Comments on: Banned commercial

Banned commercial

essexjan — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:29:19 -0800

TV Censorship? This advert has just been banned from British TV after a record number of complaints were made about it.

What do you think of it?

By: Dipsomaniac

Dipsomaniac — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:33:53 -0800

I think that there's a bunch of people out there with way too little to worry about.

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:35:10 -0800

Kewl add. Stupid people. Stupid people with delusions of adequate sense of humour.

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:35:27 -0800

"Censorship" is kind of a loaded word to be throwing around, isn't it? The ad is more than a little gross, and it was apparently freaking some children out. Seems like a good reason to me.

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:35:49 -0800

Quick, somebody call the Mothers Against Regurgitating Pets.

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:37:48 -0800

Why do ads get banned outright? Couldn't they just air the ad during adult-friendly hours? Or are today's adults just way too childish?

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:46:00 -0800

So does "make shorter link" actually mean "take longer to get where you're going?"

By: password

password — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:46:08 -0800

If you read the links, you'd see that they are playing the ad after 9pm.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:48:07 -0800

Freaking some children out? What's the matter with kids today? Isn't it still mandatory to have seen the movie Aliens before age 8? I know it was when I was a youngin'

By: squealy

squealy — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:49:05 -0800

I saw it during Coronation Street. Can't say I was shocked or sickened by it, in fact I was quite impressed by it's "realism". But then, I'm not a child, and as we all know somebody has to think of the children.

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:49:37 -0800

Yeah, password, I just spotted that. My bad!

By: biffa

biffa — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:49:43 -0800

Couldn't they just air the ad during adult-friendly hours? That's what the second article seems to be saying has happened. Is that right Essexjan? Anyway, while I thought the ad was quite unpeasant, I was more annoyed by the fact that this is just one of about 4 new or newish products on the UK market in the last month, all being heavily promoted and all seemingly aimed at making people paranoid that they have bad breath.

By: gen

gen — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:51:28 -0800

I like tinyurl.com more- no visit to another page before you get to the desired destination. This ad is not a big deal at all. I don't understand the furor. Also, adding sugar to a mouth with halitosis only covers the problem- doesn't provide a cure. Most of these breathmints are mainly sugar.

By: starvingartist

starvingartist — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:52:09 -0800

I may be completely wrong about this, but... I think it's a rip-off of an episode of the comic strip Go Die. Unfortunately, the particular strip I'm thinking of is not archived. The main character, Ron, is lying on the floor, and his dog Spoon slowly crawls out of his mouth. The text in the final panel is: Ron: "I'm never drinking tequila again." Spoon: "You were way out of line last night!" Can anyone back me up?

By: mokey

mokey — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:55:08 -0800

i was not particularly upset by the advert, but it's getting towards the bounds of what is currently acceptable for adverts, and it is very convincing. i won't miss it, anyway, it's only a freaking advert. good on those people, that they won't let the demented ad creatives make them want to vomit! remember that ads are devious and insidious propaganda designed to weasel their way into your consciousness, interspersed between programs so that you will probably see them even if you don't want to. why bother defending them? the fewer there are the better.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:58:46 -0800

What, Wrigley's still exists? Oh. I guess the ad did its job, then.

By: kaemaril

kaemaril — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:02:56 -0800

OK, so how is it that apparently a peace march of 750,000+ people somehow doesn't actually (according to our leaders) represent the will of the people, but a few humourless gits out of an audience of potentially millions is representative enough to get an ad yanked?

By: scalz

scalz — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:26:51 -0800

The ad is whacked!!! I loved it!

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:42:03 -0800

It might be received better in Korea.

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:57:02 -0800

"but a few humourless gits out of an audience of potentially millions is representative enough to get an ad yanked?" We should get these 580 peeps to call Number 10.

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:59:06 -0800

kaemaril, Freakin' good point.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:05:51 -0800

point of order: essexjan, makeashorterlink or tinyurl are good for use in newsgroups or e-mail, where some may need to cut and paste the text, and clients may cut off parts; but here at metafilter people prefer to know where they are going, especially those surfing from work -- and the URL itself will certainly fit within the HTML link. Not recommended.

By: essexjan

essexjan — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:34:13 -0800

My apologies for using makeashorterlink, I wasn't aware that it was against the netiquette on here.

Wrigley's have decided to withdraw the advert, instead of making sure it is shown later in the evening.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:01:22 -0800

Frank Grimes: Lol But seriously, that add was helarious :P

By: internal

internal — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:41:35 -0800

Well, to be one of few dissenters, I thought the ad was disgusting, mostly for the pile of vomit on the couch and the hurling sounds. I can only imagine if I was eating and this commercial came on - I would be so royally pissed off because it would completely ruin my dinner.

By: essexjan

essexjan — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:01:34 -0800

It's not a pile of vomit on the couch, it's the remains of a doner kebab.

By: jjb

jjb — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 14:58:40 -0800

nothing wrong with it.

By: bradth27

bradth27 — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:39:38 -0800

You know, I think the ad is fine. It does, however, remind me of my father, who would say some of the most outrageous things at exactly the wrong time. Once during the summer when I was around 11 or so, my Dad took all of us camping. To make it fun for the kids, he decided to let us invite our girlfriends/boyfriends....but onlyif we slept in separate tents... Anyway, we are all gathered around the campfire in the morning, and my Dad comes rambling out of his tent, scratching his rear and yawning. He sits down between my girlfriend and I and states, "Did anyone see that bear last night?" We all get freaked out, and my girlfriend started crying for some reason, and I finally said, "what bear? There are no bears around here...." And Dad says, "You know, the one that shit in my mouth last night. My breath smells terrible." My girlfriend went home, told her parents, and they told her she wasn't allowed to date me anymore.

By: wobh

wobh — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:01 -0800

Yeah, you know, a doner kebab[flash].

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:18:33 -0800

The ad disturbed me, but not enough to call and complain. it just freaks me out. A lot.