And yet... I didn't like it at first but, almost unheard of for an ad, it's growing on me.
As for the BT ads, get used to them - they're currently employing well-known writers to brainstorm new directions for our lovable telephone-obsessed family.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Marcello?
― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 6 November 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
it never really occurred to me that someone actually sits down and writes that crap. probably takes about 6 months to write a 30 second ad.
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
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― benrique (Enrique), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
salman rushdie famously started as a copywriter. 'naughty but nice' etc.
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Details of a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority over 'Miracle Spring Water': http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_42553.htm
I particularly like: "They believed that no-one had ordered the products as a result of the broadcasts".
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh. Anyone seen the advert (I think it's for Heineken or Kronenbourg - some foreign beer anyway) with the woman in the bath with the lobster? The concept is not funny, not even remotely, it's just fucking crap but the scene with the lobster is actually repellent, there's something creepy and obscene about it, it fair made my flesh crawl, I'm tellin' ya.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Also that advert with the woodpecker peckin' on the side of the guy's head with the smug waiter WHO IS IN ABOUT 1000 OTHER ADVERTS at the moment - get a proper job, dickhead!
― Tom D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:11 (sixteen years ago) link
It is creepy (the Heineken ad). But more than that it's just crap.
See it here... http://www.duncans.tv/2007/heineken-lobster (NSFTomD)
...and read hilarious Marketing Director as he explains it.. With our new campaign we’re targeting successful, well travelled, male urbanites who, like a growing number of consumers, are seeking out more authentic and individual brands and experiences.”
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
taht car ad that rips off <insert any indie pop song>
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate that lobster one as well. It's for Heineken. I hate the creepy lobster, but I also hate the idea of "hey, Brits, stop whining that we put a head on your beer and so you got less beer for your money. It's European!"
I also hate those FUCKING memory hotel ads, and they are on ALL THE TIME. Clearly someone spent a huge amount of money on them, and they're just rubbish. I had to see the first one three times before I understood the concept.
Also, as I said on another thread, the Ariel ads suggesting that people turn to 30 degrees on their washing machine. Fine, except that the woman in the ad blatantly turns her washing machine to something other than 30 degrees. Stupid.
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The advert with the two guys chained on the gates outside a factory - I realise this must have been a rush job for the advertising agency after the Mastication For the Nation campaign got pulled but, nonetheless, LAME-O. I've got a horrible feeling the waiter from the woodpecker advert might be in this one too...
― Tom D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
don't diss folks in ads Tom D it's silly money for little work. allegedly.
― acrobat, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:30 (sixteen years ago) link
bILL hICKS TO THREAD.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oOPS CAPS off...
I know that but it annoys me seeing the same faces in different adverts.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
it annoys me when TV presenters are on more than one channel e.g. Lauren Laverne on BBC's The Culture Show trying to get a rise out of Dizzee Rascal, and then next week Lauren Laverne on C4's Transmission trying to get a rise out of Dizzee Rascal.
the lobster ad doesn't seem THAT bad. not as bad as the beer ad a few years back with the woman getting her husband to clean the house with his tongue, or countless other tacky beer ads.
can't think of any good recent beer ads. bring back the talking John Smiths horses etc.
― blueski, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Worst beer ad slogan "mannen weten waarom" (men know why) for Jupiler. GRRRRRR.
― nathalie, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
During my recent brief visit to the states I saw an advert for a bank or aftershave or something I dunno, which used, without any apparent irony, the song with the following lyrics:
Stop wasting my time You know what I want You know what I need Or maybe you don't Do I have to come right Flat out and tell you everything? Gimme some money Gimme some money
If you recognise the song hopefully you will share my WHAT THE SHIT sentiments.
― ledge, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh ok it was by The Thamesman aka Spinal Tap (originally, they used a cover in the ad).
― ledge, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Lick the lid of life"!!
One of the ads is exrEMELY Creepy!!
― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
WATER SPORTS, GOAT CHEESE PIZZA, HEROIN AND CHEVROLET
― David R., Friday, 13 July 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
?!
Also the plethora of ads dredging up obscure novelty songs from the earlier decades of the last century, like that blubba blubba whatever tongue wobbling one for car insurance, or the yankee choir singing about april showers for some mobile telco - CUT IT OUT. Christ it's not even as if I would particularly hate the songs normally but being forced to listen to the same 30 second snippets over and over again...
― ledge, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I have recently seen Kevin Trudeau's informercial _Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About_ . I thought that shit, that is more than stupid lies - it was criminally irresponsible, was b& from tv everywhere....... if i see it again I'll remember the channel and join the multitude of official complaints.
― Sébastien, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i seriously have no idea for the appeal of the cadbury ad. it's NOTHING
i'm really sorry for bringing it up here, but my work colleague has pushed me into it by blabbering on about how she's a member of some stupid facebook or myspace group dedicated to the 'brilliant and hilarious' ape.
omg shoot world now
― Ste, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
agree. what's the big deal?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. Plus I've only just realised it's an ad for chocolate.
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:31 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a gorilla playing some drums. It does make me wonder what it is you look for from your ads? Information on the excellent product being hawked? Do you like Cillit Bang?
I agree though that I don't see why Cadburys, of all people, went for this ad. There are many "quirkier" brands, or brands who might seek to be leftfield in some way, who could have done something similar. But Cadburys? What benefit do they get from this kind of "edgy" "credibility"?
― Mark C, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
It does make me wonder what it is you look for from your ads?
Advertising agency awards I imagine. Don't know what the companies actually paying for the ads think they're getting.
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want anything from ads really -- but why the fuss over this entirely average ad?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Also I am sooooooooooooooooo fed up hearing adverts with drippy nu-folk troubadours on the soundtrack... fuck off you useless hippy cunts, the 60s was 40 years ago!
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Banhart can go fuck himself.
As for the drumming ape- I imagine people who enjoy it sit at home clapping their hands in idiotic delight, while shouting "Gorilla! Gorilla!"
― Neil S, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:44 (sixteen years ago) link
But Cadburys? What benefit do they get from this kind of "edgy" "credibility"?
People willing to overlook their betrayal of their Quaker origins, by outsourcing jobs abroad so they can sell off land at huge profit for housing?
― aldo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the Cadburys ad. Well, I've only seen it once, but I laughed.
― Ronan, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it even supposed to be funny?
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess in a way that ad execs believe to be ironic and edgy, i.e. not at all. The attempted rehabilitation of baked bean head Collins is another of its crimes.
― Neil S, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
It is pretty funny. Why would it be ironic/edgy? Or how does it betray an attempt to be such things? That's just pure projection.
It is a gorilla beating a drumkit. It has nothing to do with the product. What's edgy or ironic about it? It's just abstract and slapstick and stupid.
― Ronan, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Edgy? Has this word changed its meaning without anyone telling me or something?
― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not saying I think it's edgy! I suppose I'm projecting, but I can imagine an ad exec pitching it to Cadburys as edgy, insofar as it doesn't reference the product at all, apart from the colour scheme and typography.
― Neil S, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link