Couch Potato Critics

Ad: Telstra Mobile
Aired: Commercial TV – too often.
When : Obviously about the time I’ve written this at a guess!

There is a trend…

I’m going to be writing alot about these kinds of ads as there seems to be some advertising persons who think they are pretty “Kool” ( I even spelt it like that just for them..) and love taking the mickey out of their audience while making a few bucks for their clients.

Anyway, I seen these ads enough times to come to the above conclusion. No I’m not a Telstra Mobile Phone User. I’m not married to an Idiot and if I were I wouldn’t stay with them… But if I had a Telstra Mobile I sure would.

I’d even be happy they were using some “Crappy not as good as Telstra” mobile service, apparently!

The real message

Telstra’s Mobile Service lets you get emails and stuff really fast. [It is an ad..]
The Others [of course] are piss poor slow. Possibly because Telstra has made them that way on their mobile backbone but that’s for another Blog.

The Ad in Question

Bozo Brains and Spunky Dumb Chick are waiting for some friends to arrive at a restaurant… Bozo can’t remember his mates new girlfriends name. “It’s something like a Fruit”…
Spunky Dumb Chick looks up the email they had got sent…While Bozo Brains is still trying to download his email to find out the mates girlfriends name. *** Note – there are better cheaper ways to do this. Just ask them! ***

This is where it gets interesting…

Turns out the Girlfriends name is Melony. “The Fruit” – Melons…hahahaha. Ok, it must have been a real fun creative evening for the guys with a few magazines for inspiration…

Any way the “bloke” and Melony ( what’s the guys name?) sit down, while Spunky Dumb Chick waits to be seated. Of course Bozo Brains doesn’t do the right thing by assisting her as What’s his name had just done for Melons, umm I mean Melony, and she ends up seating herself. Maybe he’s been affected by the “Telstra ” waves as well.
Well he is a Bozo Brain… You are not allowed to smoke near others any more cause they get affected by passive smoking. Passive Telstra Mobile Phone Waves maybe at play here…

If there are more of these…

This is the Second Ad of this “series”… If there is a third, and I’m guessing there will be, it just means there’ll be more for me to write about, and someone has to do it.

If you are a little unsure as to the actual title of this item, I’ll explain. If you use Telstra Mobiles you end up staying with a Bozo Brain… And that is pretty stupid!

She must have changed networks and moved on as I’ve not seen those two together of late…. Good on her!

Well I’m out of popcorn, time for a refill.
Cheers
Noah Little

I’m not sure what to say about this ad,

On the one hand I think it’s Brilliant. My Wife goes into hysterics when she sees it.
On the other hand I kind of cringe in certain parts…You’ll know which parts they are when you see them.

It’s Part II of an ad where all the nice people who make the beer live. You’ll see flashes of them and the paradise they live in throughout the ad.

And it’s where the Dove has apparently come from and got lost and is having great difficulty in getting home.

Warning if you are a Dove

If you are a Dove, you may have problems watching this or maybe you can relate to it.

Watch and enjoy.

Hmm Rankings:

Cleverness 8/10.

Ability to show Beer Drinkers can be kind to animals 9/10.

It might look like Crap. It tastes like crap and it’s name, well it’s ….

Once again the advertising geniuses have disgraced a National Icon by calling a revamped version of it – iSnack 2.0.

What is that? – “I Snack too” or is it some ad geeks idea of a Joke – like Web 2.0. “Oh I’m a internet Nerd and me and all my internet nerdy mates are up on this Web 2.0 thing and we all have Iphones to send nerdy pictures to each other on ( nothing wrong with IPhones by the way – See www.iWankers.com. So let’s first change the taste of some National Icon to real Crap and call it iSnack 2.0. Man that’s so Cool”.

Well Mr Advertising Geek…

Don’t go changing something that’s been working for a long long time and please don’t go using shit names like “iSuck@Advertsing 2″ (possibly the advertising companies name – perhaps it should be)

And whats with – We’ve asked a lot of people… and it’s just your mates around a board room table. Hmmmm Do I dare say more?

So overall – It’s an Insult to every one that likes the Old Vegemite and it insults those who have an IQ greater than 2.0. Again is that a reflection on the iSuck@Advertising 2.0 collective IQ. They must have a large staff

It’s a National Aussie Disgrace

Is the Vegemite company owned by Australians?

In Conclusion

No Ratings or anything on this one. There’s nothing more to say than “think up a better name”!

Format: Television Advertisment.

Location: Australia

By Noah. ( No I didn’t make the AD – but I did write this!)

Description

So we have two kids sitting in what looks like a Photo Shoot place where kids get taken to be tortured to have their photos taken. (I was lucky and never had to go through that).

The young fella cranks up his “Casio Watch” Beat Box and they do this dancing Eye Brow thing.

Looks painful. But I actually enjoy it as it’s different.

I have no idea what the product being advertised is.

Ask me what that ad is advertising? The answer is – ummmm Musical watches or Eyebrow Gymnastic Courses.

Well done to the bozos who dreamt up that AD. Clever Ad, but my poor braincells weren’t indoctrinated with whatever it was you were advertising.

So Ratings.

Entertainment Value : 8/10

Stupidity Factor: 8/10 ( not a bad thing)

Relevancy : negative 10/10. What was it was advertising?

Will those two kids get bagged at school the rest of their lives?

I bet they get a lot of free watches.

Here it is for your Viewing Pleasure…

And this is how they made it…. Well not really, but it looks funny…