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'Creative Review' magazine has its annual design awards issue at the moment (it's well worth the £5 for a couple of hundred pages of lovely things). The most striking trend is that the Peter Kay John Smith's ad cleaned up in pretty much every department -in advertising anyway.

(This is by the by, but this sweeping of the board is, in my eyes, the triumph of geezaesthetics - article coming soon, honestly)

This got me thinking about how advertising has changed over the last 10 years - from the late 80s/90s when the CR people were probably celebrating beautifully art-directed yuppie dream loft conversion/50s soul soundtracked confections. Does the change in the taste of advertisers reflect a change in the fantasies of consumerism? ie are we less aspirational consumers in the 21C? Or just more wised up to it all, less willing to take things straight? (I know that beer ads have always been fairly geezy, what's interesting is that the edgy people who make ads haven't always chosen to celebrate this as the pinnacle of their art.)

This thread was also partially inspired by the ad that was in the final break of the Man Utd/Real Madrid Game just now - possibly the most beautiful I have ever seen - for the Honda Accord. For roughly two minutes the mechanical bits and pieces which comprise the car are arranged so as to trigger a convoluted domino effect. It's like 'The Great Egg Race' with art direction by Marcel Duchamp. So you can just talk about beautiful ads you have loved if you want to, too.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread was also partially inspired by the ad that was in the final break of the Man Utd/Real Madrid Game just now - possibly the most beautiful I have ever seen - for the Honda Accord.

Miss P and I were knocked out by that too - if it was a piece of CGI (and surely some of it was), it had just enough ineffable slowness to suspend disbelief. And the tag line - "Don't you love it when things just...work?"

My current favourite campaign is the 118-118 cheap directory enquiries service - not so much the TV ad, but the gobsmacking oddness of the Tube posters. The one where the Dave Bedford-a-likes (atop cloned bodies) shovel takeaway grub into their mouths as they pound through some dusky industrial wasteland is a glorious thing. I'm sure it's a nod to some artwork or other I'm too ignorant to recognise.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

man i have to see this Honda ad, my brother had remarked earlier 'that is a very good advert' but i missed it

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, I saw this thread title and thought: "that *has* to be about the Honda ad that was on last night"

(although I hasten to point out that I wasn't watching the football. it was a great advert, though.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Honda advert is great, yeah. It's just when the music kicks in as well. Is it "Good Times" or "Rappers Delight", anyway?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have a fancy computer you can see the ad we're raving about here: http://www.honda.co.uk/newcars/accord.html

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My pooter isn't fancy *sob*

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

When it was on the other day we all stopped to stare at the beautiful advert, it filled a whole ad break in the grand prix. Marvellous stuff.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You'll just have to watch TV continuously until it comes on then.

(tip: don't watch a BBC channel, because it might take a while)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw this last night for the first time. It's like rilly rilly gorgeous, but I couldn't have told you what make of car it was for 5 seconds after watching it. So pretty, but dud as brand-entrenchment as far as I'm concerned. They should have used Little Honda by Yo La Tengo as the music, hee hee.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My flatmate works for Honda and says there was no CGI used (the wheels going up the ramp are counterweighted) although it was something like take 1000 before they got it right. You can also watch it here.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

First time I've seen this happen for an ad - the pub I was in last night, everybody stopped talking and watched the screen, increasingly gobsmacked as the ad went on. Silence punctuated by the odd ooh and aah. (Then everyone went back to talking about the match.)

― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the match, so why did I miss the advert? Am I such a fucking philistine that I simply didn't appreciate it? [sob]

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, just watched it despite my non-fancy computer. Wow.

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I HAVE to see it! I will go on a TV marathon until it screens again....

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure there's a short version too, unfortuately. It starts from the exhaust pipe rolling, I think.

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

THAT REALLY IS FUCKING AMAZING!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah - I thought that was amazing too in the pub whilst drunk. It just goes on and on. Also a triumph of geezaesthetics.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh wow

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going to go see a film in the cinema JUST in the hope they will show this ad beforehand

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know whether the new Honda (or any Honda for that matter) actually has windows that go down or up when you tap the glass? The reason I ask is that the only make of motor I know of that have this feature built in is Mercedes. How cheeky would it be to have someone else's car door in your beautifully-crafted advert?

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This wa sthe part I didn't understand in the ad - but that is most illuminating. looks like they've nicked it.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

As the cylinder rolls towards the window it passes over two contacts on the plank. One triggers the indicater to flash, the other lowers the window.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah. Not cheeky at all then. Shame.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one with Hector's House, but I don't like it.

The soundtrack to this thread is Denim's 'Tampax Ad'.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh fajitas

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen this Honda ad yet, but last night I saw one for HP, one of those "we're in partnership with..." things. This one was Bang + Olufsen and the ad showed thigns happening with the soundwaves as visual liquidlike stuff flying off people and dogs and so on. Looked pretty damn cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It was only after re-reading this that I realised that HP no longer means the sauce. [scratches head]

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw that too, just as i was getting up to get something and i stayed kind of craning my head at the TV until it was over even though the rest of my body was already turned around and headed into the kitchen - i usually hate all ads but the hEWLETT-pACKARD ones have been cool on their own merits, i think their other one was the mouse/cursor that picks up the thief by the scruff of his neck and drags him thru the air and into the back of the paddywagon, it was neato

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

MarkC - haha. Now I want to see HP sauce flying off of people and dogs and so on.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 10 April 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Honda ad is fantastic, pity they've got PJ O'Rourke in for the voiceover.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 10 April 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

his voice is fucking everywhere...i still resent British Airways for getting in him to say dumb things like 'you sunbathe in your clothes! your most popular dish is...curry?!'

i like the Hectors House adverts tho

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The ad was cool, but v similar to something i remember seeing years ago (probably on bbc2). the same 'chain reaction' thing with objects rolling into others, and at one point something being set on fire to burn through something and trigger something else. Sorry, my memory is v vague but anyone else remember this?

― liz (lizg), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh oh! I thought of another pretty ad: that one for funky (digital?) cameras with a voicover by some prissy woman explaining the way to take 'good' photographs, formal portraits and so on. The camera travels through these mad tableaux of people and objects that are kind of holographically presented, and have sexy smeared light running through them.

Saw the Honda one again last night, was thrilled by it again. Yum.

Ooh another Liz. Hello!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Finally had a look at this advert using the Modern Webbynet as I can't be arsed to sit thru Coronation Street. It's really very well done. Reminded me of Rube Goldberg cartoons ("Device for Selling Honda Accords and Pleasing Viewers").

Can't believe it's really a single shot. Presumably a motion controlled camera and many takes stiched together?

― robster (robster), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

still don't understand how the wheels going up the ramp work. it ruined it really.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

See upthread: wheels are counterweighted, which I take to mean that they have weights in the rims which are placed (very precisely) upwards and forwards with regard to the ramp at the start of the motion, but which then (thru tha FORZ UV GRAVITEE) impell the wheels up the ramp when they're jogged out of position. Engineer/conjuror to thread?

For me that kind of jiggery-pokery doesn't spoil it at all, it just brings home how carefully it's all bee set up. If it was CGI it'd be rubbish though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I came back from the loo just in time to catch the last 10 seconds last night. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'll have to watch it again just to be satisfied.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oooh Liz, I love that camera ad too. I think it's for one of those super-hi-tech phones with cameras in.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

it has add n to [x] playing on it.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

I finally got to see the full Honda ad (free DVD in the Guardian today!). It is amazing, though I hate the voiceover at the end (it is PJ O'Rourke, is it - thought so)

BUT CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH SOMETHING?

Many years ago, certainly before 1993, because it was in my old home in Peckham, I was channel flicking on the TV and came across an absolutely stunning short film that was basically the same concept as the Honda ad. Not car parts, but just a load of things lying around a workshop, as I recall. But the same domino effect thing. I was bowled over, it stayed with me and I always wished I could watch it again.

Does anyone remember it or know anything about it? I think it was probably late 80s, though it may not have been new at the time.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

You have certain issues, it seems.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 May 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Err - I mucked up the HTML, which is what Ned's post refers to. I have fixed it now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I almost bought the guardian today.

: ((

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't you download the ad with your whizzy broadband connection?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

probably.

: ((

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You saw the link above, yes?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, yeah. dwnldd. super-lo-res.

getting a higher one from kazaa, I think.

shoulda bought the guardian, though, but didn't want to carry it all day.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick: yeah, Honda blatantly ripped the concept for that ad from a couple of artists and hasn't admitted to it yet. I just heard their names, but I forgot 'em. Let me look around for a bit...

― Dan I., Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, the performance/film that Honda ripped off was "The Way Things Go" by swiss artisits Peter Fischli & David Weiss. But that's only what I've heard, I haven't seen Fischli&Weiss' film.

― Dan I., Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

got it.

cool.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 May 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Dan I beat me to it. I've not seen the Fischli and Weiss video, but a friend mentioned it in an email.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 11 May 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought they were just ripping off Wallace & Gromit

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 May 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

the way things go also available on DVD i want this - ALOT! its better x1,000,000 than the honda add, each of the objects in it look like a baeutiful joseph Beauys sculpture. I hope they got a packet for Honda ripping them off (even on that guardian DVD freebie which goes into the making of the thing they are never aknowledged).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

honda ad*
beautiful*
Beuys*
acknowledged*

aaaaaarrggh!

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i got this off fileshare :-) - mail me if u want a CD Rom of it N.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

has anyone seen the new justified volkswagen 'singing in the rain' advert? :-O

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

justified?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006RY20.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

justifieded

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

the advert is great. david thomson slagged it in his Independent on Sunday column.

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

what did he say? is there a link to dt or the advert?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/story.jsp?story=608290

But I have every right to deplore their action and to draw attention to a nightmarish piece of work. I will not pause to argue the claim that the creative life of Kelly and Donen has been befouled. Let me just say that our collective memory, our culture, our pleasure have all been monkeyed with. Yes, the film survives, and can still be seen, but its beauty and its integrity are being flagrantly interfered with. The nature of a movie is being insidiously mocked and exploited. And while this is not the first instance of this kind of electronic reordering of an existing scene, it may be a threshold to ever more indecent re-makes. There are vital ways in which Singin' in the Rain belongs to us and the future, as much as it does to a studio or a few heirs to the image and persona of an actor.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

What a tosser. The advert is cool. Classic things should always be tampered with.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

we've had a thread devoted to the ad. i kind of agree with DT (which these days is unusual for me). i don't think that *all* messing with old stuff and digital asshattery should be stopped, but in this specific instance (ie it's a fucking car ad for fuck's sake) i couldn't help hating the thing. also body-popping is so 98 is so 82.

― NR_Q, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

see ok I don't agree with a lot of what dt says but an article like that is useful & necessary fr a variety of reasons I think. fr i. the patronising reason tht it's good to know wht someone old and with a cultural & emotional memory of the film and scene in question, it's a useful window into the gravity of someone who wd be and is hurt by something like this and ii. cs the article actually twists away at its end from being an argument against misreading into an argument against mistreating, i.e. moves away from its anti-creativity stance to warn against the losses possibly at hand, if trends continue.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I kinda have to blank out the fact that it's 'a car ad for fuck's sake', (which isn't hard really).

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

it's okay until the end of the ad when kelly looks in amazement at... a car. it plays a difficult game, because it's clearly trading on a classic scene -- it isn't just "an old movie" but one which people younger than DT know and love. i've seen it in the cinema (it was rereleased xmas 2000) and more than once on tv. the music is pure barley.

― NR_Q, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

the fact tht they've just used a still of kelly's face superimposed on to some sot's body - a face eternally fixed in kelly's wide-eyed smile - gives the joyous dancing some creepy free lunch subtext.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

cozen otm, tho naturally i disagree somewhat with Thomson's view

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I have never seen 'singing in the rain' :/

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

see it. i'm not saying you'll have the same rapturous response as thomson, but it's witty, the colour and motion is a joy, and its treatment of cinema's sound/image split (all films are shot silent) is ~~profoundly logocentric~~ well futile.

― NR_Q, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

"All these manoeuvres are possible because of a thing called Photoshop; a way of changing every photograph to what you want. Photographers say it enhances their art. Others argue that the factual core of their art - that photographs reproduce a reality - is now available for purchase. And that, I venture to suggest is a very suitable topic for Film Studies - which has always been an enquiry into the ways we like to use and abuse film. You don't remember film? It's the old name for digital."

that's Thomson this week.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Not beautiful, and there's no thread for scary adverts - i really like the new Audi 'Spider' ad.

Any ads freaking you out at the moment?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like the new orange and the one w.jose gonzalez cover of 'heartbeats', which is in a similar vein; colourful balls rolling down a hill

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I find the Eurostar ad with bits from 'Some like it hot' and 'NxNW' even creepier than the 'Singing in the Rain' one.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm really surprised about the BBC Digital ads with the tiny heads being banned - has anybody seem the even more disturbing T-Zone ads? With the discarded faces lying in gutters, rubbish bins, etc? I can't quite get to grips with how the 'tens' of people who asked for the BBC ad to be banned think this one is any less psychotic.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

x-post cozen - the bouncy ball advert? Is that the name of the music from it? Cool.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Honda are still doing good ads.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

If Young's ads with the ram's head on have been banned, through the new legislation brought in in Oct, does that mean that those awful Carlsberg ads will finally be off our screens?

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I like the 'say somethin', change somethin'' ads with the cute little humming birds, ahhh.

I also roffled at the Kingsmill duck advert last night, daddy duck sends the ducklings into the pond to act cute and encourage the humans to throw them bread, but the bread is so damn tasty that the ducks get eff all. When they clamber out of the water daddy duck shout "You got them all wet for nothing!" ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the antiperspirant (sure? (not sure)) advert that was on before KONG, the other night, w/ people being v. dangerous in their everyday lives

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Stevem is right to say that Honda are still doing good ads. "The Impossible Dream" one is my fave bit of telly in quite some time. Amusing and at the same time genuinely stirring. Is it only on Sky Sports or something? Not many people I know seem to have seen it

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I finally saw a Sheila's Wheels advert the other night. Needless to say this is 'off-topic'.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Am I right in assumng they cannot discriminate against male drivers, so they make the product excessively girly to put men off?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Why were the Rams Head ads banned? I mean, I HATEDHATEDHATED them, but I'm just curious as to what provoked their banning.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Remember that ad a few months ago for some kind of vocational course which had a boy sitting in his room with some kind of fucking freaky arm trying to come out of his chest like in Alien or something? that was horrible.

The mighty Joe Scully is an extra in one of the Sheila's Wheels ads.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

'The ASA considered that the posters depicted the 'ram' at the centre of social attention and were likely to be seen as linking alcohol with social success. We told Young's to withdraw the posters and to adopt an approach, in future, which did not link the product with social success.'

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/non_broadcast/Adjudication+Details.htm?Adjudication_id=40748

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

That's remarkable.

Can the gases in deodorant cans be considered more damaging (to the environment) than alcohol? And if so can Lynx be forced to change their adverts too?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the Rams Heads were banned because they looked vaguely Satanic.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with RJG- was going to say that i think the Sure ad isa really good advert - i cant really explain exactly why but i think its pretty striking. the only thing is the tag line completely lets it down - you get the idea, but the concept isnt explained at all by the tagline. which i cant remember (!?!?!)

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm glad that they were got rid of, Vicky, because I found them INTENSELY DISTURBING, because they were so bloody Alpha Male.

I was secretly amused by the Pagan/Satanic symbolism, though.

― I Can't Be Bothered To Think Of A Clever Screenname (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Impossible Dream ad is fantastic. i'd quite like that look to come back for men esp. balding ones who all shave their heads now.

i love the Orange ad with the middle aged couple dancing from the kitchen out into the garden and into the street, it's quite touching.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

the tagline is, like, "extreme protection"? or something about really protected, anyway, I think, ambrose

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I hate that dancing orange advert!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

that's crazy.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

hate the eurostar advert and the idea that classic old films are there for ad execs to plunder. it's everything that everyone was complaining about upthread only x1000.

i do like the bt text-to-voice advert if only for the way the girl says 'christmas day?'. also like that mobile phone advert that uses either autechre or aphex twin as music (but only for the music, the rest of the ad is nothing special)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

isn't it Virgin that are pasting in people from old films?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

those bt adverts w/ the guy off of my family are incredibly bad

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i don't get it - is he supposed to be the home's resident invisible paedo or something?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

haha

there's too much "story", I wouldn't know what it was for if it wasn't so stupid

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

orange - "dance" is my favorite ad of the year hands down (sadly, i watch spots for a living). spike's "impossible dream" for adidas is a very close number two.

honda - "impossible dream" is fantastic as well; i dearly wish the director (fredrik bond) would do some video promos.

cozen, did you know that there is no cgi in sony "balls" at all? they just dumped 250,000 (!) bouncy balls down a street.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone explain to me the schtick of the guy who drinks pepsi max then falls down the side of a building with balls of orange goo attached to his hands and feet?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

there's nothing really to explain. it's just a juvenile soft drink spot.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think you can tell from the advert

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― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

the new orange ad I like is the one with the paint being poured

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's nice & colourful

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

don't get the paint's schtick, tho

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

cozen, did you know that there is no cgi in sony "balls" at all? they just dumped 250,000 (!) bouncy balls down a street.

wow! I like it

x-post

keep meaning to nick one of the paint posters and guillotine off the bottom

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

"keep meaning to"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

do you just forget to vandalise bus stops?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do people value the HP ad more BECAUSE it was done for real rather than just CGI? Does that matter much to you?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Sony, not HP

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Jose Gonzalez ad was shot here in SF! Some people I know saw them chucking all the balls down a hill!

I haven't read the rest of the thread so maybe this has already been mentioned - but I saw the mobile phone (?) ad with the Japanese women and the illicit throbbing...thing when I was back in the UK - who directed it and can anyone link to it? (mark?)

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

see, it's not a HP ad but everyone seems to think it is!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

keep meaning to... but chicken out

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

3 mobile network, adam.

"we rruv music"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that's it. I only saw it twice but I really liked it.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I also like the Dougal Wilson Boots ad that Mark put up a while back - the "Tribulations" video kind of extends that technique!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

stevem i don't think people do necessarily, it's just one of those things that, from a logistical standpoint, screams out for CG. but i think it's a better spot for them doing everything in-camera.

adam, is this the spot you're talking about? so great.

http://traktor.com/commercials/high/3mobile.mov

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

nb: orange - "dance" is ALSO dougal wilson, the guy's on fire right now

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Traktor!

Yes, love it. Thank you.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

what was the dougal wilson boots ad?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

jed:

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1629/

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

!!!! all of 3 mobiles advertising, in print and tv, including that spot, are awful! which is why, in part, no one signs up to them, i think

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

the "Tribulations" video kind of extends that technique!
Actually, watching it again, I should say REVERSES that technique? I don't know, they kind of feel of a piece.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Awwww, ambrose! That's the only bit of their advertising I've seen, but I think it's great!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

thanks mark - i don't like that one much. ambrose, i love that 3 ad! the version on traktor has a different ending to the tv version.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

oh, hp

I just remembered my continual fav ad. the hp one where they have picture in frames or empty frames and you keep seeing through them and they grab a still of what's behind or the still is hooked over someone's head or an object that was in the picture, etc. there must be a better way to describe it

I have an hp laptop which is pretty great but hp are dicks. good ad, tho!!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah - i like the version with the bloke singing "out of the picture, out of the frame".

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any of these ads. :(

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that three campaign is VERY polarizing. i love them, but only because i have to watch hundreds of more conventional (re: boring) ads a month. here are two more, both from fredrik bond:

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1310/

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/1281/

xposts

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Not beautiful, but funny -- the Snickers "it's only satisfying if you eat it" campaign is really good, though the two main spots are way overexposed by this point.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

adam, you can see all the HP spots here. they're all directed by the same guy, francois vogel, who basically 'invented' the picture in picture concept

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/search/?q=vogel

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

tx!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

also jed the thing that kills me about the boots spot is that everything's done in camera (not in realtime though -- there's one edit in the middle). i interviewed dw about it and he said there were over 100 little tricks and levers and mechanisms that had to function exactly correctly for the spot to work...

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

poor woman

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

the HP ads are awesome. there was a programme about drawing on i think, or about something, they interviewed that guy.

overall i think orange still have the best ads, even if they are open to accusations of being too tasteful. pity that their service doesnt match their branding/image (what a surprise!). they could do with bringin a new cinema ad concept tho. the film pitch thing is way way overplayed. except to my incredulity, people still laugh at them!

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I did laugh at the one w/ p swayze when the fat guy sez "...the chatty assassin!" (or something else I can't actually remember) but it was a mistake

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

but they are more than generally terrible, yeah

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

r u a cynic?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

>orange - "dance"

is this the one that uses eno's "music for airports"?

that boots ad is a bjork video.

oh, the kia advert cthulu people are back, this time avoiding a backwoods slasher rather than hoardes.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, mark, who did the balls down the hill advert?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

sony?

cynic?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I meant the director : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

nicolai fuglsig

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

more here:

http://www.bravia-advert.com/commercial/

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

sorrysorry the honda "impossible dream" spot is ivan zacharis, i don't know why i said fredrik bond

although to be honest i wish BOTH of them did videos

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

zacharias, christ

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

mark i admire the technical boldness of the boots ad but for me it feels a bit frantic, i don't think it flows. very talented people though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

thats fair! i would've loved to have seen the rumored :60, but it never materialized.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Who is the singer in the Honda ad? I don't mean the actor on view, I mean the voice.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

which ad, martin?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

the impossible dream.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, there are lots of singing honda ads on tv at the moment. that version of the song is by andy williams.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

ah, okay - I should have spotted that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

more honda radness:

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/commercials/2304/

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

that really caught my eye - or my ear, rather, which in turn made me look at the TV - when i saw it during Big Brother the other night. i think it goes on slightly too long, but hey it's still great. it reminds me of that all-vocal cover version of Autechre's "Gnit".

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

the bouncing ball Bravia advert was on a cd in this weekend's guardian. (um, not actually mentioned on this thread. someone has somewhere, just not here.). included a Making Of feature which pretty much consisted of someone filming them filming someone tipping hundreds of thousands of superballs down the street.

(putting a sony branded cd into the computer this shortly after the rootkit debacle seemed a bit risky to me. luckily my dvd player plays mpegs from cds so i used that)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

i can't stand that honda choir ad, it genuinly thinks it's a smart arse advert but they sound nothing like a car. and the smarmy way the person smiles at the end, bleurgh! fat dud.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Mister Monkey told me that one of his colleagues lives in the area where they filmed the Bravia ad and the place was covered in bouncy balls for ages afterwards. I was amazed, since I assumed they'd just done the whole thing on computers.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The new Carlsberg album is an absolute joy, "Carlsberg don't have pub football teams, but if they did....."

Fantastic: both Charltons, peter reid, des walker, chris waddle, alan ball, peter shilton, bryan robson, terry butcher and more, and it's funnt too!!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

the new national lottery animated things aren't particularly 'funnt' but i like them. anything had to be better than that donkey voiced by graham norton and the witchy woman.

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

some of the promos for LOTR on TBS next weekend are pretty great. The "Sucks to be Frodo" is cute, but especially killing us are the dancing Gandalf one and the Frodo/Sam with "Secret Lovers" theme.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 9 April 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

"better than that donkey voiced by graham norton and the witchy woman."

Hehe. I remember the ITC claiming they couldn't understand any of scenarios in any of the adverts... I think of them involved the Eiffel tower doing a backflip (?). Since when do they play the UK National Lottery in France?????

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 10 April 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

they did also advertise the euro lottery with the same characters.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 10 April 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

I saw that one for the first time the other day and was captivated. Reminded me of Belleville Rendezvous' first section.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

ot beautiful, but funny -- the Snickers "it's only satisfying if you eat it" campaign is really good, though the two main spots are way overexposed by this point.

Ooh! I love the one where the guy breaks open that "emergency" Snickers, then throws it at the fire that's developing in that couch in the break room, and the one with the guy who tries to use those Snickers bars as a toupee.

I think Geico does a fantastic job with commercials. Anyone remember that take on reality TV they did a couple of years ago? The one with the just-married couple who were going to be spending a year "in a house that was built too small"? And then there was the spoof of Old Navy commercials that was hilarious. I even like the more regular Geico gecko ads. "Tell you what, mate, stick with the small talk. The theatrics might come across as a bit... cheesy." Ha.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

what's that song on that new animated national lotto ad?

it's a wicked ad that, and i don't say that often.

― piscesboy, Monday, 10 April 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

A quick google suggests that it's "Smile and a Ribbon" by Patience and Prudence.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm slightly concerned by the advert for Skoda (I think that's what it is, anyway ..... 'practical AND exciting!") where the woman throws herself off a bridge onto the roof of a speeding train. Also the mobile phone advert where a guy throws himself off his apartment balcony - but since everything in this mobile-technology-world is flexible, he bounces back upright with no bones broken.

I know there will always be impressionable kids who try to emulate what they see on the TV screen (I remember, as a kid, there were warnings that we shouldn't try and copy Batman, fr'instance) and perhaps it's the parents' responsibility to make sure that their children don't do daft and dangerous things, but I'm still surprised that the ads are allowed to be shown.

I really liked the Guinness advert that was on last year, the "Rhythm of Life" one where they go backwards through evolution.

― C J (C J), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

A quick google suggests that it's "Smile and a Ribbon" by Patience and Prudence.
-- sgs (sarahsonni...), April 10th, 2006.

NO! they sang 'gonna get along without you now' and that was ace.

― piscesboy, Monday, 10 April 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

When Gandalf Rides The White Horse...
It Sucks To Be Frodo, I know I Know
Secret Lovers

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

OMG !! seeing that advert on soccer am was fucking class. all of it from start to finish was mint and www.mikefootball.com the joga was aswell with eric canotona is mint but a dont think many adverts will beat the monkey one that used to be on for diet pepsi to die aiport hahah and the mini cooper one class !!!! thers some shit adverts aswell e.g all the gaviscon ones are shit !

― steven robinson, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Campari advert.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

another great national lottery advert last night, the realistically flocking bricks one (and, like the previous one, it looks like they've taken some animation student's exhibition piece and just superimposed 'National Lottery' over the end of it).

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

The Miller ad with the guy cycling down the hill to Fantastic Cat is pretty great.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah it really makes me want to get out of glasgow :(

i disliked the campari one but the music is great. Jocelyn Pook, something from eyes wide shut.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

the 3 ad with the people throwing notes to each other during a lecture is good.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

not strictly tv (think it must've been a cinema advert to start with) but one of my favourites, Len Lye's 'A Colour Box':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1offmJ4Y

(just found it whilst looking for 'Berlin Horse'.)

his 'Rainbow Dance' also qualifies.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Elvis one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

so, are things better now or worse?

ITV adverts May 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D4tHA5JVyg&NR

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

the woman walking through the 'rooms in a mind' one is well done.

the 'folk revival' has been hitting the advertising world big in the last 6 months.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

now i understand the victoria wood sketch where she says "do i look like a woman who'd order a tufted axminster? mine's the wall to wall elephant." i would have loved to have watched that corrie as well.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

curse jerry and his spelling of tv. makes this thread hard to find.

anyway: http://www.bravia-advert.com/

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

When I saw this thread was revived I was going to post that I like the one where they blow up Toryglen in an explosion of paint.

And lo and behold if that's not the one Koogy's linked to right there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

new robinson's squash animations are nice. very twee.

also, a life-sized car made out of cake!

― koogs, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

robinson's squash = pikmin
life-sized car made out of cake = south park (devil's super sweet 16)

― Alan, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was tutting thru that cake advert about the waste of food. I'm entering dotage I think.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

I actually liked the new Honda advert, much as I like most Honda adverts, until I found out it was a Honda advert.

― Just got offed, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

"What If" is still unforgivable tho.

― Just got offed, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

the new audi(?) advert with the cgi ribbons is loverly too.

― koogs, Monday, 21 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlagAOY7jlY - audi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjfvA9M0JM - robinsons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLv77vwD2ts - cake car (Skoda Fabia apparently!)

― koogs, Monday, 21 May 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno what to make of these Volvic ads - talking volcano, Tyrannosaurus Alan etc.

― blueski, Monday, 21 May 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

Great site here for TV ads - http://www.duncans.tv/

― Billy Dods, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Cake car advert appeared on the telly the same week I bought my new Skoda Fabia, so now I look like someone who buys cars by the persuasive power of cake.

― ailsa, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

And you should be proud to be so.

― Mark C, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Baking Of" documentary here: http://www.newfabia.co.uk/

(new answers page really needs to be a bit longer, am fed up of search for threads i posted to yesterday)

― koogs, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

I love that Vodafone advert with Nancy Sinatra singing "The End". Life and love being pulled from under his feet every time, landing in a heap back at his office desk. I cried when I saw it in the cinema the first time! Actually the second time.

― Alba, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Except it's a lie! "Don't let work steal the best bits" then they try and sell you a device that let's you do work away from your desk in your spare time wtf

― ledge, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, well I don't pay too much attention to that. I had to rack my brains to remember what it was even for. But just as a 25 second piece of cinema it's terrific.

― Alba, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

It is nicely done. They're sly, those lying liars.

― ledge, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Just repped it on the "Worst TV Ads" thread, but here's the Halo 3 commercial from a couple of months back. Very good indeed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvLqJA3A970

― Bill A, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

Sorta Jake & Dinos Chapman thing going on there?

― Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! I saw Hell at the Saatchi Gallery in County Hall a few years back and it came to mind immediately when I first saw the Halo ad. I like the stillness of it (which works so well with the gorgeous music) and the way it hinges on the final gesture.

― Bill A, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

that vodafone one is lovely

― czn, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

I still heart the cadbury's gorilla

― C J, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that "The End" ad. Too true. the ending is nice too, you can keep the phone bit tho.

― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

I get a blackberry as of tomorrow :(

― Mark C, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dow: The Human Element

― remy bean, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

(same agency)

mercedes benz

― remy bean, Thursday, 1 November 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

Web, not TV, but:

http://producten.hema.nl

(shown this at work today and think it's only been on Noise board here)

― Alba, Thursday, 7 February 2008 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

They did another funny one recently...

― czn, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

I love that new Lynx advert with the people colliding. The execution of the *pooof* explosions is brilliant.

That Coke Grand Theft Auto one is another superbly realised idea.

― Alba, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

And the newer Vodafone one with the the guy tap dancing to It Must Be Love is a little ikky but the girl in it is so cute I can forgive.

― Alba, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

I seem to really like adverts these days.

― Alba, Thursday, 20 March 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sure I said it on another thread, but I love the Lynx chocolate man advert and the singing-dog VW Polo ad.

In some ways, the little singing-dog is the only character I have ever really related to.

― czn, Thursday, 20 March 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

I can gloss the sexism in the Lynx ad because its aspirational: I wish I walked around smiling all day long (and had a chocolate butt.)

― czn, Thursday, 20 March 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

Ugh, that tap dancing Vodafone ad kills me. At the end I just want the girl to scream, 'YOU KNOW, YOU COULD JUST *SAY* YOUR SORRY INSTEAD!'.

― marianna lcl, Thursday, 20 March 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

Any ad where they smash up a car in slo-mo. Gets me every time.

― Bodrick III, Thursday, 20 March 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

Lynx ads getting love? mad world

― blueski, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

Have you seen the colliding one, though? It's not in the usual "man attracts women" vein (though I like those ones too).

― Alba, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

And have you seen the chocolate man one? He walks around smiling all the time (and has a chocolate butt).

― czn, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

don't think i've seen the colliding one but hate the chocolate one

― blueski, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

That chocolate one is some serious mr. soft freakyness.

― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 20 March 2008 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

have just seen the new marks & spencer advert, certainly was easy on the eye, not sure if it was beautiful though.

― not_goodwin, Friday, 21 March 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

that tv advert that was just on for Sky HD service looked v pretty with the frog and the pirate and the football all in slowmo HD.

EXCEPT i was watching it on a 15-year-old, non-widescreen, non-HD, crt tv.

― koogs, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Can't find a thread for vintage TV ads but these three have made my morning. I now want Mad Men to make it into the 70s just to see how Don Draper handles psychedelia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBoJZN-KIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3gFCSKMo70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TRgokZLIwA&feature=related

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Friday, 15 October 2010 09:24 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhRHp-K7v0U&feature=youtu.be

― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Sunday, 11 September 2011 04:31 (fourteen years ago)

I like this new one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqgZPHEnnI

― mmmm, Sunday, 11 September 2011 10:17 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

those new ge commercials hit way too close to home.

― monster mash, Thursday, 12 November 2015 13:27 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

awesome sauce? how about i fucking kill you both.

― LEGALIZE COCAINE (monster mash), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:43 (ten years ago)

There are no beautiful tv ads

― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:57 (ten years ago)

sorry, "teevee adverts"

― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:57 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lxGq9tJadw

I am 99% certain that the women singing this jingle has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
She loves the sound of her own voice.

Every time this commercial comes on, it hurts me (I watch a lot of TV).

I was psychologically abused by a person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, two years ago. My psychiatrist tells me I have PTSD, now.

I love and hate this woman singing this jingle. She is an asshole, and I wish I'd never heard this commercial.

― black metal is emo for vikings (monster mash), Friday, 18 December 2015 17:15 (nine years ago)

woman*

― black metal is emo for vikings (monster mash), Friday, 18 December 2015 17:15 (nine years ago)

I really need someone else to hate this woman with me. She hap NPD, and is a fucking asshole.

― black metal is emo for vikings (monster mash), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:27 (nine years ago)

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Beautiful teevee adverts

BUT CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH SOMETHING?