Nintendo DS – More Brain Training – Patrick Stewart and Julie Walters
4 December 2008 by SilkyI can’t decide who I would kill first if I was sat next to this pair on a flight: Stewart, Walters or myself.
Here’s a snippet of their oh-so-natural conversation as the “genuinely friends in real lfe” – who were in no way crow barred together just for this advert – enjoy a bit of in-flight entertainment:
Julie Walters: “One fifty from a fiver is… three pounds fifty. Yessssssss.”
Patrick Stewart: “The synapses are firing!”
For the love of God!
One of them is so pleased with her ability to answer a basic maths question that she behaves like she’s just won University Challenge – all by herself.
The other one is patronising in the most gut churning and unnecessarilly intellectual way possible.
Everytime it comes on I want to scream: “She’s doing something a 5 year old would find easy!”.
Sadly, I can’t find this advert on the Tube but feel that the splendour of Patrick Stewart’s moustache alone makes this previous advert a worthy entry in the TV’s Worst Adverts archives:
Thanks to Trystan for submitting this bad ad.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(14 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5)
22Responses:
Ian
Said on the 5 December 2008
it’s not that bad actually… Though PAtrick Stewart’s mustache in the old one does look dodgey
Simon
Said on the 5 December 2008
Julie Walters really is the worst overactor in the world. She murders everything she’s in with her thespy hamming. Her “natural” performances in the Asda and Smoke Alarm ads recently have made me want to kick my tv screen in.
Joanna Butler
Said on the 6 December 2008
its the way she says ‘yessssssssssssssssssssss’ ew its horrible
Sad Panda
Said on the 6 December 2008
The irony is, all the players on the Brain Training adverts play so slowly that they’d have a brain age rating in the 90s.
bilbothetall
Said on the 9 December 2008
Patrick Stewarts “synapses are snapping” line is a straight lift from Samuel L Jackson in the film “51st State” even down to the finger snappng. Isnt that plagiarism, and therefore illegal.
Blossom
Said on the 10 December 2008
I don’t wish to be rude, but aren’t they both a little old to be bothered about having a DS? How snappy do your synapses need to be to potter around the garden, knit things and other generic old people activities..
Archer
Said on the 15 December 2008
Change from a fiver? From £1.50? Oh come on…
Suddenly I understand the irony in the title ‘Educating Rita’.
Simon
Said on the 20 January 2009
All the times this was on, I kept expecting Patrick to finish with “…and all their clothes fall off”
Joanna Butler
Said on the 23 February 2009
lol Simon, that just made me spit out my drink, you owe me a new laptop
Hafoot
Said on the 8 March 2009
1+8…
someone call an ambulance
seriously though what is charles xavier doing playing brain training, isn’t he like psychic or some shit?
The Boy Of Steel
Said on the 28 April 2009
Hafoot is right.
And Silkie, you would seriously consider killing Professor X?
He’s a legend.
The Boy Of Steel
Said on the 28 April 2009
Hafoot is right.
And Silkie, you would seriously consider killing Professor X?
He’s a legend
The Boy Of Steel
Said on the 28 April 2009
Oops, double post.
Now triple post.
Simon
Said on the 28 April 2009
New laptop on its way Joanna. It’s a small one with two screens, and now does some weird photo manipulation stuff that lost its novelty on me before the end of the advert…
leon
Said on the 12 November 2009
yeah, i never understood why they have this retarded thing as though theyre intelligent.
Daniel Newton
Said on the 23 November 2009
I’m getting fed up of seeing the new advert with ant and dec in it – there only showing it 400,000,000 times a day becouse “I’m a none entity get me out of here” is on.
And why on earch does ant (could be dec) say at the end of the advert “to find out who won this challange visit blablabla.com” – why the fuck would I want to waste my time doing that please? the advert is not even that interesting in the first place!
Anyone who buys a Nintendo product who is over the age of 15 should be taken away and shot, regardless of their excuse for buying it.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 23 November 2009
I am starting to fucking hate Nintendo. Now that they have stupid celebrity endorsements, I just CAN’T STAND ANY OF THEIR ADS! Girls Aloud playing Mario Kart?! WHAT THE FUCK?!
Nintendo Presents Style Boutique? I just wanna BARF everytime I see that ad. I buy a DS to play games not for some fucking VIRTUAL SHOPPING! Who wastes £20 on this crap?
Also, Nintendo are stupid fuckwits for licensing the complete crap that ends up on the Wii & DS.
Nintendo used to be about one thing and one thing only. GAMES! I don’t give two shits about the camera on the DSi and I’m sick of seeing Wii Fit Plus advertised all the time! Is this a games console or a fucking fitness machine?!
Also, fuck off Ant & Dec! Go back to your stupid Saturday Night Takeaway, I’m A Celebrity or whatever other shit you do on ITV!
Daniel Newton
Said on the 23 November 2009
@Ad Hater 2.0
I’m sorry but there is know way you can call any Nintendo product a “Games Console” unless your age and/or mental inelegance are that of a 7 year old girl.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 20 December 2009
ARGH!! Nintendo, give me a fucking break from these annoying Wii & DS adverts you insist on shoving in my face every 15 minutes! Ant & Dec are the most ANNOYING celebs to pick to use in an advert. I don’t care about your fucking Wii Sports Resort or New Super Mario Bros. challenges and I’m NEVER going to visit enjoynintendo.com! Just FUCK OFF!
I’m sick of watching those twats jump around like idiots playing a fucking MARIO game. You don’t need to move around like that, it’s a fucking 2D PLATFORMER! Yes, there are some motion controls but there is NO EXCUSE for behaving like complete PRICKS!
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 19 January 2010
Facebook?! Oh, just fuck off Nintendo! I use a DS for playing games not for taking pictures. If I wanted to do that then I’d use a FUCKING DIGITAL CAMERA! I don’t give two shits about uploading photos to Facebook. If I wanted to do that then I’d just copy them to the PC off the SD Card and then do it there.
Also, if I wanted to edit photos then I’d use MS FUCKING PAINT!
£150 for this shite you call a handheld games console? I’ll stick with a DS Lite thanks. Fuck the DSiWare. Most of that stuff is useless. 500 Points (£3.50) for a fucking Dictionary?! And they originally wanted to charge 800 Points (£5.60)?!
Joejoejoe
Said on the 29 January 2010
I didn’t mind the adverts. Admittedly Pat and Julie seem excessively pleased at completing what most would consider simple tasks, but then I imagine featuring relatively basic puzzles in the ad avoids disuading a proportion of their target market; If they had MENSA-standard challenges I doubt many would be excited at the prospect of buying the game. It is a game remember, and so it’s meant to provide fun and entertainment, not a headache. As an advert for that form of game I think it’s effective.
As to the adverts featuring dubious ‘family gatherings’ in which famous and non-famous alike are sat enjoying the Nintendo Wii, beaming with nuclear perfection, I can’t say I’m impressed. They are cringingly artificial. Wow, look, even granny’s having fun! Cue rivers of vomit.
Ad Hater 2.0
Said on the 9 July 2010
“Make the most of summer with Nintendo DS.”
EXCUSE ME?! Sitting around staring at a tiny screen is not my idea of making the “most” of summer! And Style Boutique can just FUCK OFF!
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