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
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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
who is a more preferable role model to your nuts reading 18-30 male, goofy looking guy who is good at golf/tennis or footballer who women would like to fuck?
― what U cry 4 (jim), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
a woman might wanna get a man a razor
that seat advert is all-time FOAD
― country matters, Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a few adverts now that have some kind of awful drippy neo-avant-folk warbling rubbish on their soundtracks that force me to dive to hit the mute button whenever they come on.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
that's not the worst of the gilette adverts (although it is terrible, 'i never think about yesterday'), the worst one is where they are bullying that poor bloke by firing tennis balls at him whilst he's trying to shave.
o_O at that orangina advert though.
― koogs, Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
all "you have to be INSANE to produce a car like this" then a fucking shitty mundane family hatchback appears at the end, like a bad joke told by idiots
― country matters, Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
There's that new Renault advert that goes "remember when you said you'd never buy a Renault?", because it a) implies that Renaults were once shite, b) further implies that now they're not shite. Hint: they are more shite than ever, evidenced by the new model Megane which looks like every nondescript family car currently being made.
― snoball, Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
There's that new Renault advert that goes "remember when you said you'd never buy a Renault?"
I, mentally, say "no" every time I hear that
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like that other advert about "your house smelling of fish"... but it doesn't
Adverts are crap if they do not 'advertise', right?
Still like the Lydon one.
The Lenny Premierinn one is alright, it's where I end up living when I'm away. Hey, it could have been worse.
The Orangina one is pretty dumb/doesnotwork. The Renault/dubbing one is poor/cheap.
xpost the kids are both "ha, dad, did you ever say that? did yer? ay?" and I go "Anyone fancy walking to school tomorrow, hmm?"
Apart from that, the rest I do not care for or against.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Out of these ten the one which still reeks most of Pass The Hat/Pull The Trigger is the Lenny Henry Premier Inns one. Why oh why oh why &c.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
His career was going so well too
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
It was poor old Hazell I felt sorry for.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Henry: "I've found something that's small time"snoball: "Your career prospects?"Henry: "There's nothing small time about my career. This Christmas I'll be presenting another hilarious show featuring two year old clips from YouTube."
― snoball, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh hold on, is this Thierry or Lenny we're talking about here?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I imagine him turning to his agent and saying, "Why don't you just put the gun to my head right now..."
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
They must have been mentioned before, but the WKD 'Do you have a wicked side?' commercials cause a dull, wrenching pain in my sternum.
Trying to sustain the pretense that their target buyers are not young teenagers but absolute twats so juvenile their taste buds will only accept alcohol in the form of fizzy pop.
― GamalielRatsey, Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link