h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Love:

Hula hoops (the ring of fire - sorry, the scatological schoolboy hijacked my sense of humour there). The Renault Megane scenic where the cool black dude is doing the air guitar to 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'.

Hate:

The 'talking baby' ones for the pension company.

These are just the current ones. I'll have a think about my all-time list.

My favorate and least favourate are the same:
The Coke and the Pepsy adverts: cause it shows how stupid these guys are that they spend so much on advertising to achieve absolutly nothing; stop both sets of adverts today, and nnothing would change.

Speaking of the big multinationals, McDonalds.

I like the current one '..for Ladies What Lunch'

I also loved the one for the Tandoori, where they spoofed the cinema 'just five minutes from this theatre' genre of Indian restaurant ads.

The British Telecom adverts i hate because, what are they trying to seell: i see an BT advert "its good to talk" and i immediatly think "hell, thats exactly what i want" and pick up the phone and begin dialing random numbers to talk to people.
I know its an opened up market now, but i don't think they need to remind us that there is a company called BT, bit like the Gas, electricity adverts, or, even worse, adverts for water, anglia water ETC, oh, just what i need a supply of water,

I really dislike the Halifax advert when they get actual members of staff to sing Vida Loca to us with different words - especially the little blonde woman who tries to shimmy.
Love the Lilt ladies adverts - especially when they are messing around on the golf course.

My favourite advert of the moment is AOL. Having spent a lot of money trying to convince us that we can have
99 free hours to try out their isp, it has just occured to them that 99 is only used to pretend something is CHEAPER or LESS than it really is..For example £2.99 instead of £3.00 or a p.c. for £999 instead of the much more expense p.c. at £1000! So now they realise that giving away FREE hours it should seem that we are getting MORE than we are and they have just increased it to 100 free hours! (`cause its so much more!!) This error creases me up! One in the eye for the ad men.

Don't get to see many ads because No2 son uses them to channel surf!

But when I catch a glimpse of the Bacardi on with the dancing cat, I make him stop!

But he can skip over all the financial ads.

Hands down...the NACAR commercials.

As a gear head those things bust me up.

Like the one where the guy and his son are in the car,(a station wagon no less) and he's driving while his son sits in the middle and tapes where his dad is driving on a little hand held 8mm camera. Then they go home, sit down, and watch the tape. Only they watch it in fast forward, while the sound of NASCAR engines is heard in the background....lol

Or the one where the guy and his wife are sleeping, and she keeps tossing and turning, and finally goes,"hooonnneeeeyyyy" like only a wife can. BECAUSE, across the street there is a guy in the garage working on his car and he's reving the engine. So the guy gets out of bed and OPENS the window and his wife is like, "that's better thnx". Holy crap where was that girl when I was looking.

Or (last one) where his daughter is swinging on a tire swing, and suddenly he get's a wierd look on his face, looks down at his watch, starts the timer, and the her RUNS OVER TO THE GIRL, JERKS HER OFF THE TIRE SWING, UNTIES THE SWING, RUNS INTO THE GARAGE, GETS A NEW TIRE, PUTS THE GIRL ON IT, AND THEN LOOKS AT THE TIME.


The last one is the one where it says "are you thick headed?" and the guy is looking at his bills and he says," five hundred dollars for a massage? I don't remember a massage." He's looking at his shirt and he says, "this doesn't look like your shade of lipstick honey."

crack me up, I don't even know what that last one is advertising.

Love:
Mom, Dad, Dance, Photography, Books, Yael.

Hate:
Teletabbies

Ooops, I think I missed the point, I didn't bother to read and just wrote what I love and hate

some more,

Dancer

I hate the ads in the UK for a certain compensation claim company. They b*lls*it that they are about getting compensation for people who have been injured due to someone elses negligence and this injury has ruined their livelyhood. In actuality, many people use services such as this to get £5000 of taxpayers money for tripping up in the street. These people are greedheads and when they phone the company up they should be berated by an angry person. So there!

I also loathe those chewing-gum adverts that rip-off Takeover TV, they look so lame. And don't those "unsuspecting" people look genuinely shaken? LOOK, PROFESSOR, A FLYING PIG!

I also couldn't stand that razor advert (Mach 3 or something) where the WASP type dreams of a plane flying towards him and then the nazi-esque pilot (it may even be the WASP guy in the bed) flying towards him before waking up and stroking his chin. Seriously, end this advert with that dude pulling on combats, rushing out the door and the words "Defend the Eastern Frontier from the Bolshevik Threat" and you got yourself a classy piece of nazi-propoganda. or something

And what about the Heath Board one in Scotland with the dude who suggests a "brisk walk"? Seriously, something about that guys eyes. Like HEBS force the poor man to walk 10 miles every day.

The Halifax have now ruined another song - Sex Bomb - with a member of their staff changing the words and looking stupid.
Another awful one is for Lynx when the man shoves his foot with the horrible horn toes into the face of the girl who licks them - yuck !!

I love those bacradi ads.

"you, yer given' me roadrage"

"ooh naw tawtal greedlock!"

"If we took life this seriously we would never have invented Malibu. - seriously easy goin'"



Don't like drinking the stuff though - but the advert is good.

Clive

Another one was an advert I saw once at the cinema - I think it was for a popular brand of whiskey.

It had the american comedian Rich Hall (he sometimes appears on the comedy shows on BBC 2) striding across a bleak Scottish moore wearing a bright read fur hat on his head, up he comes across the hill and straight past the camera. A few seconds pass before he leans back into frame and says:

"When I told my friends I was to Ed-in-burr-owe, they said 'wear the fox hat!' "

Aw, come on. The axe commercials are good.

I personally hate watching ads that have been synchronised from German.

Another pension company one I hate is the Zurich insurance Peter O'Toole 'Can you feel my breath on the back of your neck, boy?'

Well, not so much hate as can't really see the point. Yes, I know they're the sponsors of the Rugby Union league (pardon?), but surely someone should have pulled the plug on it at the first meeting. It's tosh.

There was one I remember from years ago about cassette tapes, where someone was holding up boards with the 'words' to the Israelites by Desmond Dekker ('Me ears are alight'). Good one.

I love the new ad for freeserve. I hate too many to list.

The AA insurance ads are rather irritating, though given how much money they must be spending on adverts, it does explain why I've always been able to get a *way* cheaper quote than the AA give simply by trying a couple of other companies who advertise rather less, if at all.

Yeah, that seems to be counter-productive - 'Use the AA insurance quote system and break up your marriage'.

Along the same lines is that Caffrey's ale one - Everyone's having a marvellous time, then someone drinks a Caffrey's and the atmosphere gets all depressed and maudlin.

I like the new Wranglers advert with Follow the Yellow Brick Road tune. I know it doesn't make much sense but who cares.