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Best and Worst Adverts and why?

Express your feelings about adverts (September 2005)

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Time Warp
Skytower posted:
3) Privilege. You don't have to be posh to be Privileged - yes, I know... after the 18,000th airing...


God, anyone who's watched the cricket must be sick to death of that now...Privilege aired on almost every break after an over during the 3rd Test at Old Trafford, and after one break, a cricketer went out triggering an almost following-on (cricket fans, no pun intended) break with two Privilege ads back-to-back!
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Aphrodite007
Oooo, forgot to mention. Best adverts ever:

The Nandos Portugese cricket ones. Very Happy I haven't ever known an ad before where no-one has a bad word to say. Very, very clever stuff.
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Johnny83
Am I the only one who finds the Esure mouse more irritating than Michael Winner, why did the mouse have to be a f***ing New Yurker
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Johnny83
Jenny posted:
Best: Country Life butter. You know, the one with all the animals cleaning up the kitchen. They've finally come up with another classic, 25 years or more since the immortal "you'll never put a better bit o'butter on your knife" ads.

Also the Citroen C4 ads. I mean, they're pushing an expensive polluting deathtrap, but the dancing robot is way cool.


That Citroen C4 ad is great It always reminds me of Transformers Very Happy

I also like the Orange Ad as well

The "3" mobile ones are just stupid, constant smiling cartoon animals that keep beating the crap out of each other or some wierd alternative Japanese world where Music is bannned ?!?!?

BTW seeing as someone mentioned the British Airways ad from the 1980's does anyone know the name of the track & artist from that ad. I know it was a classical piece but I'm sure it was "remixed" in some way
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MarkN Founding member
Not been seen for a while, but these adverts must rate (in my opinion) as among the worst ever created:

"The Fybogel family"
Landmark Furniture (thankfully adverts for this company will not return!)

Johnny83 posted:
Am I the only one who finds the Esure mouse more irritating than Michael Winner


No.
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Spencer
Johnny83 posted:
The "3" mobile ones are just stupid, constant smiling cartoon animals that keep beating the crap out of each other or some wierd alternative Japanese world where Music is bannned ?!?!


There was also the strange one with the jellyfish-type thing in the flat. I've really no idea what to make of their ad campaign. It seems to make no sense and have no coherence at all. It just doesn't work very well... so in that sense, I suppose it's rather appropriate for '3'.
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amandaadams
Tell you what I hate: The Currys ad with Linda Barker "Currys Aways cutting prices" argghhh!!!


At the moment I like: The Ribena one with the little Blackcurrent that has to cross to get to the Ribena Factory! sooo cute!! Laughing
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Ant
amandaadams posted:
Tell you what I hate: The Currys ad with Linda Barker "Currys Aways cutting prices" argghhh!!!

Well luckily they got rid of them a few months ago and now have something much less annoying! Can't remember what it is though right now.
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Jonathan
I hate: Any advert to do with the RSPCA, I find the organisation annoying. This doesn't mean I hate charity, I love charity, I endorse most charities just not the RSPCA.
I also hate any PC World adverts, because the 'PC World' jingle at the end grates my nerves. I love Typhoo tea's range of ads last year, with the chinese men chucking water over people/having chickens wake families up.
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nwtv2003
Antz posted:
amandaadams posted:
Tell you what I hate: The Currys ad with Linda Barker "Currys Aways cutting prices" argghhh!!!

Well luckily they got rid of them a few months ago and now have something much less annoying! Can't remember what it is though right now.


Gonna rock down to....Electric Avenue....
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Gluben
My favourite present ones are the Nationwide ones with Mark Benton (I wonder if anyone else knew his name!) "Brand new customers only.....". Orange ones I like too (dum-dum-da-dum-dum-goodbye-Darth-Vader!") My best one from a few years back was the campaign for milk, with the Dancing Milk Bottles. There's one at TV Ark, but I'm sure there were more.

I also do not like the 3 adverts because I don't understand them.
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Spencer
Jonathan posted:
I hate: Any advert to do with the RSPCA, I find the organisation annoying. This doesn't mean I hate charity, I love charity, I endorse most charities just not the RSPCA.


Any particular reason? Do you like hurting fluffy kittens in your spare time or something?

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