Badvertising – DFS With The Dillon Family! So, it’s the weekend. You’re off work and away from the evils of school. What’s the best possible thing to do with your free time? If you’re the Dillon family, then looking at sofas seems to be just that. Bugger off theme parks and paintballing! It’s all about the thrill of ...

Badvertising: The AYDs Diet A double-whammy of commercial goodness for you today. Yeah, yeah, it's almost the end of January, 2009 has kicked in in earnest, and frankly you can't be bothered sticking to an arbitrary plan you made to shed those pounds (simply because you managed to convince yourself for a brief second that this year might not be as soul-crushingly disappointing as the last one, and that your ambitions and schemes might ...

Badvertising – Swiftcover Insurance With Iggy Pop Iggy, what happened? Did the royalty cheques for Lust For Life dry up? It appears so as the once radical and slightly mental member of The Stooges has forgotten his punk ethos and decided to sell his soul to an insurance company. Another pissing insurance company, why do they think that ...

Badvertising – Norwich Union’s Unexciting Name Change To Aviva At the moment the whole universe seems to have been affected by a few people in the banking world. Subsequently some people are out of jobs, interest rates get cut and everyone ends up paying over the odds for everything. So what would be the worst thing to possibly to do in ...

Badvertising – John Lennon’s One Laptop Per Child Foundation A few things immediately leapt out at us after viewing this advert. First of all, John Lennon was dead the last time we checked. So how could he donate his cheeky Scouse tones to a charity appeal nearly thirty years after his death? Did the cocktail of drugs he took ...

Badvertising – Coca Cola And Santa Two of the biggest fictional characters we’re meant to believe in are Santa Claus and Jesus. And it's coming up to their time of year again. For 364 days a year, we’re meant to believe that an aging old man is whipping thousands of elves to death in his sweatshop in ...

Badvertising: Marks & Spencer, Take That Christmas is a time to spend with family and friends. Or, failing that, a rubbishy old boyband from the 1990s and a gaggle of neatly age-diverse supermodels. And if you could spend it in what's basically the hotel from The Shining just to make it even more super-depressing, why that'd be ...

It’s A Fairly Wonderful Barclaycard Advert Spoof Hey, look at me, I've got a Barclaycard and so life for me is like riding around an entire city on a big waterslide. Yes, I know it's grossly impractical and would have an adverse effect on the infrastructure of the city if all Barclaycard owners had similar waterslides, but look! Aren't I cool! No. We're going to say no.