Have we mention Mr Mourinho's efforts at flogging us Braun shavers yet? It was, after all, only a matter of time before his smooth, smooth ways were employed in such a fashion.

You know the holiday season is approaching when this ad comes on the TV - those kids must be in their thirties at this stage.

I don't watch Argentine local TV late at night, for which reason I've only just become aware of this ad for a local cologne company which, yes, really is called Chester.

'Water is the essence of wetness...'

That commercial would not fly on American TV. But then I've seen what goes on on the Argentine version of Dancing With the Stars.

It's amazing, isn't it? (The advert, not Bailando.)

I can't decide what I like most: the fact that the makers don't appear to have realised how similar it is the the scene in Zoolander, the fact it's so utterly pointless (if less twattish than most perfume/cologne adverts), the fact the product has such a naff name (another popular Argentine brand of cologne - and I'm not making this up - is called Kevin), or the fact that this man, presumably a professional model, has the largest, most unkempt eyebrows I've ever fucking seen.

I saw an advert for Payday UK loans the other day which appears to have been cast from actors rejected by Hollyoaks.

Scene 1
A woman in her kitchen. The washing machine suddenly stars spurting out bubbles that fill the kitchen (a problem that I believe only ever happens in dodgy sitcoms). Close up of the woman holding her hands to her face and calling 'Mayday!'

Scene 2
A World War II style military operations room, although to show that this company has aspirations of modernity the back wall appears to be made of radios and computers, possibly acquired secondhand from Thuderbird 5. A female radio operator announces that Julie from Rochdale needs £100 to repair her washing machine. The commander of the operations room, who appears to be modelled on David Niven, says that they'll approve that. We cut to a table with a map of Britain on it and £100 is pushed towards Rochdale in the style of ships been moved on the map table in Sink The Bismark.

I have suspicions that the advert was originally written to be included in the last series of Mitchell & Webb. However they decided not to include it and so the writers decided to cut their losses and sell it to whichever payday loan company bid most (hopefully not more than £10)

If I see those geriatric puppets loansharking again I swear I will do something the world will regret.

southportzeb wrote:
Scene 1
A woman in her kitchen. The washing machine suddenly stars spurting out bubbles that fill the kitchen (a problem that I believe only ever happens in dodgy sitcoms). Close up of the woman holding her hands to her face and calling 'Mayday!'
It's even worse than that, she's actually shouting 'Payday! Payday!'

Liquid Plumr Double Impact

Needless to say, I doubt that this was made with the intention that it would air on American television, but was intended as a viral video, so mission accomplished.

This is sort of fucked up beyond all belief, but quite good in the 'DQ targeting 19 year old males' sense.

I saw that on Facebook a few days ago. Thought it was great until the very end.

Would have made a great, darkly-twisted award-winning short, though. An ad' though? Really?

It's a long and winding thread, this, so forgive me if the observation - that the music for the shit Health Lottery ads being Ennio Morricone's 'Ecstacy of Gold' from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly demonstrates the ad-maker's macabre sense of humour since the music in question is used for a sequence set in a cemetery - has already been made.

True. A scene that is supposed to depict man's irrational obsession with the acquisition of wealth.

Why is Boris Johnson dressing as a bull to advertise Colman's?

New example: the McDonald's advert with the chap starting his new job.

You've just started your new corporate job. You've got a team of four or five people reporting into you. So why are you allowing some silly sod to follow you into the gents telling you how many paper towels to use? And what kind of payroll number is "WP63"? And when it all gets too tough, you bail to a fast food franchise to assert your authority?

It's not an advert for McDonald's. It's a wake-up call to his employer to bin both him and the woman showing him round the office.

Fucking hell, what is going on in the heads of the people at the Guardian who approved the current "3 little pigs" advert? Are they afraid that their reputation for intolerable smugness is in danger of lapsing?

I know. Fucking Ada. Who thought that was a good idea? I can only assume it was engineered by deep cover agents working for Tactical Genius.

DollarShaveClub.com. Similar to the Old Spice ads, but more self-deprecating.

I'm not sure why but this latest BT advert about Wifi hotspots has really annoyed me. I'm assuming it's about these three flatmates and one of the guys has the hots for the girl, but it leaves me with the feeling "Why should I care about these people?" and "What exactly is it you're trying to sell me?"

I think it says a lot that that's an official upload and BT's own advertising people have opted not to allow comments on it.