BT – Letter From Jane
31 January 2009 by SilkyJust when you thought it was safe to go back into the living room, something you just can’t bring yourself to give a toss about is back on our screens.
Yes, BT’s Adam and Jane are back on – at least they’re back on the nightmare box:
I had very low hopes for the future of the relationship when Adam went and took his “dream job” in Cornwall.
You see, Jane was mad.So mad, in fact, that the only way she and Adam could communicate was using Instant Messenger – just like millions of fully grown British people do every day. Sadly for them, the internet was broken in Cornwall meaning poor old Adam couldn’t tell Jane what he was ‘feeling’.
Then Adam was so distracted by Owl TV that Jane wasn’t mentioned for a few months.
But suddenly, out of the blue, a letter arrives from her!
Yawn.
The big problem I have with Adam and Jane is that I’ve got a deeper and more meaningful relationship with my right (and ocassionally my left) hand then they have with each other.
I don’t believe it which means I just don’t care.
Anyway, in spite of this apathy, TV’s Worst Adverts can exclusively reveal to you the question that Jane asked Adam – that Adam mysteriously answers “Yes” to:
“Would you pay to watch Iron Man?”
So now we know, there’s no need to keep up this charade of a relationship, is there BT?
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(28 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)
28Responses:
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 1 February 2009
** “dream job” in Cornwall. **
LOL Silky you are a card….
A.J
Said on the 1 February 2009
I can’t quite decide what is more unrealistic…
Adam and Jane sorting out their relationship over msn, or the BT ad where teenagers with a free house use it for drinking lemonade and watching tv.
Simon Breadbin
Said on the 4 February 2009
Pshaw! In the next installment Jane carefully arranges some carbon nanotubes on the very point of a needle in order to spell out ‘My fnny is itching, hav u givn me herps u drty cnut?’ rather than just use the one thing you still associate first with BT.
“The answer is yes’ Adam chuckles to himself as he views this latest missive using the scanning electron microscope on the small scrollwork table in the hall.
Die.
Nicola
Said on the 5 February 2009
Also, Adam cares so much about his relationship with Jane that he would rather ring BT and sort out his bills than open the letter from her! If you receive a letter from the “love of your life” I would argue that it would be opened straight away.
and how is Jane going to feel when she sent this letter and shes the sat around by her bt phone homehub waiting for a response to the question for hours. I would suggest that her next question is “why the crap did it take you so long to open my stupid letter?!”
Tan
Said on the 6 February 2009
I love these ads the story keeps u hangin on 4 more I hope they get back 2gether
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 12 February 2009
Who want to come with me round his house and give him a right good twatting for getting on my tits?
John Robinson
Said on the 19 February 2009
I seem to remember that the earlier advert saying “Iron Man, I’d pay to watch that” originally had him saying “B Movie, I’d pay to watch that” before realising that a) NO ONE would pay to watch b movie and b) a single man dossing in a flat would not under any circumstances choose to watch a childrens animated film if ANY OTHER FILM was available.
Joanna Butler
Said on the 13 June 2009
the new one is the worst, like his mum would be happy, she’d be crying that her wonderful son had saddled himself with some single mum with 2 kids probably by 2 different men, plus whats with her bowl job haircut???
Sally
Said on the 13 August 2009
The next instalment of the radio ad has Jane arranging a party for Adam who will want one even though he has said he doesn’t want any fuss (“which means he does”…)
Jane and girlfriend on phone have a good old bitch about Tracey who Adam “doesn’t like” but apparently did when he was going out with her….
I hope we are going to find that Adam is still seeing Tracey on the quiet, Jane is going to find out and will kick him into the middle of next week…
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 13 August 2009
Can’t she just kick him in the dick? I don’t want to see the cunt next week too….
Daniel Newton
Said on the 19 September 2009
Correct me if im wrong but in there new advert, Adam goes into a house with an estate agent and they attempt to browse the internet but its apparently 6′oclock and “half the world is online” but as far as i am aware BT don’t provide a mobile broadband service so how are they exacly online? isent this falce advertising?
Glenn A
Said on the 25 September 2009
I liked the earlier ones, esp where Jane is on the phone to her friend and Adam arrives naked in the bedroom and presumably very hard and she tells her friend, ” I’ll have to go, something has come up.” However, now it has become too much like a sickly Dido record about how much they love each other and now they’re getting married. Hopefully the marriage will round off the series as it is becoming rather sickly and tired, but was good in the early days.
I don’t think OFCOM would let my alternative ending be aired, but I would end the series with a real sting in the tail: Jane tells Adam she has become a lesbian and the marriage is off.
Glenn A
Said on the 17 October 2009
This couple are so smug and middle class they make you want to hit them, esp the newest advert where Jane tells Adam the new house isn’t good enough for her. Like, hello, there’s 3 million unemployed, people are having their houses repossesed, and house prices are still way too high in the South for most new buyers, but no I want a bigger house as the neighbourhood isn’t good enough for me. However, they both look like the sort of smug wankers you get in places like Berkshire who boast about earning 80k a year in IT consultancy, drive a company Honda Accord and probably listen to James Blunt CDs.
Another Ad Hater
Said on the 17 October 2009
“6 o’clock, half the world is online!”
Uhhh… I’ve been on the Internet at 6PM several times and my connection is not that fucking slow.
Also, the latest BT Vision ad really confuses me. Why did they call “Fast & Furious” a FAMILY favourite?! Since when has that been family? Last time I looked that film was rated 12A so how the fuck can they classify that as a FAMILY FILM?!
Glenn A
Said on the 17 October 2009
Another
Perhaps they are using AOL dial up LOL. Hopefully the marriage will see the back of this annoying, oh so middle class and don’t we know it couple. They’re even more unbearable than the couple used in Renault ads in the eighties.
Leon
Said on the 14 November 2009
yeah these ads are cringe-worthy and make me sick. its just pathetic how they build up these stories like somehow our lives are supposed to be like them to make us want the service…jus fuck off
Glenn A
Said on the 14 November 2009
It’s gone on too long, Leon, the best one was the one where Jane sees a naked and presumably very hard Adam and ends her phone call with ” something has come up.” However, after that they became more and more insufferable and smug and the one about I want a bigger house just pissed me off. She might as well have added, ” oh I’ve just found out the next door neighbours read The Sun and go to Benidorm for their holidays” in a Margot Leadbitter voice.
Leon
Said on the 15 November 2009
yeah that crappy one where he gets the estate agent to google the road names or something? and thinking about what u jus said adam is; absolutely revolting;. wasnt this guy in some crappy comedy show as a 15 yr old until he did these ads?
Glenn A
Said on the 15 November 2009
Hello, Leon, Kris Williams was in My Family. Don’t know much about Esther Hall,though,
Daniel Newton
Said on the 15 November 2009
Yeah, he was in My Family (BBC 1), Unfortunately doing these adverts has ruined his job prospects; he was in something the other week (I think it was a drama) and I had to switch it off after 10 mins because I couldn’t stand him any more, and I actually used to quite like My Family, now however I have to switch it off when he comes on.
What’s with the new advert? the one where his mom never rings him on the landline or something? I really don’t get that, in fact I think BT are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for marketing ideas now. – and I wish he would get a shave!
Glenn A
Said on the 15 November 2009
It’s run too long and surely they should get married and bugger off as they are getting on people’s nerves. This ad campaign isn’t a patch on the legendary Maureen Lipman ones from the 80s.
CovertJellyfish
Said on the 6 December 2009
If they do end up spliting up, my top tip for Adam is to make sure his new girlfriend is called Jane.. this will prevent any embarrassing situations in the heat of the moment…
BPDster
Said on the 3 March 2010
Have you seen the new one? HAVE YOU???
Daniel Newton
Said on the 4 March 2010
@ BPDster
I have not seen any adverts from BT for a while now thank god, the last advert I remember seeing was the infuriating “its 6′oclock and half the worlds online” I really detest any advert for BT, especially with Adam in it.
BPDster
Said on the 10 March 2010
Oh it’s enough to make you vomit… I just haven’t the words to tell you how awful it is. Every second is just pure vomit inducing tosh. I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM.
AD
Said on the 28 August 2010
Hate them. ‘Adam’ has a face for radio. Every time I see them on TV I change channel. And then remind myself never to switch back to BT, just in case any of my money ever went towards paying the wages of these two grey-faced, dull, boring drabs.
mike
Said on the 3 October 2010
the advert now is bt infinity the music is soothing actually and theres no bullshit story of adam and jane there just hugging each other
matt
Said on the 19 January 2011
Does anyone else hate Jane? She always seems 2 have a problem with anything Adam or the kids do.. She has such a tude!