I think time in BT world is compressed, so what seems like eight or nine months of this fascinating soap opera to us has taken up just a few weeks of their time. So his mother's visits are relatively frequent (perhaps once every couple of months or so?), but the last one took place before his flatmates moved in.
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
There's now a second "failed Apprentice task" advert for Philidelphia on.
Shooting fish in a barrel, but the latest Foxy Bingo ads annoy me intensely. "One fat lady who's a flirty thirty and doesn't have droopy drawers" is the worst, especially when she waves the lacy thong over her groin, but the astonishingly racist 'asian' who likes photography and amazes the woman next to her by using her knitting needles as chopsticks is jaw-droppingly bad.
In other shitty daytime ITV adverts, the sofa woman who can't help using her hands is dreadful and there's a different version of her in the Park Hampers woman, only she's only able to use her forearms.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 28 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
how have we not mentioned WaxVac yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htbo1yW6qeU
is there a better moment on TV than the guy apparently lobotomizing himself with a Q-Tip? OW! indeed!!
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
the 5 hour energy dbag
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
the way he holds a book with his foot ugh die
5 hour energy has consistantly had the worst commercials on TV - actually speaks kinda well of their product
― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Polycell talking arse (literally).
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
our local go cart/ride park, FunSpot, has appropriated Gangnam Style for their latest commercials. I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GeK8ztV0M
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 June 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
Their biggest selling point is free admission (and all rides you have to pay for individually I suppose)? That's almost as bad as that old Paulton's Park advert from the 80's where one of the 'attractions' shown was a middle aged guy dressed as a pirate waving a plastic sword around.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg(guy in the middle)
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:58 (eleven years ago) link
Jessica Ennis & Rory McIlroy managing the astonishing feat of making Jenson Button seem like the guy with the most personality in an advert. Well done guys :(
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
me and Joel have a running joke about Rory's terrifying zombie-like appearance in those ads and the probability that a generation of under 10s are gonna see him in their nightmares on the reg
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
they're horribly misjudged aren't they. This blog post nails it IMO:http://potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/2013/03/santander-2013.html
It is one of the most unsettling pieces of film that I've ever seen, reducing advertising to a set of blank and bland facts, to be recited out of the mouths of an apparently arbitrary collection of sports stars. What are the celebrities doing in other people's houses? Have they broken in illegally? Or are we to suppose that they are ghostly apparitions?
― Neil S, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Did you know you can get 2.4% interest with Santander's new gold current account? Also I am going to eat your soul."
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
that cider ad with the "now you're downloaded, well done" etc as if it's a tech product.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
The one where woman has orgasm at the thought of luxury yoghurt (don't actually see her eat any)
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
xp
oh god yes the cider ad is winding me to a fine pitch of hatred and i'm a drunk ffs
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
partly i think for the tone of "hey wow technology that people have been using for years exists!" and partly because it attempts to place the cider as some rural counterexample to iPads even tho the stuff is no doubt made in industrial vats by a petrochemical conglomerate
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
probably discussed already but any of the payday loan ads, and in particular the Wonga ones with the creepy rubber dolls and the "reassuring" tones of usury shill Nicholas Parsons.
― Neil S, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
any loan ads, payday or otherwise tbh. the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really.
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
This fuckin' guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0acK3Jb6c&list=PL4D125C9646648E78
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of enjoy his work, don't feel he's taking the whole shilling double glazing thing too seriously
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really
Ooh ooh ooh, the Cash Lady ones with Kerry Katona. Like *anyone* thinks Kerry Katona is the soothing and reassuring voice of money management.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
Those got spiked by Ofcom I think - for exactly that reason.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Monday, 24 June 2013 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
The wonga ones make me feel ill
― kinder, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if this thread is for UK commercials only, but the new Wendy's ads in the US are making me blind with rage.
"Roller food? Really?""I WILL KILL YOU AND HIDE YOU UNDERNEATH JIMMY HOFFA'S CORPSE""Roller food... tsk..."
― WilliamC, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
(there was a US version of this thread but it was never obvious from the titles (maybe 'ads' vs 'adverts'))
― koogs, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
That Lloyds TSB advert or series of with fluffy, cartoony CGI people puffling around in their safe little world.
Some advert for a phone, possibly Samsung, where phone's owner uses it on train as an ebook reader and then wafts into their ridiculous, open plan office full of beautiful people doing some kind of creative job.
Endless soundtracks of gentle xylophones and acoustic strumming and penny-whistles, verging either towards whistful hoedown or be good to yourself, go on, be good to yourself, you deserve it.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
It's making me want to talk in Nadsat, if you know what I mean
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
yarbles
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
xp I would, but I wouldn't want to end up with eggy-weg on my face.
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
that Santander ad rules
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't know about this thread but this is my new home nice to meet you all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIhocp5iY
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Robinson's fruit juice advert where it's 'good to be a dad, better to be a mate' or something
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
The increasingly meta saga of the Go Compare opera singer. It's not much use as an ad if no-one can remember wtf is being advertised, right?
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, he's getting like those fucking meerkats.
I already mentioned this on the old IA thread, but Corden using the word "part-exing" in the Webuyanycar advert really gets on my tits.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Everyone involved in this should be shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_aOlhjSJw
(I can't see youtubes on this browser so i hope it's the right one)
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
That's sort of ...
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
You know when an advert tries to take 'a common situation' as its starting point? But that situation in that advert isn't 'common' in the way the advert thinks it is
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Indeed I do
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rather like if the 'naughtiness' in question were a young man wondering what it would be like to push an old lady in front of a bus -
plinky strummy plinky plonk
(Bites into chocolate)
I wanna watch your skull get cracked open and see all the brains come dribbling out what's your life worth anyway you piss yourself everyday
'Allow yourself a bit of naughtiness'
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
DAD is preparing barbecue
KIDS are running around shouting
doo-be-doodle plinky plonk plinky ba-dum
Why don't I take this can of petrol and douse every inch of this fucking house then drop a match on it kids I never wanted and a life gone static everything's so still and automatic then drop a match on it
(Am enjoying this a bit too much actually)
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Advert equivalent of The Wright Way, then?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
otm xpost
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
that ad is fucking weird
it's a bit post-Savile tbh
― That booby's are HOTTT (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
the setup is botched too. Maybe it's just my american doltishness, but the first time I watched it I didn't even understand what had happened in the first few seconds
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Advert for some car with estuary english soulful cover of 'reasons to be cheerful' by Ian Dury but it isn't really a cover.
First direct tv advert with a fucking platypus
― cardamon, Monday, 8 July 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
subway commercial with each different sandwich matching some racial stereotype. lovely.
― clouds, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fcISeVF4k
Hate all of these kids so much, I feel kind of guilty about this though.
― Eight Model Play, Saturday, 31 August 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link