Lets do 'dumb adverts' again!

[ptumbi]

I'm sure you've seen that advert for 'releasing equity' from your home ('So if you're thinking of releasing equity, then good advice is key' sung to let's all have a cuppa tea) - it's on twice an hour here.

Next time it's on, watch the big mass-dancing scene closely - watch the guy in the brown trousers right at the back left.. . he is so bad it's funny! Out of time, out of step, out of position

Also - I've noticed that the Oral B advert no longer squeaks 'I didn't even know Oral B made toothpaste!' so mumsnet does make a difference!

That equity ad is awful i wince watching that. What does she say in the oral b ad ? Have watched and rewound and cant work it out :/

The Buscopan ad for IBS relief. It's the name of the product - for some reason it really irritates me. If I hear it on the radio when I'm driving I have to turn the volume down until I think it's finished.

Also - I've noticed that the Oral B advert...

No but they did go to casting and say "find me an actress who can talk like a ventriloquist because viewers are SO thick they won't understand it's about teeth unless we have some who looks like a crazy shark in every frame".

The one for the false teeth glue stuff, where the borrower woman is very badly wobbling on a massive set of gnashers.

(I promise I'm not some weird teeth troll!)

I tend to fast forward through the adverts but saw one yesterday that made me LOL. The man says to the woman, "Holidays all booked" but it sounds like he says "Holidays, Old Butt" which is a common way of referring to a friend around these parts.

Most adverts are infantile and are part of the continuing process of infantilizing the adults of this country. Cartoons aimed at adults and people behaving like they are children are normal in adverts in Britain.

Oh yes buzzshitbagbobbly and then beneath it it says Dramatisation. It's as if we need to be told not to eat miniature women that are trying to balance in our mouths FFS!

See what I mean about infantilization?

The Buscopan ad for IBS relief. It's the name of the product - for some reason it really irritates me.

We always call it 'Bust The Pan' in our house

I know that even the most compact of toilet designs will allow for a more than sufficient payload for any user, but we're childish!!

That bloody advert for McDonalds with Glen Medeiros warbling over it. It wasn't a good song the first time round, it certainly isn't now!

The ads for Trivago where people keep eavesdropping on the smug cow who's paid half what they've paid and she gets to show us the app on her phone.

At the hotel desk, in the gym, she's there, with her phone ready.

Also 'On the Market' for finding rental accomodation/property for sale up to 24 hours before they appear on Rightmove.

Ooooon the market using the old Chas and Dave song 'Margate'.

Excruciating.

There is a travel insurance one where they talk about having to get special insurance because of his heart. She knows nothing about it and is surprised. And the man knows everything about it.

Two mins later the same advert comes in where she knows all about it and he doesn’t.
I mean come on ... at least play them several hours apart

“Some people think being a woman means being only soft and delicate”

Do they, Always? Do they???

Who are these people? Do they know anything at all about women?!

And don’t get me started on that “Bum!! Hips!! Heart!!” woman who inexplicably has nothing but peppers in her fridge.

Joyce, Graham and their bloody parsnips trying to flog funeral plans make me see red I know exactly what I'd like to do with the sodding parsnips--
😡😡😡

Why do we not find out his exams went? Good or bad I want to know now.

Next time it's on, watch the big mass-dancing scene closely - watch the guy in the brown trousers right at the back left.. . he is so bad it's funny! Out of time, out of step, out of position The irritating wife in the family's dancing is similarly teetery. I must get a life

Some adverts don’t even tell you what the product is for or why we should buy it
For e.g. borracca
Loggers dancing on a log or office man dashing through his day doesn’t tell me a thing

That and the adverts who play on fear - corsodyl is the worst. They seem to suggest that If you don’t buy their products then your teeth will fall out
Utter nonsense ( and a terrible product anyway)

EmAreSea "And don’t get me started on that “Bum!! Hips!! Heart!!” woman who inexplicably has nothing but peppers in her fridge."

I think you meant

“Bum!! [JIGGLE JIGGLE JIGGLE] Hips!! [SHIMMY SHIMMY SHIMMY] Heart!! [PEPPER PEPPER PEPPER and cue the TEETHHHHHH]”

I just find that on some channels they hae not long had the advert on when it is on again . Sometimes shortened. But that K.TEL one is on for ages.

Well Nationwide has gone from teeth-clenching poetry to stand-up comedians that are excruciatingly and pathetically unfunny. But I guess we’re talking about their ads.

"Perf with Surf" makes me irrationally annoyed (and to not buy surf)

I’m so happy that the ad at the bottom of this page is for Oral B.

I've realised that if an advert is totally nonsensical, bizarre and never mentions a product then it is always for perfume/aftershave

The one for Crunchy Nut Cornflakes where the woman turns up for a Tinder date, sees the man who looks nothing like his profile pic, and tries to sneak off without being seen, only to give away her position by eating said cornflakes too loudly (what sort of restaurant has Crunchy Nut Cornflakes anyway, but I digress). In the next shot, she's in bed with creepy date man and they have two equally creepy-looking children, and she's still nomming away on her cornflakes. I don't know why, but it makes me shudder. Has she had to anaesthetise herself with sugary cereal to distract herself from the horror of her relationship? Does she keep some of those CNC bars handy next to the bed for when the creepy guy wants to make another baby? It seems like such a crap selling point for your product, really - eat our cereal and get trapped in a marriage with someone you don't really like, and then continue comfort eating our cereal so you don't have to think about it.

Yes, I am prone to overthinking, since you ask.

@fatherfintanfay - that's exactly what I thought! But I have managed to reframe it...

I think it's important to note that in the final scene she is also looking weird (yellow jumper and odd hair). So my take is that once she met someone who was happy wearing what he wanted even if society dictates that it's unacceptable - and he is obviously aware of this because he chose a normal-looking profile pic - she too was able to let go of all these restrictive thoughts, and they lived happily ever after (she's happy in the bedside photo, too, isn't she?).