Best and worst TV ads"I'd like to give that dodo off the 5 Alive adverts a good kicking," says tom.joad. And luckily, there's tasty, tasty Cillit Bang to clean up the blood stains when you've finished. Tell us about TV adverts.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 15:17)
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"Barbara, you up?"It was the mid 1970s, and Sucrets throat lozenges were advertised on TV nonstop. The guaranteed cure for every cold- aspirin and Sucrets.
The one that irritated me to no end and would invariably send me running to change the channel (in the days before remote controls) had this fat loser shaking his wife in the night. "Barbara, you up? Barbara, you up?"
"I'm up now..."
*whiny voice* "I don't think I can sleep. I'm coughing and my throat is sore."
*sighs and throws back covers* "All right, I'll get the aspirin and Sucrets."
*zoom in on whiny fat loser, wearing an expression like a brain-damaged pug* "Aspirin? And Sucrets?"
*advertising description of the effects of Sucrets*
*pan out from whiny loser, lying with his mouth open on the pillow while his wife plays solitaire on her lap* "Well, I'm glad that one of us can sleep..."
It always gave me the urge to rip his throat out.
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Wanderer, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 21:51,
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"plays solitaire on her lap"first time I've heard it called that.......
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I don't imaginethat her lap got any attention from that git.
Still makes me see red all these years later.
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Wanderer, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 21:57,
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