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What can the ads do to you to reel you in?

SMS

02:28 / 27.05.02

I think I’d like the jingles to come back. And I have a soft spot for commercials that are unintentionally corny.

Turk

02:38 / 27.05.02

Yeah, I became the secret lemonade drinker.

Molly Shortcake

03:37 / 27.05.02

Some of those Enigizer bunny commercials had me ready to pull out my wallet.

Friggin' Chug A Cherry with the guy dancin on the walls and ceiling. The cop show w/all chicks. I kept hoping they'd be REAL each time...

Don't show a car next to an F-16, guess what? FUCK the car, I want the jet.
If it's a video game, SHOW THE GODDAMN GAME. I don't care about Crash Bandicoots underwear OK?

lentil

09:30 / 27.05.02

Me and the missus have a ridiculous game where if either of us shows any sign of enjoying a piece of advertising we then have to go out and get the product. This means that she's currently due for a free Halifax saving & investing review (I can't believe she laughed at that twat with the round specs!), and recently had to buy a Snickers Cruncher. I am reduced to frothy geek-burbles by any ads for Spider Man but that's fine coz I can't wait to see it anyway.

Margin Walker

10:11 / 27.05.02

Remember that Volkswagon "Ba-Da-Da-Dah" commercial? I wish I didn't.

Saint Keggers

18:52 / 27.05.02

Im still stuck on that damn Zoom Zoom kid from the car commercial. I dont know what kind of car it was but I now know what kind of little boy to buy.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:28 / 27.05.02

I liked the Smirnoff ad with the gothick Antichrist in it. But that's okay coz I'm already a consumer of booze and goth blokes.

Mourne Kransky

19:46 / 27.05.02

Ganesh and I can could recite, word perfect, the Dutchman interrupting the man's wedding to a monkey. Schlooooooooowly.... But I have still never drunk a bottle of Grolsch. Quite like the new one with the tickling torture too.

I like the Tennent's Lager ads with Heather Burton and people murdering pints but I'd still only drink the stuff in extremis.

My other favourite recently was the series with the lovely Johnny Vegas and the irascible Munng-kay. Seems like, despite its popularity as a teeny mini-series, it didn't really serve the primary purpose of an advertisement, as my bereft ITV-digital subscribing sister would tell you.

And don't get me started on any form of car advertising.

Just thought of the Ferrero Rocher Ambassador's Party ads. They worked. I bought the tasteless cardboardy things often.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:53 / 27.05.02

Monkey fans may like to know that our favourite knitted simian is now the center of a bitter custody battle between ITV digital (who reckon that as the adverts were for their product, Monkey is theirs) and ad agency Mother (who reckon that since ITV Digital have never and probably will never pay for the ads, it's their fucking Monkey).

Diamond White are first in line if Mother wins.

wembley can change in 28 days

23:31 / 27.05.02

Kegboy, I'm totally with you on the Zoom Zoom kid. Where do I get myself one of those?

The nike ads for basketball but especially footie, where it's just a bunch of players doing mad tricks, are my favourites. Acrobats and jugglers are always good. Mostly I'm all about deadpan humour.

Saint Keggers

03:48 / 28.05.02

Wembley: Are you talking about those Nike adds with the Keep That Funk Alive song in the background?? If so.. I loathe and detest them.

I really like the one with the people playing strip poker. I think it was for smirnoff.

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