― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
They think the line is so clever they make her say "ICS you can" about ten times in the one advert.
It makes me want to weep.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
The "did you feel something?" ad for Wilkinson Sword or whoever - razors seem to be the new chewing gum in unwatchable advert stakes.
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Combo of cliched corvette-owning jerk plus overstyled yuppie apt plus woman in role of smug manipulative killjoy really put me off! I think this is a commercial for insurance, but I'm not even sure of that.
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gav, Monday, 1 May 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ad/adidas/ukcountdown_220x85_122005.swf
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought it was for the Yellow Pages...
Anyway, what about the latest Mini Baby Bell thing, with a central casting model woman (dressed like one of the Angels from Captain Scarlet) throwing some cheese out of a plane so some geeky, gropy skydivers leap out after them, but the geekiest one of all fails to catch his and it lands on a remote-control flatbed truck that an evil-looking Scandinavian boy drives away while cackling, forcing the parachutist to chase after it on foot through a giant concrete pipe only for his chute to get caught up in the pipe making him fall flat on his arse while the evil-looking Scandinavian boy eats the cheese and laughs even more madly than before?
What the fuck is that all about?
Meanwhile, Sheila's Wheels continues...
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link
AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
― hejira, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Dreadlocked white man: We bin hunnymoonin' 'bout fifteen years mon.
Me: So how come your passport hasn't expired?
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
I hate them.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― indolent girl (indolent girl), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Too right. How many times have they shown that promo for "Two and a Half Men" ??? The extent of Charlie Sheen's surgery makes me want to retch!!
― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Totally otm. I've also been reduced to shouting at the telly recently by the jaffa cake advert with the woman stuck down a well and the new one for bogroll with some kind of balm on it ("I'm a bit of a clean freak" etc). Jebus, these are bad.
― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 12 May 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
"Ti amo"
― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway the point is that THEN there is another one by Zurich insurance "what happens" that talks also about the future, and how you can't predict weird things that happen. Uses an instrumental version of the same tune, and a few shots are inside a car! made me almost think it's the same advert until like right at the end it was like insurance wot!
co-incidence?
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I doubt that was their motivation
― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
that's exactly what i was thinking needed posting to this thread. especially the one with the fish-faced woman and her accent.
― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Should Craig Cash now follow the Jay Leno/Doritos procedure as outlined by Bill Hicks?
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
They are frosties. They're all right. they aren't worth going down the street about. And in any case, you wake up, go downstaris, and have breakfast. Where's he been? Where's he going? Is he anticipating the next morning's cereal? Why would he do that? And is Ian Dury's estate getting royalties for the blatant ripoff of "I want to be straight"? Or is it his just reward for ripping "ello tosh got a toshiba" and paying Alexei Sayle nowt?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
My pet hate, though I strongly suspect it is just me, is the current one for the Scottish Tourist Board/visitscotland. It shows a young and good-looking couple having a grown-up and good-looking coupley type city break - in a hotel room, in a restaurant, walking around, etc. It is clearly, to my having-lived-there-since-I-was-a-teensy-ailsa eyes, shot in Inverness. I imagine this is not clear to anyone who hasn't been to Inverness, as the back of the castle and the Greig Street Bridge aren't quite indicative of Scottish City Breaks as, say, Edinburgh Castle. Yet nowhere in the ad does it go "this lovely fun and vibrant place is Inverness, please come and visit it", it just says "have a city break in Scotland". So you think "I'm yer target audience, young, handsome, fond of fine wines and good food, I must go and have a break somewhere like, ooh, Scotland", guess where it is, wrongly, and you end up having a shite time in Dundee.
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link