In the run-up to our long Bank Holiday let's hear your most disliked TV Adverts. Mine are
1. The B Awful Dolmio puppets and their stupid Italian accents.
2. The screaming bald on top man with the mullet, dressed in a coat made of crocodile scales, who tries to sell us double glazing.
3. The incomprehensible one for Credit Expert, featuring an oriental bod and someone who looks a bit like Branson. Still haven't worked it out
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well 2 out of 3 ain`t bad! - but i`d swop the dolmio puppets for that annoying underdog anyday! - and his bandaged tail can`t be too badly hurtor he wouldn`t wag it so much! "scammer"!!
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Message for Co-op.
Good does not rhyme with food. Even in a lame Scottish accent. Fire your ad agency.
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I have always wondered why a good old Northern English organisation bothers to have some gormless Celt to do their voiceovers! Rumour says it is John Hannah and the only one worse is the ghastly long haired Neil Oliver who presents Coast. We need subtitles!
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plugged a video recorder in the other month and watched a video tape from milleniumph night
all the adverts i didnt recognise just like i dont today as i mute the inbetweeny bits
i must be the john cooper clarke of the advertisers nightmares
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>> i didnt recognise just like i dont today
The beauty of sky plus, fast forward.
What about an impenetrable scottish accent AND the dolmio add rolled into one? --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcQ-iU5GbE :-)
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Brilliant Skoda! How did you come across that?
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I've noticed the Milky Way adverts are being re-run ("The red car and the blue car had a race...") - these must be at least 20 years old because I can remember them being topical as a teenager when I had a blue MkII Cavalier and my friend had a red MkI Astra. Someone's making a nice living off the repeat fees.
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Or saving money because the people who did the voice overs are dead?
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>>>>Neil Oliver
Don't let my Mrs hear you say that! She would marry him in a heartbeat if she were 20 years younger! ;-)
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Oliver might be Scottish/Celt but has more brains than most presenters - at least he can string a few words together in book form and provide an intelligent and engaging read that isn't about cooking or himself.
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That stupid Lloyds/TSB advert.
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The subliminal message to me, from Lloyds TSB adverts, is that puppets with long noses are called Pinnochio and are known for telling lies. So, actually quite appropriate?
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>>>>Neil Oliver
>> Rumour says it [Co-op voiceover artist] is John Hannah
This has been bugging me all week - the trailer after News at Ten just now definitely sounded more like John Hannah though.
I'm a big fan of Neil Oliver, all his programmes are very interesting and informative IMO.
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Any bank advert makes me mad...they seem to think they're talking to a bunch of idiots...particularly Barclays atm with the bouncy castle type ads.
SWM and me both agreed, when it first came on, that the advert for Home Serve ( I think ), the one that has the red vans and everyone dancing about in glee, would drive us barmy.
I like Oliver but I wish he'd get a haircut. All the Safestyle ads are awful, especially any with the gruesome Cannon and Ball. The baldy man lives not far away and is a very nice bloke...I hope he makes a ton of dosh from repeats.
Anything with Barbara Windsor sets my teeth on edge.
There's a hair dye one with a girl looking in a shoe shop at some red shoes. A sneering assistant watches her through the window. I've got the hots for the assistant...she's real
Geheimstatspolizei material !
The new and very pretty Fiat 500 ad annoys me....tens of thousands spent and they can't get it right...' less emissions ' indeed !
I shall report on tomorrow's televisual feast...there's bound to be a lot more.
Ted
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I record everything so I don't see any adverts or annoying trailers. It's bliss. I had extra time to read David Ogilvy's excellent book about advertising.
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Annoying they may be, but the proof above is that they work.
Almost all of you have actually named the form these annoying adverts are for, and more to the point, you have remembered them:)
Pat
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>> Annoying they may be, but the proof above is that they work.
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Only true up to a point, Pat.
If a memorable advert is irritating it can actually put you off the product.
For example, I wouldn't deal with the Halifax Bank, because I find their "radio station" style adverts so irritating. The woman in the "Isa Isa Baby" one is human itching powder!
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>> style adverts so irritating. The woman in the "Isa Isa Baby" one is human itching
>> powder!
Really? BBD would give her a scratch, so would I.
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Kentuky Fried Chicken uses some good music to go with its adds.
For a while they used "California Soul" by Marlena Shaw - great music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjorp2qc8K4
And now they are using this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6YfxDtQRs
A cover of One Big Family, performed by Temple cloud which alas is not yet available as a full song, the original being
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ANYIcBwvU&playnext=1&list=PL60A4552C19434102
By embrace.
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Ford's 1980s adverts were brilliant - even the humble Fiesta ("gonna be a lovely day") - Puma's Steve McQueen pastiche, Brian May's "everything we do"
I've seen the Focus advert and it leaves me cold - bland car in a bland streetscape.....
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>> By embrace.
Aah.
The Good Will Out. Best album of the Britpop era? Or Shed Seven's Maximum High. Or Gene's Drawn to the Deep End. Hmm. Or Teenage Fanclub's Songs from Northern Britain. Crikey. Where has all the talent gone? Then there's 3 Colours Red - Pure.
Must crank up the jukebox and do the kids a favour this weekend. Get the outdoor speakers going in the garden.
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"BBD would give her a scratch"
And sniff.
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Seemples....
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I don't do adverts at all these days - how very quaint.
However, this thread made me think of the first advert I do consciously remember, and blow me if it isn't the first one in this Youtube reel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyMWplSfO34
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This one used to get right up my hooter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6mN9X2Ne2k
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We still videotape (;-P) the few programmes we want to watch - at the moment it's only Hill Street Blues - so we very rarely see any ads. That meerkat thing was amusing the first time.
On the very few occasions we happen to see TV ads we are gobsmacked at how addled the brains of your average UK TV viewers must have become.
It's worse in France. If you are French you can have an orgasm by eating cheese. It appears.
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Well, it is just about the most pleasurable thing you can do with your clothes on. They're right about that.
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I must get some cheese for Mrs Penguin to vary Saturday nights! Does it have to be any particular make? An interesting new take on buy one get one free perhaps?
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>> Go Compare Go Compare Go Compare Go Compare Go Compare Go Compare Go Compare Go
That opera bloke who sings/acts it is on 'The Wright Stuff' on 5 at the moment. Well I think it's him - he's Welsh and he just broke into a bit of opera-type singing.
Last edited by: Focus on Fri 22 Apr 11 at 10:23
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As stated before on here Wynn Evans (for it is he !) is an accomplished Opera Singer with more plaudits than you can shake a stick at.....maybe the worst mistake he ever made. He is to be seen quite often on Welsh telly - singing properly !
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Go compare, go compare .............. tinyurl.com/5wmn987
Eugh!
Last edited by: L'escargot on Thu 21 Apr 11 at 18:32
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If you want a good laugh at the advertisers' expense, Youtube is your friend; some of the parodies and spoofs are sublime, particulary the "chav" ones for Dolmio.
Warning; if you happen to find them (so many it's pointless posting a link) be warned that some of the language is distinctly coarse.
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The Co-op ad! - no not that one up the thread, the "plenty more fish in the sea" one:
Big ones
Small ones
Fat ones
Thin ones
funny ones
but best of all grilled ones with new potatoes?????????????
Well i`ve fished for most of my life, and caught loads of different species!
but i`ve never caught one of those!!
She`s obviously a "pampered woman" thats never had to cook and thinks cotton comes from sheep as well! (I was going to mention her being Blonde - but I won`t go there!)
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I have to cringe at adverts that give inanimate objects a personality, like all those kitchen appliances which speak in a Scottish accent....and since when did a 13amp plug have the cable coming out of the ' earth ' end ?
Also ones where chickens and the like dance around with glee at the prospect of entering a hot oven and lying down in a roasting tray, just 'cos they favour that brand of stuffing or cook-in sauce.
Ted
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I hardly watch any telly so thankfully don't get subjected to much of this mind laxative, and I don't think I've ever ever bought anything as a result of a TV advert.
Anyway, the ads. that really really irritate me are the ones that make it sound like you're a complete slut if you're toilet isn't 1000% clear of all know germs. Why? The only household member at Spamcan towers that drinks out of the loo is the dog!
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>> you're a complete slut if you're toilet isn't 1000% clear of all know germs.
Capitalism knows what it's doing. So many people have been intimidated by this hygiene crap that children these days suffer from allergies and poisoning caused by the cleaning products themselves and low resistance resulting from their lack of contact with filth, germs, farm animals and soil. Left to themselves, as they should be for much of the time, children wallow beneficially in these things.
I have little doubt that much profit can be made selling stuff to counter these quite unnecessary but widespread, and increasing, ills. People are utterly pathetic. I blame the parents, and the education system.
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We've never been super fussy about hygiene with our 3 kids, indeed when SWMBO had our first nearly 20 years ago the GP said don't go OTT about hygiene. None of them are sickly kids, their only allergy seems to be hay fever, inherited from me presumably :-/.
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All my three are robust, healthy adults as well, Spam.
Always brought up by a sensible mum, allowed to experiment eating soil and anything they could find. They soon find out what's not nice.
A dog or two in the house helps, dog bowls licked round or doggie chews tasted.
Dettol surface wipe ?.....Mucky dishcloth is better !
Ted
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"Kills 99.9% of germs" - Yes, but it's the 0.10% which kill YOU!
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Really Annoying TV Adverts - devonite
