Hi, Barry Scott here…
Well, after watching another really crap advert which has leapt to prominence on YouTube as part of some BBC report this morning (the Flea Market Montgomery one) where the awful crapness of the advert is relieved somewhat by the fact that it is entirely amateur, a bit silly, and probably cost an awful lot less to make than many professional adverts.
And then I immediately thought of Barry Scott. As in
Hi! Barry Scott here, asking whether you have problems with rust, limescale, ground in dirt. They’re a problem for some household cleaners, but not for…Barry Scott
If you’ve not seen the sheer awfulness of the real, and most frighteningly probably professionally-produced Cillit Bang advert, then you should watch it on YouTube. That way you’ll understand how much I appreciated it and chortled away to myself when someone produced this quality techno remix of it…
Incidentally, I’ll just give out a little “hello” to the very-much NSFW site B3TA.com, which is where I first came across that remix (quite some time ago now). Warning: visit the site with caution. It has content capable of offending pretty much everyone!
Mike Pepper says:
August 24th, 2007 at 4:42 am
That advert, (and the hundreds of ringtone ones that thankfully appear to have died down now) are the reason I’ve now started record almost everything I want to watch with Sky+, then go through them the next day fast-forwarding through all the advert.
Genuinely entertaining adverts are few and far between these days, I used to be able to put up with the rubbish ones because some were actually quite good, but the only good advert I can think of at the moment that was fairly recent was the Honda Asimo one.
For some reason though the thing that bugs me the most about that Cillit Bang advert is that his name isn’t even Barry Scott! And he announces himself as if we actually know who the hell he is and hold in his opinion in high esteem.
mark fairlamb says:
August 24th, 2007 at 11:49 am
the ironic thing about tv adverts is that the cheap, crap ones are just as likely to make you buy the product as the expensive ones.
i might buy cillit bang because it can clean a penny in seconds so should do a good job on my kitchen sink.
but it doesn’t matter how much britney spears tells me to drink coca cola, if i fancy a pepsi i’ll have a pepsi.
Seb Crump says:
August 25th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Do you think the badly dubbed “real” users are part of the deliberate attempt to make it look cheap?
The other one that annoys me for obvious bad dubbing over the European (German?) version is the Oust ad.
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