I've analysed the Maccas ad where people are using it as a meeting point, and I've told people the last vignette of the daughter meeting her Dad at Maccas with the Mum dropping her off is clearly a divorce handover.
You’re correct, it definitely is a handover - but that’s not a bad thing. We have a blended family and handovers of various kinds were normal when the kid was younger, and we were pleased to see Maccas showing a new and diverse family situation - because that really is life for a lot of families
My friends and I usually meet at a local McDonald’s car park that’s central for all us on a Sunday morning to go riding. The amount of kid handovers you see at a Macca’s on a Sunday morning is astounding! - lol
As a former family lawyer we actively use maccas when parents won’t agree. It’s well lit, with other people around, and usually covered with CCTV. They also have playgrounds and chips as a perk for the poor kids. Better than a police station!
Huh, my sister and I went through something similar as kids but not with divorced parents. We were raised by foster parents, but every now and then we'd be sent to spend a weekend with our biological grandmother. When those weekends finished our grandmother's friend would do the handover back to our foster parents at a maccas carpark. Looking back, I really don't know why we weren't just dropped off home directly, it wasn't far away. Should ask my dad if there was some drama I didn't know about.
I’ve done that! When it’s time for a handover to dad, our meeting place is always Dural maccas! We both live 3+ hours out of Syd in opposite directions
What gets my gourd is that Cadbury have two specific ads that have depressive thematics. One that shows a woman crying and in obvious distress, the other a low class/poverty stricken mother and daughter, with the mother in an obvious state while the child takes to the task of trying to do something nice for her.
What about the one with the little boy riding the bus and trying to give a bar of chocolate to a distressed young woman? They really don’t out you in the mood to eat chocolate.
I mean, they could go for the more modern take of the guy getting yelled at by the wife over the phone and stopping by to get chocolate on the way home to distract her so he is allowed inside his own house.
I haven't seen the Australian version but that ad is years old. The UK one if from at least Jan 2018. If that's the same one with the unicorn for change, how lazy.
I think that’s what makes it weird. You can tell it’s dubbed but their lips aren’t moving out of sync. There’s a few ads like this which are clearly from the US with Aussie voices dubbed over actors who are clearly not Australian looking.
And what the hell does is it even mean anyways. I've got a glass and a half of milk inside me? Or do I have a glass and a half of chocolate? Goodness? Fucks to give about shitty advertising? It makes no fucking sense.
My mum used to loudly criticise Wallet Wizard anytime she could when my ex was around. She knew how little money sense she had and was trying to get it into her head not to use it.
“Chocolate? Again! Listen you little shit, ask for A LEG of LAMB and A PACK OF WINNIE BLUES! Say it! Say it! And remember next time, you’re utterly useless.”
All of these 'mournful' Cadbury ads do my head in. The latest surly girl in the servo 'thankyou dad' pathetic. If only the chocolate didn't taste as bad as the
Yes!! And this ad gives me the shits because if I was working at the servo, I’d be telling my Dad to get the Cadbury at Woolies or Coles and not to waste the $6 it costs at the petrol station.
Or that one where Meerkats compare insurance (I think that's what it was?). Or the dog with a light saber that chops down part of a house. It's a crazy world out there.
What about the shopkeeper? No employee would give something that has a price tag of $8.45 on it away for free, so the guy behind the counter must be the owner, not a good business practice to be giving away chocolate when the store isn't exactly doing a roaring trade.
What annoys me is the little girl's lack of economic savvy. At 4 years old I was capable of working out how many bullets 20 cents would buy me, and knowing that a gobstopper was the cheapest lolly if you used a money:time equation. Buying mixed lollies was our introduction to maths and no one ever tried paying in buttons.
I just wonder if Cadbury are accepting bits of pocket rubbish as payment from their stockists now? Cause it seems like they’re expecting them to accept it as payment from customers.
I figured the point is that the shopkeeper has a good heart and recognised the little girl's efforts to cheer up her distressed mother. He was willing to lose a small amount of money on a block of chocolate to help a little kid make her mum a bit happier on a bad day.
Hate it. Cadbury act like it's a heart warming story but its just a kid begging for free food from a small business owner. Think that would work at Woolies?
The latest Cadbury ad campaign is so miserable, it is pathetic. It has possibly cost them business, I think twice now when selecting chocolate. If there is a half priced mars bar Cadbury doesn’t stand a chance.
The girl crying on the bus makes no sense to me. She doesn't even take any chocolate. The one ad that really bothers me is the Oreos ad where the white guy is dancing with a black kid... Looks like a pedo seducing a kid with Oreos before creepily leading her away. Or is that just me?
Lol nah that one is like, hey adopted dad, you’re on your phone too much and I want you to pay attention to me, so imma put this Oreo on your phone to make you remember you should be in the moment with me your kid who you paid lots of money to adopt, and he feels guilty and overdoes it with the fake dancing to the busker to alleviate his guilt and show her he’s being present lol. Still a bad ad though 😂
The Mum knows the kid has gone in there, so she knows the kid is buying something. She's obviously been told by the kid to not come in because she just waits outside, and it's not really that normal for a Mum to just wait outside while her young kid goes "oh hey wait here Mum, just gotta go buy something from that store".
I always see them as a grifter pair too! Like, the birthday detail, the fact that she waits outside when she obviously knows her young daughter has no money of her own - it’s too convenient. They’ve done this before! I’ve always seen them as a pair who are well practiced at it.
Why can't it be two kids picking out some chocolate for Mum on their way to the car after school? Or some kind of 'every year the three kids wish Mum Happy Birthday with a block of Dairy Milk' right up to adulthood?
It doesn’t bother me half as much as the iPhone ad where the little kids (as in under-10’s) are Christmas level excited about the release of a new phone. They’re squealing “it’s here it’s here” like they’re spotted Santa’s bloody sleigh. Every time I watch it I feel like I’ve entered a dystopian capitalist nightmare!
Yeah it's a bit weird. But so many adds are just so stupid. But my current pet hate add is the passports aren't boring in the pepsiverse. That just makes me want to throw something at the tv.
Mums so busy on the phone doesn’t notice her daughters wandered off somewhere & has no clue she was in the shop. Doesn’t question how she got the chocolate …
Yes! This is exactly what I thought, before watching the full ad on YouTube where she nods for her daughter to go into the shop. And then her daughter comes out with chocolate and you’d think she’d ask…
Reminds me on the McDonald’s ad where the women announces her pregnancy to her mum with a soft serve with pickles… yet pregnant women aren’t suppose to eat soft serve.
Yeah, I thought she was being negligent, but the longer version shows that she lets her daughter go in. Still…the appearance of the chocolate would be sus.
I always wondered this: so is she being negligent while on the phone or putting her daughter up to it? The longer version on YouTube has her nodding to her daughter as she goes in. Still, she doesn’t enquire about the chocolate?
Mum was in on the heist. That day, armed with nothing more than a pocket full of buttons and cheap trinkets, they hit every corner store and florist in town.
Does anyone else find those Australian Cadbury adverts on TV extremely uncomfortable? The lighting is depressing, there’s always a subtle undertone of child neglect or poverty passed off as kids doing cute things.
Sounds like that maccas one where the kid just leaves the mum to do everything and grabs himself some food then begrudgingly gets like a single burger for the mum and acts like he saved the day
You missed the main part of the mother waiting outside. She has sent her daughter in there knowing she has no money for chocolate. It’s a scam. I bet if it didn’t work they’d be 5 finger discounting it.
How about he just says no to exchanging pieces of worthless plastic for chocolate? If he gives nothing that's nicer than him giving in exchange for something?
I always thought it had an Oliver(Olivia) Twist theme...Mum(Fagan) sends the kid (Olivia) in to emotionally blackmail the shop owner into handing over a chocolate for buttons. Unless mum and the choco;ate shop owner have an 'arrangement' we are unaware of.
I loved the concept until I assumed I could send my kids up to the store with a handful of spare buttons, small toys & trinkets to buy a block of dairy milk... they came back empty handed and crying! Wtf Cadbury :(
Don’t watch tv very often these days except for the news, footy or Bluey (watch it with my toddler) but would love The Chaser to come back and do their re-enactments of ads; imagine watching Chaz try and haggle for some chocolate in a milk bar!
If you look at the whole ad as opposed to the “short version”,it’s fine when she goes into the shop and when she comes out it been pissing down rain…….. PS The shopkeeper also looks like a pedo.
But she didn't have money, she just had a handful of pocket debris. Imagine her dad giving her that and being like "here sweetheart, go buy your mum a birthday present" lol
How about the V Energy ad where it's a world of anthropomorphic bugs, and they're on a road trip singing their hearts out, when they hit a mosquito with the windshield.
Annoying ad. Surprised they can use footage of the block of chocolate though, it’s probably halved in size 4 times since it was filmed… are they selling a single row these days for the same price?
Maybe she had been doing chores and earned pocket money? That's what I used to do and it worked out just fine as far as I can recall come family birthday time.
It put a smile on my face. Our family grew up poor in Perth. Among the three brothers, a block of chocolate and bottle of coke became a go to birthday present. I think my younger brother was the one that set the norm. Yes a little shameful, but it worked. Now in our mid to late fifties, it still gets brought up and reminisced.
Dude is supposed to be the good-guy in the story, but essentially he gives the chocolate away for free. But if he’s willing to give the chocolate for free, why is he keeping all her toys!?
The part that annoys me most is how they cut out the part with how she pays with buttons and a toy. Went from a sad story about poverty and human generosity to just some kid buying chocolate.
Yes and the way the shopkeeper takes some of her trinkets as “payment”. I mean, you’d just give her the chocolate - you wouldn’t want to really take her small plastic unicorn, would you?
Why does the old guy behind the counter a rag tag collection of odds and bobs anyway? Just give her the chocolate and let her keep her kiddy treasures man!
I'm always saying to my mum when we watch it like oh it's cute when she robs someone by giving them useless crap but if I do it it's "illegal" and "I'm being taken to a mental hospital"
What gets me is the recent Cadbury ad that takes place at a petrol station. There is a split second shot of the petrol station itself and if you're quick you'll notice that the petrol prices change every time they air the ad to keep up with the current price. If it was me I would just remove that shot or obscure the prices but good on them for the extra effort I guess.
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I've analysed the Maccas ad where people are using it as a meeting point, and I've told people the last vignette of the daughter meeting her Dad at Maccas with the Mum dropping her off is clearly a divorce handover.
I had to do the "handover" run when my son and his wife separated. They weren't allowed within 100m of each other, so needed a third party go-between.
You’re correct, it definitely is a handover - but that’s not a bad thing. We have a blended family and handovers of various kinds were normal when the kid was younger, and we were pleased to see Maccas showing a new and diverse family situation - because that really is life for a lot of families
My friends and I usually meet at a local McDonald’s car park that’s central for all us on a Sunday morning to go riding. The amount of kid handovers you see at a Macca’s on a Sunday morning is astounding! - lol
As a former family lawyer we actively use maccas when parents won’t agree. It’s well lit, with other people around, and usually covered with CCTV. They also have playgrounds and chips as a perk for the poor kids. Better than a police station!
Huh, my sister and I went through something similar as kids but not with divorced parents. We were raised by foster parents, but every now and then we'd be sent to spend a weekend with our biological grandmother. When those weekends finished our grandmother's friend would do the handover back to our foster parents at a maccas carpark. Looking back, I really don't know why we weren't just dropped off home directly, it wasn't far away. Should ask my dad if there was some drama I didn't know about.
I’ve done that! When it’s time for a handover to dad, our meeting place is always Dural maccas! We both live 3+ hours out of Syd in opposite directions
I have a mate that has always done pick ups and drop offs with the ex at the same local maccas
Welcome to my childhood.
Too much...
That's pretty common knowledge? They don't try to hide it. They seem to be trying to normalise it so kids don't feel so weird about it.
Don’t get me started on radio ads, car horns should be banned from all radio ads
And emergency sirens.
Car horns and emergency sirens! I also think siren noises should be banned in radio edits of songs
Stop listening to commercial radio
I invented those
I refuse to listen to the radio for this exact reason. I’d rather Spotify anyway.
Anything that has water dripping sends me right off the edge, man. Road rage on empty streets kind of madness.
The Subway ad that just repeats Subway over and over is my current most hated sound in the universe.
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxaoc3cxRT5p6lU2fu0s_2J9z1ngUVwerV
I honestly haven't listened to any form of radio in years but I also think this should apply to songs
What gets my gourd is that Cadbury have two specific ads that have depressive thematics. One that shows a woman crying and in obvious distress, the other a low class/poverty stricken mother and daughter, with the mother in an obvious state while the child takes to the task of trying to do something nice for her.
They're aimed at, and made in, post austerity Britain. It's not sadistic, it's just a reality Australians aren't yet familiar with.
What about the one with the little boy riding the bus and trying to give a bar of chocolate to a distressed young woman? They really don’t out you in the mood to eat chocolate.
I mean, they could go for the more modern take of the guy getting yelled at by the wife over the phone and stopping by to get chocolate on the way home to distract her so he is allowed inside his own house.
It’s a UK ad and poorly dubbed.
The ad looks like it’s from the UK! The miserable, depressing look of it gives it away
I haven't seen the Australian version but that ad is years old. The UK one if from at least Jan 2018. If that's the same one with the unicorn for change, how lazy.
I think that’s what makes it weird. You can tell it’s dubbed but their lips aren’t moving out of sync. There’s a few ads like this which are clearly from the US with Aussie voices dubbed over actors who are clearly not Australian looking.
Dubbed.....it's (almost) speech free lol
Dubbed ads are a fucking disgrace
I’m more mad that they subtly changed the slogan from “there’s a glass and a half in every one” to “there’s a glass and a half in everyone”.
I can’t believe I never realised this! Unbelievable. Yet another reason not to purchase Cadbury.
And what the hell does is it even mean anyways. I've got a glass and a half of milk inside me? Or do I have a glass and a half of chocolate? Goodness? Fucks to give about shitty advertising? It makes no fucking sense.
There's a glass and a half in everyone~
Used to say "every block" when the legendary Professor said it.
If we're talking of annoying ads nothing comes close to Real Life Insurance, Wallet Wizard and The Grout Guy. Good god shoot me now!!
My mum used to loudly criticise Wallet Wizard anytime she could when my ex was around. She knew how little money sense she had and was trying to get it into her head not to use it.
“Honey, I accidentally laminated the cat”
I dunno, have you seen that (Telfast?) as where the woman sings Bulletproof in a really aggressive way while staring into camera.
“Chocolate? Again! Listen you little shit, ask for A LEG of LAMB and A PACK OF WINNIE BLUES! Say it! Say it! And remember next time, you’re utterly useless.”
The ad that annoys me is the one on not drinking while you're pregnant. Where they pour a glass of wine into this "fetus jar" thing
I love that ad. Every time it comes on I think ‘man I wish I had a glass the shape of a fetus’. Marketing works.
All of these 'mournful' Cadbury ads do my head in. The latest surly girl in the servo 'thankyou dad' pathetic. If only the chocolate didn't taste as bad as the
Yes!! And this ad gives me the shits because if I was working at the servo, I’d be telling my Dad to get the Cadbury at Woolies or Coles and not to waste the $6 it costs at the petrol station.
The taste makes it a good advert for Whittakers.
That ad is so old the little girl grew up and became the SportsBet voiceover guy.
No joke
I hate how she says a bar of chocolate it’s a block mate
Tell me about it! This has annoyed me since day one!
You think that is unrealistic...Wait until you see the one about the sheep selling home loans
Or that one where Meerkats compare insurance (I think that's what it was?). Or the dog with a light saber that chops down part of a house. It's a crazy world out there.
What about the shopkeeper? No employee would give something that has a price tag of $8.45 on it away for free, so the guy behind the counter must be the owner, not a good business practice to be giving away chocolate when the store isn't exactly doing a roaring trade.
I know! As if that would really happen in real life. I know it's all about showing how kind people can be, but come on.
What annoys me is the little girl's lack of economic savvy. At 4 years old I was capable of working out how many bullets 20 cents would buy me, and knowing that a gobstopper was the cheapest lolly if you used a money:time equation. Buying mixed lollies was our introduction to maths and no one ever tried paying in buttons.
I just wonder if Cadbury are accepting bits of pocket rubbish as payment from their stockists now? Cause it seems like they’re expecting them to accept it as payment from customers.
I figured the point is that the shopkeeper has a good heart and recognised the little girl's efforts to cheer up her distressed mother. He was willing to lose a small amount of money on a block of chocolate to help a little kid make her mum a bit happier on a bad day.
By the looks of the place, that block of chocolate would be out of date and probably covered in white shit.
Hate it. Cadbury act like it's a heart warming story but its just a kid begging for free food from a small business owner. Think that would work at Woolies?
Every time this ad comes on my bf and I snarl sarcastically at each other. Brings out the worst in everyone.
But I thought there was a glass and a half in everyone!
The latest Cadbury ad campaign is so miserable, it is pathetic. It has possibly cost them business, I think twice now when selecting chocolate. If there is a half priced mars bar Cadbury doesn’t stand a chance.
I find all their ads depressing as fuck, definitely not making me want to buy Cadbury's.
Yes I am, and now I want chocolate (but I eat Whittaker's, not Cadbury)
Yep, love Whittaker’s. Best chocolate ever.
Whittaker's Berry Forest is amazing
What annoys me most is that it's clearly an ad from the UK that they have dubbed over.
That's peak Australia no? Take it from the UK, change it a tiny bit, boom, Australian.
My mother has diabetes. I used to buy her chocolates as a present but now if I do it she will die.
The girl crying on the bus makes no sense to me. She doesn't even take any chocolate. The one ad that really bothers me is the Oreos ad where the white guy is dancing with a black kid... Looks like a pedo seducing a kid with Oreos before creepily leading her away. Or is that just me?
Lol nah that one is like, hey adopted dad, you’re on your phone too much and I want you to pay attention to me, so imma put this Oreo on your phone to make you remember you should be in the moment with me your kid who you paid lots of money to adopt, and he feels guilty and overdoes it with the fake dancing to the busker to alleviate his guilt and show her he’s being present lol. Still a bad ad though 😂
The Mum knows the kid has gone in there, so she knows the kid is buying something. She's obviously been told by the kid to not come in because she just waits outside, and it's not really that normal for a Mum to just wait outside while her young kid goes "oh hey wait here Mum, just gotta go buy something from that store".
I like the grifter scenario best. Probably some Mum and daughter duo out there ripping off shops this way :)
I always see them as a grifter pair too! Like, the birthday detail, the fact that she waits outside when she obviously knows her young daughter has no money of her own - it’s too convenient. They’ve done this before! I’ve always seen them as a pair who are well practiced at it.
I can't wait until someone jailbreaks AR glasses and let's me block all ads black mirror style
Why can't it be two kids picking out some chocolate for Mum on their way to the car after school? Or some kind of 'every year the three kids wish Mum Happy Birthday with a block of Dairy Milk' right up to adulthood?
And also, she is paying in treasures, why doesn't the shopkeeper give most of them back to her?
Yes! I just watched the long version and while he gives her back the unicorn, he actually keeps a plastic ring she gives him…a bit too creepy for me.
It doesn’t bother me half as much as the iPhone ad where the little kids (as in under-10’s) are Christmas level excited about the release of a new phone. They’re squealing “it’s here it’s here” like they’re spotted Santa’s bloody sleigh. Every time I watch it I feel like I’ve entered a dystopian capitalist nightmare!
Oh my gosh I'm always having a go with my mum over that one.
What really annoys me is the Menulog ad with Katie Perry. That song is so incredibly irritating.
Like I had to check it was Katy Perry because I was like this song is so bad surely she wouldn't risk the reputation risk
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Incoming 'I haven't watched free to air since 1956'
"I HaVeN't WaTcHeD fReE tO AiR SiNcE 1776"
😂😂
Bring back the drumming gorilla and the weird eyebrows!
Alllll Ads piss me off
Agree, at least the dad in the servo one is believable
I have had the exact same rant about this ad.
Yeah it's a bit weird. But so many adds are just so stupid. But my current pet hate add is the passports aren't boring in the pepsiverse. That just makes me want to throw something at the tv.
If there isn't already, there should be something along the lines of Razzie Awards for stupid ads. Gruen used to do something similar...
Mums so busy on the phone doesn’t notice her daughters wandered off somewhere & has no clue she was in the shop. Doesn’t question how she got the chocolate …
Yes! This is exactly what I thought, before watching the full ad on YouTube where she nods for her daughter to go into the shop. And then her daughter comes out with chocolate and you’d think she’d ask…
Omg what about the glass and a half of goodness part. Like who’s going around measuring everyone’s level of goodness?
Professor Julius Sumner Miller did!
Each one of these Cadbury ads is worse than the last. A team of fuckwits in suits got paid millions to come up with these
Oh Jesus. This one and the love you dad over the loud speaker. Fucking nauseating.
And it will teach kids they can just buy shit with toys???????? Reality doesn’t work that way lol
They went for wholesome.
... YES.
I hate the Easter version where they hide an egg under the quilt cover for the kid with a broken leg.
Mum is like “girl, I buy my chocolate from Aldi for a reason…..”
Reminds me on the McDonald’s ad where the women announces her pregnancy to her mum with a soft serve with pickles… yet pregnant women aren’t suppose to eat soft serve.
Oh tell me more I didn't know this.
Soft serve is perfectly fine for pregnant women to eat. At least here in Australia anyway.
Her family has a monthly account with the shop, and the shop owner recognises/knows the girl. The chocolate is put on the monthly account.
But also the mum is just leaving her kid in the store? She's outside .. She must know her daughter is not next to her lol
Yeah, I thought she was being negligent, but the longer version shows that she lets her daughter go in. Still…the appearance of the chocolate would be sus.
The mother was just waiting outside the store. Did she just send the tiny child in there with no money to buy her a birthday present?
I always wondered this: so is she being negligent while on the phone or putting her daughter up to it? The longer version on YouTube has her nodding to her daughter as she goes in. Still, she doesn’t enquire about the chocolate?
Mum was in on the heist. That day, armed with nothing more than a pocket full of buttons and cheap trinkets, they hit every corner store and florist in town.
Twice a day more like.
Does anyone else find those Australian Cadbury adverts on TV extremely uncomfortable? The lighting is depressing, there’s always a subtle undertone of child neglect or poverty passed off as kids doing cute things.
Sounds like that maccas one where the kid just leaves the mum to do everything and grabs himself some food then begrudgingly gets like a single burger for the mum and acts like he saved the day
I remember watching ads
Yeah, I'm still watching free-to-air and paying the price with crap ads!
It’s not the worst ad around. Basically any love show ad is 💀
I like that this bothered you so much I see what you mean
That's crazy and all but have you had your Inner Health Plus today???
Weird ad. Guess she could have pocket money. There’s a long version which makes more sense
The servo one gets me, I'm buggered if I can hear what he says to the woman on the counter, is it her dad?
I was thinking I can’t wait till I can say it’s my birthday, then give my kid some buttons to buy mum some chocolate
You missed the main part of the mother waiting outside. She has sent her daughter in there knowing she has no money for chocolate. It’s a scam. I bet if it didn’t work they’d be 5 finger discounting it.
And the dude give one toy back as change...
How about he just says no to exchanging pieces of worthless plastic for chocolate? If he gives nothing that's nicer than him giving in exchange for something?
Every.sinhge.time. my partner sent me this post link because I make vomiting noises every time it comes on. It's just stupid and tacky and sickening.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to Cadbury ads, where the world is chocolate?
All ads annoy me
I don’t get why the shop keeper dude actually takes some of the little girls things lol. He didn’t just give her a free chocolate…
I always thought it had an Oliver(Olivia) Twist theme...Mum(Fagan) sends the kid (Olivia) in to emotionally blackmail the shop owner into handing over a chocolate for buttons. Unless mum and the choco;ate shop owner have an 'arrangement' we are unaware of.
When the shopkeeper says “your change” is the worst bit because it is so clearly not his voice and it irritates me every time
They have this ad all around the globe localised for specific region, here are some examples:
I loved the concept until I assumed I could send my kids up to the store with a handful of spare buttons, small toys & trinkets to buy a block of dairy milk... they came back empty handed and crying! Wtf Cadbury :(
Don’t watch tv very often these days except for the news, footy or Bluey (watch it with my toddler) but would love The Chaser to come back and do their re-enactments of ads; imagine watching Chaz try and haggle for some chocolate in a milk bar!
Meh i stole a few gifts as a youngster for my mum. Its the thought that counts isnt it
There’s a glass and a half in everyone except OP
Jesus christ talk about making a big deal over nothing
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That must be it. Knowing me it was probably a pack of Twisties, and my Mum probably ate them anyway.
Ha I always found it kinda annoying that I Cadbury is trying to impart a message that their product will make living in poverty a joy.
If you look at the whole ad as opposed to the “short version”,it’s fine when she goes into the shop and when she comes out it been pissing down rain…….. PS The shopkeeper also looks like a pedo.
I'll take some free chocolate
That add is pure poverty porn, disgusting.
its just an ad, get over it... plus the little was very sweet, i bet you don't love you mon enough eh.
"There's a glass and a half in everyone"
Milk! There’s supposedly a glass and a half in every Cadbury block!
Could the kids dad not have given her money?
But she didn't have money, she just had a handful of pocket debris. Imagine her dad giving her that and being like "here sweetheart, go buy your mum a birthday present" lol
Huh. Free-to-air TV still exists.
Oh fuck me!! Get over yourself FOR FUCKS SAKE!! OP must be doing psychology at uni. What a fucked up rant!
I’m confused what does doing psychology at Uni have to do with anything?
This post is retarded
It’s a bar, not a bloody block!
I thought a bar was like an individual bar (Mars bar, etc.), while the the 200g blocks are, well, blocks...
Well all of the stuff she gives as "money" to the shop assisstant is probably worth the $2 or $3 the chocolate bar is worth
No, but I probably will be by next week.
Cadbury? Just say no. There's far better to be had.
How about the V Energy ad where it's a world of anthropomorphic bugs, and they're on a road trip singing their hearts out, when they hit a mosquito with the windshield.
I'm annoyed by all ads, full stop.
People are a bit salty on kindness demonstrated atm
Its got nothing on the subway hotdog ad.
I can’t stand that ad. And I thought I was the only one. I really can’t tolerate most ads, so I rarely watch live television anymore. Whatever…
Also being overused in New Zealand as well
Annoying ad. Surprised they can use footage of the block of chocolate though, it’s probably halved in size 4 times since it was filmed… are they selling a single row these days for the same price?
I always chuckle at the unicorn change. Wholesome asf.
fuck yeah. It seems to me that the mother is a drug addict or something, sending the kid in to get bloody free stuff.
Maybe she had been doing chores and earned pocket money? That's what I used to do and it worked out just fine as far as I can recall come family birthday time.
These ads make you feel awful - the family so poor the kid needs to use buttons to buy chocolate?
How does anyone watch commerical television or listen to radio anymore?
It put a smile on my face. Our family grew up poor in Perth. Among the three brothers, a block of chocolate and bottle of coke became a go to birthday present. I think my younger brother was the one that set the norm. Yes a little shameful, but it worked. Now in our mid to late fifties, it still gets brought up and reminisced.
Dude is supposed to be the good-guy in the story, but essentially he gives the chocolate away for free. But if he’s willing to give the chocolate for free, why is he keeping all her toys!?
Because it'd be infinite free chocolate for mum otherwise?
The part that annoys me most is how they cut out the part with how she pays with buttons and a toy. Went from a sad story about poverty and human generosity to just some kid buying chocolate.
Yes and the way the shopkeeper takes some of her trinkets as “payment”. I mean, you’d just give her the chocolate - you wouldn’t want to really take her small plastic unicorn, would you?
Seems strange that instead of him giving something and that being treated as positive it seems like he's being treated as if a miser?
Why does the old guy behind the counter a rag tag collection of odds and bobs anyway? Just give her the chocolate and let her keep her kiddy treasures man!
Are we not talking about how the mum doesn't keep an eyebon her kid for a few minutes without knowing where she is.
Is that the one where the shop keep takes knick knacks as payment?
what about the gorilla playing drums from like a decade ago? did you get this annoyed by that too?
I'm always saying to my mum when we watch it like oh it's cute when she robs someone by giving them useless crap but if I do it it's "illegal" and "I'm being taken to a mental hospital"
If it's advertising just assume I'm already annoyed by it, regardless of the content
“I’d like a bar of chocolate please it’s for my mum”
Where do you see these “ads” you speak of?
No I love it tbh. You are definitely overanalysing it.
What gets me is the recent Cadbury ad that takes place at a petrol station. There is a split second shot of the petrol station itself and if you're quick you'll notice that the petrol prices change every time they air the ad to keep up with the current price. If it was me I would just remove that shot or obscure the prices but good on them for the extra effort I guess.
i woulda kept the little pink horse he gave back, that thing was the only thing of value among the button, lint and old receipts she used as payment
Wait, you guys are still seeing ads?
I had this exact conversation with husband about this ad two nights ago. It drives me nuts.
It's true then, people will find just about anything to get their rage boner going
Yep agree.
I'm annoyed by every ad.