Spot the Deliberate Mistake
Posted: July 18, 2011 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, poster, posterscope 1 Comment »
The Three Bears
Posted: March 9, 2011 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, bear, birds eye, commercial, fox's biscuits, teddy, travellodge, TV Leave a comment »For some reason, the advertising people have decided that the best way to sell us stuff is by featuring cute looking bears who sound gruff and threatening.
Coincidence, plagiarism or one advertising company palming off the same idea to three different clients?
iPad
Posted: January 18, 2011 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, apple, boring, commercial, dull, friends, ipad, social networking, update 1 Comment »Here’s an advert for the new iPad.
“Buy our shiny new gadget,” it says “and you can keep up to date with all your friends on social networks.”
Except if your friends are this dull, you might want to spend the money on some paint instead, so you can watch it dry.
Rudeness!
Posted: November 29, 2010 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, disaronno, impolite, manners, please, rude, rudeness Leave a comment »Ahem. Disaronno, please.
Attention All Advertising Peeps
Posted: November 16, 2010 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, ellie goulding, happy birthday, john lewis, music, nissan, pampers, TV, twinkle, unicef, your song 1 Comment »I know you really, really like your Eva Cassidy cds, but can you please stop soundtracking every other TV advert with a cutesy-pie folky cover of a classic song, sung by a tremulous-voiced female singer who takes liberties with the melody.
Free Hair Cut
Posted: October 11, 2010 Filed under: Adverts | Tags: ad, advert, free, hair cut Leave a comment »
You’ve been overcharged.
Eagle-Eyed Spot
Posted: April 19, 2010 Filed under: Adverts Leave a comment »Who knows why I was paying such close attention to an advert for Toolstation, but I spotted Tommy Franzen, runner up of So You Think You Can Dance (last 10 seconds, back row, far left). Showing absolutely none of the terpsichorean talent and flair that he displayed in the competition, but we all have to pay the bills.
That’s not how you eat a pizza…
Posted: March 31, 2010 Filed under: Adverts Leave a comment »Who eats a pizza like this? That’s the kind of slice you’d cut for someone who is allergic to pizza!
Catfood Pedant
Posted: March 29, 2010 Filed under: Adverts Leave a comment »There’s an advert for whiskers on TV at the moment (click replay if it doesn’t start automatically). Starring Lucy (silver tabby) and Alfie (tortie and white). Except torties are (almost) always female. I was prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume Alfie was short for Alfreda, but “he’ll be back again tomorrow”…hmmm….you would have thought Whiskers knew more about cats than that. I realise that this is slightly tragic that I know this. Also, how boring is the woman’s dinner? The catfood looks appetising by comparison.
The other advert that makes me laugh is this one - ”feeling yourself again”. Snigger.
I seriously need to reconsider my viewing habits if I’m the target audience for catfood and thrush treatment.
