Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.
Discussion
Turbotechnic said:
Frank7 said:
I must be out of step here, first off, it wouldn’t push me to signing up with the AA, but I can’t see what’s weird or creepy about it.
It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
Sorry Frank but its one of the worst I've seen for a while. The whole advert is just weird and very poorly made. It certainly doesn't make me want to join the AA. It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
It’s the “weird” aspect I’m failing to see, maybe I have a different idea of “weird.”
The toddler has presumably been encouraged to imitate an adult, who has been singing and moving to the music, this she’s done, not weird to me, kids do that, the patrolman is presumably being directed to smile and wave at the kid, again, not super weird.
A bit different if a guy was creeping around parked cars, waving and smiling at little kids, not in a badly made commercial.
Perhaps I am overthinking this, but I only made a closer study of it, because ostensibly intelligent people were labelling it as weird.
I’d better ignore TV for a while, or go for a walk when there’s a commercial break!
Frank7 said:
Turbotechnic said:
Frank7 said:
I must be out of step here, first off, it wouldn’t push me to signing up with the AA, but I can’t see what’s weird or creepy about it.
It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
Sorry Frank but its one of the worst I've seen for a while. The whole advert is just weird and very poorly made. It certainly doesn't make me want to join the AA. It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
It’s the “weird” aspect I’m failing to see, maybe I have a different idea of “weird.”
The toddler has presumably been encouraged to imitate an adult, who has been singing and moving to the music, this she’s done, not weird to me, kids do that, the patrolman is presumably being directed to smile and wave at the kid, again, not super weird.
A bit different if a guy was creeping around parked cars, waving and smiling at little kids, not in a badly made commercial.
Perhaps I am overthinking this, but I only made a closer study of it, because ostensibly intelligent people were labelling it as weird.
I’d better ignore TV for a while, or go for a walk when there’s a commercial break!
Frank7 said:
Not being in the film/commercial making business, I can’t comment on how well or not the commercial has been constructed, but as I’ve already said, it wouldn’t make me rush out to join the AA, perhaps that means it failed, so it is bad in that respect.
It’s the “weird” aspect I’m failing to see, maybe I have a different idea of “weird.”
The toddler has presumably been encouraged to imitate an adult, who has been singing and moving to the music, this she’s done, not weird to me, kids do that, the patrolman is presumably being directed to smile and wave at the kid, again, not super weird.
A bit different if a guy was creeping around parked cars, waving and smiling at little kids, not in a badly made commercial.
Perhaps I am overthinking this, but I only made a closer study of it, because ostensibly intelligent people were labelling it as weird.
I’d better ignore TV for a while, or go for a walk when there’s a commercial break!
Isn't the clown who plays her dad the most annoying It’s the “weird” aspect I’m failing to see, maybe I have a different idea of “weird.”
The toddler has presumably been encouraged to imitate an adult, who has been singing and moving to the music, this she’s done, not weird to me, kids do that, the patrolman is presumably being directed to smile and wave at the kid, again, not super weird.
A bit different if a guy was creeping around parked cars, waving and smiling at little kids, not in a badly made commercial.
Perhaps I am overthinking this, but I only made a closer study of it, because ostensibly intelligent people were labelling it as weird.
I’d better ignore TV for a while, or go for a walk when there’s a commercial break!
(out of them all) on some Tesco adverts a few years ago?He 'played' the son.Now they were s
t adverts.swisstoni said:
It's the digital animation of people, especially kids and babies to make them look like they are talking or behaving unlike any kid ever that is the weird bit.
It never occurred to me that the kid in the back of the car was being digitally animated, I’m going to see commercials like this, and movies, with a completely different set of eyes in future, I guess that it’s fortuitous that I’m not an Inuit, I’d be out buying ice from someone.Frank7 said:
Turbotechnic said:
Frank7 said:
I must be out of step here, first off, it wouldn’t push me to signing up with the AA, but I can’t see what’s weird or creepy about it.
It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
Sorry Frank but its one of the worst I've seen for a while. The whole advert is just weird and very poorly made. It certainly doesn't make me want to join the AA. It just came on our TV, and my wife said, “That kid reminds me of Grace, (our great-niece), wind it back and watch it again.”
The kid isn’t singing the song, or miming it, she’s mouthing words and pumping her arms up and down.
Bit far fetched with the repairman arriving two seconds after the phone call, but let’s be fair, it is a commercial, belief has to be suspended.
Looked hard for anything weird, surely you don’t mean the AA guy waving at the toddler do you?
It’s the “weird” aspect I’m failing to see, maybe I have a different idea of “weird.”
The toddler has presumably been encouraged to imitate an adult, who has been singing and moving to the music, this she’s done, not weird to me, kids do that, the patrolman is presumably being directed to smile and wave at the kid, again, not super weird.
A bit different if a guy was creeping around parked cars, waving and smiling at little kids, not in a badly made commercial.
Perhaps I am overthinking this, but I only made a closer study of it, because ostensibly intelligent people were labelling it as weird.
I’d better ignore TV for a while, or go for a walk when there’s a commercial break!
ks sakeJonesy23 said:
Flat6er said:
Royal navy recruitment advert.
How is this fixing a bike?
If you can do that you can toast bread
if you learn to do that you can reheat soup in the microwave
if you can do that you can peel potatoes and boil them
and if you can do that maybe you could make a full 3 course dinner for the queen and her family
Blown2CV said:
it's CGI for fks sake
Thanks for so politely setting me straight, if you look at the post immediately prior to your one that I’m quoting, you’ll notice that I’d already thrown my hands up and confessed that that thought hadn’t occurred to me.ks sakePerhaps it’s a bit remiss of me, but I don’t have the slightest interest in computer technology at all, providing I can send and receive emails from my kids and grandchildren, research and book flights, vacation homes, and make a restaurant reservation, that’s the sum total of my involvement with computers and iPads, oh, and use my iPhone for that stuff too, and making calls of course.
Edited by biz.mod on Sunday 4th March 20:50
cuprabob said:
The Vodafone advert with Martin Freeman and the bag is really getting on my nerves. Let's have a new one to critique...
There's a new one with him on stranded spaceship. Turns out it's just VR space as his broadband drops out / starts buffering and his online friends start whinging at him for not having super fantastic Vodafone BB as he's now ruining their MMORPG.Shame it's not real space as I'd be quite happy if we could leave him out there / stranded on the International Space Station
AlexRS2782 said:
There's a new one with him on stranded spaceship. Turns out it's just VR space as his broadband drops out / starts buffering and his online friends start whinging at him for not having super fantastic Vodafone BB as he's now ruining their MMORPG.
Shame it's not real space as I'd be quite happy if we could leave him out there / stranded on the International Space Station
Cheers, I'll look out for that one Shame it's not real space as I'd be quite happy if we could leave him out there / stranded on the International Space Station
A couple on the radio that seriously irritate me at the minute, they will probably be familiar to anyone who listens to the Radio City range of stations in Liverpool...
The one for Robinson Day Peugeot firstly irritates by having "Robinson Day" sung repeatedly to the tune of an old famous Italian opera song, as background music. It then further grates due to their choice of the dealerships most nasal, phlegmatic scousers to do the actual announcing. The last one especially - some high pitched woman with an incredibly thick accent who states they can be found on "edggge Lane a' th'end of the em sicksty-toe"
Secondly, a firm of ambulance chasing parasites comes Hampson Hughes. They used to have a hip-hop rhyme about their services, which whilst irritating was at least cleverly written. Now however they've moved to 30 seconds of "its time to hampson Hughes it" to the tune of "move it move it". This annoys me so much that as soon as it comes on I'll either mute the stereo or change stations for 5 minutes
The one for Robinson Day Peugeot firstly irritates by having "Robinson Day" sung repeatedly to the tune of an old famous Italian opera song, as background music. It then further grates due to their choice of the dealerships most nasal, phlegmatic scousers to do the actual announcing. The last one especially - some high pitched woman with an incredibly thick accent who states they can be found on "edggge Lane a' th'end of the em sicksty-toe"
Secondly, a firm of ambulance chasing parasites comes Hampson Hughes. They used to have a hip-hop rhyme about their services, which whilst irritating was at least cleverly written. Now however they've moved to 30 seconds of "its time to hampson Hughes it" to the tune of "move it move it". This annoys me so much that as soon as it comes on I'll either mute the stereo or change stations for 5 minutes
AlexRS2782 said:
There's a new one with him on stranded spaceship. Turns out it's just VR space as his broadband drops out / starts buffering and his online friends start whinging at him for not having super fantastic Vodafone BB as he's now ruining their MMORPG.
Shame it's not real space as I'd be quite happy if we could leave him out there / stranded on the International Space Station
Won't the speed be down to the BT line anyway,so the same for all ISPs,or can different ISPs get different speeds from the same line?Shame it's not real space as I'd be quite happy if we could leave him out there / stranded on the International Space Station
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