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This has probably been done before, but I couldn't find it.

Worst one for me has to be that damn "shaking that ass" ad, for whatever it is advertising. :mad:

Closely followed by the inland revenue "Tax doesn't have to be taxing" grrrr

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Best had to be a kitkat advert that was on about 2 years ago...

little girl infront of one of those grabbing machines fully of soft toys... picks up a teddy and when it gets to the hole to collect it, the body falls down but the head remains.

So simple, but a classic :)

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first alternative, FIRST ALTERNATIVE, first ALTERNATIVE, FIRST ALTERNATIVE! I could quite happily kick Michael Winners' plums until they bleed.

The best one is still imo the one for Honda.

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Best historically... St Bruno

Best atm.... Crusha


Worst.... anything encouraging people to borrow money.

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Historically for me would have to be the Cadburys Smash ad.

Present best one..........I can't quite make my mind up yet.

Just found this which has a few on it.
Axe shower gel is quite amusing on that site, but I can't recall seeing it on the TV.

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Best ad of all time: The Maxell one with the guy holding up the words to "The Isrealites" and getting them all wrong. Will see if I can dig up a clip.

Worst ad of all time: Plenty of competion here, what with all the Finance/Insurance/Micheal Winner/"I tripped on a paper clip, now I am going to sue my employer" ads, I think the Micheal Winner (anything with him in) ads win though..


The best recent ads have been the Peter Kay John Smiths ones.

Two sites with interesting (if small) libraries of classic ads: http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/index.htm & http://www.uktvadverts.com

Edit: Found the Maxell Ad (thanks to Yesman's site) http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=14902

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Axe is the US/Continental version of Lynx.

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Best current ad: The Lynx Ad where the advert starts with "Somewhere over the rainbow" as the music track and theyre in bed together almost naked and they follow the route back the way they came picking up the clothes that they dropped on the way to bed until they eventually make it back to the supermarket where it started where their trolleys (of the metal basket with wheels type) are still standing.

Worst Advert:

Anything advertising; Tampons, Sanitary Towels, Other asociated items. There is no need for these adverts, if women buy these things then they will go for the ones that suit them best.

What the heck is that blue stuff anyway...

:D

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Have to agree with Stu on the worst advert, I just want to slap Michael Winners patronising chops, "it's a commercial dear" grrrrrrrr

I actually quite like the Carling ones, where they say if they did the banking/holidays/flat sharing they would be the best in the world :D :D

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And who is that irritating b... woman who plays the woman who is not his sister?

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Historically....
Most annoying: Do the shake and vac
Best: Cadbury's Smash

Recent......
Most annoying: 118 118
Best: Can't think of any good one's these day :erm:

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Best has to be the Honda one "wouldn't it be nice if things just worked"

Worst has to be elephant.co.uk

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Half the adverts these days make you wonder what it is they are advertising. As for the best advert, it depends on whose perspective you are looking at. Some of the ones that people say are the worst adverts may be called the best by the advertisers as people remember the product even though the advert is cr@p and annoying. Having Sky+ I very seldom see many adverts other than at 12 times speed as I fast forward through the advert break.

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Worst - any adverts which have people who are quite obviously paid actors pretending to be 'members of the public'.

Best - anything with babies :D

I also like the ones for Sky+ with Hasselhoff and Frank Butcher, Alice Cooper and Ronnie Corbett etc :)

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Ah, you mean "My ears are alight!" :D

All time favorite has to be the Carling Black Label "Triple Length" advert.

It starts off with a little guy going into a Wild West saloon and getting hassled by a bunch of big blokes. There's a little tune (a bit like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly theme) then IIRC they take him outside and lassoo him, planning to drag him behind their horses, but instead he turns around and runs off, dragging the bullies behind him instead! Cue "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label"

Next advert starts and it's a smooth guy in a White Jacket singing love songs to a woman in a moonlit garden with a list of titles running underneath when suddenly there's that little tune again and in the background, the little guy from the previous ad (still dragging the bullies!) runs past, meanwhile the song titles change to "keep hanging on", "dragging in the dirt" etc...!

That advert ends and we switch to a supermarket with Housewife A telling Housewive B "You don't want to buy two of *that* powder, you want one of these" she takes a box off the shelf and there's that little tune again and the guy from the first advert can be seen through the gap. He tips his hat to them and then turns and runs off as the bullies appear again whilst, at the checkout, the smooth looking guy from ad #2 is chatting up one of the till operators...!!

Brilliant :D

Close behind that is another Carling ad, this time the "Surfer" ad.

Two guys are sitting in a pub and ones says "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" to which the other says "Who??"

"Next bloke through that door..."

In the background we start hearing "Fortunata Imperatrix Mundi" (the Old Spice music, you peasants! ;) ) the pub door crashes open as a wall of water floods through.

The two guys look absolutely gobsmacked as a guy surfs into the pub, picks up his board, steps up to the bar and says "Whooh! Yeah. Pint of aftershave please mate"

The barman, totally deadpan, says "straight glass, Sir?!" :rofl:

Other favorites, the Heiniken "My Old Man's a Dustman" ad, the Nissan "Sweeney" and "The Professionals" spoof adverts.

Least favorite: Any advert that tries to put a tune behind a phone number, Ambulance Chaser "have you had an accident that wasn't your fault" ads and those bloody Smash adverts!!!

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My fave ads were the ones for Talk Talk that ran during Big Brother 5!

TT bloke-"So who would you like to nominate to be your TT buddy?"

Woman-"My ex husband"

TT bloke-"Ah-do you miss him?"

Woman-"No, I just wanna ring the little toerag & tell him what I think of him & the cheap little tart he ran off with!"

TT Bloke (looks at camera)-"Nice". :D:D

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Two nominations for best: The Renault ads with the brunette saying vavavoom :D
and the John West salmon ad with the fighting bear :D
Worst? Hmmmm......any ad for 'Sunny D'

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Best one = stella advert with the slave/prison ship (that's a classic)
Worst one = elephant.co.uk

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I hate all adverts!Especially the more they are shown.Especially if it's the same ad 5 years down the line like the one with the fecking blue phone.And the red phone.And the damned elephant.And the stupid lucky ones.I soooooooooooooo hate the interuptions to my viewing,because frankly I watch so little TV anyway that I hate it when the programme I'm currently watching gets interrupted for up to 5 minutes every 15 minutes.

I never buy any of the products on principle that if they have to annoy me so much I'm damned well NOT going to be nagged into buying it. :mad:

If anyone ever admits to me that they design,make,appear in any tv ad I'll poke their eyes out. :mad:

Good adverts indeed.There's no such thing. :mad:

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Down girl! :erm:

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Put it this way...would you rather have no adverts, or pay a second TV license?

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Or the Renault Clio ads with Nicole and Papa.. OK, they were irritating, but the woman that played Nicole was nice... :drool:

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Worst: Safestyle Direct - "I said you buy one, you get one free" - ad infinitum!

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Didn't you say "never underestimate the power of nagging" a couple of weeks ago? :p:

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I cant stand those insurance and loan adverts.
They look so fake and you just want to bash your TV !

They start... "If you've been hurt in a ccident in the past five years bla bla bla"..... Sooo annoying how they recreate these stupid accidents.

Most of them are at lunch. Ocean Finance is another contender for most annoying.

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The license we pay for has nothing to do with adverts.It is so we may use or receive radio and tv images.Plus as I already PAY for DTV I fail to see why I have to pay extra for not having ads because the way I see it I'm paying twice IF you include the license and my subcription for DTV.However I'd gladly pay more NOT to watch the ads but I've never been offered the chance.Mind as the programmes have reached an all time low for watchability I'm wondering if it's worth watching anything on the box these days,advert free or not. :rolleyes:


Whenever there is anything that might be remotely stimulating it always clashes with something else or the sport. :rolleyes:

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I've also said I'm nag proof because of being a teacher and having had two rugrats of my own. :D

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I don't understand the whole Michael Winner thing, i've wanted to deck the talentless git for years without him being in some crappy adverts. :D

Best advert = Most of the Calsberg 'probably the best lager in the world'
Worst Advert = The QUOTE ME HAPPY ones.

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http://www.visit4info.com/details.cf...69&type=coolad


^ HAHAHAHAHAHA. I like the honda imo ad :), and the old tango adverts where they would slap people :D Hahaha.

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Quality advert indeed !


That guy really annoys the hell out of me !!!

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Well, the "shaking that ass" ad does have some good asses in it.


Although the thing it is advertising (new Renault Megane) is seriously ugly...


Ads I hate the most: Any with Linda Barker (Currys, etc), any with Neil Morissey & Lesley "Fish Lips" Ash.

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noooooooo....the carling ad's stink :disturbd:

the best ones ever are the Bud adverts with the frogs and Louie the lizard, pure class!!

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Calm down dear......

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Currently:
Best: Ad for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes on the gamecube. Stunning CGI and a very pretty lady!

Worst: Any insurance or finance company ads. They're all extremely annoying.

Historically...
Best: Ok, it's not that old, but the Iron-Bru ad with the baby who blasts the can out of his mother's *ahem* hole before burping in the womb, always puts a smile on my face. Either that or the original Playstation ads with the 'Wolf' story - utterly mad.

Worst: Cadbury's Flake ads. A portion of cheese with an extra side serving of cheese.

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Looking at game adverts, I'd say the current best is probably the one for Halo 2 (just IMO ;) )

The worst adverts have got to be the Michael Winner ones (guarantees that I'll never use whichever insurance company it is), Ocean Finance (look at us - we lend money to big people!), and the Maestro ads with the bluddy penguins :mad: :mad: :mad:

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I can't remember if they have been mentioned, but I hate any ad (or programme for that matter) with Carol Vorderman in. Or, Carol Valdemort (as Johnny Vaughn has nicknamed her after the big evil character in Harry Potter).

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I do not know if it is just me but those Penguins remind me of Tony and Cherie Blair! :eek:

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Hahaha lol i think you have a point Bob! I'll think of it next time I see the adverts :D

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Right down to the creepy voice used too.

I hate the Tsunami Appeal ad with Ozzy & Sharon Osbourne. Not the advert appeal, the fact that 2 bloody stinking rich idiots pleading for us to donate. Puts me right off them. Wait a minute, never liked them and their talentless family.

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I can accept adverts for the tsunami, execpt I wish it was not the osbournes, talk about bandwaggons.....

but the adverts that really make my blood boil is all the give £2,3,4, 5,6 per month to help with some thing that makes you feel sad for something.

Stop advertising 3 times per commercial break and you could save yourselves bucket loads of cash so you would not need to fund your stupid adverts, and you (the companies/charities) could do some good with your cash instead of throwing needed cash to the tv companies to produce and show your boring/unsensitive/sickening adverts, we are intelligent beings and not giving in to this over commercialised garbage........... I am not going to be misled into giving you my hard earned money to line your pockets or fund your hypocritcal adverts.
:mad: :grind: :afire: :upyours: :2up:

ik
p.s. I am sorry, I got a bit heated there

EDIT my fav advert is the lynx advert where the guy tries to strike a match on his stubble and it does not work, but then the girlfriend does strike it under her arms. :D

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:Yikes:

ROFL, my most hated advert is ones for the ARMY where he whispers right the way through, drives me nuts...:mad:

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Best ads: NSPCC. These are not enjoyable ads, but often the most powerful. BTW, apparently these ads are not actually funded by the NSPCC, but by large companies (Microsoft being one).

Worst ads: It's actuall on radio, but the ad featuring a certain brand of photo printer that describes how "you" were laughing and joking on Christmas day only to be left in a box, cold and frightened is offensive. "You" apparently are a digital photo, left in the camera's memory.

Bear in mind that a lot of animals are given as pets and are left in boxes (or sacks), cold, frightened and alone at this time of year, and you'll see why I find it offensive. Comparing a digital photo to an unwanted pet is wrong.

Still, the ad has had one side effect. It has guaranteed I'll never buy anything from the company who make the photo printer (kodak) again.

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my favourite ad, at the moment, is the Citroen C4 one, where the car 'transforms' into a dancing robot, the tune & animation are really good :tu:

- worst - Ocean Finance :(

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I found it online...

http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs185030.mpg

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Loved the honda adverts, best adverts ever :D

Adverts I really hate...... the anti smoking ones are sick.

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hey - thanks Stu, I can't do anything with it at work, but will look when I get home, nice one :tu:

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Bandwagons? Do you think the osbournes thought "here, we should do a tsunami appeal advert, it'd do our image a lot of good!"?

Don't be soft, the ad agency picked someone with a high profile that the general public are fond of. Is there anyone you'd NOT accuse of bandwagon jumping?

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I meant the ad agency doing the advert dived onto the osbourne bandwagon....... not the other way about.

ik

EDIT I would prefer someone that is not in the limelight ALL the time, someone like jimmy nail. People who are a bit famous but not too famous and in your face day in day out.....

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The channel 4 one for the guy who is going to carve up the woman, pictures of inflating lungs etc. Not while I am eating dinner.

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Are you talking about anatomy for beginners?

it is a good informative programme

ik

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Yes it is, but i can plan not to be eating when I watch it. The advert is on frequently and not something I need to see
toooooooooooooo much information

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WHAT are you talking about?!

Also the tile depot advert, talk about the enthusiasm!! :D :tu:

But the safestyle direct one for the best advert, i'm serious, always gives me a laugh :)

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Jimmy Nail? A bit random, but ok :)

I misunderstood your original point, sorry about that. Still though, the agency wants someone prominent, someone current. The problem with celebrity is that it needs to be maintained. Jimmy nail would be viewed as being a has-been who's trying to revive his career off the back of a disaster. It's probably better that they chose someone who has nothing to gain from doing this.

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My favourite, which appeals to my sense of humour the most, are the monster.co.uk ads..... don't listen to the voices......... they've been on a while now but they still make me LOL :shrug:

My worst is..... i don't even want to think about it...... is that fast food ad, some chicken burger thing i think, where the guy sings to the woman asking for a bite of her burger (ooer misses) and she opens her gigantic mouth and starts wailing a response....

I've usually switched off in horror by then so couldn't tell you what it was for....... that advert actually hurts :erm:

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The most irritating advert on telly at the moment has got to be the one for Gaviscon - the policewoman directing traffic has heartburn 'cos she skipped lunch (or whatever).

2 seconds after having some of the foul-tasting brew, she's up and dancing, along with everyone else. Now, two things:

1. Why, if she's feeling better, does everyone else have to dance as well - I bet they couldn't give a monkeys how she feels, and

2. Surely dancing isn't the best way to direct traffic - wouldn't that cause an accident?

AWFUL :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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At least they're not sodding wailing/singing as well as dancing :D ;)



Quick edit: On and i love the new Nike ad..... the female dancer having a sort of duel with the speakers :)

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Actually, the "Orange Wednesday" ads are cool.

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Thank you for seeing my point.... I did choose Jimmy for the randomness, so maybe someone like bob geldof who does a lot for africa, maybe he would be a better choice.........

ik
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yes enough to make you never to go there again and buy one or any of their burgers, for having really bad adverts

ik

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I think the point is that your average numpty in the street who respects Ozzy (not that there's anything wrong with respecting ozzy - it's the numpty bit i'm getting at) will go and donate because of it. Those who respect Geldof will already be aware of his work, and generally won't need prompting to donate. The average channel 5 viewer/Heat reader needs the push. "Ozzy's pure mental man, he's the baws, if he says donate i'll donate" kinda thing.

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I get the effects of food poisoning when i see their ad and i haven't even had one of their silly burgers :D



Edit: typo thx to food poisoning effect ;)

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I see where you are coming from...

ik

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TV adverts I love:

- Honda Accord (The Cog). I love how all the parts go together and make one thing activate another. I got this on DVD with the making of it. Its really good.

Tango Apple. Where the train shakes the house and he falls into the bath of tango, or the other one where the postman puts apples though the door and it fills his house with apple juice until it cant hold any more and he gets covered in it as it all collapses.

- Stella Artois Ship and slave.
Its so funny when he hits him on the head with the spoon.

- Bacardi Breezer where a huge massive lump of ice comes flying down the road and crashes into a building and parts come flying and land in his nice chilled glass.

- Sony Ericsoon T700i mobile advert with the Death in Vegas music and the mirrored immages.

- Guiness. That surfers advert with the waves and those great strong drums that come in. Its great to see this advert at the cinema.
It has music from Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa.


TV adverts I can't stand:

- Ferrero Rochers chocolates. They make them out to be this perfect luxurious chocolate when in fact they are little hazelnut balls and biscuit.

- Ocean Finance, Churchhill Insurance, or any other rip you off companies, or that feature Michael Winner.

- Im a little fishy on a little Dishy.... Ahhh it just gets in your head !!!

- Any Mobile phone ring tone advert. :mad:

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I like the Churchill adverts - especially the one with the aliens - "Go Home!"

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Aaaah, how glad I am that I left 6 months ago, and am no longer associated with that hateful advert (unlike my little friend :p: ).

Actually, I nearly got chucked out of the meeting where they did the 'first showing' of that ad, because they had all the different ads on a loop so, me being me, told them that if I heard that song once more, my ears would start bleeding :D

Oh, and little tit-bit of info (which homealone can confirm) - there was only ever one company employee in that advert (even though it shows about 10 chefs), and he left about 2 weeks before they started showing it on telly.

Ah, happy days :D

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bluddy happy days - you had the right idea leaving, big guy. ;)

but yes i can confirm all my friend has said. One thing he didn't mention, was that they had the ads running in a continuous loop on a TV in our reception area - I wondered at the time if it constituted grounds for constructive dismissal - people were literally running through reception to get out of earshot :D

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I've always thought they were silly. I am sure that even taking into account the Treasury's attempts to cut budgets, the "Ambassador" would be able to afford something a bit more interesting than a mountain of hazlenut, Biscuit and Chocolate balls. If they actually did offer that, I am sure all the foreign diginitaries would be going away thinking we are cheapskates. Still, they would go well with the Happy Shopper wine we would also be presumably offering.

That's just reminded me of another two ads I hate. Both starring that Jamie Whatsit from the Naked Chef. In one, he is on a salmon farm, talking to the manager (interesting to note that according to Private Eye, that very same farm suffered a bit of a setback when 250,000 salmon died this summer due to overstocking the lakes).

In the other, he is talking to a store manager about how good (& cheap) Sainsburys is. One interesting thing about Sainsburys. One of my Dad's friends was a lifelong greengrocer at the New Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market (he sold to trade), and he went round our local Sainsburys looking at the Veg they called "Grade A". He said that any reasonable greengrocer wouldn't even rate it as high as F.

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Yes if i hear another CRAZY FROG or 8181 advert i will chuck the cable box out of the window. Its the reason not to watch any music channels anymore :mad:

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At this rate there will soon be a Tv channel just dedicated to mobile phone ring tones. I was round a friends house watching cable the other day and nearly every channel had ring tone adverts every minute.

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On a similar note, when I worked for Blockbuster, they had an irritating tune backing the ads (the one they have now is alright, but a bit bland). The problem was they also had it as their on hold music for head office. It's lovely when there has been a major system crash (the time I am talking about, the systems at head office crashed and took out all the store computer systems in the UK). I was on the phone to our support line for 15 minutes, listening to this f**king music and trying to serve customers manually at the same time.

Not surprisingly, after this, Blockbuster implemented a system where if support where busy, you typed in your store code (each store has a 5 digit code) and tech support called you back.

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Another no one seems to have mentioned. The Confused Dot Com ads where the guy screams AAAARRRGHH!!!! right at the beginning.

And the the other one where the girl is crying because she cant buy insurance because shes too young. Cant remember which bloody insurance company thats for though.

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I think best advert for me would be the new citreon when it turns into a transformer

Worst would have to be the daz adverts they seriously get on my nerves

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Yes, I have to agree with that :tu:
Ad can be seen here, (bottom left hand corner of the page).

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it is admiral, which is another bad one

ik

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I've been seeing that "Fillet Burger for 99p" one for KFC recently and although its funny first time round, when the women starts singing it just makes you want to smash your TV.

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Have the people working in reception sued yet?

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Just came across this thread and got to thinking of what ads I really like. I was able to come up with three.

3. The Citroen "Dancing Transformer" Ad - for nostalgic reasons - I grew up with Transformers :)

2. The Honda Verso Ad - makes you wanna dance - if you could be bothered. :hyper:


My Favourite Ad of the minute is....................

1. The New VW Golf / Singin' In The Rain Ad - AKA Gene Kelly Break-Dancing. Absolutely fantastic - couldnt take my eyes of the TV when it was on and it had me in a fit of laughter at how good it looked!!! :D :D

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Agreed with the Citroen advert that is excellent.

Funniest one for me is the one for Options chocolate, when he is unloading a plane and throws a fragile package onto carrier belt, then throws about 3other packages onto this fragile package...always makes me smile.

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Kit Kat adverts have always been quite fun.
The Lynx one where the guy gets dragged into the sea is good.
The Orange adverts at the cinema are pretty cool too.

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The Yellow pages ads with James Nesbit. Especially the 'Elvis & Hairdresser' one's

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How about the Yellow pages advert where the said Mr Nesbitt goes to Yoga class????

C.H.I.R.O.P.R.A.C.T.O.R.

Had us all in fits of laughter the first time we saw it!!

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sorry Andrew - i'm sure that is for Horlicks, there is another one with a Traffic Warden waiting for the instant the meter runs out - the tag line is 'how do they sleep at night', it is good in an very non PC way, though ;)

& James79 - be nice to Ramrod, he's been poorly :p: :)

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I have got to say I'm loving the Diet Coke adverts with the Tortoise in them...
http://www.forthosewholovelife.co.uk/TCDownloads.html (you'll need QuickTime)

I was a fan of those dancing penguins for the Switch/Maestro :D
http://www.switch.co.uk/Mediacenter/ads.asp

The Anchor butter ads have been funny aswell (the current one with the cow up a tree and the Weebl & Bob 'style' one

Those adverts that the BBC Three made up during the breaks in Graham Norton when he was in America! There were some classics on that such as superstar tampons

Any Coco Pop adverts with the those little stories of how they escape crafty croc (there is an excellent game on the website where you have to slow crafty croc down as much as possible by setting boby traps http://www.cocopops.co.uk/frameset.asp and when you get to the map select Jungle Wilderness > Croc Catcher)

The Heineken adverts where they had Paul Daniels and various others singing the Capenters 'Close To You' and there more we bought the more likely we were to see them being attacked by lions

The old Safeway adverts where they had little childen with adult voice overs and their perceptions of being in the trolley whilst shopping

Any Walkers crisps ones with Gary Lineker

The ones for Dairylea with Pib & Pog - http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/atom_344 (not the advert but a sketch with them in)

The Vauxhall Corsa ads that are based on Wacky races http://vauxhall.co.uk/promotions/cor...ieChoice.jhtml

BAD COP

I can't stand adverts that are advertising anything to do with mobile ringtones/wallpapers etc. especially the Carzy Frog (the man who invented that has made £10 million aparently)

Anything NTL advertises - there have been some real 'gems' in the past

Anything regarding compensation for injuries when the people involved are so obviously fake (2DTV did and excellent sketch about Perter Perkins (aka Spiderman) getting bitten by a radioactive spider and sueing)

The McDonalds ones where they are trying to shed their negative image by taking the pee of themselves - and the expression on the girls face when she is listen to people saying 'you can't bring food from outside in here'

Its been said but Elephant.co.uk - its so bad it needs another mention

Anything selling Car Credit

Most car adverts that go on and on with an annoying song and you think they are going to be advertising something really unsual then it turns out its a car

I can't think of anymore at the moment... ;)

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Most of the NTL adverts or adverts for insurance companies must get their actors from the cheapest of acting agencies.
The acting is as wooden as an oak tree.

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One of the best adverts has got to be the GOLF GTi one, Gene Kelly remix!
Honda's THE COG is epic too.

Churchill's dog is a good 'un. The body poppin "3" advert is good too.

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There was one many years ago with a squirrel that went on this adventure course along someones garden, along pipes, along washing lines, up the roof, etc.
I cant rememeber what it was for, but it was well made.

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Car adverts - the way they arse-kiss to their customers is sickening!

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It was for Hamlet cigars ( I think)

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Oh right, coool. Thankyou.

As for adverts to hate....
I cant stand any advert with Harry Hill. The guy annoys me completly.

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Ahem!

I bet *he* drinks Carling Black Label!!

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I remember that advert.

Where the squirrel completes an assault course in a back garden with the theme from mission impossible, it was a carling black label ad.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/.../Image00088287

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Yes that was it !!!
I remember the mission impossible music now.
Quality advert.
You gotta love squirrels.
I had 3 in my garden the other day. They are coool.

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I hate the new Nike one with the manly woman dancing in front of a huge suspended speaker.... come to think of it, I hate most Nike ads.

...and I really hate the new Unlucky Fried Kitten adverts, where everyone's singing - they're crap!

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completely agree, have you seen the girl with the huge gob, what the hell are they all about, I want to blow up KFC for this reason alone.....

ik

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Thank goodness for that - I was worried only it was only myself who was thinking her mouth is so wide, that bloke is gonna fall in it.

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OK, OK, I was wrong.. :rolleyes:

I quite like the 3 ads on the radio (with Derek Griffith as "The Deal Man" and assorted small animals with slight attitudes and synthetic voices) and on TV (particularly the one with the cherry that sings)...


Who says advertising execs don't take drugs? :D

In terms of classic ads, who remembers the ones that were based on Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, where Griff Rhyss-Jones talked (thanks to clever editing and script writing) to various black and white movie stars?

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Well, some of you may find your favourite current ads here.. http://www.davidreviews.com/index.asp

They have the Volkswagon golf one (which, IMO, is done brilliantly).

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I agree Stu.
Where have I seen that bloke before ?
Whoops I just read the script :blush:

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Plenty of TV ads on this site, even my fav 1970's Smash ad :D

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Actually I think they pre-dated Dead Men....

Edit: Nope, having checked, DMDWP was actually produced in 1982, the ads come from 1986/7

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:rofl:

ik