Moonpig
February 6th, 2008At one end of the greetings card continuum are the cards sold by the National Trust that are probably made by elfin beauties who live inside oak trees and skip through the forest picking flowers and berries all things wonderful to make their cards ever so, ever so special.
At the other end are cards from Moonpig.com. The one’s that you can personalise online to specifically make fun of someone you know’s complete lack of hair, and simultaneously tricking you into thinking that you’re making something precious and unique yet thousands others are doing the exact same thing.
Similarly, at the one end of the adverts continuum is the new Honda advert, a thing of thoughtfulness, of fun and of production values. At the other end is the Moonpig.com advert:
I hate the falling star/fairy dust that floats from scene to scene, I hate the lobotomised idiots giggling at just how bald they are but most of all I hate the jingle (if you can call repeating the word Moonpig over and over a jingle).
You thought the song from the Slim Fast advert was bad, but it’s nothing on this one.
The Moonpig tune is the kind that only someone with a very warped mind could possibly think is suitable for public broadcast. The *composer* should clearly either be locked up for his own protection or tried for crimes against Humanity.
In fact, I dare say that if Himmler wrote jingles, this is what he come up with. I can hear it now, echoing around the cellars of Prince Albrechtstrasse. Playing on a permanent loop, punctuated only by the screams of mercy and of desire to confess to anything just to make it stop:
“So did you say the Fuhrer is a little girl who prances around wearing only frilly knickers shouting “Look at me Eva, I’ve got titties!”?”
“I did, I did. Just make the Moonpig advert stop!”
I can genuinely say that I’d rather listen to an entire Mika album - a man who sings like a pig with bulldog clips attached to its testicles - than I would this Moonpig advert one more time.
And I don’t make that sort of claim lightly.
Thanks to Jono McLeod and Mat Cunningham for submitting this bad ad.
(4.7)
41Responses:
Wolfy
February 6th, 2008 10:45 pm
Mooooooonpig, Mooooonpig, Moooooonpig dot cooooooom! This is great! Especially the random pitch changes. Roll on the next dot com burst bubble…
Phil
February 7th, 2008 12:42 pm
Can’t believe it’s taken you so long to mention this, frankly…it’s an outrage
Silky
February 7th, 2008 9:30 pm
Apologies Phil.
Sometimes it just hard to find the words…
Phil
February 8th, 2008 12:45 pm
I understand how you feel - this advert leaves me speechless with rage
mooch
February 10th, 2008 11:57 pm
To quote Friends “I want to put my finger, through my eyeball and fiddle about with my brain”. Some adverts piss you off so much that you just make a mental note to never buy from them.
Joanna Butler
February 11th, 2008 6:24 pm
its the way the receding hair man and the ugl bint look at the card and laugh at the end
ha ha ha
piss off
SuperFurrySeahawk
February 12th, 2008 1:05 pm
I feel sorry for the constipated looking cartoon pig which appears to have been decapitated and its head shoved into either a goldfish bowl or a lightbulb. Surely the RSPCA would have been called in by now…
Joanna Butler
February 15th, 2008 5:48 pm
ha ha ha ha @ SuperFurrySeahawk…. why don’t you call the RSPCA?!
I wonder what retard came up with the name ‘Moonpig’
SuperFurrySeahawk
February 15th, 2008 8:15 pm
I would have called the RSPCA myself, but the cartoon creature looked as though it had probably gone past the point of being saved anyway!
Dave
February 15th, 2008 8:30 pm
Cheap annoying crap, bit like the cards.
Matt
February 16th, 2008 11:29 am
Tacky cards and a tacky advert to go with them… has anyone actually been on the website??? what was the address again???
Joanna Butler
February 16th, 2008 11:48 am
its mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonpig.cooooooooooooooooooooooom
TDP
February 18th, 2008 1:08 pm
Well, if the job of the advert is to get you to talk about the web site and memorise it, it’s worked.
Unfortunately, because of how totally, utterly and completely tedious the advert is, I’ll be going nowhere near it on principal, hoping that the advertising agency and web site go out of business along with the arse of a client who said, “Yep, that’s a great idea - I’LL HAVE THAT ONE.”
Numpties.
PS - Is it possible to vote on this ad to be Worst Ad of The Year?
Silky
February 18th, 2008 1:56 pm
Hey TDP,
As TWA is coming up for it’s first birthday, you’ll be migthy glad to hear that I’m working on a system to vote for the worst advert of the past year.
I dare say that Moonpig.com will be in the running.
chris
February 18th, 2008 8:21 pm
there was an advert for a similar company with carol vorderman im sure it was moonpig where she highlighted ‘parking’ as the biggest hassle with buying cards at a shop
Dave
February 19th, 2008 8:28 pm
I hate this annoying advert . So much so that I’ve given up watching e4 and now download my friends episodes since im fed up with grabbing my remote in a fit of rage to destroy the constant repetative jingle from entering my ears . If there is any moonpig employees out there who read this then F### Y## you annoying bunch of C###s. This advert is worst than the deaf woman that keeps tonguing her cheek doing sign language in the corner which in my books is bloody painful. But i bet she could sing a better jingle. 9.9999999/10 for displeasure . I hope nobody buys their cards and they go bust.
Joanna Butler
February 20th, 2008 4:22 pm
lol @ Dave
P.Young
February 20th, 2008 9:38 pm
‘Moonpig’ does actually mean something - look it up on the online urban dictionary. Oh dear….
Joanna Butler
February 21st, 2008 9:38 am
Moonpig 25 up, 11 down
A woman so hideously ugly that the very sight of this creature brings forth a massive and overwhelming sense of revulsion and physical nausea.
Imagine what a pig that lived on the moon would look like.
Apply this model to your intended munter.
NB: Moonpigs are generally clinically obese, and may often be found munching on anything that comes too near and looks like food. Puppies are at extreme risk.
1) That Sonia from Eastenders is such a Moonpig!
2) LOOK AT HER!! What a Moonpig!
lol!!!!!!!!
chris
February 21st, 2008 5:09 pm
here we go carols ‘no parking’ advert
gof i hate birthdays it means i have to find somewhere to park!!!!!
http://www.remind4u.com/Assets/Videos/TV_Ad_001.mpg
i think she owns the company and has the perfect soluction to a problem that didnt exist
Liv
February 21st, 2008 10:22 pm
Moon pig wtf, my baby brother sings this every morning. Enough said.
John
February 26th, 2008 1:06 pm
I hate this advert, it’s awful!
That cartoon pig (which is REALLY annoying but I can’t pinpoint why exactly) looks like it has had a typewriter shoved up it’s arse!
Wolfy
February 26th, 2008 7:09 pm
Good ol’ Google AdWords. I’ve been following these comments by e-mail (keep them up, btw) and Google Mail has just kindly advertised to me, yes, moonpig.com! I don’t know if it was the keyword ‘pig’, or ‘arse’ that caused the trigger, but what I _do_ know is that moonpig.com will get charged if I click the link…
emile paisnel
March 4th, 2008 8:05 pm
I hate and despise all of those bloody halifax adverts, the people that appear in them should be put up against a wall and shot with pig shit.. then there entrails rippped out and burnt.
Jen
March 5th, 2008 11:45 pm
Wrong ad, Emile.
chris.p.noodle
March 9th, 2008 5:08 am
thats a very 18th century and french punishment emile,
back to moonpig, somebody shoot me,,,,,,,,,please.
Tom Cooper
March 9th, 2008 10:34 pm
Not sure if I should even write an entry here but I have to admit I was the sound engineer on the Moonpig.com advert. I have to stress I didn’t write the song but I did record it and mix the ad. I actually quite like the ad!!! *ducks*
“I wonder what retard came up with the name ‘Moonpig’”
The producer asked the client this question. The man that owns the ad was known as “pig” at school. Because he looks like a pig. Seriously. Not sure where the moon bit came from but I guess they were just searching for a domain name.
There’s a new ad coming out in the next few months with a NEW theme tune! Muhahahahaha.
emile
March 11th, 2008 3:07 am
Bugger wasnt looking where i was writng gad zooks…and shiver me doings…moon pig sounds like …leona lewis sucking cock…i give her a bleeding love…any way back to the real world…Yes Chris p any relation to Chris p cock of the meriden news…i prerfer the tried and tested methods of torture and killing i would take all the buggers at the moon pig corporation and each one i would perform the viking blood eagle apon or better still how about covering their genitals with lighter fluid and then set light to the fuckers mmmm sounds good to me….
Bingo
March 31st, 2008 8:10 pm
Ha! This ad is hilarious! Although if I had to watch it more than once I would probably prefer to jump off the balcony. I now how moooonpiiig stuck in my head though… It’s late at night and I’ll probably be singing it all night long. mooooonpiiiig. Wow. What jingle.
Gerard McAveety
April 25th, 2008 8:53 pm
Moon Pig !!
It doesnt annoy me like others…..I actually quite like it !
A still sing it, about an hour after i’ve seen it. It sticks in your head, the whole purpose of an advert
Katherine
May 4th, 2008 11:42 am
Just hearing the tune makes me lunge for the remote to change the channel. Even if the cards were actually OK I wouldn’t use the site because the advert’s so hideous.
Stephen
May 11th, 2008 1:44 pm
It’s not pretentions, the bloke nodding at his card is great, and the music’s Like the start of the Simpsons theme or a Frank Zappa parody. And the bizarre name. It’s good.
ally
May 22nd, 2008 11:58 am
the ad is horrfically catchy
the song ridiculous (even if i cant supress a grin at its sheer sillyness)
product name stupid and pointless
but even more annoyingly, i found my self not only looking at mooooooonpiiiig dot comm but buying a card
to add to annoyance,the card was actually pretty good quality and came out way better than any on the advert.
and now i dont know what to do with myself… dont buy and you can carry on hating safely i say
Ashleigh
May 23rd, 2008 12:57 pm
Its A Good Advert
wel froma 13 year old
Ashleigh
May 23rd, 2008 12:57 pm
Its A Good Advert
wel froma 13 year old point of
Ashleigh
May 23rd, 2008 12:57 pm
point of view **
ALEX THE GREAT!!!!!!
June 3rd, 2008 10:08 pm
I hate how the man points at the card at the end this is worse acting then I’ll do anything! gosh
sophi
June 10th, 2008 9:45 am
“MOOOOOONPIIIIIG.COOOOM” THEY’VE GOT ME F*CKIN SINGIN IT NOW
Cami
June 18th, 2008 3:56 pm
OH MY GOD THAT STUPID MUSIC IS SOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING!!!! I change the channel every time it comes on.
Vicki
July 10th, 2008 3:33 pm
This advert is freaky. It reminds me of when someones taunting you… or when you see ghosts on false TV programmes… I can just see it now, some poor kid is shaking alone in their bed whilst someone is taunting them… ”Moonpig… mooooonpig…” If I were young enough, I think I’d have nightmares over it. I’m against hunting however I might make an exception when it comes to Moonpig.
moonpig
July 10th, 2008 7:44 pm
moonpig…..iwant that as my rin tone for my phoe its BRILL! moon pig.
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