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Badvertising – McDonald’s, Coming Back For A Big Mac

by Matthew Laidlow

McDonald’s seems to appear again and again on this feature. Before you all think we must have got food poisoning off them once and subsequently hate Ronald McDonald, we don’t. Honestly, their advertising is just complete and utter pants. Nowadays, they have improved, but we’re still unconvinced that farmers hug all the cows before slashing [...]

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Badvertising – U2 And Blackberry

by Matthew Laidlow

Do you like facts? Well it just so happens that we have one that will not only enlighten your day, but that of your friends and family. Take Bono’s name and remove the b, n and one of the o’s. With the singular o add a G in front of it and the letter d [...]

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This Ad Will Make You Never Want to Drink Sprite Again

by Amy Grindhouse

There is a new soft drink advert that is doing the rounds online. Most are claiming that the promotional video is taken from a banned German advertising campaign for Sprite. The commercial is ten kinds of gross. Thank heavens that wherever it comes from, it seems not to actually be on the air in any [...]

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Badvertising – Dynamo Washing Powder

by Matthew Laidlow

Unless you’re Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter or Jonathan King the beginning of the advert for Dynamo Washing Powder won’t do much for you. Last time we remembered, watching children taking their clothes off is just a little bit wrong. But who are we to judge when we smother dog food across our genitals for some [...]

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Badvertising: The Flintstones Have A Smoke

by Matthew Laidlow

This isn’t so much of a bad advert as a “what the hell were they thinking?” advert. As most people will know, The Flintstones was a programme for children, set in the time of the Stone Age. Because animators were lazy at the time, the same plotlines happened in The Jetsons, which was based in [...]

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Badvertising – Japanese Tranny Ronald McDonald

by Matthew Laidlow

When you think of delicious meaty burgers oozing with grease, most people will imagine the golden arches of McDonald’s. The core spokesman for the burger giant is Ronald McDonald. He is a larger than life clown who makes children plump by giving them fatty treats and artery clogging drinks. At one point, McDonald’s appointed another [...]

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Badvertising – Cadbury’s Eyebrows

by Matthew Laidlow

This isn’t so much a crap commercial where an advertiser thought of the idea ten seconds before the pitch. It’s just really annoying and pointless really and we don’t understand what it does to promote slabs of chocolate. Whilst we get slight amusement at laughing at two stupid-looking children with some sort of facial deformity, [...]

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Badvertising: Woman Having Stroke

by C J Davies

Sometimes things can be so misjudged.

Take that anti-drink-driving campaign from about ten years back. Remember the one? Some bloke called Dave was in the pub with his mates, who were urging him to sink another pint with the refrain “just one more, Dave.” In the next scene, Dave has a horrific car crash and is reduced to a bedridden vegetable being fed slop by his mother – who, in aSwiftian twist of irony, tries to feed him a spoonful with the refrain “just one more, Dave.”

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Badvertising – DFS With The Dillon Family!

by Matthew Laidlow

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 walking around an empty shop that always has a sale on.

Granddad wants a leather sofa because he’s a bondage fanatic. Gran wants leather and fabric because she likes to experiment. Sam asked for red and Suzie wanted flowers. Dad told them to piss off as he’s buying the bastard thing and won’t pay over £600 for something that cost £40 to make in China. Mum’s even tighter and won’t go over £300. The cheesy salesman rubbed his hands as he sold them something that’ll collapse and break just as the warranty expires.

But that doesn’t matter! In a year’s time they’ll be back for more comedy adventures in DFS when Sam gets his hand stuck down the back of the sofa and Granddad meets his mistress at the checkout.

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 walking around an empty shop that always has a sale on. Granddad wants a leather sofa because he’s a bondage fanatic. Gran wants leather and fabric because she likes to experiment. Sam asked for red and Suzie wanted flowers. Dad told them to piss off as he’s buying the bastard thing and won’t pay over £600 for something that cost £40 to make in China. Mum’s even tighter and won’t go over £300. The cheesy salesman rubbed his hands as he sold them something that’ll collapse and break just as the warranty expires. But that doesn’t matter! In a year’s time they’ll be back for more comedy adventures in DFS when Sam gets his hand stuck down the back of the sofa and Granddad meets his mistress at the checkout.
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Badvertising: The AYDs Diet

by C J Davies

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 [...]

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