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Originally posted by Squarewheelbike View PostJust seen an advert for pasta at Tesco with Sarah Millican pronouncing "tagliatelle" in the completely wrong way. How do things like that get through the various stages of production?
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JW it's for a product called Cologuard. You are invited to send a, er, sample, in a box, through UPS or FedEx or somebody to company premises where it will be tested or screened or whatever for signs of colon cancer. For a fee. Who needs doctors, eh?
Health care costs in America are an obscenity, true, but really...
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Ah, I see. How to make a fairly routine procedure as unwieldy and awkward as possible.
WOM: That's pretty much what I was angling at a couple of hours before (except that I spelt 'shtick' correctly - smiley thing) - however, I can tell you that nobody pronounces 'tagliatelle' like that o'er this side o' the pond.
Well, perhaps some do, but I'm afraid they need to have things explained to them very clearly in darkened parking lots.
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Sky Mobile are currently running an ad involving beach scenes of kids frolicking in the waves on a summery beach, extolling the virtues of their data plan.
The accompanying music?
"Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by The Beach Boys.
A song about how great it would be if a teenager could have a shag with his girlfriend and then not have to leave afterwards, like an actual adult.
Bit weird, that.
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Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View Post"Wouldn't It Be Nice?" by The Beach Boys.
A song about how great it would be if a teenager could have a shag with his girlfriend and then not have to leave afterwards, like an actual adult.
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Originally posted by Squarewheelbike View PostJust seen an advert for pasta at Tesco with Sarah Millican pronouncing "tagliatelle" in the completely wrong way. How do things like that get through the various stages of production?
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Originally posted by Simon G View PostHow dare they take Bohemian Rhapsody and destroy it like they have.
Nobody in ad-land has the imagination or creative scope to dig any deeper, obviously.
Edit: Any commercial that nods to The Inbetweeners, in either content or casting, can f*** right off, as well.Last edited by Jah Womble; 08-09-2018, 08:46.
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In my old job, I once persuaded my nominal superior to use The Fall's "Hot Aftershave Bop" as the background music to some video they'd knocked together to promote the Mini Cooper S.
When they showed it to the client, the BMW marketing bloke (who, despite being younger than me, had the BMW Marketing Aura that always made their staff seem 20 years older than they were) said, "That's by that group who made "Shiny Happy People", isn't it? What are they called now? It's on the tip of my tongue. Come on, come on, com ... MIDNIGHT OIL!"
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- Mar 2008
- 9819
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
So they’re extending their ‘Xmas ad’ marketing strategy across the year? To be honest I was intrigued by it in the cinema yesterday, made a change from SUV ads. And that song takes the piss out of itself so I see no sacred untouchable status.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostNope, it's not untouchable. Just done to f***ing death.
I mean, if we get this in exchange for them producing yet another self-important Christmas ad with some breathy, drippy desecration of a classic song leaking all over it, then I could happily accept it. But they'll guaranteed inflict one of those on us as well before you can turn around. Bleh.
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