Awful sickly Charlie Bears advert

[Julius]

Could anything be more puke-inducing than that advert? It's set in a country house with the obligatory big white kitchen with the central island. Mum is making a victoria sponge cake whilst spoilt daughter is seen in various other rooms and the garden with the various bears dotted around all over the place. The mother looks slightly wistful as she sieves icing sugar over her sponge cake and the slightly husky female voice-over burbles on about the bears becoming friends for life. I guess this is supposed to evoke nostalgia and the feeling that if we buy one of those stupid bears we can buy into that perfect lifestyle.

I'd love to do a spoof of this advert, and film it in a tower block flat. There would be a massive wide screen telly, leather sofa from DFS / Argos. The mother would stuff the remaining slice of a Mr Kipling / Sara Lee sponge cake down her throat and then would slap the child around the head because she's just broken her ipad that she bought on credit from the Provident. The bathroom would be full of Pantene, Tresemmé and Alberto Balsam products from Savers on the dreaded "high street." I'd have one of those doll toilet roll covers with the big dress in shot. There would be copies of Britain's best red-top tabloid on the table.

 

[shopperholic]

Julius, that's QVC being their usual very stereotypical selves, as are you.

 

[Julius]

I know they are trying to be aspirational but they really overdo it. I'd like to take that sponge cake and shove it straight in that woman's face and smash the kitchen and chuck the Kitchen Aid through the window.

 

[Sazza]

I know they are trying to be aspirational but they really overdo it. I'd like to take that sponge cake and shove it straight in that woman's face and smash the kitchen and chuck the Kitchen Aid through the window.

Some serious anger issues there Julius!

 

[shopperholic]

I know they are trying to be aspirational but they really overdo it. I'd like to take that sponge cake and shove it straight in that woman's face and smash the kitchen and chuck the Kitchen Aid through the window.

Nothing "aspirational" about those adverts, patronising yes, aspirational? most definitely not..........sit down and take a deep breath Julius, no QVC advert is worth ruining a perfectly good sponge cake for. :mysmilie_13:

 

[historymystery]

Well said, shopperholic! Talk about pot, kettle, black.

Julius, that's QVC being their usual very stereotypical selves, as are you.

 

[Turandot]

Don't know about the promo but the Charlie Bears hours are a bit weird with all the drooling over various fur animals.

 

[Julius]

Yes, am not keen on Charlie bears as a whole, or the couple that present them. I just don't see that promo as reflecting people's lives. It is a bit like the Darling Buds of May.

 

[donna255]

Someone needs to start taking their chill pills. Far more scary things happening in real life, than getting your knickers in a twist about a TV ad. Simple don't watch, their are loads more TV channels out there.

 

[Turandot]

I go onto the shopping channels to avoid the 24 hour doom and gloom channels.Glossy promos are across all channels that take adverts so just have to ignore them.
Most who post on here seem to be immune to the hype of the promos.

 

[Glittergirl]

Don't know about the promo but the Charlie Bears hours are a bit weird with all the drooling over various fur animals.

Very Weird and when you see some of the Posts of them lying on the stairs, in the kitchen, cooking dinner etc, etc. IT actually Freaks me out!! :mysmilie_15::mysmilie_15:

 

[historymystery]

Although the Q adverts are generally sick-inducing, I find them hilarious with the false smiles, the 'perfect' families, the white kitchens and sofas, et al. But most adverts on telly fall into the same category, because these companies are trying to cultivate an image of an ideal life that people will want to buy into. What I do know is that if I started taking Q and their ads. seriously and stopped laughing at them, I'd refer myself for some treatment.

I'd be sorry to see them go, as there's precious little that's so funny on the 'box.

Someone needs to start taking their chill pills. Far more scary things happening in real life, than getting your knickers in a twist about a TV ad. Simple don't watch, their are loads more TV channels out there.

 

[donna255]

There is a long running ad about checking your credit score, the same actor has now turned up in a ad for Currys! Usually they give us a break but this actor must be coining it in with two ads running at the same time.

 

[Vienna]

I must admit I love the new Money Supermarket ad where He Man and Skeletor are doing a spoof of the Dirty Dancing movie.

 

[donna255]

I must admit I love the new Money Supermarket ad where He Man and Skeletor are doing a spoof of the Dirty Dancing movie.

I actually burst out laughing when I first saw it. Totally fantastic. Now that is a fun ad.

 

[maymorganlondon]

There is a long running ad about checking your credit score, the same actor has now turned up in a ad for Currys! Usually they give us a break but this actor must be coining it in with two ads running at the same time.

Yes, I noticed that. Love the credit score animals (Moose the Boxer, and Flearoy the scheming power-crazed cat).

Slightly random, but anyone else spotted Marie-Francoise in an online casino ad?

 

[Julius]

Yes the ads are funny. I just think this one really goes over the top in its attempt to conjure up this lifestyle. I actually quite like reading Hello magazine (they have it in the restaurant at my gym) because it's fun to see how that sector of society live, but with QVC it's just a TV shopping channel and they are all so up themselves it's hilarious! It seems to me that almost EVERYTHING they sell has a lower priced alternative in the perfectly OK "high street."

 

[boffy]

Nothing "aspirational" about those adverts, patronising yes, aspirational? most definitely not..........sit down and take a deep breath Julius, no QVC advert is worth ruining a perfectly good sponge cake for. :mysmilie_13:

sacre bleu not worth the sweat lol

 

[Vienna]

Worth a look just for the laugh

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[Twilight]

I must admit I love the new Money Supermarket ad where He Man and Skeletor are doing a spoof of the Dirty Dancing movie.

I do too, the little lad makes me smile with his nonchalant nodding. I detested the previous ads with the oh so suggestive dancers & can't stand the one from the FCA with the head of Arnold Schwarzenegger on wheels.