BT – Adam Goes to Cornwall
28 July 2008 by SilkyIt’s been quite a ride for Adam and Jane – or to give them their proper names “that bloke off of My Family” and “the MILF” – during their run in the BT broadband electro wireless hub cine projector thingy adverts.
We’ve followed them through cost-a-fortunum gags, via dodgy haircuts and possibly the worst house party ever.
Through Adam leering over Jane’s friends and Jane sneering at Adam’s desperate attempts to get his wicked way.
But now it seems like it’s all over. He’s gone to Cornwall for his dream job, she’s stuck back home with the brats.
So is this the end of BT’s gold(Blend)en couple or will they find a way to work things out?
Who cares.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(44 votes, average: 3.52 out of 5)
53Responses:
Ian Finlayson
Said on the 28 July 2008
I suspect he’s down in Cornwall shagging some girl and in a few weeks he’ll come back with her boyfriend to spit roast Jane. All the signs are there if you know where to look…
HandShandy
Said on the 28 July 2008
Err whats going on Silky? Where’s the embedded video? Why can’t we watch this piece of advertising brilliance? I can’t wait to see it!
HandShandy
Said on the 28 July 2008
Actually I just saw the “Judge for yourself” bit. That one wasn’t very good – those adverts still suck.
Mike Empuria
Said on the 29 July 2008
I like this series with Adam and Jane (or that bloke off My Family and that lady from Spooks) but I don’t like this one. Adam’s gone off to his dream job and they are talking about it over a dodgy internet connection.
This is wrong.
The time for talking is way past. They should have had this conversation before he left and not over IM for god’s sake. If they talked before and he still left then they are doomed. DOOMED. I’m sorry but sometimes I have to be serious. This could be the end of a beautiful relationship we are witnessing and I for one am very upset.
Martin
Said on the 29 July 2008
I understand the benefits of MSN and its ilk; however for such a crisis why not use a mobile phone or even a pay phone instead of a dodgy internet connection.
In fact, who on earth over the age of 13 actually has a serious relationship discussion over instant messaging?
Dave (Che for the day)
Said on the 29 July 2008
To be honest I don’t know why ‘Adam’ bothers with her, not bad looking she may be but I’ve yet to see her smile in any of these adverts, miserable bint, anyway they’re all a load of middle-class wank and come the revolution they’ll all be up against the wall. The day will come, the people will rise up and shake off the shackles of capitalist consumerism and after an initial bloodbath a utopian egalitarian paradise will come into being with me at its head of course. ‘Vive le revolution’.
Mike Empuria
Said on the 29 July 2008
Hey Che. Will the people “shake off the shackles of capitalist consumerism” before or after they’ve got their Sky+ boxes and iPhones?
Silky
Said on the 29 July 2008
If we wait until after we get out iPhones it will be easier to communicate details of the revolution to the group.
But I think Sky+ goes in the category of “Would be nice” rather than “Must have”.
Helsie
Said on the 29 July 2008
I’m not free Wednesday or Thursday; can we revolt on Friday though? Gets the weekend off to a flying start. I would happily disembowel “Adam”, as he has the worst hair. Ever.
Even worse than James May. And that’s pretty appalling.
R E Krishna
Said on the 30 July 2008
Maybe they are going to wrap up this series of ads, the actors won’t want to just be thought of as “him/her out of the BT ads”. Personally these have generally made me smile, haven’t induced me to buy BT products though. As regards the Revolution, please let me know date and time, I need to be elsewhere as I’m with the “Middle class wank” party.
Crimewave
Said on the 30 July 2008
Bt have totally gone deep with these ads now wow.
ElDiablo
Said on the 30 July 2008
I wonder if the series might finish with Jane dying from a Brain Tumor because of the increased radiation from her BT Homehub.
Typical stereotyping though – the black one must be bigger and better for women than a white one.
Granny Farts
Said on the 30 July 2008
Sniffle sniffle, sniffle sniffle. I just loved this advert so much, especially that part where emm… they emm. Actually it sucks.
Such an odd advert
Thunderchild
Said on the 31 July 2008
Well said Dave ! The whole series was rubbish;a bit of wish fulfilment fantasy for skint single mothers.
tigerstail
Said on the 31 July 2008
She’ll be shagging that polish plumber from 4 or 5 episodes back before you can say Januz Robinscowiz.
Louise
Said on the 1 August 2008
=O After all this time, I finally know where the bloody hell I recognise Jane!!!!!
She was one of the lesbians from Queer as Folk!
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSs
I’m finally free to think about just how shit the advert is whilst I watch them!
Vladimir Roschjenko
Said on the 2 August 2008
I hope they have a messy divorce, and there’s a huge row over who gets to keep the BT Home Hub.
Bina
Said on the 4 August 2008
Didn’t the Adam actor have an ‘accident’ down tha in the west country? Someone evidently had it in for him….he’s an ACTOR for heaven’s sake (said in a Brian Conley voice a la “it’s a puppet” catch phrase). Must admit however that BT are scraping the barrel with this ad tho.
Kesmund
Said on the 4 August 2008
shame that when that guy got run over he did not realize it was a message from God to give up his evil ways and refuse to do any more of this bullshit
Gina
Said on the 8 August 2008
She’s clearly only with him so he’ll look after her kids – have we ever seen her pay for anything herself? That’s why she’s upset at him leaving, now she’ll have to pay her own internet bill.
Cathryn
Said on the 12 August 2008
i think these adverts and funny but overly pointless at the same time
Andy Bernard
Said on the 12 August 2008
While he’s away in Cornwall, I’ll be reaming his MILF girlfriend.
R E Krishna
Said on the 19 August 2008
Just a pedantic thought….We don’t know that she’s not in Cornwall too. He might only be just down the road.
Kernowted
Said on the 19 August 2008
There are no dream jobs in ‘cornwall’ as the english have shat on us for hundreds of years. Tell the pasty faced englishman to twat back off to his country.
James
Said on the 22 August 2008
Who gives a toss, all I know is that BT are extortionate in their broadband prices and I wish that Adam and his annoying girlfriend would get the fuck off my TV.
Estelle
Said on the 21 September 2008
Oh no! Adam and Jane can’t break-up… it’s been thrilling watching their relationship over the past two years or so. This is the worst thing to happen since that annoying brother on Corrie died! Who are BT going to get to be their golden couple now?
Maybe “him off My Family” will move back in with his dad.
Anita
Said on the 25 September 2008
Adam is well rid of her. She personifies all the worst characteristics of modern woman in advert-land – smug, patronising, selfish, self-centred, vain, ignorant. I grind my teeth every time I hear her latest inanity. I grind my teeth more at the assuption that this is the kind of persona that we real women are supposed to identify with. (She also looked very stupid in that wedding hat a feww seasons ago!) Put me off BT broadband too!
laura stopa
Said on the 27 October 2008
i hate these adverts they are so wrong they put me off tv, what a joke
pollyanna
Said on the 31 October 2008
Please get Adam and Jane back together. These adverts are fun and remind me of the Gold Blend couple.
adam and jane
Said on the 26 November 2008
yo i love the adds and want adam and jane to got it on again!!!!!!!!!!!! woo
Simon
Said on the 24 February 2009
I’m sure they’re currently airing a slightly modified version of this advert where the voiceover says “there’s nothing more frustrating than losing your connection” – I made a point of remembering it (but I can’t find it online – this one says “there’s never a good time to…”)
Aaaaaannnnnyways – I think there is something more frustrating. Plenty of things. Like, ooh, I don’t know. Not being allowed to do a poo round Paul’s house, or not being able to find your scooter. Or not being allowed to do your dream job and having to put up with some other woman’s kids.
Besides, if they’re still airing the version above, I can think of plenty of good times to lose connection.
I look Like Adam :(
Said on the 10 March 2009
I cannot wait for these two miserable minge-bags to get off the telly, partially because their disgustingly saccharine fueled relationship makes me want to vomit blood but mainly because all my mates think I look like this fella and therefore I’m contemplating sledge-hammering the next person that mentions it straight in the fucking face…..(I’m worried my Nan might bring it up).
Jellyfish McSaveloy
Said on the 25 March 2009
She’s a pretty tidy bit of middle class MILF clunge but fuck it mate, you might be an ugly cunt but in Cornwall you can probably find some halfway decent bit of skirt to empty your sacks in, so dump the mithering bint and be free of those gormless brats. What good is a tidy bit of older flange if the miserable cow constantly looks like she’s just sucked on a lemon mixed with drain cleaner?
James
Said on the 27 March 2009
when is this farce going to be resolved? i’m sure he’s been in cornwall for the best part of a year.
she should have at least gone down to west country and boiled somones bunny by now. even eastenders wouldn’t have dragged a story out this long.
It’s a digrace, it’s also a disgrace that i’m thinking about it
woodmans
Said on the 4 April 2009
erm……..have I got a long memory, but didn’t she move in with him in the first place?
so I reckon he’s supporting two houses – must be a dream job ! (as in dream on)
@ Jellyfish – thanks! your comments were soooooooo succinct I sprayed coffee all over my screen
Archer
Said on the 28 July 2009
For no reason except that I’m pissed and weird… and I’m sure that other people like to play the six degrees of separation game… can anyone else get from Kris Marshall to Nicholas Lyndhurst in four moves?
Tarquin Fintimblimwimlim Biscuit-Barrel
Said on the 28 July 2009
Kris Marshall…shit sitcom…Nicholas Lyndhurst.
Done it in 3!
Thranjax
Said on the 28 July 2009
Elbow Kris in face, step across room, knee Nicholas in groin, knee Nicholas in face. Four steps. There you go. Finish them off with a Kurkri knife if you have one.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 28 July 2009
Smeg face (Kris Marshall)
The Rozzers (The Bill)
Lemonhead (Amanda Abbington)
Wish It Had Never Been (After You’ve Gone)
Todger tugger (Nicholas Lyndhurst)
Even sadder that I knew it……
Suzanne Lawson
Said on the 27 September 2009
I’m fed up of the Adam and Jane Saga because it endorses the modern view of society, where the children have to meet yet another of mummy’s boyfriends. If she doesn’t think it would work out, then why introduce him to all her children?
Marco Polo
Said on the 2 October 2009
Adam’s gonna crack soon!, That bint Jane must have stopped him emptying his plums into her wizard’s sleeve of a fanny . He’s become so sexually frustrated in his latest radio ad’s that I hear he’s using his internet connection to purchase racy comics of licra clad women?! Yeah right Adam!, that aint no comic book mate, and i wager the pages are stuck together by now! You really are a twat.
The following radio ad informs us that he wants to use his BT Homehub to look at pictures of him riding on the handlebars of a bike whilst wearing a dress. His ‘bike riding partner’ is BIG DAVE, so is Adam leading a double life?…. Natural progression of Adam’s fetishes could see him licra clad wearing a ball gag being fisted in the ass with a phone by BIG DAVE. An angry Jane runs into the room moaning about a missing BT hand held, everyone is startled BIG DAVE recoils backwards and away, Jane’s momentum sees her slip on Adam’s lube and fall face first into Adam’s gaping butthole. Jane, looking up in horror and covered in poo, see’s BIG DAVE handing her the warm and greasy BT phone, saying ‘I’ll get my coat!’
Now that’s an ad fitting for this couple!
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 2 October 2009
So BigDave, your double life comes out….
I LOVE SCARLETT SHE IS FITTTT X
Said on the 15 March 2010
HAHAHHAHHAH
Now theyre getting married….i meannn wtf! x
DOGFOOD
Said on the 9 April 2010
I came here looking for a photo of the ‘family’ for a joke article and was gob smacked to see the comments from people who are actual fans of the adverts, thousands of years of culture and people get seriously into the shallow storylines for a set of throw away adverts. Modern culture is spinning down the pan fast.
Sad.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 10 April 2010
If I hear Elgin fucking Avenue mentioned again, I’m gonna go fucking insane and bitchslap that stupid woman! “Get him to look at Elgin Avenue *woman smugly clicks on page*.”
“6 o’clock, half the world is online.” Complete and utter bullshit! I’ve been on the Internet at 6PM a lot and never had such a completely fucking slow connection like that. I know you’d get it on dial-up but that is so fucking obsolete. Why would anyone want dial-up now?!
Kris Marshall is a TWAT for ever deciding to star in shit BT adverts. Everytime I see one, I’m shouting “FUCK OFF ADAM!” at the TV.
K Laura
Said on the 1 May 2010
Calm down Ad Hater, its just an ad
Hilary
Said on the 18 July 2010
How dare some of you be so nasty and have nothing better to do then slag off this the great ad, its wonderful. Kris Marshall is one of the best actors this country has and Esther Hall is a very good actress who also gets abuse..what for? being good!
My Family does miss Nick..who has gone on to do lots of great films and tv programnes, and hope he does keep doing the ads, theyre brilliant!..
Nice one K Laura, your right it is just an ad, but you cant please all of the people all the time…eh?
Anyway Kris Marshall is the BEST!!!! and one of the nices guys you could wish to meet….
phil crawley
Said on the 19 July 2010
The whole thing has been a load of turkish delight, now her lying on the bed rubbing her belly while adam talks to her and she’s probably thinking of the polish plumber….
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 19 July 2010
At least the latest one about Sky Sports is alright. It doesn’t have some stupid little whiny girl which is a plus.
Kris Marshall was great in My Family, I loved him then but I just can’t stand him in the BT ads.
Sue
Said on the 8 August 2010
Sorry, I can’t stand the Kris and Jane BT adverts. They actually stop me from rejoining BT phone and broadband. Kris is so wet and Jane is a prim control freak ‘get him to show you Elgin Avenue’ line for example. Stop glamorising a broken home. The children seem to speak to their real Dad by phone. Not good. He should be far more central to the children than Kris is.
Valerie
Said on the 20 August 2010
I was interested to see that 1.6m people voted (with me) re Jane’s pregnancy, but was aliitle disappointed at Adam’s immediate facial reaction. Though I guess he was pleased??? I had wondered whether the pregnancy concerned the ex not Adam, and am relieved that this story line looks like continuing for a while. I like to see these “serial ” adverts, and loved the one where Adam rings his mum!! Keep them rolling, over birth and marriage please.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 20 August 2010
Oh dear God, that newest BT ad was just CRAP! All I saw was Adam & Jane sitting at a table and then he asks if she’s pregnant. He wants to tell the kids and then she says that “we’re not telling anyone.” Now one question about this. What the fuck does this have to with BT?! I saw absolutely NOTHING remotely related to BT other than the phone Adam picked up. WORST BT AD EVER!
Thomas
Said on the 22 August 2010
Does anyone know where you can find all the adverts in the order that they came out.. I want to see them all ?
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