Favourite Adverts

I am quite a fan of adverts- every now and again you get nice ones, funny ones or just entertaining ones that actually liven up the ad breaks, rather than making them tedious things you sit through so you can watch the next part of The X Factor, or whatever floats your boat. Some of them aren't so good (I hated, to much controversy amongst friends, family and the world it seems, the Cadbury's adverts, like the one with the Gorlilla), but some can be really good.

My favourite ever ad is a foreign one actually, which I saw for the first time on Tarrant on TV as an early teen. Cows are one of my favourite animals and this advert not only involves them, but is sweet and funny too. The product does sound a bit iffy though to be honest. Here it is:

I also like a current cow related advert, which was actually the incentive for today's post:

Even though it has been out a while, for some reason we were all sat around the TV today and my dad was finding the Cow-e-oke hysterical and it was just a lovely moment. An advert that can make you all smile is always a good thing.

I also like the one where the cows get the grass out of the vending machine on their break- what a novel idea!

A new advert I saw last night and really like is the new Volkswagen one, although it may be because it features a song I love. Much better than the other recent one with The Kinks, which made me a bit sad :( This is the new one:

The only other one I can think of, and find, on the spur of the moment, that I loved at the time, is the 'Hate Something, Change Something' advert by Honda. The song is the key I think, but the imagery is lovely too:

Thinking of music, the John Lewis advert from last year sprung to mind too. Ok, it is one that is a bit abstract in that you have no clue what it is for until the end, but it was done really well and is so lovely, as well as having a great song for it:

My all time favourite advert has got to be one I can't find anywhere anymore, much to my chagrin. I have it on an old video which I used to record Friends on when it was on early mornings before school (apparently in 2004, according to my research) and it is the old Specsavers Sloth advert. The sloth busks on the underground and his friend comes along and there is an exchange:
'hey, what up with you man?'
'no money'
'you spend it all on fast cars?'
'no, contact lenses'
'you shoulda gone to specsaverrsss'
For some reason that used to be the highlight of my day sometimes and I would love to see it again, although that may ruin the magic somewhat!

So yeah, a little reminiscing for a Monday night :) I hope there are many more ads I love coming up in the future, and not too many loathsome ones (yes Haribo, I am looking at you!)