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December 19, 2014 8:26 AM   Subscribe

This is probably the cutest thing you'll see this Christmas. By far the best Christmas TV advert in the UK at the moment, even cuter than the John Lewis penguin (previously), and on a par with my all-time favourite, the Country Life ad.
posted by essexjan (30 comments total) 13 users marked this as a favorite
 
Dibs on eating the kitten.
posted by jbickers at 8:38 AM on December 19, 2014 [2 favorites]


I don't get it. Are the cookies made of baby animals, or just flavoured to taste like them?

Either way, I hope this doesn't lead to, "Aw, we should get a cute animal for Christmas," because that is never a good idea.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:42 AM on December 19, 2014 [9 favorites]


On that second one we all know the goat would have eaten the cheerios(or what have you) before anything had a chance to clean them up.
posted by Twain Device at 8:43 AM on December 19, 2014


This is still my favorite British Christmas commercial.
posted by jbickers at 8:45 AM on December 19, 2014 [5 favorites]


Sys Rq, the idea is that the cookies are as sweet as baby animals.
posted by essexjan at 8:45 AM on December 19, 2014


All I want for Christmas is a creepy miniature narwhal in a bowl.
posted by TheCoug at 8:45 AM on December 19, 2014 [26 favorites]


Right, but I'm asking if that flavour is natural or artificial.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:46 AM on December 19, 2014 [4 favorites]


Am I the only one who thinks the CGI animals are creepy?
posted by Gev at 8:47 AM on December 19, 2014 [5 favorites]


Sys Rq, the cookies are not animal-flavoured. Not even the pig one.
posted by essexjan at 8:49 AM on December 19, 2014


For background: this is continuing a cute animals inna packet ad campaign that's been going on (no doubt horrifying the Tick) for a while.
posted by penguinicity at 8:58 AM on December 19, 2014


Yes CGI animals especially those packet ones are deep, so very deep, in uncanny valley.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 9:02 AM on December 19, 2014


Well, I mean look at that one! Puppies come out of the packet -- the puppies are the biscuits, which are eaten -- to the theme from Murder, She Wrote. WTF???
posted by Sys Rq at 9:11 AM on December 19, 2014


Vince Clarke must have gotten a lorry-load of money for this.
posted by droplet at 9:11 AM on December 19, 2014 [4 favorites]


cute animals TY

So when that music started I was expecting Angela Lansbury to crawl out of that packet, not puppies.
posted by aught at 9:21 AM on December 19, 2014 [3 favorites]


Also: have we lost all sense of simile / metaphor, my friends? What a literal age we live in!
posted by aught at 9:23 AM on December 19, 2014 [1 favorite]


if they're going to use the Fawlty Towers theme in the hospital ad, shouldn't they be using this cute animal/biscuit footage instead?
posted by PlusDistance at 9:33 AM on December 19, 2014 [2 favorites]


...the idea is that the cookies are as sweet as baby animals.

OH.

*turns head slightly, discreetly spits fur and whiskers*
posted by BlueHorse at 9:42 AM on December 19, 2014 [4 favorites]


The best British Christmas ad ever : Mr Kipling's Nativity
posted by shibori at 9:48 AM on December 19, 2014 [6 favorites]


So when that music started I was expecting Angela Lansbury to crawl out of that packet, not puppies.

Oddly, this is the plot of the new remake of Ringu.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:30 AM on December 19, 2014 [1 favorite]


Okay, I didn't know I wanted a tiny sperm whale until I saw one as an option. Can we get on engineering one those please?
posted by quin at 10:55 AM on December 19, 2014 [1 favorite]


First thought: Oh no, please don't encourage people to impulse buy baby animals around the holidays.

Second thought: IS THAT A TINY NARWHAL IN A PUNCHBOWL? BECAUSE I NEED THAT.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 11:02 AM on December 19, 2014 [9 favorites]


I'm very thankful I saw this in the cold light of morning rather than shortly before going to bed.
posted by Nerd of the North at 11:03 AM on December 19, 2014


Wait! What? Those adorable animals aren't being adopted? They family is just eating cookies?

The song, "Only You" by Yazoo, is a heart breaker about being abandoned. Is the implication that they gave up all of these animals (who now mourn their human family) and are trying to console themselves with cookies? They deserve no consolation! They shouldn't have adopted the animals if they didn't plan on keeping them!

Watch out grandpa. You're next.
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:42 AM on December 19, 2014 [2 favorites]


There will be so many puddles of piddle by morning.
posted by drlith at 11:49 AM on December 19, 2014 [2 favorites]


I'll give 'em props for finding a way to use a narwhal in an ad though. That was unexpected.
posted by Archer25 at 1:04 PM on December 19, 2014


Did Grandmother spike the Christmas punch with her meds and now the whole family is tripping together? The animals "singing" along with Yaz was deeply, deeply creepy to me, sorry.

(but now I want some chocolate Hobnobs so badly).

This has real animals and is better.
posted by emjaybee at 1:19 PM on December 19, 2014 [2 favorites]


Bloodbath!
with apologies to Gareth Keenan.
posted by LonnieK at 6:30 PM on December 19, 2014


Did Grandmother spike the Christmas punch with her meds and now the whole family is tripping together?

I was thinking some kind of Batman-style goofy gas released when the box is opened, the antidote for which is in the cookies.
posted by Sys Rq at 6:46 PM on December 19, 2014


Still the best 'animal'-based Christmas ad out of the UK.

Thank you Weebl.
posted by Ridge at 9:48 AM on December 20, 2014


It's the little baby narwhal that makes the ad complete and perfect.
posted by jason's_planet at 10:34 AM on December 20, 2014 [1 favorite]


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