To quite like the marmite advert

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OK I can see why people are upset, but I thought it was quite funny and cute. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the ad agency though to see if anyone ever brought up the issue of taste and whether people would be offended.

Anyway, my marmite pot is well-loved and well-used so I am safe.

YABU to "quite like it".

You must LOVE it or HATE it

I love it! Very clever.

I think it's really funny.

It's completely beyond me as to hey anyone would be offended. It doesn't belittle animal protection officers' work, it's marmite for goodness' sake!

OK I'll get off the fence. I LOVE it!

I adore the little boy's face at the end when he tries the adopted marmite. I just want to squeeze him.

I do animal protection work myself, and I think this is really funny. I can't believe anyone would complain about it.

I'm also involved in animal rescue and I love the advert.

I love it. I chuckled all the way through.

No chance of Marmite neglect in our house

I think it's very clever. I love the way they pixelated the dogs face too.

Ha, I hadn't noticed that! I'll have to have another look. I just thought it was so cool to get whathischops to do the voiceover. Unless it's someone who sounds just like him!

I think it's funny, and I truly can't understand why some people have found it offensive.

I thought it was quite funny.

But I am a little worried, though. I am a bit of a Marmite neglecter. Sometimes I fancy Marmite, buy some and then forget all about it for years months. I must have a couple of jars at the back of the cupboard.

I do the same with Ovaltine.

I'd dust off your jar and move it to the front if I were you just in case. Imagine what the neighbours would think. Shudder.

I think I should. Actually, I just fancy a bit of Marmite on toast.

It doesn't go off, does it?

i love it :) i think it is really funny

had marmite on an oatcake this morning not the same as on white buttery toast :(

Haven't seen it but love PETAs response "neglect of the jarred yeasty spread"

Nope...can't see why anyone would be upset.

It doesn't go off, does it?

Nah. At the end of the world, it will just be cockroaches and Marmite left.

I think it's a good ad, too, especially the boy at the end - though having been out of the room for the start, I initially thought the TV was on the wrong channel and it was an actual programme. I think they're quite clever to use the fact that not everyone likes Marmite to advertise it, because usually adverts imply that everyone loves whatever the product is.

I think it's a great ad

I think it is really funny!

Does anyone remember the country club peas advert? It had a son to go with it....you're too old you can't join our club you're too fat you can't join ou club.....or something like hat. I was about 14 and refused to eat birds eye peas because of the advert!

Nothing would stop me eating marmite though!

At the end of the world, it will just be cockroaches and Marmite left.

Has anyone considered that this might also jog people's awareness about animal abuse and rescue? I think it might well do, and it certainly isn't going to harm the cause.
I've been closely involved in small animal rescue for years and I think it's really funny. I can't quite express how I feel about the tendency in recent years for some people to over-analyse simple humour and decide there is something wrong about it. Just... get over yourselves! "British" humour has always had a tendency to get a little bit dark, and most of us love it.

The master touch in that advert was getting Michael Buerke from '999, What's Your Emergency' to do the voiceover.

I thought that it was real programme about abuse to start with, but I think it's very clever and they have achieved what they set out to do, everyone is talking about it.