Pegasus Adverts

Another Fine Mess In Advertising.

Don’t you just love those compensation adverts on TV? I do. But not for any of the right reasons…

Slapstick comedy has always been very popular; that’s why Laurel and Hardy are still so damn funny. And when one of those compo claim ads comes on I thoroughly enjoy the low-budget, abysmally reconstructed tale of someone’s accident. The acting is dire, the facial expressions are hilarious and the mournful voice-over leaves my ribs aching. Perhaps I am just sick… or More

‘This Isn’t Just Crap… This Is Total And Utter Crap!’

Every so often an advertising campaign will come along which has a truly haunting quality about it. But when I say ‘haunting’, I do not mean in the poetic or romantic sense of the word. No, I am thinking more along the lines of a terrifyingly bad, chains-clanking-in-the-night, too-scared-to-sleep kind of ‘haunting’. That is the category in which I’d put the recent spate of Marks and Spencers food adverts. They are cheapness and nastiness dressed-up as poshness. And they borrow More