So long as I'm on the gender-roles beat here, there's this:
Can you believe there's a new commercial where a guy walks up to a random hotel employee, rips her shirt off, pins her arms above her head, applies some body spray to her abdomen, and then walks confidently off into the night?
Wait, no. That can't be right, can it? Who would run an ad like that? That would be horrifying, a commercial where some guy strips and restrains and dominates some poor chambermaid just to demonstrate his own power. That would be promoting sexual assault. I must be misremembering something.
Oh, right, I remember now: it's actually a confident, sophisticated woman who tears up a bellhop's shirt, covering his face and pinning his arms above his head, and then tests her deodorant on his abs, while he stands in passive awe at how bold and empowered she is.
I guess that's better.
― nabisco, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
WE HAVE NO R
― conrad, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
It's on the radio, not telly, but the WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, ANY ANY ANY ANY, WE BUY ANY CAR one.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently it is a TV ad too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-yEWZTBQ64
I'm sorry.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
this, especially the WONGA guy who has inspired some remix videos already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJW0LKXeOE
― zappi, Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
After watching the Envirophone ad too many times, I have realised you can make any advert better by inserting "...and it's good for the environment!" randomly in it.
― If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
"And always, it has to be Heinz" = GO FUCK YERSELVES. TV equivalent of saying "lock thread" or "end of".
Also reminds of Robert Lindsay being the smuggest smug cunt in the world on those Morrison's adverts a couple of months back, surprised I didn't lay into that shit at the time.
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Really? Don't remember it.
"Power to the People" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure (and I'm sure you all know too) that they make crap ads on purpose, just so's standup comedians can use them in their routines and mention the product while doing so.
Child that wants to evacuate his bowels at McCartney's abode, for instance...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Lindsay ad was like "I just want fresh fish that costs tuppence and gets served to me by some dude in a Victorian fishmongers outfit tugging his fucking forelock" middle class entitlement horse cobblers
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
The ad is very similar to Hammond's "I just want meat", in that they're both pushing supermarket trolleys through the countryside.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I take it as read that Hammond's gonna reek of smug entitlement tho
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
ah right. Good old brane, filtering out the crap just for me..
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:37 (fourteen years ago) link
It's the way Lindsay delivers "Is that too much to ask?" in the same voice as the Fast Show "...which was nice" character.
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Worse thing about Hammond ad is his "look" - 40 something geezer still trying to look like he's 20
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
DUDE THAT'S MY WHOLE STEEZ
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
We call this "doing a Lovejoy"http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/images/2009/01/29/lovejoy_cast_470_470x352.jpg
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, Hammond's look is a million times worse
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine too, xpost.
However, Lovejoy "looks like 20" in what way exactly?
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark, you telling me you've got hair like Hammond - that's the worst part
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
trying to look like he's 20...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
...not necessarily succeeding. At all.
hmm, I'll give you "30" but who looks twenty in that? Citation, or it's untrue...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Lovejoy is classic, Hammond dud
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.keysalive.com/hammond.jpg
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^ nice legs
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark G posts "shame about the face" in 5...4...3...
― Erol "Bomber" Alkan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"...shame about the bass... uh, pedals"
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Not while "The Monks" are the band formed by US stationed army personnel that took raw protopunk formats to the Germans, and not two ex-Stawbs, I don't!
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
shame about the fascia...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
'lovejoy was ace' is the new 40 trying to look 20 btw
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
We buy any car is the BEST advert of the moment you menkos.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the donk isn't big enough
― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/classes/MAS963/history/korg_images/korg01doncamatic.gif
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I will concede, but like Touch'n'Fresh they had to make some smooth out some of the rough edges for the mainstream.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Would you believe I can't find the Touch'n'fresh jungle advert on youtube - anyone care to oblige?
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
No mention of 'money for gold' on this thread = fail.
― fyi vagina (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank YOU! fyi vagina.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure whats better - vox pop numpties or this one with hard-up US celebs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRVzF9dBl7c
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
'Cause people out there turn their jewlry into gold
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish someone would use Nico's "We've Got the Gold" in one of these give us yer jewellery adverts
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's lucky that Spandau Ballet have reformed, otherwise we'd have the treat of Tony Hadley saying "Send us your gold! (GOLD!!!)"
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I did resist that one, E"B"A...
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the advert where the woman says, "It's so quick and easy..." but every time it sounds EXACTLY like, "It's so frickin' easy..."?
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 October 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
New Cadbury Caramel posters are on some next level Furry shit btw.
http://vitalsignsblogging.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/cadburys-caramel-pic.jpg
http://getsiobhanny.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/0_image_903.jpg
That is a rabbit. They are asking their customers to be sexually aroused by a rabbit. What the fuck is wrong with people?
― Geir Hypothesis (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
If it's anything like the old ads, it's a rabbit with the voice of Miriam Margolyes.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ5Yw72xtA
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I know. Running a Furry-bait ad 10 years before the WWW took off is pretty ground-breaking.
― Geir Hypothesis (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like that bit in Wayne's World where Garth admits to being turned on by the Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs dresses as a woman.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 29 October 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought halifax adverts had reached their nadir with howard. how wrong i was...
― koogs, Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link