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To be really angry with On the Beach for using Christmas song in ad?

77 replies

PinkStarAtNight · 25/03/2022 11:50

I've just seen someone posting about On the Beach and it reminded me how angry I get every time their advert comes on the radio!

I've never used them to book a holiday so my anger is slightly more trivial...I can't believe they're using a Christmas song in March!

After googling it I found out they actually brought out the advert on TV over Christmas. I didn't know because I don't have a TV but I do listen to LBC on the radio every day and in the last couple of weeks I've been hearing the On the Beach 'holidays start sooner' ad during every break and its driving me mental that they're forcing me to listen to a Christmas song in March!!

I'm very strict about not having Christmas songs on until at least 1st Dec every year and to be forced to hear a Christmas song every day when its not Christmas is really pissing me off! I turn down the radio every time it comes on. I don't know what they think they're playing at. Anyone else feel that a petition is needed to get them to stop this madness?

OP posts:
Wastwater · 25/03/2022 11:59

It's a crap advert - but the Most Wonderful Time of the Year is the cleverest part of it. For many people, their summer holiday is much better than Christmas.

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 25/03/2022 12:02

YANBU they are cunts

orangeisthenewpuce · 25/03/2022 12:02

It's a good advert in that you remembered it and what company it was for.

ssd · 25/03/2022 12:03

Christ you sound a joy

BeenHereForYonkyDoodles · 25/03/2022 12:04

YANBU. Gives me RAGE!

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 25/03/2022 12:04

Nah, they're absolutely right! Summer is the most wonderful time of the year!

NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 25/03/2022 12:11

The TV version of that advert does the reverse of what it’s supposed to for me. That family are a bunch of utter arseholes and it gives me the actual rage how awful they are.

I was too busy being mad at that to notice the Xmas music Blush

Iwantmyoldnameback · 25/03/2022 12:15

I like the advert because Mum doesn't look like a modelll and boy doesn't share his ice cream with his sister.

Onlyhuman123 · 25/03/2022 12:20

gives me the rage...yanbu

CounsellorTroi · 25/03/2022 12:22

I’m pretty sure On the Beach are not the first to use that song. One of the big supermarkets did, Tesco I think, to sell barbecue food and stuff.

Queuing4Fergs · 25/03/2022 12:28

What I don't get about the ad, is the daughter. The family are supposed to be totally obnoxious - fat dad with his gut hanging out, mum flicking her flip flops off and not caring that they hit someone, and the odious son who eats his ice cream and makes "ner nerrrr" faces at his sister.

But what's wrong with the girl? Poor kid having that family

Bunty55 · 25/03/2022 12:30

@Queuing4Fergs

What I don't get about the ad, is the daughter. The family are supposed to be totally obnoxious - fat dad with his gut hanging out, mum flicking her flip flops off and not caring that they hit someone, and the odious son who eats his ice cream and makes "ner nerrrr" faces at his sister.

But what's wrong with the girl? Poor kid having that family

It's 'Matilda'. The stole the idea
ShadowPuppets · 25/03/2022 12:30

I haven’t seen the TV ad (or if I have it hasn’t sunk in) but YANBU re the song. Clever, yes, but I’ve had it stuck in my head after hearing it on the radio on the way to work and it’s very annoying!

VainAbigail · 25/03/2022 12:32

The ad I saw with this song had different lyrics relevant to the season so I don’t really care TBH.

Snoozer11 · 25/03/2022 12:32

I first saw the advert a day or two after the 25th, and noticed then that using a Christmas song in an advert that first aired after Christmas was a bad idea.

I had no idea it would still be shown on the cusp of April.

It's terrible.

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 25/03/2022 12:38

It's a rubbish ad because even though it comes up on the tv most days I couldn't tell you what company it was for!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 25/03/2022 12:39

Did I imagine WHSmith once upon a time using the same song in their adverts for back to school stationery?

Sparklingbrook · 25/03/2022 12:39

I think it's genius. And holiday time is the most wonderful time of the year, way better than Christmas so they have got that right.

iklboo · 25/03/2022 12:45

It's on radio ads every bloody five minutes. I've seen the tv ad once and thought 'I think I was on the same holiday as this lot the other year'.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 25/03/2022 13:06

That sounds pretty clever actually!

Wheniruletheworld · 25/03/2022 13:25

Not as bad as that sodding Jet2 song

Margaretmatcher · 25/03/2022 13:35

WHENIRULETHEWORLD. Could not agree with you more, and if you make the mistake of flying with them they play it on the bloody plane ahhhhh

Muddywoof · 25/03/2022 13:35

The way the little girl just stares at the boy having the icecream creeps me the fuck out.

AmyandPhilipfan · 25/03/2022 13:36

I always wonder if they’re a real family as with Covid rules when it was probably made it was probably easier to film an actual family than 4 separate actors.

Wheniruletheworld · 25/03/2022 13:40

@Margaretmatcher

WHENIRULETHEWORLD. Could not agree with you more, and if you make the mistake of flying with them they play it on the bloody plane ahhhhh
Noooooooo!!