Gazing At The Crystal Bucket

I wouldn’t be surprising the discerning readers of this blob with the observation that a lot of telly is just a bit disappointing. I don’t normally bother mentioning it because it’s a bit like saying that Kyle Sandilands is a pillow. We know, and really, even mentioning it is giving it oxygen. (Note to self). There’s something nasty in the woodpile, let’s concentrate on better stuff.

But I need to get a few random things off my chest.

How are we going to stop the television execs doing stupid things to television series? Why are they cancelling, moving, repeating and inserting ‘encore’ episodes into normal seasonal programming? Obviously the shrinking television advertising dollar isn’t getting the message through.   

Have the Scared Weird Little Guys broken up? ‘Cause if John (the tall one) is looking for Rusty (the not tall one)  he’s bowling fast medium in the Australian Twenty20 side under the name of James Hopes. It is uncanny.

The South African cricket team needs to think about the importance of kerning on the team uniforms. This is the art of getting the spaces between your letters right. Television means that players are going to be broadcast and viewed from further than eight feet away and you need to space I and N so they don’t read like an M. Poor old DUMINY just looks like they’re playing a prank on him.

The ad with the guy standing there thinking to himself, “sausages” instead of “health insurance” is a very funny advertisement and shows how it should be done, unlike the following.

AAMI currently have an ad with people standing around at a multiple car pileup. The ‘concept’ is that sometimes it’s a bit hard to explain how an accident happened. The most inexplicable thing is that we are asked to believe that 15 to 20 adults are all unable to identify a swan when they see one. There’s a whole lot of “they’ve got beady eyes” and “they’re big and black”… Anyone will tell you, they‘re swans and they’re bastards.

Why are fast-food ads gay? They all seem to feature fit young blokes staring lovingly at each other as they masticate on their burgers. Is that really the market? I thought they were trying to sell to fat, poor, stupid breeders. 

More fast-food ad stupidity - The KFC cricket ad where someone’s grumbling about not being left any coleslaw. NO ONE. NOT ONE PERSON, IN THE HISTORY OF THE WHOLE OF EVERYTHING HAS EVER BEEN UPSET ABOUT NOT GETTING ANY COLESLAW.

Sing it with me now.

You don’t make friends with salad

You don’t make friends with salad