I've just seen a traumatic advert

[Kevin S]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

More from the world of callous idiocy.

[Kevin S]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Extract from Pepsico's Values and Philosophy:

Win with diversity and inclusion.
We embrace people with diverse backgrounds, traits and ways of thinking. Our diversity brings new perspectives into the workplace and encourages innovation, as well as the ability to identify new market opportunities

And from the article,

The online ad shows a battered white woman on crutches being asked to identify a suspect out of a police line-up of black men and a goat.

One blogger described the 60-second video as "arguably the most racist commercial in history".

[Cal Alamein]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Not about to roll thru 35 pages of posts, so if this one's been mentioned my bad.

Watching a stream of the Swindon/Brentford match and saw/listened to this Ford minivan ad featuring music from Hawkwind (Master of the Universe).

Hope Dave Brock and Nik Turner got some financial compensation for their tune.

[WOM]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

More car ads being pulled. This one has been on huge rotation here, and I can honestly say that I never 'heard' the offending passage from the song.

This one seems to be a bit of an over-reaction. A bit of tweaking with the music could have sorted it out.

[WOM]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Light. Fun. Just sort of ambles along and does its thing beautifully.

[ian.64]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The new Virgin Holidays ad with the smug-chops family going through what looks like a weird, kaleidoscopic family outing, made even weirder by their grinning happily at another family wearing large sad plastic heads as they leave. I didn't know drugs were included in the package.

[Slightly Brown]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Pity poor Kevin Bacon. I knew he took a Bernie Madoff-drawn bath during the financial crisis, and that the EE "eight-degrees-of-Bacon" TV ads were a pure cash-hunting exercise, but the cinema version of those…oh, heavens to Betsy…the horror.

For those of you who haven’t been to the flicks recently, Kevin Bacon plays five of his most “beloved” movie characters, from films such as Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Footloose, etc. They all share what appears to be a suburban two-up, two-down in Shropshire. Their daily interactions – as far as I can tell - involve arguing about what film to go and see. Trouble starts when you realise Bacon now has the facial features of a pickled walnut. Worse, it looks like they’ve shaved him bald, making him wear loose acrylic wigs of random shapes and sizes.

And then the banter starts…It might - might - work if Mr Bacon could even remember what the characters were like. But he can't. As such, it’s just a procession of weird voices and where-did-that-come-from? visual ticks. It goes on and on and on and on and on until, in what I assume to be the punch-line, astronaut Bacon sits on invisible Bacon. Not only did no-one in the near-full cinema laugh, but sound was actually sucked from the room. All that was left was a mass burning shame and the gentle hum of the air-con.

[WOM]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

We just finished watching The Following, starring Mr Bacon. Well, Mrs watched it. I stared at it, anticipating the predictable close-shave escape at the end of each episode. Agony, from start to finish.

And throughout the actual episodes, they ran promos (for the show we're watching RIGHT NOW) featuring the actors talking about how great the script is, and they got involved because they'd never seen anything like it before.

They created just enough doubt for me to think "Wait, maybe this isn't completely shit. Maybe it's actually really good. No...wait...no, no it's completely shit."

[Southport Zeb]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Watching TV tonight I've realised that Compare the Market's adverts give the impression that they have serious data protection issues, as Compare the Meerkat seem to be able to get all Compare the Market's customer details in order to send them meerkats.

[Crusoe]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

New British Gas advert: "every six months we send our customers a personalised tariff checkup!". Apparently they compare your actual usage against predicted usage and send this to you.

You mean a bill. It's a bloody bill. I get a "personalised tariff checkup" and demand for money every three months from whoever it is.

[Southport Zeb]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Admiral are a company whose adverts have invariably involved somebody dressed as a Nelson-era admiral (which is slightly odd for a car insurance company considering that 19th century naval figures didn't use cars much, if at all, given that they spent most of their time at sea several decades before the invention of the internal combustion engine). In the last year or so they've been using Russian dolls in their adverts, so obviously the next logical step was to get them singing a song about the Puerto Rican immigrant experience in the USA.

[Slightly Brown]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

There’s a new advert on television that takes your usual Diet-Coke hunk-with-his- top-off cliché and ratchets up into the realms of specialist, hard-to-source pornography. The product in question is some sort of low-fat chocolate mousse. Cut to stereotypical gurning, spoon-licking woman and her illicit pot of choco-heaven. The advert then asks - what could possible make this better? [for you, you poor sad cows out there, dressed in your biscuit-crumb covered nighties, as it may as well be saying] The answer is quick to arrive, as our female protagonist is magically pinged in a bubble-bath, pudding still in hand.

But they don’t stop there, and in a mould-breaking finger-on-the-pulse-of-modern-women development, they introduce a fireman, all muscle-bound and sweating. Now, there she is, in the bath, slurping away at her 99-calorie delight and making goo-goo eyes at the man with the big hose. He then proceeds to turn his jet on, spraying her with frothing water and masculine vibes. At this point she appears to subtly raise her legs over the side of the bath - doctor’s stirrups-style – while he increasingly focuses his mighty gush south-of-the-border. Both characters seem to be enjoying themselves and the advert beats a retreat, leaving the two to it.

Maybe I missed the playful vibes (I did only see it once), but the whole thing was horribly tacky and patronising. You can tell it was probably filmed on some drafty stage in Wolverhampton on a Tuesday morning, too.

[Slightly Brown]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Actually, I’ve changed my mind: that sounds as good a way as any to pass a morning in Wolverhampton.

[Southport Zeb]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

******** Champions League Final Special ********

For the last few weeks but especially tonight Heineken have been putting out adverts showing a man travelling from South America to Wembley in order to watch the Champions League final. On arrival in his seat the women sitting next to him hands him a bottle of Heineken. Sadly the advert ends at this point. Presumably the subsequent scene in which he is chucked out of the ground by stewards for possession of alcohol within sight of the pitch has been cut.

[Sam]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Ah, interesting that he's travelling from South America in your ads as well. I assumed they'd done a version for each continent. Clearly, it's Heineken's subtle parody of the real-life football transfer route...

[Patrick Thistle]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The Go Compare ads have crossed a new line of post-modern ironicity. Now we have the annoying bloke turning up at a marketing meeting with a piano playing dog that hasn't, er, been taught to play the piano yet.

They seem to want to continue this meme at all costs. At no point does it tell you what Go Compare actually do.

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The 'Maltesers' advert, set in the airport where the staff are all 'Double Dutching'. Jeeves, the barf-bag, please.

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The advert for godaddy.com

It sells website domain names. All the actors are American.

With a London contact number.

Oafs.

[ian.64]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

I've chewed on this bone, but I'll do it again.

Fragrance ad.

Filmed in black and white.

Good looking models.

Filmed in slow motion.

Advertising minion gets large cheque.

Can I do your job, please?

[Slightly Brown]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The product’s name has to a) have little or nothing to do with what you’re seeing; and b) make little of no sense.

Devolution – by Calvin Klein.
Hugo Boss's – Manatee, for men.
Etc.

[Patrick Thistle]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

That's not real, is it? Manatee for men?

Manatee for lonely sailors hallucinating about women...

[ian.64]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The product’s name has to a) have little or nothing to do with what you’re seeing; and b) make little of no sense.

Indeed. Also forgot - husky voice at the end intoning the product name. Cash in the bank.

[tracteurgarcon]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

A fairly amusing analysis of that bloody awful Bruce Willis broadband ad

[ian.64]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Very good.

[Kettle]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Good takedown. One small point (and yes, I am being picky):

Bruce Willis (here playing Bruce Willis) appears to have walked into this office wearing pyjamas and a dressing gown. It’s not the sort of thing you’d expect Bruce Willis to be wearing in public. Why is Bruce Willis in his pyjamas?

Willis ain't your average sartorial thinker. Vest and trousers in public. And an entire film in a pink bunny outfit.