Adverts that irritate and entertain

Chie · Fri 28 Nov, 2008 07.12

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2z85FDYVHUU

Okay, the first 20 seconds are naff, but the rest is simply beautiful.

Nini · Fri 28 Nov, 2008 10.23

You're right, the first 20 seconds are naff but the rest is mind-numbingly sentimental and cloying.

Nini · Fri 28 Nov, 2008 11.05

Well, imagine just how beige your Christmas might be if they didn't, you need to take that sort of thing into consideration.

Chie · Fri 28 Nov, 2008 22.07

Nini wrote:You're right, the first 20 seconds are naff but the rest is mind-numbingly sentimental and cloying.

It's not as bad as that awful John Lewis advert.

Alexia · Sat 29 Nov, 2008 01.32

As we get closer to Xmas, whats the betting we see a re-hash of:

1) Yellow Pages kissing advert.

2) Andrex puppies in snow advert with duck singing "it's christmas"

3) Hellman's Mayonnaise "12-days of Christmas" with king prawns etc

???

Stuart* · Sat 29 Nov, 2008 11.24

Chie wrote:It's not as bad as that awful John Lewis advert.

I quite like that advert!

However, I'm irritated by the 'Flora pro-activ' one where everyone accuses Ms Hunniford of being a serial liar; perhaps she hasn't had enough 'Bifidus Regularis'.
NO!

cdd · Sat 29 Nov, 2008 13.12

Nini wrote:You're right, the first 20 seconds are naff but the rest is mind-numbingly sentimental and cloying.

It's not so much that it's terrible for me, it's that I have a fundamental objection to any commercial advert that tries to appeal to my sense of nostalgia/empathy/happiness. It feels totally disgusting, almost as if a stranger came up to you in the street and started showering you with compliments.

As terry tibbs would say, you have to wine and dine me first. That sort of sequence comes after a good hour of climactic buildup, not straight in as part of some campaign for a fizzy drink - it feels *so* cheap.

Alexia · Mon 01 Dec, 2008 18.56

Here's a (crap) copy of the Andrex duck advert I'm on about kraM....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Is26EbWvp-8

And the Quality Street tree was on yesterday which made me realise that it has been a year since I saw it last, yet it didn't feel like it
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VOITFIMM_QI

Sput · Wed 03 Dec, 2008 09.12

YAY that horrid DFS advert has been banned (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/de ... dvertising) although not for making me lose faith in humanity, but because the sofas were fake-massive.

Gavin Scott · Wed 10 Dec, 2008 19.51

I just love the Tesco ad with Des and the red dot pricetags which pop up.

Its brilliant.

lukey · Wed 10 Dec, 2008 20.11

There's a few voiceovers which irritate me, more than the ads themselves. On my hit list at the moment would be the VO for McDonalds, PC World, and Halfords. "Neeeeeeeeeeeow." Urgh.