"I'm the cashman" probably best advert ever.
― the next grozart, Saturday, 26 July 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Cashman sounds like an extremely low rent Batman villain.
― snoball, Saturday, 26 July 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
KILL EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS ABOMINATION: http://www.i-am-everyone.co.uk/home.php
― Neil S, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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can't believe i didn't raise the issue here myself
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a specific level of hell reserved for the people who conceive mobile phone adverts
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I am all the ILX posters I've zinged, and all the ones I'm yet to zing.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ self-zing
2. Implication that teamwork and community are a part of McDonalds "core brand values".
-- Bill A, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:33 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
Would say that they are.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Jont is a Twont, his sole purpose seems to be to make James Blunt, Chris Martin, and the guy from Travis slightly less punchable. FFS that Orange ad though - "I am the bloke I will meet travelling who will teach me to play the guitar" - er, no, by the look of him he'll teach you how to squeal like a pig, boy! I hardly watch TV anymore anyway, so it's "nice" to see what Orange are actually doing (making wanky TV ads) when they should be making with the fixing on their f***ing e-mail servers.
― snoball, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I would pay Orange not to have those people come round to my house, if I had to.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post
My poorly made point here was, I suppose, that surly 18 year old "Johnny No Stars" McDs staff (teamwork) and McDs general efforts to cram its grease-n-salt specials into as many mouths as possible (community) are perhaps not most honestly represented by men, women and children happily working together to make a garden.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe that's their new business model? Pay up, or we send the unutterably awful folk singers round to caterwaul in your living room?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Perhaps Orange's priorities should be:
1) fix the bottleneck problems at the e-mail server farm at smtp.0r4ng3h0m3.c0.uk so that people can, you know, actually send e-mail 2) fix d/l speeds so that someone who lives less than a mile from the exchange can maybe get somewhere near the advertised 8 meg 3) make some wanky TV commercials 4) send a public school trustafarian hipster with an acoustic guitar and a hat three sizes too small to people's houses
...instead of their current priorities which seem to be that list completely reversed...
― snoball, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
During all of my 32 years on this earth I hadn't once considered forcing my thumbs into my eye sockets to forcibly blind myself...until now. Not since Oedipus realised he was unlikely to win "Son Of The Year" has there been such a good reason to deny yourself the gift of sight. The rock star advert manages to offend on a number of levels. The song itself is predictably middle of the road and is at best only midly contemporary having been released in the UK in November 2007. However, this lazy approach at stradling popular culture pales into insignificance compared to the visual car crash that is the god awful bunch of performing monkeys who mime and play air guitar during the advert. Each one gives me a different reason to hate them - whether it's the funk-free black guy, the sexless desperate blonde, anoxeric coked-up brunette, fat gran or gay dad, watching each of them makes me convulse with embarrassment. I detest them all.
But more than anything, I hate myself for watching it. Well done DFS, you've hit a new low.
― conrad, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
from the dfs wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dfs_%28retailer%29
lol amazing
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Richard Hammond talking about meat while staring unblinkingly at the camera in a disturbingly creepy way
― snoball, Saturday, 2 August 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if Jont minds if your phone goes off in the middle of his song.
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 2 August 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
If your ringtone was by a rival acoustic folkster tossbag, that'd really put him off...
― snoball, Saturday, 2 August 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Did anyone catch this last night?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
That Linx advert where the guy's eyes go all funny creeps me out - also uncomfortably reminds me of a Jerry Sadowitz routine about blind people, "I hope it's not one of those ple with the boggly eyes that go all over the place"
― Tom D., Monday, 11 August 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) here it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvT7GiUUAvA
― snoball, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
missed the heart attack one but saw the orangina furries :(
― DG, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I shouldn't make light of it, as two of my grandparents died from heart disease, but it kind of makes having a heart attack look like the video to "Smack My Bitch Up". Except instead of a stripper, it's... Johnny Ball? Ade Edmondson? No, I got it, Steven Berkoff!
― snoball, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) Imagine if the adverts were mixed up? "having a heart attack is like furry pr0n" vs "drinking Orangina is like getting beaten up by Steven Berkoff"
― snoball, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
imagine him as a furry
― DG, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
crappy TV commercials are not a new thing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV5MnagQenc I think the guy doing the voiceover on the Corona ad is trying to impersonate Phil Silvers... This is fucking dreadful as well... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8dKSl3YLm0&feature=related ...become a miner, learn to impress the neighbours with the psychotic Fanny Craddock, or emigrate to Australia
― snoball, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
cactus kid crap
― conrad, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:36 (fifteen years ago) link
otm, "for people who don't like water", like that's a real viable demographic and not just some kind of bullshit pose (apologies to anyone here who "doesn't like water").
― ledge, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
the one where the girls make their dad dye his hair, because "he's ready and would be "a good catch". wtf is going on?
― stevie, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
-- stevie, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:48 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
That one was an eye opener. I came away with the conclusion that it was actually a very good ad.
― the next grozart, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Seat (car, not chair) advert with "crazy" employees doing zany stuff, soundtracked by an Avalanches rip-off.
― Neil S, Thursday, 28 August 2008 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Campaign Magazine's ten worst TV adverts of 2008.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't really argue with those, tho I still insist the John Lydon one isn't that bad
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Apart from anything else, the Gillette one annoys me because Thierry Henry is not even remotely in the same league as Tiger Woods and Roger Federer
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
in what sense?
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
As a sportsman
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
As an actor, he's better, I'll give him that
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
well football is a team game so you can't really stand-out as much as in golf or tennis but he's not exactly been unsuccessful.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
But he's never been considered the greatest in his sport at any given time, let alone a possible G.O.A.T. like the other two
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
He's not even the best footballer of his generation, let alone one of the best footballers of al time
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Although I dunno if an advert with Henry, Ian Poulter and Mardy Fish would have worldwide appeal.
― Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
In South America I seem to remember it being Kaká instead of Henry.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I think he deserves it more than Henry
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
in fact I'm talking crap it was Kaká with Rafa Marquez and some brazilian now that I think of it. Not the same campaign.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Henry probably as famous as the other two because he plays an almost universally popular sport and thus makes sense from a marketing point of view?
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Lydon/Country Life advert is fine
This new apparently global Mr Muscle advert is the worst of the year just for sheer lameness - not a patch on those old ones with the 'hilariously' weedy bespectacled guy
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
plus a lot of women I know fancy him while none fancy Federer or Tiger.
should've had real athlete Phil Taylor instead of Henry
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I see, this advert is aimed at the niche bearded lady market?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link