Orbit – Complete
25 July 2008 by SilkyHere’s a bad ad submission that features one of my pet hates in adverts: actors pretending to be “real” customers.
Obviously you can’t have real “real” people in adverts because “real” people have shit hair, and goofy teeth, and dribble uncontrollably from the corner of their mouthes.
“Real” people are the very people you don’t want buying your product – let alone promoting it.
And even if you want the “real” people in your advert to be *quirky*, it’s still safest to get actors to be fake real quirky people for you.
As Orbit demonstrate below:
Thanks to Inssey for submitting this bad ad.
For the purposes of transparency, I should disclose that it wasn’t me who copy and pasted Inssey’s submission into this post but an actor. It turns out she’s better at being me than I am.
What a bitch.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(22 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)
5Responses:
Keith
Said on the 26 July 2008
Wrigleys make really shit ads. That one with the dumb “more we get together” song in drives me scatty. Why is advertising SO irritating these days. I don’t think it was always so, do you ?
Dave
Said on the 26 July 2008
I absolutely detsest this advert with these wankers pretending to do martial arts, it’s not funny or quirky it’s just SHIT.
Cathryn
Said on the 12 August 2008
i think it’s funny, so so so very funny. i’d soooo want to do that! just for a laugh
James
Said on the 22 August 2008
Have you seen the fat bitch at the end chewing and grinning, I want to hurt something every time I see her fucking fat face.
Donnie
Said on the 11 September 2008
This one is funny, just ’cause it’s stupid..
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