Adverts!!

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Just for a bit of light relief - I was sitting in my usual semi - comatose state yesterday evening, staring blankly at the TV, adverts washing over me, when I began to wander which adverts get on other peoples nerves? Which drive you potty every time you hear/see them? I know this is a bit banal, but it's about my level......
For starters, the 'best' have to be daytime TV ads - in particular - "Wahey, just call us the Fybogel Family...."
Any more for any more?.......

What about the really awful ones that have so obviously been dubbed. I always remember one for L'Oreal (I think) that had Andie McDowall in it. They had dubbed her with an English accent for a while then changed her back again!

What about the little boy on the loo complaining of the smell and then pulling up his pullups without having a wipe!! (or am I being picky!). R

LOL EmmaM. I've just seen another one that always gets my back up (morning TV, my secret shame) It's for Norton Finance. It's one of those consolidate all your debts jobbies, but what really gets my back up is the happy woman at the end who paid off all her debts and still had enough left over to buy a new car. It's just so irresponsible! Encouraging people to get into even more debt. Stop me before I come over all Calvanistic.

The one I can't stand is for some car. It has perfect couple, with the woman heavily pregnant, and says "3 Lives, 1 planet, 0 compromise". Aaaarghhh! Firstly, it looks very much like "baby as fashion accessory to our perfect lives". But also, the idea that owning a car involves no compromises is ridiculous. Lots of people are forced to or choose to have a car, but of course that represents a compromise (eg convenience & greater job opportunities versus pollution and road accidents.) Do you think I'm taking this all a bit too personally?

I loved a cartoon I saw in Private Eye about car adverts. It showed "ad"(single car on the road, speeding along through tree-lined roads) and "Reality"(moving at a snail's pace through inner-city traffic.) Have you noticed how the most "up their own derrieres" ads are for the most banal products?

Am I the only person NOT to have seen the Fybogel ad?
I can't stand that awfully dubbed one where the boyfriend asks the girlfriend if he can have one of her 'sweets' which are really Tampax in disguise - eugh.

Nope, Jodee, I haven't seen the fybogel ad, either. I'm too addicted to the computer to watch tv these days!!

The tampax advert always makes me laugh - the woman in it must be the only one in the world who DOESN'T have sweets in the house when she's got her period.

I also hate the fybogel/big forehead family. And the OXO family are AWFUL, so unlikely and cringe making ("suck-butt" indeed). The old ones were much better, sweet and funny.

No, I haven't seen the fybogel ad either! Maybe it's regional?
BTW Tigermoth - come in - where are you in all this discussion - am I right in thinking you are (were?) a copy writer? Come on - defend your reputation, or at least tell us why clients insist on running such dreadful ads!

Go on Lizzer! I need something else to take my mind off working today...

I agree about the OXO family - they are working so hard at trying to be 'realistic' and they just make me sick....so sick I really cannot bring myself to buy OXO. Who are they meant to be appealing to?

I can't stand the smug couple on the Brita water filter ad, I feel like sending my kids round to mess up their immaculate, minimalist, white house!

ChanelNo5, me too, me too! I can't stand them it's they way she talks that really gets me "MY lovely cup of tea" oh and the fact that dh fancies her...

Go on Lizzer!! - with this collective lot, we're BOUND to have all the answers......and I DO remember that bloody awful breathing advert - dead pompous and pretentious for something so special we can't even remember what it is...

Think the one for Landrover (or similar) where bloke picks up gourd and puts it to mouth only to then spot picture of "natives" wearing same gourds on their "bits" is v funny

That prancing Yakult kid really needs a slap (metaphorically,of course!). Also hate that one for the cooling strip when your kid's got a temperature: "How's my little soldier?" "I'll survive". Even my 4 year old mimics that one.

Yes, that "inspirational" teacher nonsense in the car ad - can't BELIEVE the students look like they're taking her seriously.

That Halifax idiot - sooooo glad I changed my mortgage from them now.

And, no, I don't know ANYONE who says "suck-butt" either.

I HATE the Halifax ads - all of them, and, I hate the andrex ads, the ones where the puppy has the loo roll all over the place - ds just has to copy!

Lizzer, it was for an internet bank breathe.co.uk.

They went bust.

There's an ad for coffee (Nescafe??) where the guy's driving around town in a car with hair on its roof; they go through a carwash and it poofs up into an afro - every time it's on I get a running commentary from dh because it's set in Port Talbot/Swansea and that's where he grew up, he walked down that street, the M4's just behind that tree, etc. (yawn)

Well, if you insist...

Thanks for letting me know which advert the breathing one was. How thick am I 'erm...got breathing in it, maybe a bank or an internet site, can't quite remember' - doh!(glad it went bust though, couldn't have taken anymore)

Ok then back to business, enjoy...

1 stays sharp to the bottom of the glass
2 hands that do dishes that are soft as your face
3 i'm a secret lemonade drinker
4 come one come all to
5 kills all known germs...dead
6 homes for good living
7 peanuts 'n' chocolate!
8 the sweet you can eat between meals
9 it is. are you?
10 refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach
11 if you can't beat 'em join 'em
12 goes down great guns
13 for great lager _
14 you have the questions we have the __
15 I wish I were in _ land
16 the cream of Manchester
17 mine's a pint of Best, gurtcha
18 a hazelnut in every bite
19 tell them about the honey mummy
20 for men that don't have to try too hard
21 deodorant and aftershave for one all over smell
22 refreshes your breath, naturally
23 melt in your mouth not in your hand
24 really satisfies
25 the longer lasting snack
26 they drink it in the Congo
27 Peanuts!!!!!
28 too good to hurry mints
29 is she or isn't she?
30 when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers
31 it's a miracle but we've made it
32 I'm fond of strawberry yoghurt and chewy sweets are fun
33 It needn't be hell with __
34 when you walk through the door you're pound's worth more
35 everything you want from a store and a little bit more
36 a man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew
37 avez-vous un cuppa?
38 Armley Leeds and Bradford Road Batley
39 watch out there's a Humphrey about
40 if you see Sid, tell him
41 schhh! you know who
42 it's what your neighbourhood needs
43 It's the __ and it's neat; you can take it out to lunch.
44 Think once think twice, think __
45 Don't mix _ and __
46 Only a fool _ _
47 Overtaking at junctions
48 We so always use the Green Cross Code
49 Always let the other fella _

I sat with my ds yesterday and watched abit of CBBC or whatever its called and was horiffied to see that it says 'Sponsored by Milky Way' after every short programme! Thats abit cheeky I think, and ds kept wailing for bloody Milky Ways! Also haven't seen this famous fybogel ad. Been looking out for it too now I've heard so much about it! I hated the Levi's ad where they all got twisted up in their twisted jeans, it was gross!

oK, here goes,

23 Minstrels
28 Murray mints (think I'm showing my age there!)
30 Impulse?
33 Nicotinell
40 British Gas privatisation

16 Boddingtons
28 Murray Mints
30 Impulse
37 PG (Chimps)
40 British Gas sell-off
46 ...breaks the 2 second rule

and 1 or 2 or the others are really going to bug me now!

Not copying your answers Thumper, honest, messages crossed!

Showing my age here, I think

9. The Independent
10. Mackeson?
11. Twix
12. Sunsilk
13. Schweppes

And I still like "Oh mum I can't do my exams..."
"'Course you can, Malcolm!"