Annoying television adverts...

[AM9]

That being said, it would apply to every single posting of complaint about adverts that is made upon this thread.

Yup, 'no news' is bad news in the advertising industry.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

We Buy Any Car. That ridiculous chant and dancing really get up my nose!

Quite. And, now that you've sold your car, you're likely to be doing a lot of walking everywhere.

Still being aired (and just as annoying) a year later!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the Revitive advert, Ian Botham makes the claim that the product is a well-kept secret, yet when the two women were discussing the matter, one says that she has heard he uses Revitive, so it's not a well-kept secret after all.,

 

[Ashley Hill]

1. Th AA advert with the bank robbers. It’s an empty building they’ve robbed!!

2. We Buy Any Car, just why? A random selection of people singing and dancing about selling their car. I’ve sold 3 cars over the years and have never felt a compulsion to act in such a way afterwards.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

We Buy Any Car, just why? A random selection of people singing and dancing about selling their car. I’ve sold 3 cars over the years and have never felt a compulsion to act in such a way afterwards.

It's a pity Jasper Carrott doesn't still do spoofs of real adverts for a sketch show (remember "Carrott Commercial", anyone...? ) - these ones would be absolutely perfect for taking the mickey out of; imagine it: you'd get as far as the person jumping out of their car then there would be a loud horn, a squeal of brakes and then a double decker bus would come past screeching to a halt outside the opened car door...

 

[Ashley Hill]

It's a pity Jasper Carrott doesn't still do spoofs of real adverts for a sketch show (remember "Carrott Commercial", anyone...? ) - these ones would be absolutely perfect for taking the mickey out of; imagine it: you'd get as far as the person jumping out of their car then there would be a loud horn, a squeal of brakes and then a double decker bus would come past screeching to a halt outside the opened car door...

Carrotts Commercial Breakdown. Great comedian ,shame he`s not on telly much these days.

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I don’t get the latest Andrex advert. It starts with a man smelling a toilet roll,his trousers then shrivel up before he shuffles sideways. It ends with him washing his hands and walking away past the Andrex puppy. It seems it’s to difficult these days for Ad agencies to just describe the benefits of a product.

 

[AM9]

Carrotts Commercial Breakdown. Great comedian ,shame he`s not on telly much these days.

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I don’t get the latest Andrex advert. It starts with a man smelling a toilet roll,his trousers then shrivel up before he shuffles sideways. It ends with him washing his hands and walking away past the Andrex puppy. It seems it’s to difficult these days for Ad agencies to just describe the benefits of a product.

Carrott, like the vegetable, just got stale. I used to find him funny, but the jokes just wore thin.

As for Andrew, it's a leading product in name only, no better than the average own-brand offering. Cushelle is by far the better product, without needing cuddly dogs to charm the soft headed.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the latest Amazon Prime TV advert, a man opens his front door and picks up a carton. The strange thing is that there are many photographers gathered outside his house. Does anyone know why those photographers might have been massed there, as I confess to be totally confused by that advert.

 

[AM9]

In the latest Amazon Prime TV advert, a man opens his front door and picks up a carton. The strange thing is that there are many photographers gathered outside his house. Does anyone know why those photographers might have been massed there, as I confess to be totally confused by that advert.

But if you didn't know before, you are now effectively confirming that Amazon deliver parcels direct to customers homes. It's all part of educating customers about the company and its services.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But if you didn't know before, you are now effectively confirming that Amazon deliver parcels direct to customers homes. It's all part of educating customers about the company and its services.

I did not see the delivery driver try to contact the man to hand over the carton, so was it just left outside, for anyone to steal?

It does not answer my query as why a very large number of photographers were gathered outside the house in question. Is that going to happen at every property where delivery will be made, as the cost of having them there would surely make parcel delivery most loss-making.

 

[PGAT]

Wasn't it something to do with Amazon Prime Day, "with good deals to make you feel like a big deal" hence the cameras?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wasn't it something to do with Amazon Prime Day, "with good deals to make you feel like a big deal" hence the cameras?

Like I said, the cost of employing that band of photographers at every delivery, as suggested by the advert, must have cost Amazon a small fortune.

 

[PGAT]

Like I said, the cost of employing that band of photographers at every delivery, as suggested by the advert, must have cost Amazon a small fortune.

Marketing team probably has a set budget they must spend

 

[joieman]

When I was a lot smaller, there was this ad on YouTube, which I think had something to do with airport parking? Essentially, there was a car sitting in a car park, and all of a sudden some monster's hand would come straight out of the sky and crush it to a wreck. That advert genuinely used to vex me.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

In the latest Amazon Prime TV advert, a man opens his front door and picks up a carton. The strange thing is that there are many photographers gathered outside his house. Does anyone know why those photographers might have been massed there, as I confess to be totally confused by that advert.

Looks as if it might be a homage to a particular scene in the 1999 feature film "Notting Hill" where a half-dressed "Spike" (= Rhys Ifans) poses at the front door of the town house that he shares with "William Thacker" (= Hugh Grant), which property has been besieged that morning by hordes of paparazzi there just to take pics of visiting movie star "Anna Scott" (as portrayed by Julia Roberts).

 

[AM9]

Looks as if it might be a homage to a particular scene in the 1999 feature film "Notting Hill" where a half-dressed "Spike" (= Rhys Ifans) poses at the front door of the town house that he shares with "William Thacker" (= Hugh Grant), which property has been besieged that morning by hordes of paparazzi there just to take pics of visiting movie star "Anna Scott" (as portrayed by Julia Roberts).

I know that this thread is all about members finding ads annoying, but I must say I do like the Compare The Market sketch featuring Paul Hollywood appearing as a paunchy 'Mr Hollywood Superhero' to which one of the meerkats remarks: "Clooney's let himself go".

 

[Ashley Hill]

I know that this thread is all about members finding ads annoying, but I must say I do like the Compare The Market sketch featuring Paul Hollywood appearing as a paunchy 'Mr Hollywood Superhero' to which one of the meerkats remarks: "Clooney's let himself go".

Paul Hollywood is better than the Wombat!

 

[AM9]

Paul Hollywood is better than the Wombat!

Hollywood might be able to equal a wombat if you mean the short-legged antipodean marsupial, but no competition for Clooney.

 

[daveo]

I see that the TUI adverts state "one free child place for every two full paying adults." Is this acceptable discrimination against single parents?

 

[Leyland Bus]

Cushelle is by far the better product, without needing cuddly dogs to charm the soft headed.

Don't Cushelle use a cartoon Koala to sell Loo roll??? Just saying...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I see that the TUI adverts state "one free child place for every two full paying adults." Is this acceptable discrimination against single parents?

Only if they aren't giving a half price child fare when it's a single parent.

If they aren't... then yes, they're probably on thin ice...

 

[JamesT]

Only if they aren't giving a half price child fare when it's a single parent.

If they aren't... then yes, they're probably on thin ice...

Single parents aren’t a protected class in the Equality Act, so entirely legal to restrict a family offer to two adults.

 

[Bungle158]

Moutopia (allegedly cider), any of the current Royal Navy ads. RAF satellite collision averted. Anything We Buy Any Car,

 

[dangie]

The awful Tesco advert where the customer when presented with his receipt breaks out into ‘I’ve got the power’ song.

 

[ChiefPlanner]

The awful Tesco advert where the customer when presented with his receipt breaks out into ‘I’ve got the power’ song.

Agreed - up there with the very worst. Should cause a decline in Tesco sales.

 

[trainophile]

Another GB News one (sorry ) - the electric sofa bed one, where the guy tells his son to keep his hands off the bed controls. The annoyance for us is the fact that it starts with the lady saying "I'll put the kettle on then" - now as we, like most households. say this several times a day, it's caused us now to be unable to say it without the other one replying "while I make up the sofa bed". It was funny at first but now it's become a "gah " moment.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The awful Tesco advert where the customer when presented with his receipt breaks out into ‘I’ve got the power’ song.

The thought of being near such a manned checkout when people of the type portrayed are being served in one reason why I never enter a Tesco supermarket. You don't get customers like that when shopping at Booth's or Waitrose.

 

[AM9]

The thought of being near such a manned checkout when people of the type portrayed are being served in one reason why I never enter a Tesco supermarket. You don't get customers like that when shopping at Booth's or Waitrose.

Can't speak for Booths but definitely true for Waitrose.

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Can't speak for Booths but definitely true for Waitrose. The funny side of it is that the offers and discouts at Waitrose are at least as generous as those th Tesco et al without all the naff advertising and often dubious claims for real savings.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I utterly hate seeing the three dancing cows in the Happy Cow Bingo TV advert.

 

[Eyersey468]

When I was a lot smaller, there was this ad on YouTube, which I think had something to do with airport parking? Essentially, there was a car sitting in a car park, and all of a sudden some monster's hand would come straight out of the sky and crush it to a wreck. That advert genuinely used to vex me.

Wasn't it to do with car tax?