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    Default Stupidest television advertisement

    I have just finished watching a movie which, as usual with Channel 9, was ruined by bloody incessant and repeated commercials.

    ONe of them wins my award as the stupidest ad I think I have ever seen. It's a McCain's ad, where a young married couple cook up a bowl of peas and the wife talks to them like its a baby, and the husband then cuddles a bag of frozen vegetables and blows a raspberry into it, just like you do with babies.

    I know these people get paid for doing these ads, and I reckon this one will come back to haunt them sometime during their careers, but for crying out loud - this ad defies description, it is so stupid. Obviously ads vary from state to state, but does anybody have a pet hate ad that really annoys them (or amuses them pehaps)?

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    the wipe off 5 ad.
    if the girl opened her eyes b4 crossing the road she would have seen the car coming and all would be fine and dandy
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    lol, this just proves that it was an extremely effective ad. now what's the first brand that comes to your head when you think about frozen vegetables?

    the marketers job is to get you to remember the brand, not necessarily to make an ad you enjoy

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    YouTube - Great ASCA child abuse commercial

    I know this ad is completly wrong, and the matter is not a laughing a situation, BUT this ad does crack me up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TrEnNaVY View Post
    the wipe off 5 ad.
    if the girl opened her eyes b4 crossing the road she would have seen the car coming and all would be fine and dandy
    +1 for the most stupid ad she doesnt even look when she steps out onto the road. Even children are tought to look before crossing the road she deserved to get hit.

    Also why doesnt the dumbass ford driver swerve to avoid her instead of ploughing right into her how about he need to do a defensive driving coarse and learn how to act correctly in those situations.
    I'd know i'd rather crash a car then hit a pedestrian

    EDIT also the motorbike ad is stupid if anyones seen it you'll notice the motorbike rider isnt there in the first shot when he looks no wonder why he cleened him up how you supposed to avoid something that isnt even there???
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    finnaly some1 who agrees, another thing is maybe if he was going 10k's quickier the bitch would still be on the footpath when he went past hahaha
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    Quote Originally Posted by TrEnNaVY View Post
    finnaly some1 who agrees, another thing is maybe if he was going 10k's quickier the bitch would still be on the footpath when he went past hahaha
    haha i've seen that and agree! I just hate that new cgi add where the old lady is dancing around her shop rapping so wrong

    and that also shits me how in those speeding adds...NO one seems to swerve!! there was one with a car going down a strip and a truck goes past infornt...one part the car is going 5k's slower just stops before hitting the ass end (mind you truck also seems to stop in the middle of the road????why i have no idea??)
    next scene is the car going 5k's faster...doesn't even bother swerving for the monsterous truck right in fornt of his eyes and slams into the side of the truck at the ass end...

    other than that i try to avoid the telly like the plague, only really watch it on footy night :P
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    Those rivers commercials.

    They have the most irritating voice overs. They talk bad about their own product that theyre trying to selll.. theres nothing visually appealing about the ads. They just suck in every single possible way

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    we just got the baby peas add here in NZ stupid ad
    I tune the oldschool way fear on the passengers face and knuckle colour cant go wrong
    tabbacco is still my favorite vegetable

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikesCalais View Post
    Those rivers commercials.

    They have the most irritating voice overs. They talk bad about their own product that theyre trying to selll.. theres nothing visually appealing about the ads. They just suck in every single possible way
    Totally agree!

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    the lady with the dancing eyes for meadownick
    there was a facebook group for hating it, and her son showed up in it and was all "be nice, she's my mum"

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    Quote Originally Posted by pow3rslave View Post
    there was a facebook group for hating it, and her son showed up in it and was all "be nice, she's my mum"
    lmao hahaha that is gold! poor bugger
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikesCalais View Post
    Those rivers commercials.

    They have the most irritating voice overs. They talk bad about their own product that theyre trying to selll.. theres nothing visually appealing about the ads. They just suck in every single possible way
    Your kidding right? I took notice of this ad the other day and thought 'this ad really isn't annoying like all the other commercials'.

    If a company makes a shit/annoying ad, i refuse to buy anything from them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by levymetal View Post
    lol, this just proves that it was an extremely effective ad. now what's the first brand that comes to your head when you think about frozen vegetables?

    the marketers job is to get you to remember the brand, not necessarily to make an ad you enjoy
    But would I buy the product? No way! FAIL

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikesCalais View Post
    Those rivers commercials.

    They have the most irritating voice overs. They talk bad about their own product that theyre trying to selll.. theres nothing visually appealing about the ads. They just suck in every single possible way
    +1

    Yeh, their products are actually really quite shit aswell, people that buy from that place should be slapped.. looks like shit and the quality is shit lol..

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    that stupid ami add where those 2 guys pull their pants down and start playing the piano

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    lol i dont any i have austar on most of the time, bar the news.
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    the ad that really shits me is the BAM ad, the cleaning product. the result after the dirty area has been wiped cant possibly end up THAT white and sparkly (which looks fake anyway), with just one rub. its so obviously fake its funny, but it annoys me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evolution_Ends_Here View Post
    nothing can top the new afl add, worst add ever
    I like that ad

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikesCalais View Post
    I like that ad
    its Unrealistic, as if them afl players could do that in real life, i don't think so

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