― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
2 The fabric conditioner one where the people are made out of - duh - fabric. It is disturbing to look at 'people' made out of fabric, and in fact they look horribly disfigured, like burns victims or people with hypothermia.
― Ellie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)
― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Blimey, isn't it usually the other way round?
― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Wine ads infest the London Underground system. That and ads for ten- week 'philosophy' courses.
― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Must. Calm. Down.
― Jonnie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Lambrini girls are classic. As David Bell, chief executive of Cheetham Bell JWT, which devised the campaign said:
"It is a drink for salt-of-the-earth girls to drink before they go out, maybe while chatting or putting their make-up on. While they do that, they probably crack jokes about their boyfriends. I've never heard of any men being offended by these ads. They're quite clearly just a bit of fun.'
Who'd have thought that one day computers would allow us to watch adverts at work
― Nick, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Millions of years of evolution and THIS is what they expect us to aspire to.
― Trevor, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Anna, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I LOVE the Link advert, but I'm prepared to accept it's for similar "ah - a good old fashioned cheery crappy ad" reasons as my fondness for the never updated Argos campaign.
creepy animated babies who discuss personal finance.
Ooh yes - that's the original 'I have to change channels cause this makes me nauseous' ad. Apparently Madchen's gran loves it cause it reminds her of Madchen's dad at a similar age.
― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Pervert.
Actually, this reminds me of a girl I used to know who said she loved dentist drills.
Any ad where the magic of Animatronics allows toddlers or animals to SPEAK. GRRRRRR!
Any ad on Channel 5 which shows exactly what media buyers think of the viewers, eg debt ones, dial LAWYERS ones, old folks' maladies and life insurance ones. All the most awfyul American imports of the ages in one break from Family Affairs omnibus when I am hung over and de-motivated. SCREEEEEE!
― suzy, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
God I hate that it is SO CONTRIVED who would say 'shall I take the old thing away' you'd say 'shall I take the old one / old telly away'. Only then of course the hilarious punchline wouldn't work.
― Emma, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mark C, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
There are many ambiguous things they could ask that would be better than 'shall I take the old thing away?'. How about 'shall I take this old pile of shit away?' or 'this isn't much use to you know - shall I take it away?' or 'do you want me to get rid of your husband?' ('husband' is slang for TV set in Berkshire)
What kinda of messed up message is this? Blowing your last two quid on a happy meal for someone else? I mean the kid could have at least had got his dad to pay for it! (you get the thanks without incurring financial hardship = crafty!)
― james, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Arthur, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Chrysler is one of company's clients, and believe me the only thing any of them would ever get misty eyed about is the idea of spending an extra dime. If they could make a crappy car out of nerf and sell it for a profit they would.
Also, Maura's Chrysler ad is really bad as well. Someone shoot their ad agency.
I don't have anything against Chrysler really, but their commercials are bad. BMW are 100 times worse to deal with as a client but their commercials are clever.
― Nicole, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthonyeaston, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
is that who it is doing the baby voice on e.g. the Cadbury's ice cream ads? because hell yes it's murder-inducing
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:34 (two weeks ago) link
Verisure seem to have changed tack with more professional adverts with proper actors - well, a red haired Irish woman who I recognize but who is not the red haired Irish woman sitting on the bog in an incontinence pad advert.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:38 (one week ago) link
Advertisers love red hair.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:39 (one week ago) link
feel like there was a time when this lady was in every other ad on UK TV, but I've seen less of her recently
https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/614602985-8ae6e05b3ad3eb7460bcf09d04b65d6922995db21c86f017382d1f921ccb4deb-d
there was also a period where there were a lot of ads featuring the nerdy guy from PhoneShop (whose dad was Mr Bennett the caretaker in Take Hart and also wrote the second series of Captain Zep - Space Detective)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 11:03 (one week ago) link
i thought verisure woman was old RobotWars woman. although given that she was on strictly and has the morning breakfast show on virgin radio i'm surprised verisure can afford her. (angela scanlon)
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:24 (one week ago) link
I'm sure it's her and I'd noticed the change in production values although the script itself is still weird and unpleasant
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:31 (one week ago) link
Confused.com smug whistlers can get to fuck.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:52 (one week ago) link
Ah right, Angela Scanlon, I knew I recognized her. I don't want to seem like I've got something against Irish women but I really hate those Fairy washing powder (I think) adverts with the glamorous blonde Irish woman and her fake baby, there's something incredibly smug about her.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 13:36 (one week ago) link
they edited those down as well i think. 'always close with a click-clack' is now missing the '-clack'
always keep away from children.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:59 (one week ago) link
i assumed those Fairy ads are some kind of Instagram/ influencer woman because of how unnatural she is, but obviously not bothered enough to Google it
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:45 (one week ago) link
i asked above. but have forgotten the answer.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:12 (one week ago) link
Trish knows
Worst TV adverts of the moment
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:14 (one week ago) link
it starts with an engineer... who walks like a robot and talks like a robot.
― koogs, Thursday, 30 May 2024 20:34 (one week ago) link
Yeah, her name is Vogue Williams. She and Joanne McNally off Taskmaster have a podcast called My Therapist Ghosted Me, which is insanely popular among basic bitches.
― trishyb, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:09 (one week ago) link
I noticed that too. I'm guessing it's because the packs are made of cardboard now, so they don't make that noise anymore.
― trishyb, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:10 (one week ago) link
I think I was at school with a girl called Joanne McNally... or Joanna.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:15 (one week ago) link
the shell advert annoys me more for the greenwashing aspect than the robot aspect. and the last shot where the bed covers close in from both sides with an obvious join in the middle and then cut to a shot with no join. it felt like it was shown in every single ad break i saw yesterday.
― koogs, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:09 (one week ago) link
This isn't actually a terrible advert but every single time it comes on I think he says "I am disabled" at the start.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpGIQDF2s8
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 22:03 (two days ago) link