Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

[anonymous-user]

That woman on the Bose adverts that crop up every 3 minutes on Channel 4's F1 coverage. Clearly the director said "look amazed and pretend you know what F1 is" and her interpretation of that was to open her eyes as far as humanly possibly.

I always imagine that in take one she did this:




...but they reigned her in a bit and ended up with just psycho eyes.

[Steamer]

Halmyre said:

The smug tt who's spotted a potential burglar on his doorbell camera. "I'd like you to go away please". I'd hope the burglar would hang around until he comes home, kick the st out of him and then rob his house.

genuine laugh at that..

I wouldnt wish that on anyone - but he does deserve a kicking.

[LuS1fer]

Jenny Eclair advertising Vagisan. Yek.

[Hosenbugler]

WJNB said:

Every single one.
Product is no longer the main issue, politics & championing minorities & causes is, witness having diversity continuously rammed down our throats. Now at its height as we move towards Christmas.
The same with most TV adverts. & programmes these days. Suddenly a good book or listening to music is so liberating

I totally agree , I've not had broadcast TV for near 3 years now, best thing I've ever done. I still get snippets of whats being imposed on people from what I see at friends and family. Overwhelming amount of ads regarding loan sharking, gambling , funeral plans , bleeding heart charity ads. Thats before recognising the obvious social engineering agenda of many ads. Its a great benefit of streaming, that the majority of ads can be avoided in some form or the other. The mute button comes in very handy as well. Most of my TV consumption comes from Youtube, Prime and Netflix, plenty to choose from ,and the amount of fascinating documentaries I seem to find on Youtube never ceases to amaze me.

[Pericoloso]

I can't find a previous mention of it ,sure I saw one somewhere ..but the Elton John ad ,oh it's actually

an ad for John Lewis Christmas.

Why does an ad showing Elton through the decades ,using lookalikes ,advertise a shop ?

Then after one other ad in the same break ,it was the Waitrose ad with the family fast forwarding the JL ad above.

Utterly bizarre.

I'm glad I don't shop at either.

[Saleen836]

V.I.Poo... who decided it was a good idea to make an advert stating buying a tin of spray for someone as a christmas present to stop the smell when having a dump was a good idea??

[AlexRS2782]

Pericoloso said:

I can't find a previous mention of it ,sure I saw one somewhere ..but the Elton John ad ,oh it's actually

an ad for John Lewis Christmas.

Why does an ad showing Elton through the decades ,using lookalikes ,advertise a shop ?

Then after one other ad in the same break ,it was the Waitrose ad with the family fast forwarding the JL ad above.

Utterly bizarre.

I'm glad I don't shop at either.

Both Jimmy Carr & Adam Hills referenced the ad on The Last Leg on Friday.

Suggestions have been made online that the JL advert is possibly some clever advertising / placement by Elton John's PR as he's recently headed off on another massive world tour and by Spring / Summer next year i believe there's meant to be a bigscreen biopic style film about his life coming out.

The Waitrose ad is part of a set this year which features people desperately trying to finish what they're doing so they can eat whatever Waitrose food is being served. The one fast-forwarding the JL advert is funny the first time you see it as they've managed to reference how most of us will be feeling after the JL Elton John one has been played for the umpteenth time over the next few weeks

[Pericoloso]

I did spot an ad on the back of the Sunday Times tv paper which depicts Elton with "Farewell Yellow Brickroad"

and the word Goodbye ,but does Elton need quite so much publicity to sell tickets for his last tour ?

Not sure I'd want to see him live now ,all performances I've seen in recent times on tv ,he seems to shout his songs.

[Saleen836]

Pericoloso said:

I did spot an ad on the back of the Sunday Times tv paper which depicts Elton with "Farewell Yellow Brickroad"

and the word Goodbye ,but does Elton need quite so much publicity to sell tickets for his last tour ?

Not sure I'd want to see him live now ,all performances I've seen in recent times on tv ,he seems to shout his songs.

Also heard mentioned on the radio today that 'Your Song' is tipped to be the xmas no.1

[swisstoni]

Saleen836 said:

V.I.Poo... who decided it was a good idea to make an advert stating buying a tin of spray for someone as a christmas present to stop the smell when having a dump was a good idea??

Sprouts.

[valiant]

Saleen836 said:

V.I.Poo... who decided it was a good idea to make an advert stating buying a tin of spray for someone as a christmas present to stop the smell when having a dump was a good idea??

FFS, don't they realise half the fun is watching your other half retch when they go into the loo just after you've flushed a deposit?

[Flumpo]

Pericoloso said:

I can't find a previous mention of it ,sure I saw one somewhere ..but the Elton John ad ,oh it's actually

an ad for John Lewis Christmas.

Why does an ad showing Elton through the decades ,using lookalikes ,advertise a shop ?

Then after one other ad in the same break ,it was the Waitrose ad with the family fast forwarding the JL ad above.

Utterly bizarre.

I'm glad I don't shop at either.

Is Elton short of cash? He was in a snickers advert the other month. I might be being naive, but how much would John Lewis or snickers pay him? Surely he doesn’t need the money.

Edit: hadn’t seen the post suggesting a pr stunt for new tour. That makes sense.

[Escort3500]

The gawky ‘Hannah’ on the bus going to some sort of friends’ reunion and has to temporarily stop her card...



Not as scary as the other Barclays’ woman though:

[Mr-B]

Flumpo said:

Is Elton short of cash? He was in a snickers advert the other month. I might be being naive, but how much would John Lewis or snickers pay him? Surely he doesn’t need the money.

Edit: hadn’t seen the post suggesting a pr stunt for new tour. That makes sense.

I heard from someone (don't know their source) that the JL ad cost £7m, would imagine a decent chunk of that went to EJ.

[LuS1fer]

Mr-B said:

Flumpo said:

Is Elton short of cash? He was in a snickers advert the other month. I might be being naive, but how much would John Lewis or snickers pay him? Surely he doesn’t need the money.

Edit: hadn’t seen the post suggesting a pr stunt for new tour. That makes sense.

I heard from someone (don't know their source) that the JL ad cost £7m, would imagine a decent chunk of that went to EJ.

I think he's milking himself like Brian May and Roger Taylor are milking Queen, to make himself immortal, so to speak. What worries me is that the forthcoming Rocketman film has a lead who doesn't appear to look anything like him.

Edit: He was in Kingsman, the Golden Circle too, milking himself.

[Halmyre]

LuS1fer said:

Mr-B said:

Flumpo said:

Is Elton short of cash? He was in a snickers advert the other month. I might be being naive, but how much would John Lewis or snickers pay him? Surely he doesn’t need the money.

Edit: hadn’t seen the post suggesting a pr stunt for new tour. That makes sense.

I heard from someone (don't know their source) that the JL ad cost £7m, would imagine a decent chunk of that went to EJ.

I think he's milking himself like Brian May and Roger Taylor are milking Queen, to make himself immortal, so to speak. What worries me is that the forthcoming Rocketman film has a lead who doesn't appear to look anything like him.

Edit: He was in Kingsman, the Golden Circle too, milking himself.

Eww. Pass the mind bleach.

[Jim the Sunderer]

This M&S one rubs me the wrong one; about forty or fifty fatties listing adjectives about Christmas pudding.

[AppleJuice]

Saleen836 said:

V.I.Poo... who decided it was a good idea to make an advert stating buying a tin of spray for someone as a christmas present to stop the smell when having a dump was a good idea??

Clearly you haven't visited any PH threads concerning PBCD stting, then... (may contain clowns having a race over jelly or the sound of a duck being strangled half underwater)

[Langweilig]

Vodafone. Mr. Freeman, please do us all a favour and go and dance in the traffic.

[LordEightBit]

Langweilig said:

Vodafone. Mr. Freeman, please do us all a favour and go and dance in the traffic.

I actually created an account just so I can agree with this. It’s absolutely horrendous. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, his cringeworthy bloody smile makes me want to gauge my eyes out of head and stamp on them. The writers should be arrested for not having a creative bone in their body. Shameful.

Not to mention that Vodafone is an embarrassment of a network, and a lot of that is down to these pathetic adverts that they’ve been churning out for the past year or so.