Adverts

[Simon Bermuda]

Grimsby Pilchards .... For men!

[Marky B]

Originally posted by Marky B@Jun 15 2005, 04:30 PM

Any truth in the rumour of a film version of the Bev/Kev adverts (AA insurance) :sad: ?

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Marky B

Seriously,though,I remember reading years ago about the prospect of doing a film about the life of the man who provided the Orson Welles type voice of the Carlsberg lager. Mercifully,it never happened

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Marky B

[ollie]

The Thread about the pif's jogged my memory about an advert from the 70's which was unintentionally V funny.

It may have only been midlands based but it was for Williams the furniture store, and featured a man dressed almost like Dave Prowse (green cross man stylee).

Lets just say he was dressed in very tight licra leggings and had a highly visable rather LARGE protuberance... .. which was both a cause for embarrasment(parents) and great hilarity(kids)...



the theme went;



"As you walk through the door,

your pounds worth more,

at Williams where else,"



which most kids at school changed the seconed line to,



"Your Balls hit the floor, at williams where else!!!



cheers Ollie.

[Marky B]

Advert currently on tv,is about a young chinese girl with large hands,who decides millking cows is not for her,so she goes to the big city and takes part in a basketball game,only to be taken off by security. What is the music being played for the advert - it sounds familiar?

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Marky B

[smudge]

Dunno what the muzak is, but I HATE the ad !!!



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[sanndevil]

Originally posted by ollie@Jun 19 2005, 07:22 PM

The Thread about the pif's jogged my memory about an advert from the 70's which was unintentionally V funny.

It may have only been midlands based but it was for Williams the furniture store, and featured a man dressed almost like Dave Prowse (green cross man stylee).

Lets just say he was dressed in very tight licra leggings and had a highly visable rather LARGE protuberance... .. which was both a cause for embarrasment(parents) and great hilarity(kids)...



the theme went;



"As you walk through the door,

your pounds worth more,

at Williams where else,"



which most kids at school changed the seconed line to,



"Your Balls hit the floor, at williams where else!!!



cheers Ollie.

If I remember correctly, and it is a bloody long time ago, there was a raft of compalints about that advert, so the company humerously switched the guy in the advert to the somewhat weedy and effeminate Charles Hawtry!

[sanndevil]

Originally posted by Fellwanderer@Jun 16 2005, 01:54 PM

Also, Murder on the Orient Express.

The Beeb have g ot an article on said advert at BBC

[Julie Jordan]

Originally posted by samkydd@Apr 29 2005, 09:46 AM

I always thought it was an industry where would-be film makers could learn their craft, as with pop vids, but so very few ads are any good. Advertising people are supposed to be creative, but looking at their track records over the years they haven't been up to the job! There are some memorable ones yes, but not that many!



The best I can remember were the Duracel battery ads on the radio featuring Peter Cook on Capital back in 1980 ish.



Any TV ads that feature the company's owner; Bernard Matthews, Victor Kyam are always awful, and the silly sod selling the hearing aids on cable. Those ones from Europe that are dubbed into English like Kinder Surprise choccy eggs are rubbish too, and the ex-soap stars selling cheapo furniture on interest free credit, (as if we believe that they'd actually have a bloody awful suite like that one in their own house).



The worst has to be L'Oreal, all the women have that same made-up American stretchy-vowel awful voice, and the dialogue is just yeeeech! You get some 18 year old on there saying "Wrinkles, I hate wrinkles!" Well who the f***ing hell does like wrinkles eh? And it'll be another 25 years before you have to worry about getting any you stupid cow! They also invent these names for nutrients and enzymes that supposedly exist exclusively in their shampoos and stuff, and are we really that stupid! Nutragena, schmutragina!



Adverts for women's stuff are pretty dire too! I don't want to know about vaginal thrush when I'm sitting in front of the telly for a romantic night in with a new girlfriend thank you very much!



What annoys me about voiceovers is that you know it's Martin Clunes, Stephen Fry, or Quentin Wilson etc but they always say "we" as if they belong to that company "At Shell we aim to......." etc. Crap, they'll be saying "we" to any number of other products and manufacturers during the course of the evening. We're not thick, we know it's Martin Clunes doing the voiceover and we also know that he's got sod all to do with your company!



The other thing is that when an ex-soapster is in an ad, they always run the ad during the break for that soap. The big tall lesbian off The Bill who got knifed to death is on during their advert breaks at the moment, and ex Coro ones often turn up in Coro's break, and the Tesco trolley ones when they re-run Frost and Morse (David Jason and Kevin Whateley).



Another thing, what is the relevance of Linda Barker and electrical products in Currys? Why is she on there and how will her looking like a twat in the ads increase sales? It puts me off going in the place. "Always cutting prices", well if they cut her huge wad from the advertisement budget they could spend more on making decent ads! And as for B&Q, "This shyka stoyle kitching is under three 'undred powns", awful stuff but Homebase is far worse. I just don't get the Neil Morrisey and Lesley Ash connection with DIY at all.



I've already closed my Halifax account because of the tedious Howard ads. It's a novelty the first time, sure, but he gets on your tits after a few years! Cannon and Ball doing double glazing, well they weren't funny in their heyday and they're even less funny now, especially with that look of desperation in their eyes!



Specsavers! The latest ads set in an office, do they really think that we would think it was funny and associate it with the comedy series The Office? It's embarassing to watch! Do they not view these bloody adverts before letting them loose on the nation?



And last but not least is the patronising awfulness of Sharon Osbourne extolling the virtues of Asda prices. A woman with millions and millions upon millions telling us what great budget fashions are available to the struggling mum with fashion conscious children at Asda. Aaaaaaaargh! I feel like putting my fingers down my throat just thinking about it!



So that's some of my whinge out of the way, thank you very much for listen.

Take it you don't watch much TV then??? If you put your fingers down your throat - will you save me the lumps?!!! Regards, Julie

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

I don't klnow if its been mentioned before (I haven't read the whole thread, can't be arsed) but I have always loved the 'Hai-Karate' ads, from the mid 70's.

[DB7]

My current pet hate is Marks and Spencer's 'this isn't just a carrot, this is a turbo-charged carrot with go-faster stripes picked fresh from the fields near Sellafield', all to the tune of MOR dirge Albatross by Fleetwood Mac.



Sort of advert that makes me want to punch somebody.

[mysteriesofedgarwallace]

One of my pet hate ads is the Jeremy Clarkson "come back to BT"



I cannot think of anyone more likely to make me not want to "come back to BT"

Clarkson is a totally self obsessed tosser.

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by mysteriesofedgarwallace@Jul 27 2005, 03:59 PM

One of my pet hate ads is the Jeremy Clarkson "come back to BT"



I cannot think of anyone more likely to make me not want to "come back to BT"

Clarkson is a totally self obsessed tosser.

I was wondering why BT are advertising a call barring service (at a cost) when there's the free Telephone Preference Service which is available to anyone. Since I signed up with it I get hardly any cold calling salesmen - and any that do call I can get them worried by telling that by calling someone on the TPS list their company is going to get fined so bang goes their commission for this month.



Steve

[Marky B]

Originally posted by Marky B@Jun 25 2005, 02:04 PM

Advert currently on tv,is about a young chinese girl with large hands,who decides millking cows is not for her,so she goes to the big city and takes part in a basketball game,only to be taken off by security. What is the music being played for the advert - it sounds familiar?

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Marky B

The song is Sukiyaki,which got to number 6 for Kyu Sakamoto in 1963,and number 10 for Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen also in 1963. Now you can all sleep well knowing that.

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Marky B

[Harbottle]

Favourite advert was from the 70’s or 80’s?? around Xmas where Terry-Thomas buys a box of if memory serves Harvey’s Bristol Cream liqueur chocs, and as the shop assistant is about to stuff them in a brown paper bag TT interjects with “Please don’t bother with the gift wrapping”….. wonderful TT moment



Also liked the recent one with the parrots for Tropicana. The old PG Tips chimp ads were always great fun too



As for the most annoying there are so many! The Curry’s adverts with that annoying bint from that home make over show are pretty annoying

[samkydd]

On ITV tonight there's an hour long programme dedicated to 50 years of adverts on ITV! Ironic and moronic! I just switched on a few minutes ago and the presenter Philip Schofiled said "We'll be back after this break for some more great adverts!" Aaaaarrghh! Thank goodness for VCRs and DVDs!



Is it true that Lew Grade was nicknamed Low Grade by his BBC counterparts?

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(samkydd @ Sep 20 2005, 07:42 PM)

On ITV tonight there's an hour long programme dedicated to 50 years of adverts on ITV! Ironic and moronic! I just switched on a few minutes ago and the presenter Philip Schofiled said "We'll be back after this break for some more great adverts!" Aaaaarrghh! Thank goodness for VCRs and DVDs!



Is it true that Lew Grade was nicknamed Low Grade by his BBC counterparts?

I always got the idea that originated from the Goons (or, more precisely Spike Milligan) and was as a result of potential litigation after some other alternative names were used to parody him in the show...



SMUDGE

[Marky B]

I can't stand that one for confused.com with that screaming Irishman

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MArky B

[Marky B]

However,I do like the new Guinness advert where three blokes at the bar suddenly starting going back in time over trillions of years. Excellent.

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MArky B

[Jackdaw]

I loved the Cockburn's ad in which the characters on a cruise have been shipwrecked during dinner.They are on a lifeboat and the captain (Robin Bailey),in full dress uniform,says,"Well,I don't know about you,but at this time in the evening we normally have a glass of port".The nouveau riche passenger (Leslie Dwyer) sees the bottle and exclaims,"Ah,Cockburn's!",pronouncing the "ck".The silly-ass, Woosteresque junior officer mistakes this faux-pas for a piece of intended humour,and repeats it saying,"Very good",nodding his head in amusement.

It's funnier on the screen than on the page.



Cheers



Jacky

[samkydd]

(jackdaw @ Oct 11 2005, 01:56 PM)

I loved the Cockburn's ad in which the characters on a cruise have been shipwrecked during dinner.They are on a lifeboat and the captain (Robin Bailey),in full dress uniform,says,"Well,I don't know about you,but at this time in the evening we normally have a glass of port".The nouveau riche passenger (Leslie Dwyer) sees the bottle and exclaims,"Ah,Cockburn's!",pronouncing the "ck".The silly-ass, Woosteresque junior officer mistakes this faux-pas for a piece of intended humour,and repeats it saying,"Very good",nodding his head in amusement.

It's funnier on the screen than on the page.



Cheers



Jacky

You'd have to have been there!