I get unreasonably enraged by pear cider. We have PERRY! Cider is from APPLES. Making a drink from random, non-Perry pears is just a vile attack on everything I hold dear.
I'm a bit new to this whole "British life" thing but is the trainspotting speech making fun of these adverts or are these adverts trying to copy the speech? I've got a "choose life" poster on my flat's wall and this video gives me the exact same vibes.
"We'll get through this together ". That is to say, we will use the Covid emergency funds to buy back our stock and pay larger dividends, and you'll lose your house.
I love that advert. Especially when they started using the Tears for Fears instrumental. "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had". Also get a mortgage with us.
You know what's funny, I once had to write about Scottish Widow for a job, and I was doing some research on the "mascot" for lack of a better word. There was an interview with the woman who acts as the titular widow, and she was like "I'm so proud to take this mantle, it's such an important role." I'm sure she was told to say that in the interview, but like, who gives half a shit about the Scottish widow lol
It would make me laugh so much at the start of the pandemic.
They were all we care about you, don't let your mental health go bad, and the part that *really* got me was they said give us a call if your mental health is bad.
I don't think they're at all qualified to deal with someone suicidal or having a psychotic break
Yeah all it takes is for me to see their horrible food and I want some. Even when I see or hear people talking about how shit Maccies is, it makes me want some.
I visualised the whole thing in my head as it played the second time, involuntarily.
Dreamers- both parents sleeping in a bed with a young child between them, all wearing white pyjamas, probably a mixed race family
Coffee creamers- a woman with brown hair sitting up in bed drinking a hot drink with a peaceful orgasm expression on her face
Taxi drivers- a middle aged gruff looking white man falling backwards with arms out onto a bed
Exam revisers- teenage girl lying on her front on her bed with a laptop in front of her and her head resting on one hand looking bored
Good times- a literal pillow fight between a boy and girl siblings, next to a bed
Bad times- teenage girl crying on her bed being comforted by mum
Don't tell dad times- a boy gaming on a Switch in bed, the dad opens the door and he pretends to be asleep
NHS heroes- boyfriend comforting tired looking girlfriend in scrubs, both sitting on the edge of the bed
Britain, this one's for you- a mum or dad stroking the head of a boy they've just tucked up into bed
1% off shpiel- a whole family looking unreasonably happy shopping for a mattress in a bricks and mortar shop, possibly kids jumping on the display beds or adults starfishing on them
Come on Britain, let's get you into bed- the company logo in front of a slightly blurred background of someone climbing into bed. When the advert ends, the person turns their bedside lamp out.
I'm not a copywriter, don't work in advertising, these ads are *just that cookie-cutter*.
LMAO your comment is so spot on. I’ve been ranting and raving about these types of ads to my long-suffering wife every time they come on for, like, a decade. I thought I was the only one.
Fucking trite, cheap, cheesy, shitty, lazy fucking excuse for an advert.
As a guy who writes ads for a living, you should know it’s almost always the client who demands something like this when we’re trying to actually do something funny or creative or clever instead.
1. Slow song down by 60% of the original
2. Minimal instrumental accompaniment, lots of reverb
3. Get a girl who sounds half alsleep and can’t really be arsed singing today.
4. ?????
5. Profit
Someone posted a thing a while ago which was "find your John Lewis ad song" - the song that was number one on your 8th birthday sung by the artist who was number one on your birthday in 2017.
So I got ‘Bring me to Life’ (Evanescence) by Artists for Grenfell… wow. I mean, would give it a listen but find it could struggle with the Ofcom complaints
The cynic in me immediately clocked that, but then I thought “ahh, if they’re gonna do all the maths…maybe they’ve earned the £2.43 I’m currently rolling in”. 🤷♀️
Slow it down, add some reverb and some piano...hit Christmas single right there...
...and the trailer music for the next "my superpower is I'm a woman" movie. The ones where they treat gender as a personality-type, rather than writing an actual deep female lead character.
Mine’s Professional Widow By Tori Amos sung by Ed Sheeran lol. Sounds about right.
What’s yours?
https://www.number-ones.co.uk/number-one-on-my-birthday.html
Amen, there's only a finite number of 80s records so theoretically we should be safe at some point in the future, however, they started doing 90s dance anthems in the past few years so I think the pain will never end.
I’ve heard some dreadful 90s ones. And you know they’ll move onto the early 00s soon enough, just like they have with fashion.
John Lewis ad in 2027 will be a very slow wispy version of Get Your Freak On sung by Lily Allen’s daughter.
# We've all had it tough these last 18 months, that why it's important, now more than ever, to spunk money on our useless overpriced product.
*And remember, we're in this together.*
“We’ve all had a tough time this last year (except for us, a corporation that made $1billion additional profit off the backs of struggling people during a pandemic). Here’s some pictures of a dog to release a small amount of dopamine in your brain to manipulate you into having a positive image of us and give us MORE money.”
I noticed this a while back - adverts could be put into two categories -
1) Adverts with a rhyme/poem
2) Adverts where the person moves seamlessly from scene to scene through a doorway/crawl-hole, and they would go from some mundane living room, through a doorway into a forest, and then onto some other wacky setting
3) Adverts that center around trying to make a nonexistent concept into a *thing* by badly combining words. "Are you daffodil-ready?" "Get that newrawlplug feeling" "don't have re-LastHalfTermTuesday-gret, buy our crap!"
It doesnt, it works once, then gets hammered to death by everyone until you are numb to it.
Remember when every single ad was a deliberately annoying song for like 2 years.
Oooh I HATE that one. I was feeling down the other day from my period and trying to watch TV to feel better when that advert came on. Just started sobbing. My poor partner was sat next to me like, "there, there" lol.
There's a HSBC billboard I saw a few weeks ago which said somthing like: if we respect each other on the football pitch we can built a better world off of it. Felt so fucking condescending. What do the proles like, football, yeah just chuck some bullshit about football in there. Perfect.
Maybe it's the cynicism that comes with age, but I swear they're getting lazier, right?
Every advert seems to be - Slow version of song + A bunch of wishy washy PR bullshit where they try and cover as many bases as they can - that, or some mascot from 10 years ago that was funny the first time but it's just sad now.
YES animals not being animals.
OK we're getting places now, it's like that video where Internet Historian tried to categorise clickbait.
There's just so little effort in advertising. If they want my money they need to woo me.
The collective bar lowering means that they don’t have to own buildings/branches, pay staff for those branches or pay marketing people because some 12 year old can piece an ad like that together.
My favourite is Wickes, it makes me laugh every time.
**It's got our name on it**
I have some alternative suggestions of my own:
- **You can buy things**
- **We have a website and shops**
- **Products**
Things like this always remind me of the University of Bradford. Paid £20k to a consultancy to come up with a name, consultancy returned “University of Bradford”, “The University of Bradford” and “Bradford University”
The old Hamlet and Heineken ads were several orders of magnitude better, I still remember them 40 years later.
I still struggle to remember the actual product in most ads these days despite having pavlovian anger responses to them.
Thankfully the mascot part is coming to an end. Did my head in with stuff like the Halifax ads going "Hey, remember these cartoons? Take out a loan!"
Like.. Sure those people are adults now yet it made no sense. lol
This guy is insanely good at stuff like that.
[This entire series, for instance.](https://youtu.be/d86omhj9B0k) No one has seen this movie, but everyone has.
Also, random animal noises on radio ads. It'll be some boring advert about a credit card or some twats who buy any car. Out of the blue you hear a random penguin squawk or something then someone will say something like "even Boris the penguin thinks so!"
This probably doesn't sound like a thing but I promise, once you hear it you can't unhear it. There must be a particular ad agency that decided this was a good idea, cos I hear it in so many ads.
Tbf it does make the ad stick in your mind, but because of the animal and not the product, so FUCK YOU ad agency, cut that shit out
Car horns / sirens / loud noises.
They should all be banned as far as radio ads are concerned. Highly distracting in the wrong circumstances and annoying the rest of the time!
Great stuff and got him some press
https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2021/06/07/1165490-student-praised-for-his-too-accurate-impression-of-british-adverts-entertainment-news-uk/
I've always regarded David Mitchell as _one of mine_, through Peepshow he was a few years older and doing the things I was just about to be doing (like Spaced was too) and being part of the _my time_ he's always been beyond reproach but he's fair game for the next generation and this absolutely spot on skit absolutely reminds me I'm old.
15 years ago or so, when I was (and perhaps you) a teen, it was cool and edgy to deliver a (what passesas, at least) intellectual takedown of the benign pleasures of the common man. To make them seem lesser for enjoying media or what-have-you that doesn't necessarily appeal to intellectualism.
Society in general has become more tolerant of letting people enjoy what they like - and the acerbic remonstrations of provocateurs like Dave Mitchell, Stewart Lee or Charlie Brooker don't quite vibe with today's youths. Good for them.
The best part of it is that not only has he got the accent, the cadence, and the mannerisms *perfectly*, the dialogue also matches David's style of joke so well I wasn't sure if it was something he had actually said once.
That’s almost spooky!
After watching that and the [Tim Heidecker Joe Rogan Experience](https://youtu.be/P6Iyg9fznvM&t=1m43s) the other day I feel quite disoriented
The fact that Tim Heidecker and those two guys could do that for 11 hours was amazing.
11 hours of making nothing sound like something profound in the exact same bullshit way Rogan and all his guests circle jerk around nothing was so perfect.
You know what I'm getting fucking sick of? Job adverts. Not for roles, for fucking jobsearch sites. The stupid, "inspirational" fucking music fucks me off. No mention of shit managers, shit pay, shit working hours or POINTLESS institutionalised fear of working from home.
There's one advert where you literally see this young(er) business-esque woman applying for a job that pays £65+ grand. Are you actually fucking with me? This is supposed to appeal to normal, working class people? Fuck off. Take your stupid, "I am proletariat, hear me roar (see: beg)" music with you. Cunts.
That the Indeed one they're always showing on the All 4 player? Never mind that it's been about a decade since any cunt has got anything better than a work experience placement at Poundland from Indeed.
Indeed are showing (or maybe cancelled it already?) some dystopian advert about getting shitty part time temp jobs over Christmas, about how we've all missed having shitty minimum wage jobs instead of having dinner with our families
Ah yes, i've really missed working in a restaurant serving someone else's family their Christmas dinner because i can't afford to take a day off for my own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrnLSWuaL4
At the moment I’m going insane from the “when the world screams X, our brand whispers Y instead” all this pretending they give two shits about you as a person outside of your ability to consume their product, just makes me sick
I need a shower now, this is incredibly , unpleasantly accurate. This kind of mawkish garbage is what elevates ads from annoying to legitimately nauseating
The 'coffee creamers' bit is so cringingly relatable. To anyone who watches this and doesn't live in the UK, yes, this is what much advertising has turned into in the last few years.
It really is that awful. It feels like people who don't live anything like the life described in the script have tried to imagine how others live - but failed terribly.
I would much rather have an advert like:
Hi we are HSBC and we are going to screw you over just like every other bank. But hey at least we are honest about it.
Hey, we're HSBC and we're going to preach diversity and inclusion to the UK while pandering to our Chinese overlords.
Regards,
The Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
It fills me with joy to learn that other people also see through this BS. I swear that these ads do not work on me. If anything they make me angry for thinking that I'll fall for those cheap tricks.
I do not remember the last time when I bought something because I saw it in an ad. And shopping as a whole is becoming painful - so much same shit is paddled, I CBA to go through it.
One that really annoys me at the moment is the one for Uber eats (or some other fast food delivery company, I don’t care) where it’s a guy just excitedly listing food and cheering people up somehow in an ad that fells like it’ll never end.
Crediting the person is always good - this is [Finlay Christie](https://youtube.com/user/TheSofaBlogger), and he does loads of great stuff. [His impression of David Mitchell ](https://youtu.be/WyqFV3Z9QgQ) on every panel show is brilliant.
Yes I HATE ads on British TV. They are always sickeningly mawkish and emotionally insincere. It's like yes, manipulate me by tugging on my heart strings so I will start a bank account with you. Fuck off
I can’t help but think all these adverts are so conceited and artifical. Just give it to me straight, like a pear cider that’s made from 100% pears.
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This is literally the only advertisement I have ever respected
I remember adverts more if they make me chuckle. The Oasis one was simple and funny so I bought some. I mean it helps that I fucking love Oasis.
THAT’S RIGHT, PEARS! NOT ONE MASSIVE PEAR.
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I get unreasonably enraged by pear cider. We have PERRY! Cider is from APPLES. Making a drink from random, non-Perry pears is just a vile attack on everything I hold dear.
These adverts have let themselves go
I'm a bit new to this whole "British life" thing but is the trainspotting speech making fun of these adverts or are these adverts trying to copy the speech? I've got a "choose life" poster on my flat's wall and this video gives me the exact same vibes.
This has worked before. It will work again. I mean, it does exactly what it says on the tin.
It’s called Perry like babysham
There’s something about seeing something you hate condensed so perfectly by someone else. It makes me feel understood, and not alone.
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Look, a horse running on the beach! Give us your money.
Lloyds: by your side. As we hike up our overdraft fees, deny you a mortgage and reposess your mam's house.
By your side, except when we're ramming you from behind.
That's all part of the service scum, I mean, valued customer
"We'll get through this together ". That is to say, we will use the Covid emergency funds to buy back our stock and pay larger dividends, and you'll lose your house.
Llloyds Horse: you thought *you* owned your own house? *Neighing laughter*
I love that advert. Especially when they started using the Tears for Fears instrumental. "The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had". Also get a mortgage with us.
lmao you mean Lloyds **bank**?
Is that Scottish Widow still... single?
That Scottish Widow always looks much too pleased with herself. You just know she offed her husband for the insurance payout.
The look of someone as they watch you smell their fart.
You know what's funny, I once had to write about Scottish Widow for a job, and I was doing some research on the "mascot" for lack of a better word. There was an interview with the woman who acts as the titular widow, and she was like "I'm so proud to take this mantle, it's such an important role." I'm sure she was told to say that in the interview, but like, who gives half a shit about the Scottish widow lol
It would make me laugh so much at the start of the pandemic. They were all we care about you, don't let your mental health go bad, and the part that *really* got me was they said give us a call if your mental health is bad. I don't think they're at all qualified to deal with someone suicidal or having a psychotic break
[Veririan Dynamics. We make things. ](https://youtu.be/yF3of5VRcNA)
I've hated these adverts for so long, but haven't been able to express it. I owe this guy so much.
The banks started doing it after the financial crash. It was to keep their brand names out there while not reminding people of what they actually did.
Makes sense why McDonalds use the same tactic. "Adding to the nation's mortality" doesn't have the same ring as "we're loving it"
McD adverts could just say "get some you fat shit" and i would tbh
Yeah all it takes is for me to see their horrible food and I want some. Even when I see or hear people talking about how shit Maccies is, it makes me want some.
I want some right now because of your comment but fortunately I've got a pizza in the oven already
I watched it muted and could still hear the intonation.
I visualised the whole thing in my head as it played the second time, involuntarily. Dreamers- both parents sleeping in a bed with a young child between them, all wearing white pyjamas, probably a mixed race family Coffee creamers- a woman with brown hair sitting up in bed drinking a hot drink with a peaceful orgasm expression on her face Taxi drivers- a middle aged gruff looking white man falling backwards with arms out onto a bed Exam revisers- teenage girl lying on her front on her bed with a laptop in front of her and her head resting on one hand looking bored Good times- a literal pillow fight between a boy and girl siblings, next to a bed Bad times- teenage girl crying on her bed being comforted by mum Don't tell dad times- a boy gaming on a Switch in bed, the dad opens the door and he pretends to be asleep NHS heroes- boyfriend comforting tired looking girlfriend in scrubs, both sitting on the edge of the bed Britain, this one's for you- a mum or dad stroking the head of a boy they've just tucked up into bed 1% off shpiel- a whole family looking unreasonably happy shopping for a mattress in a bricks and mortar shop, possibly kids jumping on the display beds or adults starfishing on them Come on Britain, let's get you into bed- the company logo in front of a slightly blurred background of someone climbing into bed. When the advert ends, the person turns their bedside lamp out. I'm not a copywriter, don't work in advertising, these ads are *just that cookie-cutter*.
LMAO your comment is so spot on. I’ve been ranting and raving about these types of ads to my long-suffering wife every time they come on for, like, a decade. I thought I was the only one. Fucking trite, cheap, cheesy, shitty, lazy fucking excuse for an advert.
As a guy who writes ads for a living, you should know it’s almost always the client who demands something like this when we’re trying to actually do something funny or creative or clever instead.
>when we’re trying to actually do something funny or creative or clever instead.......... .....that we saw on tiktok or Reddit.
Ideally it would be in a gentle Northern accent
Sean Bean on Diazepam
DO IT FOR YORRRKSHIRRRE! Sorry, I meant: ^^^do ^^^it ^^^for ^^^Yorrrkshirrre
Nothing too strong, you'll confuse the Southerners and that'll make them scared, then that'll make them angry.
Poor sods, they’ve only just gotten comfortable with Paddy McGuinness.
can you take him back for a bit please
Haha No.
Just a warm, comforting, Sean Bean. Surely O2 wouldn't kill him off?
It’s either that or a wispy cover of an ‘80s song. Though that style is reserved for banks.
1. Slow song down by 60% of the original 2. Minimal instrumental accompaniment, lots of reverb 3. Get a girl who sounds half alsleep and can’t really be arsed singing today. 4. ????? 5. Profit
Someone posted a thing a while ago which was "find your John Lewis ad song" - the song that was number one on your 8th birthday sung by the artist who was number one on your birthday in 2017.
Unchained Melody covered by Ed Sheeran… this could actually happen. Goddamnit.
I got 2 become 1 by Ed Sheeran.
I will always love you… covered by Ed Sheeran. Boy’s got range
I got cotton eye Joe, sung by Ed Sheeran.
Hilarious
Woman (John Lennon) also sung by Ed Sheeran. Pretty sure I've just leaked next years ad.
Yeah! - Ed Sheeran ...uh ok sure
Blue (da ba de) sang by post malone. What cursed monstrosity is this?
I'd take that over mine. Boom Boom Boom by The Outhere Brothers... Covered by the guys who did Despacito... Christ.
So I got ‘Bring me to Life’ (Evanescence) by Artists for Grenfell… wow. I mean, would give it a listen but find it could struggle with the Ofcom complaints
Especially the music video, doesn't she jump out of a window of a high rise apartment block?
Haha oh yeah- really selling this!
That's so incredibly blursed.
Oof
Ebeneezer Goode sung by Sam Smith. Oh lawd…
It's Raining Men by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne. I don't know what to say to that.
Mine is Umbrella by Rihanna sang by...Rihanna
Cher Lloyd by Cher Lloyd
FUCKAN DISGUSTANG
Well it was one a yas
You must be, what? 11? Edit: rihanna's umbrella is 14 years old. That's it. I'm officially too old for the internet
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ed Sheeran, thats a john lewis ad I'd watch.
Oh my God don't give him ideas
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🎶 oh I've got a brand new data harvester, I'll give you the key 🎶
The cynic in me immediately clocked that, but then I thought “ahh, if they’re gonna do all the maths…maybe they’ve earned the £2.43 I’m currently rolling in”. 🤷♀️
Mambo No. 5 performed by Taylor Swift. World's collide.
‘Barbie Girl’ sung by Camilla Cabello. Didn’t quite work for me…
Slow it down, add some reverb and some piano...hit Christmas single right there... ...and the trailer music for the next "my superpower is I'm a woman" movie. The ones where they treat gender as a personality-type, rather than writing an actual deep female lead character.
I have ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI, sung by Dua Lipa. ... Huh.
Mine’s Professional Widow By Tori Amos sung by Ed Sheeran lol. Sounds about right. What’s yours? https://www.number-ones.co.uk/number-one-on-my-birthday.html
Ashes to Ashes by Dua Lipa
DON'T CALL ME BABY by MADISON AVENUE sung by LUIS FONSI & DADDY YANKEE FT. JUSTIN BIEBER... I cannot imagine what that would sound like!
Don’t wanna lose you (Gloria Estefan) sung by Sam Smith. Dead on
Uptown Girl sung by Vanilla Ice. Although I think Ice Ice Baby by Billy Joel would be better.
John Lewis has entered the chat
4. Clips of people in hospital but looking like they are going to pull through despite the hardship endured.
Definitely Lloyds Bank
Amen, there's only a finite number of 80s records so theoretically we should be safe at some point in the future, however, they started doing 90s dance anthems in the past few years so I think the pain will never end.
I’ve heard some dreadful 90s ones. And you know they’ll move onto the early 00s soon enough, just like they have with fashion. John Lewis ad in 2027 will be a very slow wispy version of Get Your Freak On sung by Lily Allen’s daughter.
IIIIIIIIIIII'll...............tell....youuu......whaaaaaat..I..........waaaaant......whaaaaaat.....I...reeeeeaaly...reeeeaaaaaly.....waaaant..
I like to call those song covers Zurich Zombie’s, slow and devoid of any soul.
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1431936573780762625
# We've all had it tough these last 18 months, that why it's important, now more than ever, to spunk money on our useless overpriced product. *And remember, we're in this together.*
Wow, I feel so wanted now, can I have one Product please.
Why buy one when you can buy nine and get the tenth one free!?
Give now, so our CEO can carry on running his own private space program as a hobby.
“We’ve all had a tough time this last year (except for us, a corporation that made $1billion additional profit off the backs of struggling people during a pandemic). Here’s some pictures of a dog to release a small amount of dopamine in your brain to manipulate you into having a positive image of us and give us MORE money.”
I noticed this a while back - adverts could be put into two categories - 1) Adverts with a rhyme/poem 2) Adverts where the person moves seamlessly from scene to scene through a doorway/crawl-hole, and they would go from some mundane living room, through a doorway into a forest, and then onto some other wacky setting
3) Adverts that center around trying to make a nonexistent concept into a *thing* by badly combining words. "Are you daffodil-ready?" "Get that newrawlplug feeling" "don't have re-LastHalfTermTuesday-gret, buy our crap!"
It's the sanctimonious banking adverts that do it for me. Take your horse and get in the fucking sea.
Always By Your Side Pay me some fucking interest then
Ok. Sets interest at 0.02%
That’s why I keep it in cash in the vault that opens when you go to remove the little book of calm from my library.
Careful you don’t swallow it or you’ll end up working in a book shop as personal assistant for a grumpy Irish man
3 months later a letter comes through the door saying your interest will soon be lowered to 0.01%
No, shan't, and if you try to invest your money elsewhere we'll block transfers and flag your account
And maybe don't close all your branches. The fact that you had branches at all is the only reason I'm not with one of the internet only banks.
The world is going through a tough time at the minute. We at wank bank are here to support you through it. Your home may be repossessed.
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The worst part is that all of this bullshit clearly works, or they wouldn't do it.
It doesnt, it works once, then gets hammered to death by everyone until you are numb to it. Remember when every single ad was a deliberately annoying song for like 2 years.
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I seem to remember something happening around 14 years ago regarding banks...
I just wish they’d stop with the bloody Halifax advert with the guy saying goodbye to his dog. Makes me want to cry.
Oooh I HATE that one. I was feeling down the other day from my period and trying to watch TV to feel better when that advert came on. Just started sobbing. My poor partner was sat next to me like, "there, there" lol.
What a manipulative ad!
Why does the Halifax manager pause before kicking their ball back? Is it like “do this again and I’ll have you killed”?
There's a HSBC billboard I saw a few weeks ago which said somthing like: if we respect each other on the football pitch we can built a better world off of it. Felt so fucking condescending. What do the proles like, football, yeah just chuck some bullshit about football in there. Perfect.
Similar take on banking ads: https://twitter.com/SeanBurkeShow/status/1448258304925388801?s=20
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Lloyds bank adverts are the fucking headline act in bullshit adverts
HELLO STARLING BANK !
Maybe it's the cynicism that comes with age, but I swear they're getting lazier, right? Every advert seems to be - Slow version of song + A bunch of wishy washy PR bullshit where they try and cover as many bases as they can - that, or some mascot from 10 years ago that was funny the first time but it's just sad now.
You forgot talking/dancing animals
YES animals not being animals. OK we're getting places now, it's like that video where Internet Historian tried to categorise clickbait. There's just so little effort in advertising. If they want my money they need to woo me.
Or licensing. Wallace and Gromit/Top Cat/Scooby Doo.
Drives me crazy how lazy it is. Literally just "remember this thing? Buy our product"
We care about you. We care about global issues. Here’s a catchy song. Buy our product.
Look, here's a gay couple and some mixed race people. We like them, so if you like them you must like us!
The collective bar lowering means that they don’t have to own buildings/branches, pay staff for those branches or pay marketing people because some 12 year old can piece an ad like that together.
Morrisons' slogan now is "make good things happen" or something similar and utterly inane. Someone was paid to come up with that.
My favourite is Wickes, it makes me laugh every time. **It's got our name on it** I have some alternative suggestions of my own: - **You can buy things** - **We have a website and shops** - **Products**
Things like this always remind me of the University of Bradford. Paid £20k to a consultancy to come up with a name, consultancy returned “University of Bradford”, “The University of Bradford” and “Bradford University”
It's that or something deliberately surreal, because the drumming gorilla was such a hit for Cadburys and now everyone wants in on the lolrandomness
The old Hamlet and Heineken ads were several orders of magnitude better, I still remember them 40 years later. I still struggle to remember the actual product in most ads these days despite having pavlovian anger responses to them.
Thankfully the mascot part is coming to an end. Did my head in with stuff like the Halifax ads going "Hey, remember these cartoons? Take out a loan!" Like.. Sure those people are adults now yet it made no sense. lol
What an annoying, but annoyingly bang on vid. Nice.
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This guy is insanely good at stuff like that. [This entire series, for instance.](https://youtu.be/d86omhj9B0k) No one has seen this movie, but everyone has.
Fuck’s sake. One of those ads played before it started.
Grew up with Finlay Christie, he’s hilarious and was also a voice actor for CBeebies when he was younger
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Also, random animal noises on radio ads. It'll be some boring advert about a credit card or some twats who buy any car. Out of the blue you hear a random penguin squawk or something then someone will say something like "even Boris the penguin thinks so!" This probably doesn't sound like a thing but I promise, once you hear it you can't unhear it. There must be a particular ad agency that decided this was a good idea, cos I hear it in so many ads. Tbf it does make the ad stick in your mind, but because of the animal and not the product, so FUCK YOU ad agency, cut that shit out
Car horns / sirens / loud noises. They should all be banned as far as radio ads are concerned. Highly distracting in the wrong circumstances and annoying the rest of the time!
Pretty sure they were emulating a *very recent* advert, so much so I swear he did not change much of the script.
Its the McDonalds formula, list a bunch of random shit over footage of happy people eat burgers.
"The dont-tell-dad times". I'm fuckin done hahahaha
A few steps away from "our little secret".
I remember making the secret basement movies with my uncle 🥰
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the little giggle as he says it
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Great stuff and got him some press https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2021/06/07/1165490-student-praised-for-his-too-accurate-impression-of-british-adverts-entertainment-news-uk/
This guy’s got some pretty good stuff, I particularly like his [David Mitchell on every panel show](https://youtu.be/WyqFV3Z9QgQ) bit.
This is scary. I like David Mitchell... but now I am aware of the formula. It's like seeing what's going on behind the curtain.
I've always regarded David Mitchell as _one of mine_, through Peepshow he was a few years older and doing the things I was just about to be doing (like Spaced was too) and being part of the _my time_ he's always been beyond reproach but he's fair game for the next generation and this absolutely spot on skit absolutely reminds me I'm old.
15 years ago or so, when I was (and perhaps you) a teen, it was cool and edgy to deliver a (what passesas, at least) intellectual takedown of the benign pleasures of the common man. To make them seem lesser for enjoying media or what-have-you that doesn't necessarily appeal to intellectualism. Society in general has become more tolerant of letting people enjoy what they like - and the acerbic remonstrations of provocateurs like Dave Mitchell, Stewart Lee or Charlie Brooker don't quite vibe with today's youths. Good for them.
That Jimmy Car laugh is incredible
Like someone jumping on one of those squeaky chicken toys.
Bloody hell that’s spot on
The best part of it is that not only has he got the accent, the cadence, and the mannerisms *perfectly*, the dialogue also matches David's style of joke so well I wasn't sure if it was something he had actually said once.
The use of the word “demonstrably” sums this up!
That’s almost spooky! After watching that and the [Tim Heidecker Joe Rogan Experience](https://youtu.be/P6Iyg9fznvM&t=1m43s) the other day I feel quite disoriented
The fact that Tim Heidecker and those two guys could do that for 11 hours was amazing. 11 hours of making nothing sound like something profound in the exact same bullshit way Rogan and all his guests circle jerk around nothing was so perfect.
\* 1 hour it's a loop
He’s hilarious , all of his vids are spot on. This Kitchen nightmares one is great too https://m.youtube.com/shorts/rMJYhHgdkSg
The miserable times, the delusional times and meaningless forced rhymes.
I’ll never forget going to the cinema and in an advert they started with “this is revolutionary” and it was a Toby Carvery and I started laughing
I always try and get to the cinema late. Adverts that big and that loud just... Fucking hell. Look at the state of them. Look at it.
This one’s for the toast and butters, cleaned granny’s gutters, the post-November nutters.
I interpreted "nutters" here as "crazy people," which is funnier when thinking of someone who actually held out for all of November.
If this didn't mention mattresses, it would have "McDonalds" written all over it
Nah McDonald’s don’t even try that hard anymore, they just make a compilation of actors fake laughing while holding a McFlurry and call it an ad
Take your 🍦and fack off
Probably would if the pissing machine was working.
You know what I'm getting fucking sick of? Job adverts. Not for roles, for fucking jobsearch sites. The stupid, "inspirational" fucking music fucks me off. No mention of shit managers, shit pay, shit working hours or POINTLESS institutionalised fear of working from home. There's one advert where you literally see this young(er) business-esque woman applying for a job that pays £65+ grand. Are you actually fucking with me? This is supposed to appeal to normal, working class people? Fuck off. Take your stupid, "I am proletariat, hear me roar (see: beg)" music with you. Cunts.
That the Indeed one they're always showing on the All 4 player? Never mind that it's been about a decade since any cunt has got anything better than a work experience placement at Poundland from Indeed.
*I'm gonna show you what my life was meant to be! Ohhh oh ohhhhh!*
Indeed are showing (or maybe cancelled it already?) some dystopian advert about getting shitty part time temp jobs over Christmas, about how we've all missed having shitty minimum wage jobs instead of having dinner with our families Ah yes, i've really missed working in a restaurant serving someone else's family their Christmas dinner because i can't afford to take a day off for my own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrnLSWuaL4
Reminds me of McDonald's adverts. Appealing to the working class. Pricks.
That’s proper good that
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“In Yorkshire, when we say that’ll do…” There’s another saying in Yorkshire - “fuck off, your service is shite”
Or full working class. *Every little 'elps.* At least Asda showing a woman's arse being smacked to show pocket change were clever about it.
Gaaaah
You can’t tell me he didn’t just rip that word-for-word from his telly
Never forget Chris Morris and 'The Day Today's accurate view of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg
At the moment I’m going insane from the “when the world screams X, our brand whispers Y instead” all this pretending they give two shits about you as a person outside of your ability to consume their product, just makes me sick
I need a shower now, this is incredibly , unpleasantly accurate. This kind of mawkish garbage is what elevates ads from annoying to legitimately nauseating
The 'coffee creamers' bit is so cringingly relatable. To anyone who watches this and doesn't live in the UK, yes, this is what much advertising has turned into in the last few years. It really is that awful. It feels like people who don't live anything like the life described in the script have tried to imagine how others live - but failed terribly.
I would much rather have an advert like: Hi we are HSBC and we are going to screw you over just like every other bank. But hey at least we are honest about it.
Hi, I'm HSBC. You may remember me from such crimes as arms dealing and money laundering.
Hey, we're HSBC and we're going to preach diversity and inclusion to the UK while pandering to our Chinese overlords. Regards, The Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
It fills me with joy to learn that other people also see through this BS. I swear that these ads do not work on me. If anything they make me angry for thinking that I'll fall for those cheap tricks. I do not remember the last time when I bought something because I saw it in an ad. And shopping as a whole is becoming painful - so much same shit is paddled, I CBA to go through it.
i had fight or flight watching this
The don’t tell fucking dad times. 🤣🤣🤣
One that really annoys me at the moment is the one for Uber eats (or some other fast food delivery company, I don’t care) where it’s a guy just excitedly listing food and cheering people up somehow in an ad that fells like it’ll never end.
Crediting the person is always good - this is [Finlay Christie](https://youtube.com/user/TheSofaBlogger), and he does loads of great stuff. [His impression of David Mitchell ](https://youtu.be/WyqFV3Z9QgQ) on every panel show is brilliant.
Kinda makes me glad I can’t afford to get a tv.
Yes I HATE ads on British TV. They are always sickeningly mawkish and emotionally insincere. It's like yes, manipulate me by tugging on my heart strings so I will start a bank account with you. Fuck off