no it was real :(
― DG, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
The new ones from the Spanish tourist board are... sinister. They have this family, but shoot them at really odd angles in a bleached-out-nouvelle-vague fashion with nothing but the sound of the sea fading in and out. It looks as though something really terrible is about to happen and then they're all 'Visit Spain!'
Yes, certainly, visit Spain and by the look of the adverts one of the following will happen:
- Mother falls into sea, drowns, leaving family to tear themselves apart in nightmare of guilt, grief and recrimination. - Father sleeps with cocktail waitress, leaving family to tear themselves apart in nightmare of guilt, grief and recrimination. - Child snatched a la Madeleine McCann, leaving family to tear themselves apart in nightmare of guilt, grief and recrimination.
― Anna, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The homoerotic Walker's Crisps one with Gary Lineker and the Arctic Monkeys.
Arctic Monkeys? Youtube comes up with nowt.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d0agRpuSo
this just confuses me
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The new ones from the Spanish tourist board are... sinister.
ha! you didn't see the ad for portugal
― DG, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
This monstrosity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLXMxU-FC1E
― Slumpman, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
really, how dare they!
― Slumpman, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the currys ads are back too! three cheers
― DG, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
xp are they... crimping?
― ledge, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
That Sugar Puffs ad is a disgrace! No doubt the coke-raddled "creative" who pitched it would argue it's a homage to The Mighty Boosh, but fucking hell that is some seriously shitty crimp that they have come up with.
Horrible on its own terms and it even cheapens the crimps that have gone before. That almost defines imaginative bankruptcy!
― Bill A, Sunday, 16 March 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It not only cheapens the crimp, it cheapens the honey monster. he was brought of retirement for this
― Slumpman, Sunday, 16 March 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn right. Also, they bring the poor bastard back and he doesn't even get to drop a "Tell 'em about the honey, mummy". They've basically turned him into a Poochie...
― Bill A, Sunday, 16 March 2008 00:43 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck that sugar puffs ad on general principle, mighty boosh or no.
― Mikey Bidness, Sunday, 16 March 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
S'like when McDonalds ripped off Viz's Top Tips, innit.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 16 March 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Bruce Hutton, Bray Leino managing director, says: “Honey Monster is without doubt one of the classic TV ad characters. Having not been on screen for some years, we wanted to give Honey Monster the chance to express himself in a new contemporary way that only he could.
“But it was essential in doing this that we remained true to the tradition of him being seen as a fun character that kids everywhere would love to have at their breakfast tables. We feel his latest antics bring him up to date and have the power to get people talking.”
― Slumpman, Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
really hate the advert that uses 'she's like a rainbow', whatever it's for.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
With the rabbits! Sony Bravia. It's highly acclaimed, you're not allowed not to like it.
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
hate that song
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that song, but seeing it every time I walk past the Sony concession in Debenhams is getting me tired of it.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The one where the grandmother checks out Jamie Oliver's bum and he turns around and goes "cheeky!"
Makes me want to reach through the screen and strangle humanity.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
God yes. I hate how every twat standing around in that advert is pissing themselves laughing.
― chap, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:53 (49 minutes ago)
would post to the 'posts very much in character' thread but, y'know
― blueski, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
The latest Foster's advert is inoffensive enough apart from the way they've fucked around with the lyrics to Violent Femme's Blister in the Sun: instead of being 'strung out' he's 'hung out' (what does that even mean?), and instead of being 'high as a kite' he now claims to 'fly like a kite'.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 23 March 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The Toyota Yaris 'treat them with respect' adverts where they screw people up just because they happen to have shut the door with their feet or got a little dirt on their car. What a couple of self obsessed, judgemental, materialistic fucks.
― Billy Dods, Sunday, 23 March 2008 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
ITV boat race ad, lol gladiator
― DG, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
DHS, chainsaw, wtf
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
DFS should be barred from this thread, they wipe the floor with everyone
― DG, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
What I find amazing is how certain adverts turn up on certain channels. OK, I admit it, I spend too much time watching NME TV (certainly far too much as I haven't read a copy in 8 years and am touching 40 years old but it's worth it to see my two year old son dancing to "Balloons"), but the adverts on there between the videos are so incongruous for the target audience - it's all Cilla Black selling life assurance and InjuryLawyers4U. WTF?
― Rob M v2, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Only pensioners read the NME?
SERIOUS SYSTEMS THINKING REQUIRED on part of CRACKPOT CONOR!!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, pensioners and doleites I guess.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
And occasional househusbands like me.
― Rob M v2, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Lots of confused.com and Purple Loans input, I guess.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Gocompare, Moneysupermarket, but thankfully no Picture The Loan. Oh, but plenty of that dreadful One Account advert with that cheery chap in the call centre talking about shrinking people's mortgages.
(Speaking as a person currently sitting in a call centre taking calls, we are not like that at all)
― Rob M v2, Friday, 28 March 2008 11:48 (sixteen years ago) link
How many actual music-related adverts does NME TV get?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 28 March 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm thinking "David Garrett £7.27 at Tesco" level but as ever I stand to be corrected.
Apart from the NME advertising itself on a regular basis, precisely none.
― Rob M v2, Friday, 28 March 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return
Imagine his agent phoning up "that guy who was Hazell" and saying, "Hi, That Guy Who Was Hazell? It's your agent, here. Look, I've got a great job for you... yeah... how do you fancy pretending to be Lenny Henry's road manager/gay lover in a series of adverts for a middle-ranking hotel chain?"
― Tom D., Friday, 28 March 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Those Taco Bell ad where everyone has long glops of melted cheese hanging out of their mouths is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on tv.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
All Government adverts re. benefit fraud, car crushing etc. with unsubtle subtext of WE RULE AND WE'LL GET YOU AND FUCK YOU UP ANY TIME WE LIKE
Anywhere else there would have been a revolution by now etc.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
And then there's the one where they blame climate change on us for leaving the TV on standby
― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
There's always Nicky Campbell to save us tho. (xpost)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't I have Julia Bradbury instead?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
No mention of the Marks & Spencer 'Lighthouse keeper' ad? Ordinarily the idea of models cavorting on a beach wearing only underwear would fill me with glee but that ad makes me want to kick the tv box in.
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"how abought yghoooooo?"
The Kids' favourite, at the mo.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
As for the BT ads, get used to them - they're currently employing well-known writers to brainstorm new directions for our lovable telephone-obsessed family.
Fair enough, but do they have to be on all the time? So she's lost the folder with all the kids' photos? So as the kids were born before the advent of the digital camera, this means she must have digitised the originals and then BURNT THEM. Evil bitch.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
one word
Flake
― Ste, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Not as bad as I was expecting, the Joss Flake one.
M&S ads in general - awful, especially Erin "Thunderbirds Puppet" O'Connor and Myleene "Opening Of An Envelope" Klass.
Kris Marshall should be KRUCIFIED!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:10 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Billy Dods, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:56 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Seriously, having watched these, I would ruin Erin O'Connor hardcore. Plasterer's radio, man.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't like the sound of that.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link