Adverts that irritate and entertain

[ashley b]

I noticed it earlier too, but they've changed a lyric, I'm sure. "Because he know's it won't spoil his appetite" has been changed to something else less memorable.

[Chie]

The Wine Gums 'set the juice loose!' advert came back last year as well, but it was only on for a few days. I don't know why they bothered.

[davidmcg]

Don't know if there is any Irish metropol members on here that can back me up on this but the Xtravision advert here will most likley top the lot. The ad is based on a shelf, with a coin rolling and dropping down it to the theme of

1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah'',
1 Movie - 1 Night - 1 Euro, 'how much was dah''.

Try hearing that 3 times a night before you take the euro and shove it into your ears to take away the pain.

[Pete]

The Wine Gums 'set the juice loose!' advert came back last year as well, but it was only on for a few days. I don't know why they bothered.

I recall seeing that one over the course of a month or so, twas longer than a few days

[davidmcg]

Here is the video (shortened I may add) for the xtravision post above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wUAPt0Lsvw

[Cache]

Here is the video (shortened I may add) for the xtravision post above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wUAPt0Lsvw

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My TV would actually have a hole in it if that came on.

[davidmcg]

Try seeing it three times during a movie, even saw it in a cinema before a film it's ridiculous.

[timgraham]

This one started a catch phrase which has become more or less universal here ('not happy, jan').

These I'm sharing because they're a bit lame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szquediegmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJnRStDRNw

I'm thinking perhaps a moratorium on rapping in ad campaigns..

[Chie]

There's a Digital Switchover advert featuring the 14 year old paralympic swimmer Eleanor Simmonds that's been on now and then during the early hours recently. I can't find the advert on YouTube, but there's an article that explains it very well here

The trail illustrates how people can be high achievers in some areas and need some help in others, whatever their abilities or disabilities. It shows Eleanor in her home, apparently talking to a television interviewer about her achievements in Beijing. The interviewer says he couldn’t do what she’s done, to which Eleanor replies that she couldn’t do what he does, because “It looks a bit fiddly.”

Now I have a couple of problems with this advert.

The interviewer could do what she's done, especially by virtue of the fact that he's an able bodied person, and could easily learn to be a competetive swimmer if he really wanted to. There are no barriers that would prevent him from achieving this whatsoever.

The swimmer is 14 years old. Surely, in reality, her parents would be the ones buying a Freeview box and plugging it in for her??

I'm sorry to come over all 'Daily Mail' again, but this advert just seems like nothing more than a patronising exercise in political correctness from start to finish, in my view.

[cdd]

I noticed it earlier too, but they've changed a lyric, I'm sure. "Because he know's it won't spoil his appetite" has been changed to something else less memorable.

Sorry for taking my time here but I've just seen the ad and it is shit, shit like milky ways are.

See the original ad had as its big idea the fact that milky ways don't have many calories (or something like that) and so, you see, the blue car can go speeding along while the red car dies. But they've changed the focus of the product since, so they've removed all mentions to that in the ad (such as that line, and the sign at the end). Consequently the ad makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[Sput]

What the HELL is this Sell Your Gold advert meant to be? It's just two scallies dressed posh running around a house, but I don't get it: are they meant to be robbing it or are they so posh they've only just realised all this Gold stuff is worth MONEY? Ugh, it's horrible.