adverts

I was amazed to find that the film 'Evolution' starring David Duchovny is really a 98 minute advert for a famous shampoo - which (sadly) Hox will never advertise.

Hey! Just say - "I'm easily conned." and for less than £8 a month you can make believe you're going to get over £400's cash back.

You haven't lived until you've seen how utterly horrible some of our (Kansas) local commercials get. Especially the car advertisers who like to ramble at the top of their lungs. (And it ain't no stereotype!) We also have a local fastfood chain where the owner of the franchise -- a middle aged woman who looks like she took a couple testosterone shots and tries to act cutesy like Goldie Hawn -- stars in the company's commercials and really gets me violent and vow never to eat there. I will sometimes even change the channel.

When I was in America some years back i saw a fantastic advert. Some local car sales place in Florida that bad-mouthed some competiton. Think they inferred they sold dodgy cars that people died in or something. Very in your face ! That and the lcoal 'phone company whose line was 'After all - you don't want to give your money to AT&T'. Only in America !

Speaking of levi's ads, those 'rub yourself' ones are rather good. What would Freud say, eh? But nothing in the advertising world has come close to Metz's Judderman ads...I'm still scared now.

Mmm. Those were very Heinrich Hoffman's Shock-headed Peter. "The door flew open / in he ran / the great long red-legged scissorman"

Talking American adverts: we get a Dell advert which must have been designed to be shown on "Wayne's World." It seems that we are starting to be considered as an American state - might explain why Blair is a Bush baby. Oh say can you see...

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and...............tena ladies! Ain't it good to be able to get dressed up for a night of fun, knowing that you can piss yourself all night and no visible signs!! Shame about the poor bloke that wants to get yer knickers orf!!!!!!!!!!!

There's an advert where a firm that sell secondhand cars are asking why people came to them when they had been turned down elsewhere. No one ever says "BECAUSE we were turned down elsewhere" of course.

Agree about the Halifax - all of them so far..... Inanely grinning people, slightly "having a dance" - pushing their bums left and right - the only missing thing is the handbag on the floor. I can't remember the services they are pushing tho, cos I get so annoyed. On a better point, the "John Smith" adverts make me laugh, especially the current one where the British bloke does a "bomb" into the pool after all the other athletes have done their double and triple twists. Plus he's wearing gaudy long beach shorts and when he gets out, shows "builders bum". Typical "Brit abroad", but still funny.

i like the man from the halifax ads

i like the car ad where the guy in india bashes up his car to look like the real thing....and then does the bling bling cruise.....nice

Yeah, I like that one too.... For a while there were some great ads for Pot Noodle... that guy roaming around Soho looking a working girl who would share a pot noodle with him....the slogan was something like "a great shag in a bucket" or some such thing. It reminded me of the opening sequence from Graham Norton's show.

I watch the ads in an abstract way, I love them, more than many of the programmes. But I don't see how the ads are affecting me. I don't ever remember watching an ad and then rushing out and buying something. Surely they're supposed to influence you? Most of the products advertised I have already seen on sale and that's when i would decide to purchse something - in the shop. So does anyoneunderstand why 'they' spend so much time and money making comercials?

They do it to implant the company's logo in your brain and make you like it. There have been studies suggesting that the more times you see a logo, the more you're going to like it and therefore, you're likely to pick it out of similar, less advertised products. Also, I thought was interesting, that if you're doing something while watching television (say making a sandwich during the commercials) you're going to glance up at the television every 15 seconds because that's how long most commercials last (and you subconsciously want to know what commercial is next.) If there is a 30 second commercial, the advertisers will generally put the product logo on the screen right at the 15 second mark.

He is annoying, but he is no Howard. Agree that his no-neck simpering and lame dance, and the fact that the words bear no relation at all to the original lame song BUT he does not have the sheer "face you'd never tire of punching" quality of Howard, and he does not present as someone who actually believes they are a genuine talent worthy of adoration and their own brand of yoghurt the way Howard does. "Just wait until you see our rate of high INTER-EST" Die Howard, Die. Why can't I get my hands on any shooters in this lame country ? Celebrity mercy killings must be the way forward for the next batch of reality tv. Turner, Moyles, Sprake, Holmes, Feltz... I'm coming for you.

the power of commercials is huge. Take Carlsburg lager for example. Their product is actually of a poor quality and is much seen as 'cheap and nasty' amongst drinkers. They had a campaign that SUGGESTED it was the best lager in the world even though it's not even in the top twenty and people believed it. A survey showed that 85% of people actually believed it to be the best and that they only used the word "probably" for legal reasons as it's down to opinion. The campaign worked so well that an 'anti campaign' was launched where they started saying that it WAS the best but showed it to be a slightly untrue (a polygraph is shown to flicker when it is suggested). It was some of the best advertising seen on TV and it had enormous cash rewards for the company. Also let's not forget that the Nike 'swoosh' is now so well recognized that it can be used as it's own form of language and is often seen with no other words at all but it's message is fully understood. It's a true icon of the modern age. The most effective ads are usually the most basic that will get people to make decisions when shopping. That's why the old DAZ supermarket challenge style is still going after all these years. It's shown to work which means money in the bank even if you don't win any design awards.

i thought you MEANT howard ... sorry i don't watch TV much ... I LIKED HOWARD ... do i get to join your slaughter list andrew?

wonder what would an advert for 'abctales' be like ?

Something along the lines of the "www.cofanifunebri.com" Jude mentioned? Though the image of the piano player from Monty Python keeps popping into my mind. Must go and lie down.

ABC advert: Liana crashing through walls while Hox dances around in a paisley thong singing: "These slippers are made for walking." Or Andrea swimming the canals of Amsterdam against the clock while Mississippi pours a pint of Guinness.

perhaps we could do it in association with jaffa cakes? (crashing through walls??)

Levis' ad, young Liana. A comment on your irrepressible spirit.

Yeah - guy from the Halifax ads should be killed in probably the same way as Edward II. What happened to the real classics. I used to like the 5 minute long Woolworth Christmas adverts with loads of J-list 'celebrities'. This is another pointless offering

awww tom... you ARE cheering.... especially the young bit.... Roy, i hated those adverts... W On TV generally...whilst i was away, (although i hardly ever watched tv prior to leaving) i started to crave british tv of any description, and since returning i remember why. Its truly shite. Last night, I went to bed early, and watched some real crap. "How to make your home burglar proof" made by two ex cons, and then some utter rubbish with Nick Ross where several different teams of people sat in judgement on real court cases. It was like watching a moving Daily Mail all night.. gawd....

a moving daily mail hahahaah...i saw some of that programme at my parents house last night...usually i only ever watch television when i am there and it can seem they watch the same thing over and over...the bit i saw last night included a couple whose house was given a "security makeover"...cue jaunty music and 3 minutes of people being chirpy with power tools...

Snip snip! The scissors go! Conrade cries out "Oh No!" Snip snip! They go so fast! And Conrade's thumbs are off at last! genius. i hear the tiger lillies don't do the live shows any more. anyone been to see it since some other guys replaced them? are they any good?

the halifax ad man is actually a carefully constructed computer graphic, nobody could be that squat and talentless AND go on television singing such a kak song so dreadfully...please tell me he doesn't exist...its a leftover from shrek...every time i see him i just imagine him turning down people for mortgages...i do want to see him suffer..but in a nice middle-class liberal humanist way... the abctales advert...something akin to the dreamer guinness advert..but weirder... i like irn bru...and so do my bitches that's still my favourite poster copy...

BA (British Airways) : "Have you seen how small our prices are?" Yeah! that's so we can't read 'em!

BA: "Our seats are as small as our prices.....and don't you just love those SMBD outfits our flight attendants wear?...Oooooh, beat me, whip me.......scruntch me into a tiny seat.....Ooooooh"

the LINK advert (rewritten) complete t.wat: Do you w.ank a lot? total t.osser: Yeah, how do you know that? complete t.wat: You've still got your d.ick in your hand.

on a positive note, I do like the Clarks advert featuring the girl dancing wildly to Plastic Bertrand and boy dancing to OMD. (on a slightly more negative note, why does your keypad dance after Jack Daniels?)

Dancing in a paisley thong? ( he exclaims, 4 days and 17 posts late ). I demand an apology, or I will be referring the matter to Messrs. Sloe, Sloe, Quikwik & Sloe for litigation.

Hence the Quikwik papers? I forgot to mention the cravat and sock suspenders.

I prefer the Lilt version to the levi ad myself Tom

Yeah, much better with all that dust about, Vick.