TV Ads

[That Jekka Gal]

I've been TV less for a number of years now but I'm currently in an AirBnb with limited wi-fi so I've resorted to watching the box in the evening.

There are a couple of channels that are ok but, gosh, the ads. They are diabolical - not to mention the products they are advertising - funeral services, incontinence pads, even coffin... yes, this is definitely a channel aimed at a particular demographic but TV ads seem to be particularly anodyne across all the channels.

What happened to all the creativity? I notice that ads for any alcoholic beverages and cars are particularly rare or even absent. These were the ones that used to attract the big budgets and hence the best talent. Not to mention those old Hamlet cigar adverts.

As a corollary to this, I was wondering if anyone remembers an ad from the '80s or '90s which ran something like this; The ad opens with (I think) some knights in armour larking around on horses. Ad ends and we find ourselves watching a bog standard supermarket commercial. Except we're not as all the characters from the 1st ad come crashing through the wall into the scene & then it switched to a 3rd ad where similar happened.

Anyone remember this & what it advertised? Whilst enjoyable, coulnd't have been a great ad if I can't even remember the product it was advertising

 

[That Jekka Gal]

I come in from work > sit down for dinner > TV on > 2 mins of a show > Ad break > dinner finished by the time the next part of the show starts.

Yup. That's it.

Only thing worse, when you're having your dinner in front of the TV, is flicking through the channels and accidentally landing on one of those Embarrassing Illnesses type programmes. Bleeurghhh....

 

[That Jekka Gal]

That will be Carling Black Label (yes, I am old too). It was cowboys not knights. Potato quality (yeah the 80's) but found it on Youtube:

Ah, good find. That settles it.

Didn't remember that as a Carling Black Label ad. I did used to enjoy the ones featuring that comedy duo (The Oblivion Boys?).

The one that springs to mind is the one that parodied the Nick Kamen Levi ad.

Guy comes in to launderette, strips down to his boxers and puts his clothes in the machine.

One of our boy says to the other "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label" and his partner replies "Nah, he doesn't wash his underpants" at which point the camera zooms out to reveal the pair sitting there completely starkers holding strategically placed newspapers.

That said, I've never drunk Carling Black Label in my life.

Holsten Pils on the other hand....those ads with Griff Rhys Jones were great.