Coronation Street Sponsorship

Who honestly likes Cadbury's sponsorship for Coronation Street?

I think they're horrible and very offputting. I think it used to be better when Cadbury used to use sponsorship with like a chocolate type sponsoring. These ones with actual human beings is just too bad for me.

A lot of sponsors do that though nowadays. Watching the cricket, I know betfair use scenarios involing people, as does Hollyoaks.

I preferred the original Cadbury's sponsorship from the Mid 1990s when they had the Street made of chocolate.

Couldnt this have been posted in the existing Corrie thread?

Aren't the people on the Channel 4 cricket the same people who do Big Chef, Tiny Chef on Cbeebies (or something similar, I forget the actual name. My cousin made me watch it and it was awful).

as it not about the actual show i think not.

The worst one is 'Suki' and that bloke who switch the radio on by accident at the end of part one and then fall in a box and spill soup all down their front at the end

Yes, they're very annoying. Especially the way she laughs.

What I notice about those ads, and many others at present, is the subtext of "get as much as you can for yourself, and don't share."

Eg. - the woman who gets the Cadbury's Flake Moments, and eats them all;
- the chap whose girlfriend is moving out, and who gets a box of Roses from his friend "Awww... Mate!" and eats them all;
- away from Cadbury's, the current ads for Always products, set in a supermarket...

There are more, but... I'm tired.

I've always found them annoying because there are so few in a "series", but it is the radio one that has me reaching for the remote control before the "ticket to the heart" (or whatever it is) song comes on. With the chocolate street ones a few years back, the little tune that went with them really bugged me too.

I must agree; the radio/remote control one is bloody awful. Her laugh at the end seems more forced each time I see it.

Not to mention that I get the gag-reflex when I see her drinking tea out of a vase.

Have you ever seen the inside of a vase after it's had flowers in?

Bleurch.

Indeed, it's quite revolting. I think what gets me about her laugh is the "oooh I'm going to sneeze" thing she does before laughing. UGH! I'm shuddering at the thought!

But does anyone want to go back to the days of...

"C'mon, say thank you! Say thank you for Grandad!"

Didn't think so

What about the ones they had in 2002? Those annyoing aniamted ones. One was a bloke cookign "pan fried earth", another was a woman saying "I bought him those shirts". Uh. they got rid of those pretty quick. The live action sponsorship might not be great, but they're better than those!