I really want that car
But do i deserve it
No because you are annoying me
So either buy the car or Shut up
But do i deserve it
No because you are annoying me
So either buy the car or Shut up
Worst advert on TV at the moment (Part 12)
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Originally Posted by Istvan:
“I had a girlfriend who had a rabbit called Buggsie, he would drink one's tea, when he couldn't get his nose into the mug, he would knock over the mug and lap it up off the carpet”
“I had a girlfriend who had a rabbit called Buggsie, he would drink one's tea, when he couldn't get his nose into the mug, he would knock over the mug and lap it up off the carpet”
Ours steals food, if you dont give him a morsel off your dinner he will jump up and take it.
He was rescued when he was in a bad way, and I was told that stealing food is a thing for rescued animals - probably not just rabbits.
However when a - supposedly vegetarian - rabbit has climbed his way up onto the dining table and is ripping the skin off a chicken leg and troughing it down before you can stop him - you do start to wonder if you are a bad owner.
He also goes mad if we eat "meaty" crisps - he starts sniffing the air, then jumps up onto your lap and tries to stick his head in the bag.
Just saw the new Prostrate Cancer ad.....ffs why cannot they just do an info ad without all the crap?
Originally Posted by Istvan:
“how CAN an animal as small as a cat stretch out on a king sized bed to leave only JUST enough room to sleep very uncomfortably”
“how CAN an animal as small as a cat stretch out on a king sized bed to leave only JUST enough room to sleep very uncomfortably”
Very easily, if mine are anything to go by
Originally Posted by eviled2010:
“Just saw the new Prostrate Cancer ad.....ffs why cannot they just do an info ad without all the crap?”
“Just saw the new Prostrate Cancer ad.....ffs why cannot they just do an info ad without all the crap?”
If you mean to one with the 'yoof' telling his Dad to go get checked out, then absolutely!
So awful, words cant describe it.
It makes it look like the mens prostate cancer is a trivial thing.
Back in late 1999 Channel 4 wanted to make a special programme celebrating the 'Top 100 TV adverts of the 20th Century'. So Channel 4 commissioned a poll of some of the top UK ad men (executives, directors, writers, song/jingle writers ect) that would be used to come up with the collective Top 100 Uk ads of all time.
The next step was to take this list of Top 100 ads and let the British Public vote for the most popular. In effect the Ad mens top 100 ads, but ranked by the public.
At this point Channel 4 got a sponsorship deal for the show with The Times newspaper, so Channel 4 ran the online poll on its website and The Times printed off a 'voting slip' and enclosed it with an edition of the Sunday Time.
Come January 2000 the poll closes and Channel 4 starts to edit the show together (in the order that the public has voted). Here is the publics top 5:-
5th - Boddingtons (Melanie Sykes Ice Cream truck) - first aired July 1997
4th - Electric Central Heating (Creature Comforts ad) - aired 1988-1991 approx
3rd - Tango (Slappy Orange Man) - first aired 1992
2nd - Cadbury's Smash (The Smash Martians) - first aired 1973
1st - Guinness (Horses & Surfers) - first aired in May 1999
Therefore the greatest advert, as voted by the British Public (voting was between November 1999 & January 2000) was one that was aired within the last 6 months.
Now the Guinness 'Horses & Surfers' advert is a very good ad, but was it (even at the time) the best UK advert of all time.Personally I would say no and I'm sure the only reason it won the popular vote was because the advert was fresh in people mind.
I'm willing to bet that if the show was being made today then the great British public would vote that bloody Meerkat for Compare the Market as number 1 advert of all time.
I'm sure most people will be aware of the old Creature Comforts Electricity ads, the old 'You Know when you've been Tango'd' adverts and the old 'For Mash Get Smash' ads.
But how many of you can truely remember (without looking up on youtube first) the Mel Sykes Ice-Cream truck ad for Boddington's or the 'Horses & Surfers' ad for Guinness?
The next step was to take this list of Top 100 ads and let the British Public vote for the most popular. In effect the Ad mens top 100 ads, but ranked by the public.
At this point Channel 4 got a sponsorship deal for the show with The Times newspaper, so Channel 4 ran the online poll on its website and The Times printed off a 'voting slip' and enclosed it with an edition of the Sunday Time.
Come January 2000 the poll closes and Channel 4 starts to edit the show together (in the order that the public has voted). Here is the publics top 5:-
5th - Boddingtons (Melanie Sykes Ice Cream truck) - first aired July 1997
4th - Electric Central Heating (Creature Comforts ad) - aired 1988-1991 approx
3rd - Tango (Slappy Orange Man) - first aired 1992
2nd - Cadbury's Smash (The Smash Martians) - first aired 1973
1st - Guinness (Horses & Surfers) - first aired in May 1999
Therefore the greatest advert, as voted by the British Public (voting was between November 1999 & January 2000) was one that was aired within the last 6 months.
Now the Guinness 'Horses & Surfers' advert is a very good ad, but was it (even at the time) the best UK advert of all time.Personally I would say no and I'm sure the only reason it won the popular vote was because the advert was fresh in people mind.
I'm willing to bet that if the show was being made today then the great British public would vote that bloody Meerkat for Compare the Market as number 1 advert of all time.
I'm sure most people will be aware of the old Creature Comforts Electricity ads, the old 'You Know when you've been Tango'd' adverts and the old 'For Mash Get Smash' ads.
But how many of you can truely remember (without looking up on youtube first) the Mel Sykes Ice-Cream truck ad for Boddington's or the 'Horses & Surfers' ad for Guinness?
Originally Posted by BlueEyedMrsP:
“I'd switch to O2 in a heartbeat if all my texts were read in Sean Bean's voice.
”
“I'd switch to O2 in a heartbeat if all my texts were read in Sean Bean's voice.
”
Me too. Or Julian Barratt
I am now fed up with the Meerkats/Macaulay Culkin; the silly Maltesers woman who can't remember whether she did more than just snog; Vodafone 'YES!!', and the one for whatever it is where they tear up the bills and throw them about causing an awful lot of litter!
Originally Posted by Futurama-Fan:
“The next step was to take this list of Top 100 ads and let the British Public vote for the most popular. In effect the Ad mens top 100 ads, but ranked by the public.”
“The next step was to take this list of Top 100 ads and let the British Public vote for the most popular. In effect the Ad mens top 100 ads, but ranked by the public.”
I had always wondered how they put these lists together and wondered who TF voted for some of them that they even appeared, even if only down at no.97. This explains a *lot*.
Quote:
“But how many of you can truely remember (without looking up on youtube first) the Mel Sykes Ice-Cream truck ad for Boddington's or the 'Horses & Surfers' ad for Guinness?”
“But how many of you can truely remember (without looking up on youtube first) the Mel Sykes Ice-Cream truck ad for Boddington's or the 'Horses & Surfers' ad for Guinness?”
I remember the 'o sole mio' version for Boddingtons (That Gladys Althorp, she never buys her own) which excellently spoofed the Cornetto style ads, and the Guinness Horses one just struck me as being weirdly pretentious and I just didn't get it at all.
Presumably the lists did feature Carling, Hamlet and Irn Bru near the top, with Flake in the soft-porn subcategory...?
Originally Posted by nan_tha:
“I am now fed up with the Meerkats/Macaulay Culkin; the silly Maltesers woman who can't remember whether she did more than just snog; Vodafone 'YES!!', and the one for whatever it is where they tear up the bills and throw them about causing an awful lot of litter!”
“I am now fed up with the Meerkats/Macaulay Culkin; the silly Maltesers woman who can't remember whether she did more than just snog; Vodafone 'YES!!', and the one for whatever it is where they tear up the bills and throw them about causing an awful lot of litter!”
Macaulaey Culkin gives me the creeps. And I never approved of the meerkat bolox
Interesting that it was the Ad men who came up with the top 100. I imagine it would have been from the professional, artistic point of view rather than how successful the ad was deemed to be.
I recall the memorable and very atmospheric cigarette advert 'You're never alone with a Strand'. It had the actor Terence Brook walking through the empty streets at night, looking lonely and brooding, lighting up a fag, all shot in black and white. By all accounts the sales of Strand took a nose dive because smokers didn't want to be seen as sad loners! Nevertheless, it was a great ad!
I recall the memorable and very atmospheric cigarette advert 'You're never alone with a Strand'. It had the actor Terence Brook walking through the empty streets at night, looking lonely and brooding, lighting up a fag, all shot in black and white. By all accounts the sales of Strand took a nose dive because smokers didn't want to be seen as sad loners! Nevertheless, it was a great ad!
Originally Posted by TracerTong:
“If you mean to one with the 'yoof' telling his Dad to go get checked out, then absolutely!
So awful, words cant describe it.
It makes it look like the mens prostate cancer is a trivial thing.”
“If you mean to one with the 'yoof' telling his Dad to go get checked out, then absolutely!
So awful, words cant describe it.
It makes it look like the mens prostate cancer is a trivial thing.”
I saw that ad sometime ago and was not impressed, I thought that it was patronising and degrading to people who like me have got prostate cancr
Originally Posted by Steve9214:
“Ours steals food, if you dont give him a morsel off your dinner he will jump up and take it.
He was rescued when he was in a bad way, and I was told that stealing food is a thing for rescued animals - probably not just rabbits.
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“Ours steals food, if you dont give him a morsel off your dinner he will jump up and take it.
He was rescued when he was in a bad way, and I was told that stealing food is a thing for rescued animals - probably not just rabbits.
.”
not just animals, when I was 6 or 7 years just after the war, I remember someone who had been a prisoner of the Japanese, he used to sneak bread rolls off the table when no one was looking, even though there was plenty of food, as a child I never understood, about 10 years later after I had been in a prison camp myself, THEN I understood, to this day I never leave any food on my plate and am very annoyed with kids who do, when I kept a guest house with my second wife we had two nigerian sisters who loaded up their plates and then only ate about half the food, to me it is a crime to throw away food, in France it is illegal for Supermarkets to throw away food, it has to be offered to charities or used for animal food, as one who has used the Foyers pour les sans abris, I say well done France why can't the UK do likewise
Oh god, Clearscore have managed to make an even worse ad! This time involving a chicken goujon and a cat with a weird Mexican accent.
Originally Posted by albion-mad-nick:
“Oh god, Clearscore have managed to make an even worse ad! This time involving a chicken goujon and a cat with a weird Mexican accent.”
“Oh god, Clearscore have managed to make an even worse ad! This time involving a chicken goujon and a cat with a weird Mexican accent.”
but Senor, I DO own the whole house entender, mi casa es mi casa
Originally Posted by heiker:
“What advertising industry bright spark dreamt up the idea of fronting the latest Heineken Advert with a Fred West lookalike
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“What advertising industry bright spark dreamt up the idea of fronting the latest Heineken Advert with a Fred West lookalike
”
The real Fred West is busy doing ads for Rightmove.
Originally Posted by ATNotts:
“Nick Grey has invented a hedge trimmer - gawd help us! Is there no end to his talents??
Mind you, one false move with that extension and he'll have the dog's head off, which'll mean he'll have to find someone else to play with in the garden - or else he'll have even more time to invent another "must have" product!!”
“Nick Grey has invented a hedge trimmer - gawd help us! Is there no end to his talents??
Mind you, one false move with that extension and he'll have the dog's head off, which'll mean he'll have to find someone else to play with in the garden - or else he'll have even more time to invent another "must have" product!!”
RePet - from Arnie's movie, The 6th Day!
Originally Posted by eviled2010:
“Just saw the new Prostrate Cancer ad.....ffs why cannot they just do an info ad without all the crap?”
“Just saw the new Prostrate Cancer ad.....ffs why cannot they just do an info ad without all the crap?”
Well, what else is up there?
Three for me today:
1 - The TSB commercial: the one where a mother gives the most half-hearted push on a merry-go-round, then shrugs her shoulders - as if to say, "I can't push any harder" - when the kids understandably look up at her after moving a few inches.
2 - That commercial where that girl is missing one sticker from her album and her father goes to extreme lengths to get it, including considering paying an inflated price on not-eBay for it. Presumably the company who makes the album doesn't have the ability to send off for the stickers you're missing.
3 - The new Carphone Warehouse ad. What the hell did the good people of Dubai do to be inflicted with Keith Lemmon.
1 - The TSB commercial: the one where a mother gives the most half-hearted push on a merry-go-round, then shrugs her shoulders - as if to say, "I can't push any harder" - when the kids understandably look up at her after moving a few inches.
2 - That commercial where that girl is missing one sticker from her album and her father goes to extreme lengths to get it, including considering paying an inflated price on not-eBay for it. Presumably the company who makes the album doesn't have the ability to send off for the stickers you're missing.
3 - The new Carphone Warehouse ad. What the hell did the good people of Dubai do to be inflicted with Keith Lemmon.
Originally Posted by Randysback:
“EE/BT sport
As if wooden football managers and players aren't rich enough, can we perhaps charge less for our phone calls instead of paying a manager thousands to say "Bidily Bong"”
“EE/BT sport
As if wooden football managers and players aren't rich enough, can we perhaps charge less for our phone calls instead of paying a manager thousands to say "Bidily Bong"”
Dilly-ding dilly-dong, that's our Claudio
Originally Posted by EStaffs90:
“Three for me today:
1 - The TSB commercial: the one where a mother gives the most half-hearted push on a merry-go-round, then shrugs her shoulders - as if to say, "I can't push any harder" - when the kids understandably look up at her after moving a few inches.
2 - That commercial where that girl is missing one sticker from her album and her father goes to extreme lengths to get it, including considering paying an inflated price on not-eBay for it. Presumably the company who makes the album doesn't have the ability to send off for the stickers you're missing.
3 - The new Carphone Warehouse ad. What the hell did the good people of Dubai do to be inflicted with Keith Lemmon.”
“Three for me today:
1 - The TSB commercial: the one where a mother gives the most half-hearted push on a merry-go-round, then shrugs her shoulders - as if to say, "I can't push any harder" - when the kids understandably look up at her after moving a few inches.
2 - That commercial where that girl is missing one sticker from her album and her father goes to extreme lengths to get it, including considering paying an inflated price on not-eBay for it. Presumably the company who makes the album doesn't have the ability to send off for the stickers you're missing.
3 - The new Carphone Warehouse ad. What the hell did the good people of Dubai do to be inflicted with Keith Lemmon.”
I must have seen half a dozen different ads now, over the last couple of years, with a young girl and a dad, desperate to do/ buy her whatever she wants.
Is this signs of a culture? So we can look forward to an even more spoilt generation in a few years. Nice.
Originally Posted by JohnnyForget
The three MoneySupermarket.com adverts, the first featuring a "strutter" (a middle-aged man in tight shorts and high heels sticking his backside out in what would be a very provocative way were he a young woman), the second a "strutter" and a "builder" and the third several "strutters" and "builders" prancing around to some of the most appalling contemporary R&B music I've ever heard in my life.
This would be BANNED if it were FEMALES as Porno
The three MoneySupermarket.com adverts, the first featuring a "strutter" (a middle-aged man in tight shorts and high heels sticking his backside out in what would be a very provocative way were he a young woman), the second a "strutter" and a "builder" and the third several "strutters" and "builders" prancing around to some of the most appalling contemporary R&B music I've ever heard in my life.
This would be BANNED if it were FEMALES as Porno
Might have been mentioned before, but that grandfather and granddaughter in the kitchen, making stupid faces.
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