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I STILL can't believe that OctiKleen won... that ad was just AWFUL! |
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I STILL can't believe that OctiKleen won... that ad was just AWFUL!
It's still irritating me (I know I know I need to get a life), but it seems so unfair!
Both teams were rubbish and both products were pants, but the Octi-kleen advert was actaully offensive. To both women and men. Christopher should have been fired over that. Definitely. |
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You can't have a kid brandishing heavy-duty cleaning products. Sexist ads are just embarrassing. But Team Germ made a major boo-boo.
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I agree they were both totally inept and the resulting ads were utter pants.
Problem is that, because of the show format, one team HAS to win so that they can fire someone from the losing team. You couldn't have a draw. I think that's the only reason either one of them got through. I used to work in the advertising industry and believe me the laughter and giggling from the ad agency staff said it all. Both teams were beyond sh**e! |
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To be honest this was a very weak episode because of the task chosen. Next week looks much better.
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I think Lordalun made it pretty clear the 'winners' only won becouse they were marginally less bad than the losers. I really thought for once he was going to declare them all losers and have six in the boardroom for a double firing - might have been a bit of a dogfight though...
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Is it me, or are this year's candidates just very weak on creativity? Task Two, they come up with the plastic book frame and a good but not great beach towel. This task, they have two rubbish ads and the winners only win because their bottle looks more like a kitchen cleaner.
S5, by contrast, had more creativity - they had the Body Rocka, Treasure Flakes and the sandalwood soap that could have been a winning product had they not overspent (OK, so they also had Pants Man, but even that was more creative than what they came up with last night). Hopefully next episode will be better - for competence as well as incompetence!
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Is it me, or are this year's candidates just very weak on creativity? Task Two, they come up with the plastic book frame and a good but not great beach towel. This task, they have two rubbish ads and the winners only win because their bottle looks more like a kitchen cleaner.
S5, by contrast, had more creativity - they had the Body Rocka, Treasure Flakes and the sandalwood soap that could have been a winning product had they not overspent (OK, so they also had Pants Man, but even that was more creative than what they came up with last night). Hopefully next episode will be better - for competence as well as incompetence! ![]() |
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I think they are a lot weaker candidates this year. I can't see anyone yet that I can see is really outstanding in any way. But it's still not affecting my enjoyment, I love watching them dig big holes for themselves and see their smugness battered out of them!!
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I think it came down to the bottle and it colours. Had Alex gone for lighter colours, then he probably would have won even though Sugar had a good point about the name as well.
Thought putting the actress in an octopuss outfit was totally ridiculous but boy did she look so hot and yummy in the advert, esp her curvy legs. Didn't think she was that shapely at fisrt sight. |
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I can't believe the Octo team won, especially as they didn't even come up with the idea in the first place and pinched it from one of the mums in the focus group!
When they showed the finished ad, right at the very end where the girl has her head laid on his chest, did anybody else think she didn't look very lifelike? I thought she looked like a blow up doll! And she wasn't even looking at him, she was just staring straight ahead. She really didn't look at all comfortable snuggling up to him. I still think the best ad was from a couple of years back when they had to advertise an airline and showed that bloke writhing around in pleasure on the seat. It was meant to show him relaxing and enjoying himself, but unfortunately it looked like he was doing something completely different!
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I was surprised that no-one pointed out that it should have been OctoKleen, not OctiKleen.
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Both ads were horrible and cringy,
"Ooooh, I can't - get rid of - this - graavayyyyyyyy" "Move over!" "Woowwwwwww!" ![]() And then we have: "Do you wanna have an early night?" ![]() "Ooh. This-would-be-so-much-easier-with-eight-hands"
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Christopher raises eyebrow lasciviously.
"Eight hands are definitely better than two." For fondling Christopher all over whilst cooing dirty, dirty, dirty sexual suggestions..... Oh, was that just me? |
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Out of all the series I've seen, I think these where the worst adverts we've ever seen on the aprrentice.
Though I have to say, what to do you expect for 2 days work? Gonna take a lot longer than that to get anything looking good for the tv. |
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...S5, by contrast, had more creativity - they had the Body Rocka...
Good luck to him, credit where it's due! |
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8 hands are better than 2.
4 hands are better than 2 - get off your backside you lazy git and go and help your wife in the kitchen |
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Problem is that, because of the show format, one team HAS to win so that they can fire someone from the losing team. You couldn't have a draw. I think that's the only reason either one of them got through. so it's possible and would have made good viewing indeed he should have actually not given them a "reward", if karaoke is a reward...!
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Though I have to say, what to do you expect for 2 days work? Gonna take a lot longer than that to get anything looking good for the tv.
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When they showed the finished ad, right at the very end where the girl has her head laid on his chest, did anybody else think she didn't look very lifelike? I thought she looked like a blow up doll! And she wasn't even looking at him, she was just staring straight ahead. She really didn't look at all comfortable snuggling up to him.
and as for the germinator, why did the dad have a cockney accent and the kid didnt? |
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I can't believe the Octo team won, especially as they didn't even come up with the idea in the first place and pinched it from one of the mums in the focus group!
When they showed the finished ad, right at the very end where the girl has her head laid on his chest, did anybody else think she didn't look very lifelike? I thought she looked like a blow up doll! And she wasn't even looking at him, she was just staring straight ahead. She really didn't look at all comfortable snuggling up to him. I still think the best ad was from a couple of years back when they had to advertise an airline and showed that bloke writhing around in pleasure on the seat. It was meant to show him relaxing and enjoying himself, but unfortunately it looked like he was doing something completely different! ![]() |
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You can't have a kid brandishing heavy-duty cleaning products. Sexist ads are just embarrassing. But Team Germ made a major boo-boo.
Other team was just apalling |
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Hey, I've got no problem with kids doing cleaning. But in this nanny-state there's no way that would fly.
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Hey, I've got no problem with kids doing cleaning. But in this nanny-state there's no way that would fly.
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What surprised me was that the feisty women on the team (Stella, Jo and Liz) didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with the Stepford Wife style of the Octiclean advert.
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It wasn't fashion. D'you think they cared?
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