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Most Annoying Commercial & How You Would Change/Detourne It For Cheap Laughs?

 
 
nutella23
15:56 / 05.09.02
At present, it would have to be that yogurt commercial (can't recall the brand) where this short-haired girl in a convertible starts off this pseudo-conversation with her friend that begins, "Wind in your hair good..." (you probably know the one I mean). I don't know why, but for some reason this ad just irritates me like a bad rash.

How I would change it:

At some point, have one girl turn to the other and say something to the effect of, "Boyfriend hitting the G-Spot Good..."
Other girl gets annoyed look on her face and retorts, "Girlfriend hitting the G-Spot Good!"
Both girls pause and simultaneously turn toward the camera with shit-eating grins and say in unison, "Vibrator hitting the G-Spot Good!"
Close-up of fumbling to plug large vibrator into car lighter as car pulls over to side of the road.
Fade-to -black as sounds of mutual pleasure grow louder along with distinct sound of mechanical buzzing.

Well, at least people would watch it. (Some of them might even tape it!)

Sigh.
 
 
gridley
16:15 / 05.09.02
"No, this yogurt is peace in the Middle East gooooood..."
 
 
The Apple-Picker
16:35 / 05.09.02
I believe that the yogurt brand in question is... Yoplait!
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:26 / 05.09.02
I always wanted to send in a "X is my anti-drug" audition, the title being "Booze is my Anti-drug". It would star my friend Nick sitting in a rocking chair on his porch, taking belts of a bottle of Jack Daniels. Enter me:

Me: Hey man, wanna hit this joint?

Nick: Hell no! I'm too drunk, you rat bastard!

Me: Fuck you!

[Nick flies into a drunken rage and throws bottle at me. After I run away, Nick breaks down into tears, his shoulders shaking with sobs.]

C'mon, it'd be great.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
17:47 / 05.09.02
Nah, it wouldn't make sense, man! Booze is a drug.

Maybe you could say "Unprotected premarital sex is my anti-drug." That message would certainly be just as, no--wait: more devastating, than booze as anti-drug.
 
 
Persephone
18:23 / 05.09.02
Oh my God! Just while driving I saw a billboard that went:

Dick calls Jane.
But Jane is on line.
So Dick calls Amber.
Jane needs SBC Ameritech DSL.

*popping Dramamine and donning balaclava*

I have an late-night appointment to spraypaint JANE DOESN'T NEED DICK in a very high place.

(Italics because my voice is muffled. By the balaclava.)
 
 
RadJose
18:32 / 05.09.02
billboard from the idecIDe anti-smoking people

Chances of Death from Car Accident 1:3,506
Chances of Death from Smoking 1:3

what i SO want to ad

Chances of Death 1:1
 
 
adamswish
19:06 / 05.09.02
don't know if any of you guys remember an old car advert from back in the '90's (I think), where some spoiled woman is taken for a drive blindfolded. It's her birthday and smooth, sauve drug running south american boyfriend has "a surprise" for her. So their driving along and she's pre-eminate orgasm guessing what the car is ("oh sporty... quiet... etc") when they pull up, she rips off the blind fold to see it's a VW Polo and goes off in a sulk. Boyfriend turns round and states that "the car isn't the surprise" and they freeze frame on her face.

Would of loved them to continue and show boyfriend pull a large calibre machine gun out and cut the annoying precious princess in half in a rain of bullets while laughing hysterically.

And of course, as from the "evil ad" thread in Film & TV - seeing the dozy boyfriend choke to death while trying to eat the tampon.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
19:30 / 05.09.02
Persephone - get spraying! That ad is just begging for it!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
19:36 / 05.09.02
The ad that's making me bleed is a UK TV one for *whispers* tampons. Gah. Plot as follows (ranted on my blog about this, hence the comments...):

Het couple sit at table in cafe, trying to find keys or tickets or something. Boy empties girl's handbag out, and mistakes her *eek* tampon (there, I've said it) for a sugar sachet. She looks at him, panic-stricken for a moment, before reminding him that he's putting on weight and should probably skip the sugar. He puts it down, she looks relieved.

THANK GOD she didn't have to tell him, her sexual partner, that he was holding a, y'know, women's thing.

*************************

Strikes me it'd be really funny to combine this with another one in the series, where the hapless (brain-dead?) boyf nearly eats the tampon, mistaking it for a sweet. (what's with the early '20s guy who doesn't know what a tampon looks like and keeps nearly eating it)

Ie - that he again, comically mistakes the tampon for a sweet, puts it in his mouth, and chokes to death.

Cut to girlfriend leaving cafe, on phone to girlfriend, saying something like 'yep, you were right... that's got him off my back. cheers'
 
 
Jack Sprat
19:42 / 05.09.02
Ya know the Mitsubishi ad where the junkie-skinny bitch in the front seat is having an epileptic fit while the Dirty Vegas song plays? They should pull up in front of a hospital ER bay and carry her in, dump her on a gurney, and say, "We don't know WHAT she took, man, but it is BAD," and then run back out, jump in the Mitsubishi, and lay rubber getting out of there.
 
 
Mazarine
02:01 / 06.09.02
Any and every one of the damned pull-ups potty training pants comercials.

But at the moment I can't think of anything that wouldn't be completely horrible. Except for maybe having a pack of geriatrics singing the "I'm a big kid now" song, I don't know.
 
 
aus
02:24 / 06.09.02
Johnny 0's is excellent! Hey, Apple-Picker, Jack Daniel's isn't a drug. It's a way of life.

But, Jack Sprat, that is what happens in the Mitsubishi ad. Are they showing a different version in Brigadoon?
 
 
Jack Sprat
05:27 / 06.09.02
Those bastards! They're censoring everything and blaming it on the terrorists.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
05:47 / 06.09.02
Persephone-- you get the spraypaint, I'll hold the ladder. Then afterwards we can find out who came up with that sodding ad and do something memorable to them.
 
 
rizla mission
09:22 / 06.09.02
you know that one where all the trendy young folk get out of their car and dance around slowly to that Pepe Deluxe track (the original version of which, which came out a couple of years ago, was much better, incidentally) bending their limbs and stuff in a Mr.Fantastic style manner?

I want to see an anatomically correct version made by David Cronenberg, wherein their limbs are twisted out of their sockets, and their bones crack horribly and bits of them fall off and they're left as writhing heaps of blood and pain.. lovely.
 
 
Bear
09:48 / 06.09.02
I just watched a short animation by Don Hertzfeldt with some funny adds in it, all adds should look like this -

Short Animation

Sorry if this is threadrot or if you've seen this before but I think its very good...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
10:37 / 06.09.02
People in the UK will no doubt be familiar with the endless stream of "be a cop!" ads on telly (or is it just in London? They're for the Metropolitan Po-Po in particular, aren't they?). For those who aren't, here's the gist of them: a celebrity known for a particular quality sits in a chair and solemnly tells the camera how they're not sure they'd have the patience/strength of character/restraint etc to handle a difficult situation of the kind the Met, we are invited to believe, regularly deal with (this intercut with mocked-up footage of prowling crack dealing darkies, thuggish football hooligans, wife-beaters etc). "I don't think I could do it", they inevitably conclude, with a sigh, and then we're asked 'COULD YOU?'

The world NEEDS one of these featuring a well-known screen or genuine villain (Phil Mitchell? Nasty Nick?), telling us the following in profound and troubled tones:

"I'm a real bastard."

"I lie, steal, cheat and intimidate people to get what I want. I've got no scruples and I'll tread on anyone I have to to get to the top."

"But to fit someone up? To arrest them on spurious grounds, plant evidence on them, beat a confession out of them, and get them locked away for years for a crime they didn't commit? All because of the colour of their skin?"

*pause, shake head ruefully*

"I don't think I could do it."

*fade*

*on-screen: 'THE METROPOLITAN POLICE. COULD YOU?'*
 
 
Saveloy
11:07 / 06.09.02
The car ad that draws a comparison between a solitary bloke listening to music on his headphones at home, and a group of young wankers having a jolly old time of it in a car with a boot literally stuffed to the brim with (neatly stacked) CDs.

I want to see them have a massive barney on the hard shoulder over which disc to put on next, settle upon the only one they all like, and then have a bigger barney when they realise they haven't got a clue where the f*** it is in the stack because the one guy they knew who would have been un-cool enough to put them in any particular order (and therefore too square to join them) is at home listening to it on his headphones. They don't realise this and have to spend hours piling the discs up in wobbly columns behind the car in their search. Just as they get to the last disc ("Whaaat?! Where the f*** IS it then?") a juggernaut un-controlled by a dozing driver ploughs through the columns of CDs and over the car. They try to call their solitary mate to pick them up but he's got his music on too loud to hear the phone.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:04 / 06.09.02
That singing banktwat and his jiggling body would take a bullet.

Ha. Ha.

Sorry...hungover this afternoon - full of pub lunch.
 
 
Bad Horse
12:12 / 06.09.02
And in case you were fooled into thinking they were real joe public I have seen the one with the pebble glasses in another advert. Is there an agency for not particularly attractive, unable to sing, slightly overweight talent? Is it called 'I work for crisps'? Should I join?
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:27 / 06.09.02
--Bear wrote:--
>I just watched a short animation by Don Hertzfeldt with some funny >adds in it, all adds should look like this

Rejected is the funniest damn cartoon I have ever seen. Sad side story to it is that Pacific Bell or someone similar asked Don H. to do some ads for them. He (thankfully and quickly) said no, so they made cheap knockoffs that looked enough like his work, leading people to think that he did the ads after all. sigh.
 
 
adamswish
13:15 / 06.09.02
Is there an agency for not particularly attractive, unable to sing, slightly overweight talent? Is it called 'I work for crisps'? Should I join?

Yes there is but they are busy at the moment recruiting the auditioners for Pop Stars: The Rivals at the moment, so I'd give it a couple of months.
 
 
Justin Brief
15:33 / 06.09.02
The one where a bloke phones in sick, putting on an ill voice to his boss; then the boss phones back, and he pretends to be his answerphone, using the microwave for the beep!!!!!!!

Why!!!!!????

Because the fucker's phoning in sick on a WEEKEND team-building exercise. The cowardly brand in question doesn't want to be sullied by association with people who would actually dare pull a sicky. Like, on a workday. That would be too degenerate.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:36 / 06.09.02
Nah, it wouldn't make sense, man! Booze is a drug.

Maybe you could say "Unprotected premarital sex is my anti-drug." That message would certainly be just as, no--wait: more devastating, than booze as anti-drug.


Actually, we had a bunch of ideas for this, including:

1. "Marijauna is my anti-drug"

2. "Crippling suicidal depression is my anti-drug"

3. "Poverty is my anti-drug"

4. "Extreme Islamic Fundementalism is my anti-drug"
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
19:29 / 06.09.02
Anti-heroin is my anti-drug.
 
 
Jack Fear
19:56 / 06.09.02
Drug and anti-drug must NEVER MEET! The collison of drug and anti-drug could trigger and explosion that wouldRIP THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE APART!!!
 
 
Seth
20:13 / 06.09.02
I'd love to take some white and black paint to those awful Lambert & Butler billboards in the UK. Imagine:

Lambert: "I've always loved you, Butler."

Butler: "..."
 
 
Smoothly
23:08 / 06.09.02
I liked Johnny O's idea when I read it in the Onion http://www.theonion.com/onion3727/my_anti-drug_is_alcohol.html

I rely on adverts to tell me what kind of person I should be and how I should communicate with the people around me. Now, when anyone asks me if I need anything I know that the correct response is to tell them that I'm okay for deoderant. How did we cope with these tricky social protocols before advertising?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:15 / 06.09.02
Whatever the mobile phone company is that's using the ad with the baby's face plastered everywhere? I thought it was some bizarro universe where everyone worshipped an evil infant god.
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
01:12 / 07.09.02
There's actually a McDonald's ad that runs during cartoons where two beautiful little Aryan children are mopey because they have no fish in their fishbowl, which Ronald responds to by hauling them down to a petting zoo. At one point Ronald is next to a cockatoo, and his big red fro begins to raise like that of the cockatoo, but the color and the expression on his face make it look all the more phallic. Another DcMonald's commercial has Ronald backstage playing stage mother to two kids, both dressed as Elvis, one of whom says, "Ronald, I'm scared." Suddenly, Ronald turns into a big red, white and yellow rendition of the same, but ends up going out on stage with them, facing the rear of the stage the whole time I've noticed, and sings like Brian Setzer. No, I don't get it, either.

Man, one of those days I want to see Grimace fulfill the function he was put on Earth for, which is to swallow Ronald in a single bite. Then the Noid comes out from an alley and hands him a wad of cash.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
18:19 / 07.09.02
I liked Johnny O's idea when I read it in the Onion

I get that all the time. I assure you, I thought of it first.
 
 
Jack Fear
18:41 / 07.09.02
That's nothing. I thought of the whole World Wide Web thing this one time in 1982, when I was baked, but do you think I see a penny off it? No-o-o-o-o.

Fuckers.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:58 / 07.09.02
[threadrot] Is there an agency for not particularly attractive, unable to sing, slightly overweight talent?

There is, in fact, a London-based model agency by the name of Ugly.

They turned me down.

Fuckers.

[/threadrot]
 
  
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