To think the latest malteasers ad is a bit much?

[wevegottobeathemdown]

So the latest ad depicts a disabled wheelchair user describing how her condition, whatever it is, led her to inadvertently wank off her date.

What happened to the chocolate ads of yore. Perhaps the milk tray hero should have been a bit more forward.

[Boundaries]

"Overly scripted"

Do you think other adverts are ad libbed?

Adverts are shit. Stop watching them.

[Manumission]

A new one is another (dwarf?) wheelchair user, demonstrating with a Malteaser, what happened when the bride's foot met the wheel on her chair on the dancefloor.

She still got away with the Best Man's number, though

TBF that sounds genuinely funny and streets apart from wank jokes.

Maybe it's because malteasers seem like something children eat that this seems so off.

[Namechangeemergency]

Eastenders doesn't do that 'oh we are far to cool to even notice someone is disabled' either (although I am not sure how that power chair gets into all of those terraced houses).

They bought up the characters wish for a child and her mother's concern for how she would physically cope with pregnancy and parenting.
Her mother had clearly assumed she would never have children.

They introduce stuff about the little girl with Down syndrome with a fairly light touch.

[grannytomine]

Namechangeemergency, glad its not just me. I thought I might have grandparent paranoia and you are right they are on too much. We have said, me and DH, that we would never go to Warners now even if they paid us.

[grannytomine]

Eastenders and Coronation St do seem to do it well, their is the young man with Downs in Coronation St, I think he is great, and the mum in the wheelchair who I find a bit annoying but she hasn't got an easy life (the character) with pain and failed marriage so I try not to get annoyed with her.

[grannytomine]

there not their.

[VeryBitchyRestingFace]

I find them contrived, try hard and a bit patronising.

[Namechangeemergency]

Yes Coronation Street is better now too.

Neither do bereavement or illness well but even Eastenders has made a much better attempt at Liver Disease than it did when poor Jamie died all pink and healthy looking a while back.

[Namechangeemergency]

So do I resting
But I have to admit, as others have pointed out, a lot of adverts are like that.

Maybe we should just shrug and think 'meh, adverts are rubbish why should they be better just because a disabled person is in them?'

[MrsJayy]

This advert was made in conjuction with a disability charity it was a girl with a disability who got a bit frisky with her boyfriend and well the maltesers scattered. This has made some people uncomfortable and people say why cant they just have disabled people doing normal things but this was the characters normal why shouldn"t disabled people be shown in cringy awkward situations?

[Birdsgottafly]

""their is the young man with Downs in Coronation St, I think he is great, ""

I hate the script that they give him, it's unnatural, for a teen and they seem to want to turn him into a 1980's comedian. He's progressed to have a run of the mill friendship with Gemma, which is a step in the right direction.

I agree with a pp that mostly they aren't showing disabled characters (including the advert), as having 'normal lives', they're always wacky etc.

""I find them contrived, try hard and a bit patronising.""

Totally agree.

I think EE has done well with their disabled and Gay characters.

[augustbody]

There was a hilarious thread about this advert a few weeks ago.

Of course, the only real question is - was the maltesers scattering everywhere thing a double entendre?

[MrsJayy]

Ee have stopped Donnas wheelchair going in the caff somebody must have realised that there is no way her wheelchair would get in and turn she now walks in and out

[Lessthanaballpark]

'Once the people are featured without a clunky point being made about their disabilities, we'll be making progress.'

^^this.

I liked the more recent (bride's foot) one because it was just her having a chat with her mates but it was a bit cringey in the "look at me I'm so wacky" aspect.

[Soubriquet]

We had this thread ages ago

Someone was a right pearl clutcher over it because wanking and chocolate should never go together and won't someone please think of the children!!

I like them. They are funny and normalising disabilities

[Soubriquet]

And my dog really did chew my hearing aid once

Furry little twat.

Luckily she didn't swallow the actual aid part just chewed the mould. Still meant I was without hearing for 3 weeks though

[RockStonePebble]

don't like is that these ads are all built around their impairments - the wheelchair, the spasms, the hearing aid.

Exactly Blacksox. That's why I don't like them too.

[MrsJayy]

You know disabled people can be oh look at me see how outrageous i am just like anybody else it is fine to find them annoying but to say they are being portrayed as wacky to appear normal is patronising

[MrsJayy]

Why don't you like the adverts being built round their disabilities why does it make you uncomfortable ?

[Soubriquet]

Yes why does it make you uncomfortable?

Disabled people have sex too you know?

No one cares when it's on everyday but as soon as disabilities are mentioned, it becomes awkward and uncomfortable

[Boundaries]

I wonder if there would have been a thread about this advert if the ad had shoe horned in a mild "wank joke" with a non disabled actress.

[Soubriquet]

No one would have blinked at a wank joke from someone non disabled

Look at all the adverts we have now?

Perfume with half naked women who have clearly just had sex

The flake advert mentioned. Blow job

[MrsJayy]

There was a skittles sex joke a few years ago just saw it in the cinema tbh but was a honeymoon couple door shut and woosh of skittles with taste the rainbow tagline. It is just the same as the "wacky" maltesers adverts

[TyneTeas]

I like the adverts.

Francesca Martinez has bits like this in her piece at Live at the Apollo iirc (can't listen to it rn to check, small ears about, but it look like the right one)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=12WMNauEKvQ