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Not TV, but radio - the autoglass one featuring Kevin Whately (aka Neville Hope & Inspector Lewis) speaking to the the dull as ditchwater windscreen *expert*.
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Please help me. I like the Kia ads, and I also think the Zafira kids are funny. I don't like the Clio ad, though: "Shhhhhhhhhhhhakespeare" indeed, how about "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhut the heck up". He is the bloke off Casualty, who also; trivia fans, was the dancer in Natalie Imbruglia's video for "Torn" about ten years ago.
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"Torn" about ten years ago.
That makes me feel old. I'm only 21. :-S
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The rubbish you read on here...
He was the bloke off Holby.
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My sincere apologies... mixing my medical dramas!! Whatever next?
Sloppy, Steve, sloppy.
He WAS in "Torn" though....
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>>Natalie Imbruglia's video for "Torn" about ten years ago.>>
Actually it was 1997 (released on October 27th).
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Which is about ten years ago!! OK, 8 years 7 months..
Give me a break! : )
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Oh dear not your "very factual" day is it steve! ;)
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The Renault Megane TV ad is very good, although the first one was better (until they got rid of the young woman in office clothes bopping on stage - what happened to her?).
Citroen C4 dancing robot ad also very very good.
Not so keen on the Clio (I think) ad with the car wagging its tail and whining like a puppy.
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My go to be a pedant! It was the Scenic.
Sorry Lud.. I got picked on earlier!
10 points for the name of the actress who played Nicole in the old Clio ads: NO GOOGLING!
Yes I am sad enough to know.
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Estelle Skornik
Dont forget my mate RF was married to her.
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I am relatively new to this site, and don't understand.
If you were married to her, I am lost in wonder and awe. You da man.. etc.
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I drove a Laguna, my wife drives a clio. Hence I was Papa, my wife was Nicole, the fruit of my loins was young Jaques, and the family hound was Fifi.
I murdered the Laguna and now drive a Touran.
Hence the wife is still Nicole but fruit is now Johan, and the dog is now brunhilde
Nicole want a new golf so she will soon become Sigfreda
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I quite like the new Suzuki ad though it rather rips off the Renault Scenic approach. However IMO Suzuki have never quite matched Honda and Kawasaki yet alone Yamaha for brand cred on motorcycles (wouldn't mind a 1990 GSXR1100 though) so are certainly not a strong brand when it comes to cars, not helped by the toppling F410 fiasco, as I say IMO.
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"I drove a Laguna etc"
TVM
And precisely where does all this leave your mate, Algy"
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Dont forget my mate RF was married to her.
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and i always believed rf was "papa", and nicole was his daughter.
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and i always believed rf was "papa", and nicole was his daughter.
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here is the official renault take on "papa & nicole" and the new "ben & sophie" characters:
www.press.renault.co.uk/releases/arc_2005/121005re...m
THIERRY GETS THE RED CARD! MOVE OVER NICOLE! HERE COME
"BEN AND SOPHIE" WITH TWICE THE VA VA VOOM!
Renault Clio advertisements have been deeply engrained in the public?s consciousness over the last 14 years with a light hearted series of characters representing the chic, fun and stylish French supermini that has now been a firm favourite in the UK Top 10 sales chart for over 10 years.
The launch of an all-new Clio on Saturday 15th October means the start of an all-new campaign taking over from Thierry Henry?s four-year search for the meaning of Va Va Voom. Aired first during the evening of Thursday 13th October, new characters Sophie (French) and Ben (British) show that New Clio has "Twice the Va Va Voom" by adding a modern twist to the age-old battle of France vs. Britain!
French Car, British Designers
Whilst France and Britain still like to battle it out on a regular basis, the message from the new Clio commercial is simple ? Clio combines the best that these two nations have to offer by being a French car but with many British designers on the Clio team. Hence twice the Va Va Voom.
"Nicole? Papa!"
The Ben and Sophie characters follow in the footsteps of some of the most memorable characters to ever appear on television, the first of whom, of course, were Nicole and Papa, that famous French father and daughter who launched the first Clio way back in 1991. For seven years and eight episodes, actors Estelle Skornik and Max Douchin dashed around Provence and Paris in their Clios.
The cliffhanger of Nicole?s wedding to either Vic Reeves or Bob Mortimer at the launch of Clio II attracted an amazing 23 million viewers one Friday night in May 1998 ? six million more than normally watched Coronation Street, the programme during which it aired. You may remember that Vic was jilted at the altar as Nicole ran off with Bob, in a new Clio of course!
According to the independent Car Advertising Research Study by Sofres Automotive, the Nicole and Papa story is the most successful car advertisement ever, with a record 93% recall figure and, more importantly, interviewees could recall that the couple were advertising a Renault Clio. As well as being the best-known car commercial, the British public voted it their favourite car commercial of all time in a Channel 4 / Sunday Times poll in 2000.
so: tvm = rf = bob mortimer !
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Are we, in the East Midlands, the only ones to get the appalling loan ads? Insert any company name - they are all pretty similar. People in the rain looking poor - one loan later, basking almost naked on beach. People looking greasy, fat and poor, transformed by a loan to looking sleek and kempt and sitting on cosy, flowery sofa. Line up of fat or female or black or rough or disabled or people, stepping back from normal loan company A, cringeing, but STRIDING FORWARD to a new life, with head held HIGH, thanks to enlightened loan company B.
Some even film half the ad in black and white, with the rest in colour, to represent life after loans. In case we are all too dim to get the symbolism.
A
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Men & Motors and indeed other what HJ calls cheap channels have these endless ads for expensive telephone calls ostensibly to leering or smirking women, by no means all pretty, who keep fingering their telephone wires in a strangely perverse sort of way... surely everyone has cordless phones now?
Setting aside the possibility that the women in the pictures are not the ones who answer the telephone, what is it that these people want you to ring them up about?
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Lud,
I like to think they discuss discuss quantum physics all evening. That explains the bikinis - it's warm work.
And before you ask what I am doing in Men and Motors, blame repeats of my second favourite programme - that tiny budget one where the car boffins stand around in fields. They have a budget of about five quid to go and find people amazing supercars to buy. It cracks me up that the prospective purchasers then stand round going, "Oh I don't know. A three year old Porsche for four pounds fifty seems a bit steep. I'll have to think about it."
Ali
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Thing is though Alijazz, they may be elderly, wearing shell suits and speaking from a cold telephone box just outside Corby. And is a chat about quantum physics really something worth advertising on television? Perhaps you're right and there's a huge untapped market. But I favour something a bit more mainstream - soft furnishings say, or mingers (whatever they may be).
Funny how the people in the used car road show never seem to like the interesting car, always go for the boring one. May be the result of having someone talking at them as they trundle cautiously down a country road at 30mph. 'You can feel the power, can't you?'
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Lud,
I am still laughing at your last post - which isn't easy. I have that one-blocked-red-nostril-with-sticky-coughing-thing, that is going around at the moment. It's the idea that mingers could be discussed. And aren't mingers women who hot chat from cold telephone boxes, anyway? LOL!
The user car road show. I KNOW! It's always the same. It is a truly brilliant program on so many levels, none of them intentional. I mean, what are the two presenters for? They don't joke, back-slap and mingle (I said MINGLE) like Clarkson and Co. do. They behave as if they have never met each other until the cameras started to roll. They act as if they are presenting different shows. The woman can barely contain her seething at his limelight-hogging. He has never yet acknowledged her presence. She sits on the bonnet of the chosen car, making the new purchaser glare and snarl. She never notices.
As you say, the punters are the real stars. Last night, when presented with a choice between fab car one, fab car two, fab car three or ugly brute of a hearse car four, there was no contest. We knew what he was going to pick before he even tried to get the coffin in.
Such excellent entertainment. I hope they never decide to give it a budget. It would ruin its charm.
Ali
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LOL. "User" car was a Freudian slip!
A
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My favourite of the current loan ads is the one that ends "and if we can't help you, I really don't know who can", - there's some socially responsible advertising for you!
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Hi Brommers,
The loan companies are hilarious, aren't they? I suppose nowadays they are supposed to steer away from the "have a loan and buy something completely fantastic" mode of advertising. Now it's "have a loan and suffer for years, for the good of your soul".
The only advert that makes me literally cover my eyes is the one where the dog is run over and has a four thousand pound operation. I find that obscene every way I look at it.
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"The only advert that makes me literally cover my eyes is the one where the dog is run over and has a four thousand pound operation."
Fifi the faithful family hound was run over (prior to her service in this household) Her front leg was completely degloved from elbow to claws, every bone broken in that area and was close to death.
Extensive skin grafts, pins, plates, the services of a leading orthapeadic vet and 5 thousand pounds later I have a very healthy bouncy happy member of the family.
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Tour Van Man,
That's what makes me want to hide. Injury detail! Don't give me injury detail!
Showing the dog-accident to get people to buy insurance is horrible. It's all too graphic. And it's on all the time. That poor dog is run over hundreds of times a week. After what you have been through, that must be traumatic for you, to say the least. I just wish they would find a less gross way to advertise dog-accident insurance.
A
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and I also think the Zafira kids are funny.
I wouldn't go as far as to say they're funny, but I do like the adverts.
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I wouldn't go as far as to say they're funny, but I do like the adverts.
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C'mon Dave, i know you've a Vectra owner but isn't that taking brand loyalty a bit far?
Let's face reality here.. they are rubbish really aren't they?....
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NEVER speak ill of George. He's what hold the entire Vauxhall advertising strategy together.
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To me, the vile Vauxhall ads seem to be saying that Zafiras are bought by people whos children are smarter and more in control than they are!
I can't remember a good Vauxhall ad.
I also "enjoy" the VW ad which suggests that once VW have stung you in their glass palace, traders in other goods will also be able to see you coming, and treat you as an over-rich mug!
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I can't remember a good Vauxhall ad.
Cavalier's pirouetting and dancing in the NCAP lab to the tune of Peter Gabriel's sledgehammer song.
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that Zafiras are bought by people whos children are smarter and more in control than they are!
Well, I don't have a Zafira, but other than that........
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Let's face reality here.. they are rubbish really aren't they?....
As Churchill would say (that's the dog, not Winston)
Oh, no no no no no.
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