.........and don't get me started on sofa ads ("was it DFS, SCS or SFA?")!
FLJ
Well, that's two of us. I have a friend in advertising, he did sofa ads. He told me that they always hired the shortest & smallest actors they could find, because it made the furniture look bigger.
My 'smash their face in' ads were a series for some kind of jug water softener, a hatefully smug couple trying and failing to make soft water sexy. My favourite was one for Audi cars a few years ago, it had huge car-sized fish swimming along roads with the traffic, and because they drank like fishes, having to fill up with fuel all the time. I owned the car they were advertising, and it wasn't specially economical at all unless you drove like an old lady, but the ad was a masterpiece. Also, remember those ads for the Golf GTi, woman throwing her fur coat in the bin but hanging onto the car keys? Again, I've owned about six of them, Golf GTis that is not fur coats, so I'm slightly biased.
