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Welcome to this week’s blog hop. Today the topic is:
What commercial do you hate? What commercial is your favorite? (YouTube link us if possible) Have you ever got an idea for a story from a commercial?
I rarely look at adverts, and usually watch TV programmes that I have previously recorded, especially so that I can fast forward through the adverts. However, when I’ve had to look at adverts I can say without a shadow of a doubt that any ‘Go Compare’ advert featuring the man with the stupid moustache gets my thumbs down every time. Here’s an example of this awful man singing that was voted the most annoying advert in 2009. Over 10 years later and he’s still at it…
Another hated one is any advert featuring those bloody talking meerkats…
I can’t think of any advert I like because as I previously stated I rarely watch them. I do remember the one below from the 1970s though and can still recite it word perfect. There was also an alternative version that was really funny, but I can’t remember all the words. I can only remember ‘gut rottin’, soul destroyin’….’ If anyone can find the words on the Internet I’d love to learn them all over again. I even had a tee shirt with the alternative words on, which featured a Pepsi-shaped bottle but with the brand name blanked out!
There’s another one I like from the past that I’ve just remembered. It’s the drumming gorilla on the Cadbury’s Dairy Milk advert:
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Stevie Turner 
I am in love with the gorilla. What is it about insurance that makes commercials painful?
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They’re all painful as far as I’m concerned.
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I can; say much because I’ve been responsible for some “right shite” and some real ter jerkers. But my favorite I had nothing to do with was the farmer who has a crappy cell phone connection when he orders up a 200 oxen and gets
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That’s hilarious! I sometimes have similar issues at work when the dictation coming through my headphones is a little ropey.
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Thanks for the link, Lela.
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That 2 for the gorilla! (That I’ve never seen before today)
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Must have been on UK TV only. It’s a favourite one over here.
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I hate any of those ‘Over 50s Life Insurance’ ones, and the ‘Over 50s dating ones too. All so ‘twee’.
I only like very old commercials, and this was one of my favourites.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes I remember those. What happened to ‘Smash’? Is it still for sale? I used to buy it when I lived in my first flat, but haven’t seen it for years.
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My mum loved it! It is still sold everywhere, but I haven’t had any since I left home for good in 1977. 🙂
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Reblogged this on quirkywritingcorner and commented:
I liked the short commercials and nowadays they seem to go on forever.
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Thanks for the re-blog!
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I used to like the PG Tips adverts of my youth, which featured the chimps, until I read about the conditions they were kept in. Nowadays I get fed up with most adverts, as the same ones seem to be on all the time.
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Oh yes, the chimps. I’d forgotten about those. They were good ones. Remember the ‘Condor’ man and the one girl who was let in through the gate?
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They were good, but the animals were kept in terrible conditions, so I’ve read. I don’t remember Condor man though, sorry.
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Hunky and smoked Condor tobacco. He puffed away at his pipe on one side of a gate, and hundreds of girls drooled on the other side. Eventually a security guy let one girl through. I’ve looked for it on Google but can’t find that particular one.
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Sorry, rings no bells at all 😊
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I also don’t watch commercials because I never watch TV or movies, Stevie.
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I do watch films, but not many TV programmes. If there are adverts I fast-forward if possible.
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I think for most people, the ads that are remembered are the humorous ones. The most memorable Superbowl commercials definitely fit this category.
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I’d like to know if that’s a real gorilla on the video. If so, that’s amazing.!
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Er… no I don’t think so, lol.
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The adverts in the 1970s and 80s were worth watching, clever and inventive. If only there had been progress. Instead, there’s fast-forward.
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Thank goodness for fast-forward too!
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The older commercials sought to be highly entertaining. They knew you could run off to the bathroom if they didn’t grab you. The current commercials — well, it’s as if they’re TRYING to be annoying and/or boring.
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Very true. Perhaps we’re a bit more discerning these days and need to be entertained as well as brainwashed into buying a product. I remember my husband once said… “No penguin playing a piano is going to get me to buy anything.” He must have watched some advert or other, lol.
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I remember that gorilla! what an amazing drum solo!
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Lol!
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