I’ll come back to Little Britain and this horrible character whoring out at a later date but for now I just wanted to point out that what their characters are doing is fraud, and the customer assistant is helping them out with their deception.
Archive for September, 2010
Nationwide – Little Britain
Posted in Awful Awful Awful, Celebrity Endorsement, tagged banking, david walliams, little britain, matt lucas, nationwide on September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Activia – Snackpot
Posted in Bullshit, Celebrity Endorsement, Wishful Thinking, tagged activia, danone, false hopes, glamour, martine mccutcheon, optimism, yogurt on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What I like about this advert is the unbridled optimism of it; if Martine McCutcheon was so damned busy, popular and glamorous that she had an army of stylists and lackeys behind her she wouldn’t need to do adverts for yogurt, would she?
Heineken – Walk in Fridge
Posted in Ill-Conceived, Technically Accurate, Wishful Thinking, tagged beer, Heineken, men, walk in fridge on September 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes it’s not the fault of advertisers that their commercials suck; sometimes it’s the fault of the product. Take, for example, this Heineken ad. It’s a pretty good idea and the execution perfectly fine, but unfortunately the inherent lameness of Heineken lets the whole side down. Put it this way; filling a fridge that beautiful [...]
Lancome – Genifique
Posted in Bullshit, nonsense, Technically Accurate, tagged anti-ageing, genifique, lancome, skin cream on September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
These kind of anti-aging cream “inspired by the science of genes” adverts are so chockofull of bullshit it’s almost too easy to pick them apart, after all – does anyone really believe the crap they peddle anymore? There was one small element of this that I wanted to write briefly about, though – and that’s [...]
