Cathy’s Blog

Her favourite chocolates are hidden on the top shelf of the stationary room and, unable to resist, she climbs aboard the colour copier to sneak a few for herself. Just at that moment, she kicks the button that fires up the copier and her boss walks in to find her in a compromising position with copious amounts of incriminating pictures printed.

Now, this position is often seen as humurous but to get to the chocolate? It’s just one of those adverts I totally understand but just comes across as a little bit rubbish. A little like the ape playing the drums in the chocolate advert. Now, most men I know totally love this advert but to me it makes absoultely no sense whatsoever. Good music though!

‘Compare the meerkat’ advert – just love it because it’s so bad!

The car adverts where the car turns into a dancing robot are very clever and most people I know love these – partially due to the great choice of music but also to clever imagery. As with the Thunderbirds dancing puppet advertising bottled water – again, more to do with the music than anything else.

Today, we have the invention of Sky plus which means that we don’t neccessarily have to sit through the adverts but I have to confess, I actually like to. Sometimes, they are more entertaining than the actual programs and sometimes all my mind can cope with is quick bursts of activity, especially after a long hard day at work. It’s entertaining to try and work out what the advert is about and sometimes they have no connection at all to what they are trying to sell – these are the ones I hate the most but it also allows for a little entertainment in the household to see how we could have done it better!

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