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
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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
That M&S Lighthouse Keeper advert goes in one eye and out the other, if you follow the analogy. Didn't even realise it was for M&S until you lot mentioned it, and I've seen it loads of times. Show how effective that was.
― Rob M v2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
That song just makes me think of A Clockwork Orange.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Show how effective that was.
most people would recognise the models from the previous M&S ads tho surely
― blueski, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Noemie Lenoir is somewhat hot in that ad too.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 13:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Obviously wasn't watching too closely either. Frankly I wouldn't recognise these people if they thumped me in the face, except for Myleene Klass who I would thump back.
― Rob M v2, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Not of stalking standard Rob, huh?
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
sad to see the previously high-production-value woolite adverts head down the same shoddily-dubbed road as cillit bang :(
― DG, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The new Skechers advert. Sweet christ.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
the Bianca Jackson Five thing is kind of an ad. and genuinely the worst thing i have ever seen.
― blueski, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
That Tesco ad with Martin Clunes in a wetsuit and Fay Ripley demonstrating exactly why she doesn't have a TV career any more.
― ailsa, Monday, 7 April 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
The Clarks ad on uk tv that is trying far too hard to be wistfully twee with a catchy indie song a-la the sonybravia or tmobile ads. It Fails.
― Slumpman, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
>The new Skechers advert. Sweet christ
OTM. Both of these ads (ie. mens and womens ranges) are of a quality that could be knocked up by three drunks with a camcorder in an afternoon. Given the size of the Skechers brand it boggles me that their marketing have actually okayed them. Also, those skechers are *hideous*.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago) link
That Tesco ad is a satire on ridiculous product placements in dramas.
So, I vote it OK.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 10:32 (sixteen years ago) link
aren't the Skechers ads meant to be deliberately/ironically naff? i haven't seen the latest ones tho
― blueski, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
no wai she had a cannon ion 640x480 greyscale and all.
― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
The new one where he drops his trousers and she ignores him and carries on talking to her friend on the phone is the oddest yet.
― Zoe Espera, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The Bianca Jackson Five will be the year's biggest selling single.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Sketechers need to go back to being advertised by Christina Aguilera in PVC.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
the energy drink commercial that promises "zero sugar." zero is a number; it is not grammatically the same as "no." it's like saying "two sugar."
signed, one pedant
― get bent, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Somerfield!
― DG, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
one is also a number. You can say "one sugar" right?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:53 (sixteen years ago) link
if you're in a greasy spoon!
― get bent, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Irrationality annoyed by the advert for the film "21", bit where they says "Taken from the true story." ... uhhhhhhhhhh, are you going to end that sentence? ... so... like, the true story.... what true story?... the true story?... the only one ever?... or the only one that has mattered in the lives of millions in the past few years, that I am some kind of inadequate for not being familiar with?... that true story?... The True Story?
― Tom D., Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh you know, *that* true story - a man goes to vegas and wins money on black jack. oh *that* one.
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
and Cadbury's have annoyed me yet again with their new 'oh look we're being clever and not referring to our product, OH BUT LOOK THE SKY IS PURPLE' airport racing advert.
but the trouble is, the advert itself is very very boring.
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(Queen song is the only redeeming feature)
After seeing Highlander again recently I would like to see more adverts & movies featuring "Princes of the Universe". Best film beginning EVER
― Ste, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
What a boring choice of song.
I was hoping for "The Lone Ranger" by Quantum Jump.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Any advert with Samuel L. Jackson in it is annoying
― Tom D., Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Also fed up hearing Judi Dench selling stuff
An old gripe, but Tesco "Every little helps" catchphrase: every little WHAT helps WHOM???
― Neil S, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link