Not only is the new Carling C2 advert for an absolutely terrible product but it’s officially the worst advert I’ve ever seen in my life! In the advert a Robot that looks similar to R2D2, but not similar enough for George Lucas to sue, goes into a Robot bar. We’ll call this robot C2D2 although in the ad he’s called something crap like X2000.

The R2D2 lookalike orders a C2 circuit board; apparently robots drink circuit boards not liquids. The bar goes silent, the other Robots are probably thinking “who’s this robosexual”. C2D2 then smugly announces “Yeh that’s right, half the strength, tastes great, and I like it”. The other robots then return to what they were doing and a television screen shows the slogan “C2 also available as larger”.

Thankfully I’m not the only person to realise how bad this advert is, a full write-up on it can be found over on TV’s Worst Adverts. If you’re one of the lucky ones that hasn’t seen the ad yet then you can see this atrocity over on youtube. Here’s a link to my last advert watch. If you like robots then you might like my Top 7 robots list.
Pete Graham xXx

Troll faced Wayne Rooney is now advertising Coca-cola. I am curious how these adverts will effect sales of the carbonated drink.

Pete Graham xXx

In typical style of this blog I have decided to start a new section, like most of my other sections this will probably run for one or two posts and then fade into obscurity. The section is called “Pete’s Advert Watch” and the concept is I discuss product advertisements which have caught my attention recently.

My favourite advert currently is for Britain’s favourite dried dog food (I think it might be Bakers Complete). The storyline is brilliant, the voice over states that dogs would have to go along way to find a tastier dried dog food than this one. Some intrepid Dogs are then shown travelling into space, once in orbit of the earth they dock with a space station. What do they find on this space station? Only a collection of Space-faring dogs enjoying Britain’s Favourite dog food! How do they come up with these amazing ideas!

In the 1950s and 1960s the crazy Russians (USSR at the time) sent a number of dogs into space to determine if human space travel could be possible. The first animals intentionally sent into space were fruit flies, a Monkey called Albert II was the first mammal sent into space in 1949. Tragically Albert II died on return to earth due to a parachute failure.

Pete Graham xXx