I nominate
1. The Zafira Fat Boys
2. The Corsa idiot puppets
3. The ghastly Dolmio puppets and their silly Italian voices
4. Anything involving talking toilet blocks
5. Any wrinkle reducer based on tests involving just 78 women
Further nominations welcome - I am sure I have missed loads!
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1 - the citroen c4 advert - I want a car, not a breakdancing robot
2 - any advert for air fresheners, especially chemically laden aerosols that are supposed to replicate the aroma of 'nature' . open a window ! get some flowers ! stop living off a diet of curry and lager !!!!
3 - the latest Jaguar advert - saw it the other day and it made the car look like a rover 75
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3 - the latest Jaguar advert - saw it the other day and it made the car look like a rover 75
You need an eye test the latest jag advert shows 4 models of Jaguar!
Agree with the air freshner ads & the Yaris one.
Oh and the manic bint in the Quorn ad!
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>> 3 - the latest Jaguar advert - saw it the other >> day and it made the car look like a rover 75 You need an eye test the latest jag advert shows 4 models of Jaguar! Agree with the air freshner ads & the Yaris one. Oh and the manic bint in the Quorn ad!
That manic bint in the Quorn ad is actress Emily Aston, one of the few young talented actresses around today.
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1 - the citroen c4 advert - I want a car, not a breakdancing robot
You are so wrong I don't know where to begin. A breakdancing robot, especially a 30 foot high breakdancing robot, would be truly fantastic.
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At the risk of sounding like a really grumpy old man, i second the Dolmio puppets!
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I wrote in haste! I forgot to mention the worst of all. The grisly awful gospel singers in blue robes who are something to with U Switch! Yuck, yuck and yuck again!
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The Yaris ad which tells you the car is bought by nasty dangerous women.
How can an ad for bottled spaghetti sauce be anything but carp? You can make it yourself cheaper and better in 10 minutes.
I like the breakdancing robot ad, just as I liked the shaka dat nyash ad for the Megane. Both have real style, like the products they are advertising.
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"1 - the citroen c4 advert - I want a car, not a breakdancing robot"
Seen in a car mag, It always gives me the impression of a severe car smash, with all the pieces flying towards you.
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Drag queens on stage in some outback gay bar howling "Sheeeelas Wheeeeeels".
Some weird kids sitting in deck chairs on the cliff with what looks like travellers camp in the background and talking in what sounds like Flemish street slang about Network Q. What's the point of it really?
That spooky advert where owners of a broken down car in the middle of nowhere find themselves surrounded at night by a large crowd of singing creeps in yellow jackets. The driver doesn't even have spanner to defend his property from being taken apart....
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They may be rubbish but we will remember the product for years. Bet we can all sing the Shake & Vac advert.....
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Anybody actually noticed that half the time in the "Shiela's" ad, the car appears to be going backwards!?
Wonder if they would still pay out if thier "insured" drove like the Ladies in the Ad. :-)
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The car ad (can't remember the brand!) that goes:
HOW?
WHY?
WHEN?
WHERE?
WHEN?
HOW?
HOW?
WHEN?
HOW?
WHY?
WHERE?
WHY?
HOW?
HOW?
WHY?
WHEN?
Grrrrrr! Makes me reach for the remote control every time. Worst advert ever.
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if you cough up for Sky Plus you don't need to bother watching adverts.... and then they can't annoy you
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Would it have been easier to ask which were the best adverts for 2007.
Now if all adds were like some of these I might turn TV on veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=25044
Dave
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Would it have been easier to ask which were the best adverts for 2007. Now if all adds were like some of these I might turn TV on veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=25044 Dave
The "Tea Partay" ad is brillant! The New England answer to Goldie Lickin Chain, very funny
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Now if all adds were like some of these I might turn TV on veryfunnyads.com/index.html?id=25044
The condom advert should be a public information film.....
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if you cough up for Sky Plus you don't need to bother watching adverts.... and then they can't annoy you
Surely this only works if you watch the program later than you would normally have done though?
And you need to plan to do so from the time it starts, so you're at least on the right channel, and therefore can rewind?
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"Surely this only works if you watch the program later than you would normally have done though"
E.G.You start watching 24 15 minutes later, by the time you've whizzed through the ads you catch up with the end credits of the live one, by doing this I've added a quarter of an hour to my Sunday - In that 15 minutes I can listen to the Archers on the Web through Listen Again- can't be bad.
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The Zafira Fat Boys>>
Vauxhall have been making rubbish T.V. ad's for years ( like their cars )
Remember the Professer in underpants Griff Rhys Jones or thar Guy from Apollo 13?
Terrible.
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Dulco Ease stool softener. Enough said.
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The car ad (can't remember the brand!) that goes: HOW? WHY? WHEN? WHERE? WHEN? HOW? HOW? WHEN? HOW? WHY? WHERE? WHY? HOW? HOW? WHY? WHEN? Grrrrrr! Makes me reach for the remote control every time. Worst advert ever.
The Kia Cee'd
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The one where a man comes on and shouts at me. I think he's selling some sort of cleaner, but I'm learning to tune out adverts, even without Sky Plus!
JH
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The one where a man comes on and shouts at me. I think he's selling some sort of cleaner, but I'm learning to tune out adverts, even without Sky Plus! JH
Thats Barry Scott he is an icon!
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"Thats Barry Scott he is an icon"
Is he the one who advertises Cilit Bang?
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"Thats Barry Scott he is an icon" Is he the one who advertises Cilit Bang?
Yep! That advert and the use of him has ensured I will never buy that product!
But I nominate the new BMW advert, saw it last night, bored me to tears inside of 30 seconds, much like their cars I suppose!!!
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I nominate 1. The Zafira Fat Boys 2. The Corsa idiot puppets 3. The ghastly Dolmio puppets and their silly Italian voices 4. Anything involving talking toilet blocks 5. Any wrinkle reducer based on tests involving just 78 women Further nominations welcome - I am sure I have missed loads!
Two nominations for Vauxhall; what does that say?
I quite like the fat boys but I can't be doing with the Corsa puppets. Probably aimed at a much younger audience.
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Probably aimed at a much younger audience.Hawkeye
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About 3. A bit young for car owners, what?
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Vauxhall adverts - I don't know how they make them so consistently rubbish!
After years of Vauxhalls having a reputation for handling like barges, finally, the most modern Vauxhalls are much better, and this is followed by adverts showing images of Vauxhalls flying all over the place. Sorry Vauxhall, cars belong on the road.
While I can (just!) imagine that some might like the puppets advert, the annoying fat kids can't really appeal to anyone about to make a car choice.
Number_Cruncher
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The vuaxhall fat boys are utter rubbish
The puppets (come on) are FABULOUS I want some! (pity about the car!)
What does this show? it shows you are all boring old pink fluffy dice
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Suzuki Swift.."check it out now the funk soul brother" grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.
I also like the tunes on the Fiat punto ad.
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Not sure which ads you people get for the Hyundai Santa Fe SUV, but one we have here shows a toddler driving away to the beach with his girlfriend. I think it hilarious, but the Australians have banned it because - wait for it - It might persuade very young children to drive !!! Even Kiwis don't think the Aussies are quite that easily led astray. I would put the ad amongst the best, but for the Aussies it is obviously just the worst.
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Suzuki Swift.."check it out now the funk soul brother"
Is that what the words are? I've asked several people and the only word they thought they could discern was the last ~ and they all thought that was "rubber"! If I'd been the architect of the advert I'd have chosen someone who had better diction.
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That AA Insurance advert with the "hip" guys who drawl the word maaaaan at the end of each sentence.
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Actually ALL AA adverts are carp! 1000 people to repair a car in the highlands, ethnic wierdos singing a lot, people on laptops in the back of a car sorting out the driver's insurance. The list is endless!
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>>That AA Insurance advert with the "hip" guys who drawl the word maaaaan at the end of each sentence
At the risk of stating the obvious, you do know that's because its a harp back to the days of the two old ladies talking about the AA Man saying "That's a nice man, that's a very nice man" ??
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"At the risk of stating the obvious, you do know that's because its a harp back to the days of the two old ladies talking about the AA Man saying "That's a nice man, that's a very nice man" ??"
Yes mArk I remember it well. It make sthe purile pale imitation currently put out even worse. Very nice man became a national catchphrase for a while......this is just turgid rubbish.
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Funk soul brother by Fat Boy Slim.....Thinking about it who / what is a "funk soul brother" .
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Can I nominate that dreadful Norwich Union ad? I reach for the mute button every time. Quite agree with Lud about the Citroen ad though,I think it`s clever and memorable.
When I`m dictator ads won`t be allowed anyway.
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When I`m dictator ads won`t be allowed anyway.
Not even ads to make sure everybody knows you're their dictator?
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I don't know but I always thought "Vauxhall Vectra" would fit in very well in those lyrics.
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Funk soul brother by Fat Boy Slim ...........
I think that highlighting the car's make and model and giving a brief description of it's attributes would have been better for persuading people to buy a .......... er ........ what car was it?
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what about that fat bird in the trouser suit who thinks shes sexy in the "halifax " adverts, oh and the foreign adverts that are "dubbed " into english, you can see from a mile away that the words dont match the mouth movements ,they are usually selling hair products or something like that
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confused . com, that irritating jock makes me reach for the remote every time
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I absolutely hate the latest Cillit Bang advert in which Barry Scott shouts for the whole time ~ eugh!
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I absolutely hate the latest Cillit Bang advert in which Barry Scott shouts for the whole time ~ eugh! -- L\'escargot.
It's called 'hard sell'. You're supposed to buy the product to shut the guy up.
Still unchanged from before the days of the mute button :o)
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Without pretending that adverts "were better back then" whatever happened to the adverts you didn't mind seeing like, Cadbury's Flake, Manikin, Someone's Rum (oops bit of a theme starting to emerge there) or the humour of Hamlet or Cinzano? All we get now is "buy new , improved Daz because it's better than old Daz that we told you that was improved but we didn't make it as good as we said really"? Speaking of which reminds me, when did biological washing powder become bad?
JH
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when did biological washing powder become bad?JH
When people started getting rashes in uncomfortable places just before their clothes disintegrated.
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I can't have been using enough :-)
JH
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But car adverts were better a few years ago.........Vauxhall Astra GTE 16v, with some very evocative (or was Ecotec) photography on proper wet film with some excellent soundtracks - "You were always on my mind", I was never in the market for one but the ad is still remembered. Controversially I rather like the current BMW ad......
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I liked the ad (not the car) for the Maestro where the stunt driver took it through a crowded car park on 2 wheels and then sideways parked it in an impossibly short parallel parking spot.
JH
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2 wheels and then sideways parked it in an impossibly short parallel parking spot.
Yep - remember it well, it was for real rather than CGI stuff though ! Remember the Auticar article on how it was done.
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I think an IBM 370 would just about have finished rendering the first two frames by now (Cue TVM :-) )
JH
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On cue -
a 370?
Rendering? frames? on a green 3270 display? in EBCIDIC? I think not.
Mind did you know, the Metro advert was filmed in the car park of IBM at North Harbour.
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We had these IBM machines in work, it's a wonder the admin staff don't try to sue us !
Ads that cause irritation.
1. Loan ads:- Ocean Finance, that irritating, patronising Welsh mathamatician woman can't remember her name or the company she pushes. AA loans.
2. Breakdown Cover:- All the RAC ones, All the AA ones apart from the subtly James Bondish one of late.
3. All Washing powder and potions, ones that include washed up sports people especially.
4. Most car ads, apart from the recent BMW ones, the much missed MINI ones, and the Volvo CC one. All the others are Euro clones, apart from and especially the Jauguar ones which are aimed at Americans.
6. Jolly adverts from the High Street Robbers (aka Banks)
5. Er....what else is there ?
No wonder ITV1 is struggling.
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The Nationwide advert - where the fat bloke from the "bad" building society goes on complex loans - needs to be added to the list.
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Anyone remember a 70's advert where some crooks were trying to steal a Datsun but ending up driving round in circles because of it's new fangled "steering lock" ?
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>> 2 wheels and then sideways parked it in an impossibly short >> parallel parking spot. Yep - remember it well, it was for real rather than CGI stuff though ! Remember the Auticar article on how it was done.
That'd have been driven by Russ Swift, still around now.
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anyone remember reginald molehusband who couldnt park his car ?
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"Is that what the words are? I've asked several people and the only word they thought they could discern was the last ~ and they all thought that was "rubber"! If I'd been the architect of the advert I'd have chosen someone who had better diction."
Fantastic! You sound like my dad. The song is by Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook (former Housemartin and hubby of Zoe Ball) but is based on an old soul record whose name escapes me? Any funky Backroomers know what it is? Or do we all prefer Barbershop quartets? : )
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Snaily definitely sounding like dad: more info on the song here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_Soul_Brother
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Sliced Tomatoes?!! What sort of a name is that? Cheers though..... nice to know it's not all Dad rock and easy listening! : )
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imo almost all adverts are useless.
Why?
I have tuned my senses to switch off in ads: I can remember some of the more interesting ones- Honda, Hamlet cigars and Jack Dee and John Smiths - but usually manage to forget the others..
Vauxhall used to use a US advertising agency iirc... certainly prior ads had a strong US flavour which confirmed my low opinion of the brand.
Car insurance advertising is frankly rubbish except for the self mocking ones (Winner) and as for household cleaning!... but worst of all is the "hottest product of the year is pentopeptides".. Note it 's not the BEST or the most EFFECTIVE but it's "hottest"..
Anyone who follows that and buys presumably believes what politicans say as well. :-((
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Car insurance advertising is frankly rubbish except for the self mocking ones
Surely, er, Sheila's Wheels.... I always thought it good fun, but probably (as it's hard sell) advertising something less than perfect, or a bit expensive.
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Snaily definitely sounding like dad ........
Sticks and stones, mare!
By the way, I understand that a Funk Soul Brother is the modern equivalent of a Gti Turbo Nutter pink fluffy dice! Or so I'm told.
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