The Gadget Help Line

December 19th, 2007

Previously I’ve considered the adverts for Confused.com as actually being TV’s Worst Adverts.

Filmed in an empty studio with sets hand drawn by a blind paraplegic. Badly scripted, badly acted, and badly filmed.

They were the rubbish advert barometer. But no more.

The advert for the gadgethelpline.com takes TV advertising to a new low in terms of quality.

Note from Silky: Sadly the advert is no longer available on the Tube, so here’s the opening credits to the Inspector Gadget cartoon instead:

Some speak of this being a work of genius and it’s amateurish production values does give it a certain charm but come on.

In fact it’s so cheap that I get the feeling that it might have been filmed in the basement of a house in Aurora. Which can only mean that in the next instalment we should expect a lot of “extreme close ups”.

17Responses:

  • I just shat a breadbin watching this!
    Does MICK JAGGER need the money this bad?

  • I heard, Silas, that he did it for free because he was really grateful to The Gadget Helpline when they helped him set up his new Roberts DAB radio.

    That’s what I heard, anyway.

  • brilliant
    possibly the thickest people in the world and the cheapest add - saw it on you tube loads of hits for little cash very cleaver but a bit too dumbed down.
    message is if your a thick fucker buy this, apeals to those who wouldn’t have paid for it in the first place.
    would you trust them with a bank account, easy win for MBNA though

  • OH MY GOD THERES A PSYCHO ON MY TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Note from Silky: I’ve removed this comments after receiving a request to do so from the company behind the Gadget Helpline.

    They objected to some of the points in the comment on factual grounds and some on the ground that they were simply offensive.

    I considered this request carefully. I believe that TWA should be an open forum for people to discuss adverts - and on the whole, I believe it is. However, I agree with the Gadget Helpline that the content of this comment was largely not about the advert but about the company itself. So I have removed it.

    Regular readers will know that from time to time I do edit comments and that comments have cause controversy before but I’ve not had to delete a comment.

    So this was not an easy decision.

    However, after talking it through at length with my bit of fluff, she pointed out that I would be a “feckless cretin” not to remove it. Furthermore she added that case highlighted the fact that “as a concept” TV’s Worst Adverts is “fucking stupid and doomed to failure” and she is sure that the exodus of readers has already begun.

    I hope not.

    Cheers, Silky.

  • It looks like the sort of advert you’d expect to see somewhere in Eastern Europe. It’s so bad I actually find it amusing. But yes, if it was half as long, it’d be more than twice as good.

  • This is so bad I just sawed my own cock off with a broken bottle as a protest. The Cillit Bang was toeing a fine line on the ’so-shit-it’s-good’ front. This is just bowel-detonatingly awful.

  • Hey everyone, don’t knock the gadget helpline. I was having awful trouble with my electric toothbrush, the power switch on it had absolutely no markings, consequently I couldn’t work out how to turn it on. The damn thing sat unused for months until luckily I saw this advert. I resolved to phone the gadget helpline feeling sure they would be able to help. Imagine my dismay when I couldn’t work out how to use the goddam phone. (A friend has kindly typed this for me.)

  • what a load of shit never seen it on tv yet never want to

  • I’ve only seen it on TV once and actually had to pinch myself afterwards. Now I carry it around in all its glory on my iPhone in search of others that may have seen its awful brilliance.

  • Umm. I’m speechless.

  • wtf dis is da biggest loada shite iv’e eva seen

  • wtf dis is da biggest loada shite i’ve eva seen in ma lyf

  • Spelling it ‘ma’ actually saves no time over spelling it ‘my’.

  • Surely that depends on which finger you press da “Y” key with Jonny, innit.

  • Safe Blud.

    On a similar topic, it’s a bit like “Fish ‘n’ Chips”, which surely takes as long to type and “Fish and Chips”

  • I for one will not be ringing the Gadget Helpline on the back of this little incident. Then again, I wouldn’t have anyway, since I’m not at quite the right level of feckless stupidity as to fall for such a pathetic advert.

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