In response to Neils post about unintended ad features*. First up I totally agree with the sinister hoard-o-mechanics hallucination in the AA one, all you need is an unsettling ambient drone and that ad could be part of Dawn of the Dead, infact when I think of the scene I’m sure it does actually have an unsettling ambient drone.
Not so sure about the Heart FM commercial, that’s not sinister, just crap. I’ve not seen the Royal Mail ad.
My current favourite unintended ad feature is the bit in the Head and Shoulders commercial where the voice over person runs the words ’sea minerals’ together to hilarious and purile effect. Not the kind of salty goodness I’d want to rub into my scalp every morning. fnrk! (sorry)
*20six is asking me to type in some letters from one of those distorted .gifs but the link is broken so i can’t se the picture.
And then Dan said:
Rachel and I had also noticed the “a splash of semen rules” unfortunateness. Surely you would pick up on this if you were overseeing the voice recording… day one, lesson one?
And then tom said:My theory is that it’s a deeply misguided attempt to subliminally imprint the sexiness of shampoo on consumers.
And then Dan said:Anyway, exactly what sea minerals are they infusing your hair with?
“Relaxing iron will soothe your scalp, as the zinc gets to work massaging each follicle to an explosive and satisfying finish”.
See also Herbal Essences orgasmic shampoo adverts. You know the one I mean, it has a dubbed model croaking “Next to your loincloth” like an 80 year old male smoker.
And then Diggory said:It must be intentional to grab attention - I though I was a bad man for automatically thinking of the protein-heavy fluid every time that ad comes on.
Luckily You’ve proved I’m not. (Well not entirely.)
Now - how about that ad for some girly perfume called “Touch of Pink.” with the fit chick wandering around vaguely, in a pink dress. I can’t be the only one who thinks about touching her pink….. can I?
And then Diggory said:Isn’t that ‘loincloth’ lady the bonkers girl from Minority Report? Samantha Morton?
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-gb&q=samantha%20morton&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
And then Dan said:More like a cross between Gollum and a lizard
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