The First Annual Addies

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Nominations for the Addies have begun. The Addies are awards for commercials. Nominate a commercial, describe it and place it under one of the following categories:

Best Cameo Appearence of Celebrity
Most Manipulative Commercial
Funniest Commercial
Dirtiest Commercial
Best original tune/jingle for Commercial
Most Boring Commericial
Best SFX in commercial
Ad-time Achievement Award (Classic Commercials that are no longer shown)
Best Mascot
Worst Commercial
Best Final Twist
Most Vague Commercial

Well nominate already.

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Ad-time Achievement Award - Electric Central Heating - Creature Comforts

BTW: Are these UK, US or worldwide awards? I'd never of heard of almost all US ads.

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International would be fair. If someone hasn't seen a commercial because they don't live in the country it was shown in than they don't have to vote for it.

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Here's a list of UK ads that were on C4's 100 Greatest: Top 100 (and 7) Results

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That sure was agony to wathc. You get 20 minutes of adds, then a break with more adds!

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Best Cameo Appearence of Celebrity - Bob Dole in the commercial with his "little blue friend," Pepsi
Most Manipulative Commercial - Any political ad
Funniest Commercial - E*trade's "we just wasted $2 million"
Dirtiest Commercial - Miller Light's catfight
Most Boring Commericial - Any political ad
Ad-time Achievement Award (Classic Commercials that are no longer shown) - Snicker's "I'm Batman!"
Best Mascot - pets.com sock puppet
Worst Commercial - Anything from Raymour and Flanigan
Most Vague Commercial - the VW commercial with all the square items

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Yes isnt this sorta pointless, then again i could just not post here, but then again Shut the Hell up

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Oh. I thought this was Travis' thread for some bizarre reason in my subconscience..

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Iron Bru ad with the pregnant woman.
See my post in the favourite ad thread for details.

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Originally posted by Australian Guy:
Yes isnt this sorta pointless, then again i could just not post here, but then again Shut the Hell up

Who smells spam?

What category would COG go under?

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There's a lot of manipulation going on, but of car parts. 
SFX? Get's my vote.

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I like the bourjous paris advert. The chick is HOT. Stretch those eyelashes bebe!!!

Plus when she's lying on the bed, you can see right up her skirt. oh bebe!!! - oh how shallow of me... wait, no... let me rephrase... - oh how typically male chauvanist pig of me *perv* 

Also, the honda advert with the car parts is fantastic.

Another favourite is the Ikea advert depicting the story of an abandoned lamp... hillarious.

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Best appearence of Celebrity: Lou Ferigno in AGF's Incredible Hulk "sooner or later everyone retires" ad.

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I like that "Barky the Dog" commercial even if it's not very funny.  It makes me smile.  Also I like that little fish thingy in that AOL phone call commercial.  The list goes on...

Wow, there are so many commercials that I like yet so many that I hate.

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Barky the Dog rules.

"Barky's a cartoon. I'm a grown man who's made a LOT of mistakes."

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Heh, I agree. The first one("someone should put up a sign, for the water show. Can anyone tell me where the water show is?" ) was too short. I'm glad they made an expanded version of that commercial.

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Sexiest ads: Those Veet ads for women's shaving......... stuff (not sure what it was, wasn't paying attention to the product).

Best stunts ad: BBC One Rushour ad with parkour (French stunt-sport) guy jumping over rooftops and doing all sorts of cool stuff. Plus there's a naked woman in it playing a piano.