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

[PinkStarAtNight]

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?

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.

YANBU they are cunts

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

Christ you sound a joy

YANBU. Gives me RAGE!

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

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

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

gives me the rage...yanbu

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.

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

@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

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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'.

That sounds pretty clever actually!

Not as bad as that sodding Jet2 song

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

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

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.

@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!!