The Jackson 5 – EastEnders Trailer
17 April 2008 by SilkyWhat I love about the BBC is it’s independence and it’s complete lack of advertising.
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!
Sorry about that, I can never say that with a straight face.
Whether the BBC is busy promoting a West End musical or pumping police propaganda into our living rooms it seems far from independent these days.
And you simply can’t turn onto a BBC channel without seeing an advert for one of their other BBC shows (OK, they might call them “trailers” but there’s at least one on ever 30 minutes on each channel).
Generally these range from the tediously factual “Songs of Praise on BBC 1 in 30 minutes” type to the outrageous tabloid headline “Pensioners Raped in NHS Hospital by Government on Panorama Tuesday 8pm” type.
Neither of which particularly bother me.
However, this one for the return of Bianca Jackson to Eastenders takes the biscuit. It really does:
Yes, Bianca shouting “Ricky” at the top of her voice may have been her trade mark but, oh God, her singing voice on this advert makes me wish I were deaf.
Sung in one droning note, it has the same effect on my brain as stuffing a burning bag of dog shit in my ear and having an angry door step owner stamping it out.
And she quite literally (Ricky) butchers one of the greatest pop songs ever written with her mockney accent:
“When argh ad you to maa selve argh deedn’t warghnt you argh round.”
She annunciates like she’s Barbara Windsor to the power of Dick Van Dyke.
Oh, Anita Dobson must be turning in her grave!
No BBC, this advert is too much, too much I tell you.
Just How Bad is this Ad?
(61 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)
31Responses:
Jonny Chestwig
Said on the 17 April 2008
I don’t watch Eastenders, but if I did that advert would make me never watch it ever again. So there BBC.
Mike Empuria
Said on the 18 April 2008
The video is no longer available – but at least they’re sorry! Maybe cos it was really bad?
Marsten
Said on the 18 April 2008
*shudder* Oh bloody hell, I have an overwhelming compulsion to stab myself in the ears with a red-hot cotton bud that’s been dipped in molton lead.
Dave
Said on the 18 April 2008
I wonder how much the suicide rate has gone up since this shit hit our screens, pyschiatric wards will be full of poor cunts in straight-jackets, screaming PATSY PALMER JIGGING ABOUT WITH A LOAD OF STAGE SCHOOL BRATS, NOOOOOOOOOOO!
B Brow
Said on the 19 April 2008
Has any seen the ads for Somerfield.
They are horrendous.
clangnuts
Said on the 21 April 2008
It is bloody awful, but it’s also funny – and I think that’s the point of it.
Silky
Said on the 21 April 2008
I suspect you’re right, Clagnuts.
It’s done the trick of putting a smile on my facing and putting me off watching ‘Stenders for a few more months…
Cath
Said on the 21 April 2008
I was amazed to hear Patsy Palmer singing on Jonathan Ross the other night – she wasn’t half as bad as in this ad!
Silky
Said on the 21 April 2008
Yes, Cath, I agree.
I’m assuming that her performance was a direct response to the criticism dished out on TVs Worst Adverts…
Tractorboy5555
Said on the 21 April 2008
Words cannot describe how much I hate this ad. My fist could though…
Michael
Said on the 22 April 2008
The most reprehensible thing about it is it’s cynically calculated appeal to ‘the masses’. It’s depressing how the tide has turned and received pronunciation is now mocked and shunned by the industry, whilst celebration of chav culture and lowlife goes full steam ahead. This pile of absolute fucking shit compounds that wrist-slittingly depressing fact to nth degree.
emile
Said on the 25 April 2008
How sad the british veiwing public has become to want to watch this crap in the first place..along with the program and all the other soap’s that appear on our televisions i would round up the so called soap stars and have them shipped to a remote island some where in the south pacific preferably one is that has nuclear testing on. and leave them there to perish…patsy palmer would then glow all right…not half…here endeth the lesson…
Gerard McAveety
Said on the 25 April 2008
A thought we Brits were a wee bit classier!
-This is so cheezy? Why is everything becoming Cheesier? Cheezy Is Not, IS NOT, the way forward!
ben fegore
Said on the 26 April 2008
I wish Eastenders woz actually half as funny or interesting as that. It is, as bad as it is, false advertising because the actual soap is not living up to it.
Matt Beeching
Said on the 1 May 2008
What a vomit inducing advert. To make matters worse I hadn’t actually seen in until I popped on here. Reminds me why the only thing I watch on the BBC these days is Q.I.
I’m reaching the point of telling the BBC to fuck themselves when it comes to my license fee. Honestly, if enough of us…
biancahh « hmmm
Said on the 2 May 2008
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Bex
Said on the 8 May 2008
Why on Earth did they think it would be a good idea? Just why? It makes Lilly Allen sound like a talented singer…not that we’d know…
BTW Silky, I love this site! Been reading it secretly for a month or so and have finally plucked up courage to start adding! Feel like a secret addict or something! I’m only 16! My mates would die laughing if they found out- but I have finally found people who share my strange passion for hating adverts (ie. loving to hate adverts)! Thank you!
Silky
Said on the 8 May 2008
Hey Bex, glad you like the site and glad you’ve plucked up the courage to comment. We’re not all that scary here really.
I’m a little worried that your mates would laugh at you. Not because of the laughter but because I have no idea why they would be laughing… Oh to be 16 again.
leah
Said on the 3 August 2008
this advert is well cool! its dancey n fun !! lighten up !!
Cathryn
Said on the 12 August 2008
i like eastenders, and don’t see how the in anyway is bad, mind explaining it to me?
Silky
Said on the 12 August 2008
Yes, would someone please write something explaining to Cathryn why this advert is bad?
Oh, hang on, I’ve already done it.
Look higher up the page, Cathryn. Higher up the page!
john
Said on the 15 August 2008
I saw this & refuse to watch eastenders until bianca & her bastard offspring are run into
by a suicide bomber on a milkfloat shoot the b*stard responsible
David
Said on the 17 August 2008
god it was staggeringly bad
Bobdog12
Said on the 29 August 2008
what’s wrong with you all? ……..this is brilliant!
richard
Said on the 28 October 2008
put the entire cast in a minefield in afghanistan and rescue em with a chinnook without a winch
andy export
Said on the 15 January 2009
I actually find it hilarious…and it sticks in your mind better that way. yes..it’s bad…but that’s the point.
rik o shea
Said on the 1 July 2009
new ad coming featuring the jackson 4.
Mike Empuria
Said on the 1 July 2009
Elton John’s doing a rewrite for the funeral but instead of “Candle in the Wind” he’s re-doing “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”
Mike Empuria
Said on the 1 July 2009
and when Farrah Fawcett went to heaven God gave her one wish; all she wanted was to save all children from harm. Just like that Michael Jackson died.
Mike Empuria
Said on the 1 July 2009
I’m done
Archer
Said on the 1 July 2009
Still… it’s good that they found Made…
I couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t do it.
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