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    The worst advert of all time?

    • 17-09-2014 02:06PM
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      thelad95
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      I nearly got sick watching this.


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    • #2
      Rogaine2
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      Dunphy is hard on the drink, judging by his face.


    • #3
      FatherLen
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      the video is blocked by my work but I will hazard a guess and say you're talking about the Cadbury advert?


    • #4
      KungPao
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      You have to take each advert on its merits, Bill.

      It's like an Apres Match skit.


    • #5
      thelad95
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      FatherLen wrote: »
      the video is blocked by my work but I will hazard a guess and say you're talking about the Cadbury advert?

      Yes. Now get back to work :P


    • #6
      RoboRat
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      Genuine wtf moment.... but nothing compares to this

      http://www.holymoly.com/celebrity-news/which-old-man-has-been-tangoed46316


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    • #7
      Green Giant
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      :eek:

      And to think they're getting paid for it too


    • #8
      everlast75
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      thelad95 wrote: »


      I nearly got sick watching this.

      Agreed - although there are other worthy contenders...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki1TzeMkq10

      Elect a clown... Expect a circus



    • #9
      congress3
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      Thought it was hilarious!


    • #10
      SEPT 23 1989
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      Clit bang feat Barry Scott


    • #11
      The Backwards Man
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      I don't think some of you understand how advertising works. ;)


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    • #12
      the groutch
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      that condescending insurance ad with Katie Taylor in it.


    • #13
      thelad95
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      The Backwards Man wrote: »
      I don't think some of you understand how advertising works. ;)

      We do. The fact of the matter is it's raising publicity. Cadbury's advertising execs would be delighted to see this being discussed on social media.

      Doesn't stop it from being cringeworthy though.


    • #14
      Toots
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      Any of the Lynx ads. They're all just god-awful.


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      BorneTobyWilde
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      Mission accomplished I would say, here we are talking about the advert..........
      Well done Cadbury


    • #16
      bnt
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      "all time"? Really?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAB04wkCxqw


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnjjkgIO3Ck


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxcqseRTZjo

      You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

      ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



    • #17
      Toots
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      Cadbury have a track record of dreadful ads

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY


    • #18
      thelad95
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      Toots wrote: »
      Cadbury have a track record of dreadful ads

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY

      I thought that was a pretty cool ad. That was one of their first mad ad's that they seem to be producing in recent years. I think the gorilla playing the drums came along after that.


    • #19
      Toots
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      thelad95 wrote: »
      I thought that was a pretty cool ad. That was one of their first mad ad's that they seem to be producing in recent years. I think the gorilla playing the drums came along after that.

      If I had underworld connections, I'd have put a hit out on those kids.


    • #20
      Calhoun
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      Toots wrote: »
      If I had underworld connections, I'd have put a hit out on those kids.

      Forget the hitmen id call the priest from the exorcist, they are obviously possessed.


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      osarusan
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      the groutch wrote: »
      that condescending insurance ad with Katie Taylor in it.

      There was one with another Irish boxer who'd won a medal.

      If was for Centra or Spar or something. Just him standing there throwing punches and looking embarrassed. Each time he threw a punch, a special offer appeared on the screen.


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    • #22
      everlast75
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      osarusan wrote: »
      There was one with another Irish boxer who'd won a medal.

      If was for Centra or Spar or something. Just him standing there throwing punches and looking embarrassed. Each time he threw a punch, a special offer appeared on the screen.

      Kenny (aka Kenneth) Egan I believe...

      Elect a clown... Expect a circus



    • #23
      NukaCola
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      SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
      Clit bang feat Barry Scott

      Best typo ever


    • #24
      krudler
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      Nope, this is, and it's hilarious

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bnanI9jXps


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