Weirdest add on tv at the moment.

DublinWriter · 01-10-2005 04:43PM

TCamen wrote:

A weird ad that I *HATE* is the stupid Finches orange one that's on in cinemas at the moment "Pour l'amour de l'orange" or whatever.

It's the black+white one with the French girl talking about how things would never work because she's a woman and the person in the chair she's talking to keeps changing, from men to a dog and then a bottle of Finches orange (in colour)

And she rolls around the place laughing, with a subtitle for "ha ha ha ha" and drinks the bottle. It's very irritating and just weird in a stupid way.

It's a pastiche of all those arty Francis Trouffant French films of the early-60's.

It funny as a pastiche-piece, but a failure as an ad as the joke is lost on most of the lumpen proles there to munch popcorn and see whatever formulatic peice of bacteria that Hollywood has spewn out this time around.

Tiriel · 01-10-2005 04:47PM

love the cherry one.. just brilliant!! the music ball thingie just looks wierrrrd.. it kind of freaks me out!! :eek:

BrokenArrows · 01-10-2005 05:07PM

ya i like the cherry one too. the song goes very well with the ad.

Pigman II · 01-10-2005 05:23PM

DublinWriter wrote:

It's a pastiche of all those arty Francis Trouffant French films of the early-60's.

It funny as a pastiche-piece, but a failure as an ad as the joke is lost on most of the lumpen proles there to munch popcorn and see whatever formulatic peice of bacteria that Hollywood has spewn out this time around.

This coming from a guy who can't spell "François Truffaut"?

DublinWriter · 01-10-2005 05:29PM

Pigman II wrote:

This coming from a guy who can't spell "François Truffaut"?

Quick, call the spelling-police!

You knew WTF I was talking about. I'm glad to see thatyou're so on the ball - good work officer! A promotion from the spelling section to the traffic section is in order I believe.

Pigman II · 01-10-2005 05:38PM

DublinWriter wrote:

Quick, call the spelling-police!

You knew WTF I was talking about. I'm glad to see thatyou're so on the ball - good work officer! A promotion from the spelling section to the traffic section is in order I believe.

Lest we forget, you started the whole "more literate than thou" arc with your pompous crap about "lumpen proles" who 'don't get it'. I don't mind a typo or a misspelling in the slightest but the point was the way you spelt it wasn't even phonetically correct which only just went to show you didn't even know who you were talking about! Learn the verses before you start preaching.

luckat · 01-10-2005 05:39PM

Spelling police here: you're under arrest, young man. Consider your debt to society and don't do it again.

The ads I hate with a passion are the sadistic ones about what horrible things happen to you if you drink before driving, don't put on your seatbelt or step out on the road when texting.

They're pointless, since they don't approach the behaviour *at the time of its occurence* - the only thing they teach you is to do a flying tackle across the room for the remote to change the channel on the first bar of the music for each one. (Spoiled some nice songs, too.)

And they're so ugly - they show such an ugly side of the Irish character, the gloating detail in which the young people are punished for not obeying the rules.

BuffyBot · 01-10-2005 05:39PM

I think the 3 ads are great - really weird, stick in your head pieces of work. They're doing exactly what 3 want them to do - stick in peoples heads and build the 3 brand as being "different" from your other mobile networks. Hutchinson have a lot of experience in doing this - they previously owned Orange, which is now huge brand (so big, the current owners, France Telecom are thinking of merging some of their other brands under the Orange name).

If you look closely at the Orange TV ads since it's launch way way back I don't think they've ever featured an actual mobile in them, something which 3 seem to be copying.

Femelade · 01-10-2005 06:15PM

Sparky_S wrote:

is that similar to the man in the french cafe with a bottle of finches and says something and the rest of the people shout back at him.

yeah,, i actually like that one cos she calls in a "spanner"
(but in french of course)

johnny_ultimate · 01-10-2005 06:38PM

Those three ads scare the holy frickin bejesus out of me.
Worse than those though : The Kinder Hippo ads. They are pure and utter evil. A huge blue hippo - poorly realised dubbing - a bar which looks supremely dodgy - all these things make my cry with fear everytime the ad comes on. What are they showing the kids these days????

robinph · 01-10-2005 06:49PM

I'm liking the one where a couple are riding a bike along some country lane, the bloke reaches for something in the front basket (I think its a twix) and the bird on the back of the bike gets a smack in the head from a tree and lands on the road.

Sparky · 01-10-2005 07:12PM

robinph wrote:

I'm liking the one where a couple are riding a bike along some country lane, the bloke reaches for something in the front basket (I think its a twix) and the bird on the back of the bike gets a smack in the head from a tree and lands on the road.

oh yes thats a good one.

oh a note as well that sure ad for men is wierd, with the "over the top protection" LOL @ the biker smashing into the shop with a package only to find the reception man point out the no helmets sign

DublinWriter · 01-10-2005 07:46PM

Pigman II wrote:

Learn the verses before you start preaching.

*OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH*....

DublinWriter · 01-10-2005 07:51PM

johnny_ultimate wrote:

A huge blue hippo - poorly realised dubbing - a bar which looks supremely dodgy

...and the perfect Arian (ooohhh did I spell that right Pigman II?) family who are obviously on PCP as they don't seem to think it's odd that a big blue cartoon hippo suddenly appears out of nowhere.

The Kinder ads are historically freaky. Remember the ones for Kinder surprise? "Mummy Mummy I want chocolate and a surprise!". The mother should have just dipped her foot in chocolate and kicked him up the arse.

Sparky · 01-10-2005 07:56PM

DublinWriter wrote:

The mother should have just dipped her foot in chocolate and kicked him up the arse.

Ha ha,

Pigman II · 02-10-2005 11:13AM

DublinWriter wrote:

*OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH*....

Did the lumpen prole say that to you after you gave him an earbashing for not knowing who 'Francis Trouffant' was? :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight · 02-10-2005 12:44PM

aidan_walsh wrote:

It got you talking about it, and you remember what service its for. Job done.

Then again there are those generic ads.

Like that one for an american company and their plans to revamp the premiership
extra time multiball and moving arsenal to the lake district
or the one where yer man is waiting in the cinema and the options that show up for the rest of the evening

The ads that show you a nice lifestyle and hope you associate it with the product. The best way it to treat them as a small film supervised by the ad agency and sold to the highest bidder.

gandalf · 02-10-2005 01:12PM

The latest Carling ad with Voodoo is brilliant!

Nimrod's Son · 02-10-2005 02:34PM

Those Three ads are freakish alright. My housemate says out of the blue one of the days when the ad is on: "I would so make love to that pink thing". He's a sick bastid!

Weirdest add on tv at the moment.

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