17 (two months ago) link
"my nan was a truly amazing woman, she made shit sunday dinners with frozen yorkshire puds" is a feminist masterpiece
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:58 (two months ago) link
'the voice in the back of your head' is that a phrase that people actually use? 'voice in your head', yes. 'eyes in the back of your head', yes. both valid Catchphrase-style phrases, but not 'the voice in the back of your head'.
― koogs, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:26 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah that would annoy me. "Back of your mind", maybe?there's some ad I've seen (ie has been on while I'm scrolling my phone) loads of times that might be for Sky Mobile? as in a network? but I've never even passively taken in what it is or what the ad is for (I had to force myself to pay attention once I'd realised it was about the 50th time it had come on). someone talking about what other people are doing in their lives? maybe? it's as if every time my mind wants to make some sort of connection it moves to something else and I assume it's a different ad but it's not.
― kinder, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:25 (two weeks ago) link
can something be done about the haribo adverts where they record kids and then have adult actors mime to the recording? especially the tacked on laughter, clearly from a different recording, which they plonk at the end. by something I mean arrests and long term imprisonment.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 May 2024 15:42 (one week ago) link
the lenor advert where she opens the bottle and the music starts... "Let the sun shine in..." only she puts the lid down halfway through the 'Let' and the music stops and then starts again. the interruption is like a punch in the guts every time.
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:27 (four days ago) link
Anything with Diane Morgan doing the voiceover.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:32 (four days ago) link
is that who it is doing the baby voice on e.g. the Cadbury's ice cream ads? because hell yes it's murder-inducing
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:34 (four days ago) link