Anyone who likes 'the message' by grandmaster flash: don't watch the KIA ad I implore you!
― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK3Xz8QrEqQ
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Kids in the front room, OAPs in the backLib/Cons in the alley trying to increase VATI tried to get away, but I couldn't get far'cause Kia make stupid piece-of-shit cars
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
huhhuh huhhuh
Just saw the Yell advert. Don't understand the haterz tbh, I thought it was kinda sweet.
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Fuck that Virgin Mobile ad that has some voiceover guy speaking the lyrics to 'House Of Fun' by Madness.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
read this thread and you'll find out about the bad adverts
― conrad, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
more than freeman
― conrad, Saturday, 26 February 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm never eating Jammy Dodgers again
― koogs, Friday, 6 May 2011 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Plusnet - "Good Honest Broadband From Yorkshire"
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Friday, 6 May 2011 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p93O4xfVag
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 19 September 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoX6l6klziU
I want the family in this to perish in a fire.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
Not a TV ad but..."There you are, streaming stuff like there's no tomorrow" but then some fucker tries to sell you Sky broadband.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Saturday, 21 January 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
Jennifer Saunders' 'Choccy Philly I'll Do Anything For Money Don't Be Silly' ad. When I want to smear excrement coloured chocolate gunk on bread, I buy a jar of Nutella, thank you very much. Also I have one of those purple plastic megaphones. Only £9.99 from Maplin, what a bargain.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
I can't tell if this is amazing or terrible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_TCZSQzrM
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
going for amazing... but hearing people repeating that, even once, would change my mind
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I saw that ad for the first time the other day. I'm going for terrible.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Going for terrible. Physically cringing here.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
The bit where he threw the tea out of the window was funny, they should have made the advert more like "oh, this tea is shite <throws tea out of window> what you want is... Aldi Cheap-o Tea!"
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
It's not shown outside Scotland, right? I assume giving it laldy isn't a concept familiar enough to hang a slogan on anywhere else?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
That volkswagen one at the moment showing haircuts, accessories etc supposedly from certain years in the past - it's not a terrible advert, but it seems to have been put together by people with no memory of life before the year 2000. The 'boombox' shot from 1995 is at least ten years out, same as the 70s style tennis video game.
― Let's Talk About Socks (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
These twinings adverts are extraordinary. I think I'm in love. With the adverts, the girl, walking on the beach, the sky, clouds, life itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChxzFDi2nWg
― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
this 404 link otoh breaks my heart
http://www.twinings.co.uk/about-twinings/latest-news/behind-the-scenes-with-charlene
― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:00 (twelve years ago) link
proper link here:http://www.twinings.co.uk/about-twinings/latest-news/all-about-charlene/behind-the-scenes-with-charlene
― koogs, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
Charlene does indeed manage to make it look completely effortless to produce such a beautiful voice and song.
And I'm so glad it has come to Twinings attention that women today juggle numerous roles on a day to day basis.
― ledge, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
why is that bull dressed up like something from dickens and talking like tim nice-but-dim to try and sell us curry sauce. does not compute.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
British Telecom have a broadband service called 'Infinity'. They've just started a new, faster service called... 'Infinity 2' Twice as much infinity as before!
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I get the Dulux one where they paint the room yellow & the son moves out. Is it meant to be too blinding for his daily hangovers?
― kinder, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
what's with that shaving ad where the guy goes around the world in 5 weeks but only needs one razor. first of all, people who do "around the world in 5 weeks" are neckbeards, no doubt about it. secondly, who are you selling this shit to!?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
how about those "Men at Work" commercials, where they're all standing against a blank set, "we could pretend this is a set" like they're some fuckin horrible improv troupe. "I'm chatting up only one lady...but she's the most beautiful lady in the room". "THAT'S MY MOM!!" "IM AT A BAR WITH MOM!" buuuurn, baby!! LOL
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ewNgmYLxI
yuck
― owenf, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZOPVbz21Gc
― owenf, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, using Philadelphia in those recipes a) costs more than and b) doesn't taste as good as using double cream and freshly grated parmesan.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone ever described their teeth as "squeaking clean".
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Not until that fucking advert, no. Could it be based on a "kiss this guy" style mishearing of "squeaky clean" by the creative responsible?
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-services-cleaners-cleaning-Thats-Squeaking-Clean-W0QQAdIdZ383638380
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.143763605643856.18074.142238095796407
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Invisigirl
^ and 19000 other idiots on google
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
and thusly language "evolves"
― korea opportunities (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
blooding ridiculous
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
fucky nell
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
forking caunts
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Been back in the UK for four weeks now and 'creamy but low in fat' is the most punchable ad ever made, even more than the Choo Choo Choo Trainline one.
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
"I just sold my car click click"
I just skipped your ad FUCK OFF
― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 5 July 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
Since that "She's always a woman" ad where a girl goes through all her life until she's a grandma.
Not nomming that one, that's pretty good. But: This ad would not work 'as is' for a guy, he needs some sort of 'achievement' or a different twist on the tale. (I did see a similar one to the first from a guy pov, shown once, can't remember the details, anyway..)
Eventually, a guy one, where the POV is of the daughter growing up, and even though the mum is around it's all the guy's pov (carrying upstairs a sleeping girl, inflating her swilling armbands, etc) until she leaves home for College in the VW her dad bought for her.
Not that one either..
It was the one I saw yesterday. National lottery.
An old woman looks back at how she used to be a brilliant runner but the war intervened and she had to go to work instead, a brief bit of her getting married and having kids, eventually the daughter (or granddaughter it must be it all went a bit quickly) is seen just about to start the race in the Olympics. It's supposed to be uplifting and how the lottery grant committee helps to fulfil ambitions. So why did it seem so depressing in the end?
Did anyone see this one? What kind of tree am I barking up here?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
swimming armbands, obv.
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
God yeah, I hate that one - there's nothing uplifting about having your dreams shattered but being all benign about it because someone else gets to do it for you 60 years later. There's one for a lawyer firm that's like that too, where some woman is burying her husband but it's all OK because a pregnant stranger smiles at her.
― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
uh? So, what, the pregstrang is the dead guy's affair or something?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's some "my husband is dead but hey! there's a random new baby on the way somewhere so I have accepted the circle of life" wise old woman shit.
― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
Those billboard Go Compare ads that look like they've been grafftied on. So many people have fallen for it and put it on Facebook.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
xpost oh ffs. "Hey widow! Get some perspective!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
current Phones 4 U tv ad is the greatest of all time btw
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link