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karellen

21:42 / 02.05.04

I don't know if they are really classed as adverts but the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker ads for Reebok are pant wettingly hilarious.

How they got the company name - Felcher and Sons - passed the corporate lawyers I will never know. (Also, the latest ad features a HR consultant from "Sanchez, Steamer & Co.")

Terry Tate

Smoothly

18:16 / 02.06.04

There's obviously something about adverts for lavatory paper that flick my grin switch. At the moment my favourite ad is the Double Velvet one with the factory workers snoozing on the production line. And you know that Tesco ad where Prunella Scales buys all the Andrex? I like that one. Mostly because of the 'You can stick it up your arse' punchline, but still.

Alex's Grandma

19:16 / 02.06.04

I like the Dorritto's ads. " Friendchips " ! What could be better than that ? It reminds me, I suppose of, of... a happier time, before everything... changed. All those long, languid afternoons spent setting the world to rights in our local Pizza Hut, ( we were regulars there, and we knew the manager - golden days, ) and then we'd all go home via Blockbuster Video, get some chips with a dip and just be able to talk, really talk... Those days, I suppose, will never return. But I do like to think that for the next generation, the dream's still alive. At least I'd hate to feel that it wasn't, and watching the Dorritto's ad, I know that it's not.

Smoothly

19:56 / 02.06.04

That's so gay, dude. You need to get in touch with your WKD side.

Alex's Grandma

20:55 / 02.06.04

That's so gay, dude

To be absolutely clear about this, there were three guys and three girls, nothing strange about that... But then again, what torrid combinations just seemed to just... happen, as a result of the whole Dorritto situation.

It was an experimental period, but now I'm strictly Golden Wonder. Plain. Or Salt + Vinegar. For real.

diz

02:36 / 10.01.06

I heard the greatest radio ad today for some new line of fruit smoothies or other.

Girlfriend: "I think this new line of fruit smoothies is a good opportunity to educate you about fruit."

Boyfriend: "I don't eat fruit."

Girlfriend: "Yes, I know, but it tastes like a lot of things you really like. Like you know purple?"

Boyfriend: "Mmmm, I like the taste of purple."

Girlfriend: "Well purple is actually a fruit called grape. And you know red?"

Boyfriend: "Oh, I looooove red!"

Girlfriend: "I know! Red can be a fruit called cherry, or one called strawberry, or even one called raspberry!"

Boyfriend: "Really?"

Girlfriend: "Yes! And you know the flavor orange?"

Boyfriend: "Yes?"

Girlfriend: "Here's where it gets a little complicated. The flavor orange is really a fruit called ... orange."

(long pause)

Boyfriend: "I don't get it."

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:35 / 10.01.06

Ugh. Sounds a little smug and cloying to me, dude.

_Boboss

10:51 / 10.01.06

girlfriend is a fool: raspberry is blue.

invisible_al

10:55 / 10.01.06

The Honda Car ad's, I was orginally thinking about Garrison Keillor who talks about the 'Power of Dreams' as he has the best voice ever, then I found this Great Egg Race style ad called 'Cog' while searching and was reminded of it's brilliance. There's also Grrr which is v. cool.

Haven't bought a Honda yet though.

■

18:19 / 16.01.06

Oh, I know it's for cars, but I love all the expressions pretty French lady does in the new Clio ads. It's a guilty pleasure. The Gordon Ramsay-a-like bloke can fuck right off, though.

wembley can change in 28 days

18:46 / 16.01.06

Two things. No, maybe more.

1) Is Honda (et al) making longer ads just because of the Internet now? And why do I love that fact?

2) omg, love Garrison Keillor

3) OMG, WHY did I look at a PICTURE of Garrison Keillor?!? Please understand they play the Prairie Home Companion every Sunday on the radio and I get homesick and listen to it and after three years I'm addicted and I really, REALLY had a different picture of that guy in my mind.

4) The windshield wipers walk! That's fab.

The Falcon

18:52 / 16.01.06

The Gordon Ramsay-a-like bloke can fuck right off, though.

Particularly at the 'shhh-akespeare' bit. Oh, there the punching would commence and it would never, ever end.

Olulabelle

19:17 / 16.01.06

There's a smashing Honda civic ad on telly at the moment which has a choir making all the sounds of the car. You can watch it here.

My absolute favourtie is the Sony Bravia Bouncing Balls advert though, it's amazing, even more so because the bouncing balls are real. And the Jose Gonzalez soundtrack is lovely too.

Aertho

19:49 / 16.01.06

Oh dang!
I just saw this thread and had intended to post about the bouncy balls, but Lula beat me to it!

Really, really beautiful ad. Kinda scary, kinda novel, truly one of the best music video ads evar!

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:16 / 17.01.06

Australian lamb marketers got "character" Sam Kekovitch to make an ad plugging lamb for Australia Day last year. And it's fabulous. A pisstake of a party political broadcast, and a bang-on version of the sort of people John Howard would like, I would imagine, it won amazing amounts of thumbs up and complaints. It riffs on the idea of being un-Australian.

The original is here: (90 seconds, 3.2MB, WMV) and this year's version is here (90 seconds, 5.1MB, mpg).

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:17 / 17.01.06

Oh, and the German ads which feature Blixa Bargeld from Einsturzende Neubauten selling hardware with moody spoken word style moments are just wonderful.

Saveloy

07:25 / 18.01.06

Please tell me that's hardware as in fork handles, kettles, shovels etc.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:00 / 22.01.06

They just had a trailer for Blade 2 (on telly tonight) on, in which the voice-over said "you just can't beat kung-fu vampires. With guns". Top.

Spaniel

19:06 / 22.01.06

And TRUTH.

■

19:09 / 22.01.06

Sold it for me. I was intending to go for an early night or to watch Zoolander. Much respect, C4.

Tryphena Absent

19:42 / 22.01.06

This is my favourite advert ever- Blackcurrant Tango vs. Sebastian. It's absurd, slightly obscene. There's a part of me that doesn't feel I should love it and yet that's completely resolved by the sky at the end.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

21:46 / 22.01.06

Please tell me that's hardware as in fork handles, kettles, shovels etc.

He's reading the Hornbach DIY store catalogue.

One video
Another video
And another video
One more video

There were a whole load of others as I recall.

Great stuff though. Apparently Blixa also did the growl of The Mummy too.

Alex's Grandma

21:54 / 22.01.06

I like the 'Huggies' campaign.

When the chips are down, they remind me that I can at least still go to the bathroom unassisted, unlike the losers depicted in these adverts.

Sniv

21:03 / 26.06.06

(I wasn't sure whether to put this in the good or bad adverts, but my reaction was so extreme, I figured it best go in here)

I was just watching channel 4 when an advert came on about erection problems. Trouble is, I was smoking a joint at the time, and when the woman on the ad said "eretion" right at the start, I laughed and smoke burst out of my mouth and nose and made me laugh to the point of tears for the last five minutes. Ooh, my chest really hurts now. Drugs are bad. Great ad though.

sorenson

23:36 / 26.06.06

I can't believe that I would ever admit to liking a tampon ad, but the one where the girl is looking for her tampons only to find that her boyfriend is using them as playthings for their kitten (yes! a kitten!) slays me every time. I'm pretty sure it's a rip off of The Young Ones (remember when Rick was playing with a tampon, giving the mouse a drink in his cup of tea?).

stabbystabby

04:22 / 29.06.06

This ad. Makes me cry, every time.

minifig

04:58 / 29.06.06

I think the Guinness evolution ad is great. Sorry if someone's mentioned it before (surely they must have done methinks).

It's here if you haven't seen it...

■

07:01 / 29.06.06

That Scope one is pretty good. Thanks for that. Although It'll take all day to get Paranod Android out of my head.

Happy Dave Has Left

11:08 / 29.06.06

Goddamn stabbystabby. That got me right in the cry-spot.

Here's one for the geeks among us. Makes me feel all inspired and airy. Yay penguins!

MintyFresh

13:37 / 29.06.06

I really like the old Whirlpool washer/dryer commercials. They showed a gorgeous woman in wild, flowing clothes swimming or dancing or getting blown around in the wind with slightly cheesy opera music playing the background. They were visually beautiful commericals except for the great hulking washing machines that kept popping up at the end. Knowing that there were such beautiful commericals in the world only slightly lessened the pain of forgetting to seperate colors and finding that all your underthings had turned pink.

stabbystabby

02:34 / 30.06.06

yeah. girlfriend's dad has cerebral palsy (plus he's a retired psych professor, specialising in psychology of disability, natch) so it hits close to home.

And yeah, he lectured large classes. Pretty amazing.

stabbystabby

03:05 / 30.06.06

aaahh, that linux ad was a mindfnord!

stabbystabby

03:07 / 30.06.06

linux ad, kinda: here.

I've got a Beowulf cluster of atomic supermen....

Tabitha Tickletooth

12:49 / 07.07.06

This little beauty is the new Everyman advert. I have only seen it without sound so apologies if there is anything cheesy/offensive in the noise department - I figure that is unlikely though, given who they are.

Made me giggle on a Friday afternoon at work.

Ganesh

20:56 / 11.07.06

I'm finding myself strangely fascinated by the Halifax "gives you extra" ad. There's something about the Danny-from-Hear'Sayesque burly bloke that makes my bits tingle at some level. It's a combination of weird Devil's Chord tonality and the fact that he charges through walls a la Vinnie Jones/twisted Levis ad of yore, yet manages to sing and dance at the same time. His Shrek-like physiognomy is drawing me in...

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