[Closed] John Lewis advert

*sniff*

Bloody cold germs...

belter indeed !

Heard on the radio this morning that for every £1 they spend on tv advertising they get an extra £10 store revenue

I don't get the christmas feeling until I've seen the first [s]John Lewis advert[/s] first really good John Lewis advert spoof

Looks at calendar ...shakes head walks away muttering bah humbug to himself

Faked

Not even late November

[i]I don't get the christmas feeling until I've seen the first [s]John Lewis advert[/s] first really good John Lewis advert spoof[/i]

here you go.

2nd one gets a bit gruesome later on...

Bloody hell that's a good one.

Where is the version with the original track dubbed over it?

scandal42 - Member

Not even late November

This +1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Two shops have lost my business this week. Goods in hand on the way to the till when suddenly I realised they were playing Christmas music in the firsts ****ing week in November!!! Put the stuff back on the shelf and walked out.

For the record, Christmas is awesome but all this nonsense is just engineered to squeeze as much money out of folk as possible and to put pressure on them. Capitalism at its very worst.

What a load of drivel.

[i]"For the record, Christmas is awesome but all this nonsense is just engineered to squeeze as much money out of folk as possible and to put pressure on them. Capitalism at its very worst."[/i]

Hear hear.

chipsngravy - Member
What a load of drivel.

"For the record, Christmas is awesome but all this nonsense is just engineered to squeeze as much money out of folk as possible and to put pressure on them. Capitalism at its very worst."

Hear hear.

Like the smartphone thread, only if you choose to subject yourself to it...

Two shops have lost my business this week. Goods in hand on the way to the till when suddenly I realised they were playing Christmas music in the firsts ****ing week in November!!! Put the stuff back on the shelf and walked out.

🙄

Only 48 days
http://www.xmasclock.com

I think they missed a trick with the casting of the man in the moon....

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This is almost as good as the real thing 🙂

<covers eyes, sticks fingers in ears>

not gonna look! ➡

#bringbackthepenguin

speaking as someone who works in marketing though, i probably should look, because what a perfect example of everything held holy in marketing.

an advert that people like so much they post it on message boards and tell other people to watch.

an event.

shareable content.

delicious, wonderful, content

This is almost as good as the real thing

Ironically his hashtag is John Lewis' message this year. 😆

all this nonsense is just engineered to squeeze as much money out of folk as possible and to put pressure on them. Capitalism at its very worst."

I leave all my christmas preparation pretty much to christmas eve - but thats because - a) I have quite a small extended family, no children and very few people to plan and cater for. and b) I'm reasonably well off.

Shops would argue that they put christmas stock out as early as a lot of people start shopping that early. Christmas will be the biggest thing they do all year and if you're on modest means and have a lot people to cater for then buying a little bit at a time, over time, is the way people prefer to achieve that.

I think it's clever, a pseudo-satirical look at what Gary Glitter's life would be like in 20 years. Is he on the moon because he was exiled there, or did he go willingly and he has a sex slave in that shack? Still trying to make contact with small children without their parents knowing. I know we see the girl make first contact, but there must have been something before, otherwise how did he know who sent the telescope and where to look? Eh?

that whole 'he's a paedo' thing seems to be quite prevalent on twitter too.

All seems a bit, well, unnecessary. And really is that the best humour people can extract from it old man = paedo?

All seems a bit, well, unnecessary. And really is that the best humour people can extract from it old man = paedo?

Not at all - it's the weird way there's no explanation why he's on the moon, no explanation why it's only a small girl who makes contact. Plot-wise it makes no sense. The paedo thing is a jokey way of making a plot that makes sense.

Not at all - it's the weird way there's no explanation why he's on the moon,

Ermm! The man on the moon. 😕

So a padeophile being launched to the moon, with a house and a bench and surviving there with no apparent oxygen supply is a plot that makes sense?

Doesn't make sense scientifically, but at least holds together as a plot.

as Drac said - the man on the moon has always lived there, he doesn't need a plot device does he?

So a padeophile being launched to the moon, with a house and a bench and surviving there with no apparent oxygen supply is a plot that makes sense?

😆

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think of that connection because that the man [u]in[/u] the moon, not on the moon.

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think of that connection because that the man in the moon, not on the moon.

Well, if we're going to use CBeebies as evidence... 😉

This was on the BBC NEWS this morning, yes that's right NEWS.

I am now boycotting both BBC news for finally becoming totally pointless, and Christmas.

Yeah, bit embarrassed for the Guardian Website as well, making a story out of a new John Lewis advert... 😳

Nooooooo, Not the Guardian !! How will I know what to think ??

Nooooooo, Not the Guardian !! How will I know what to think ??

Daily Mail.

Excellent.

Business is so competitive now retailers who wait till December are dead. Black Friday copied from the US Thanksgiving sales has meant your full price sales have to be done prior, ie in early November as the bargain hunters wait till Black Friday which is now a major focus for the Christmas market, miss hitting your sales targets by then you are dead.

Jesus that was depressing 🙁

I thought it was creepy 😆

Liked the alternative one with the Fresh Prince music.

Two shops have lost my business this week. Goods in hand on the way to the till when suddenly I realised they were playing Christmas music in the firsts ****ing week in November!!! Put the stuff back on the shelf and walked out.

You tell em!

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Wwaswas
Perfect edit 😀

I took a contact old lonely people message from that, as we do for our neighbours. It is effective for that, plus we can't afford John Lewis shopping so the buy stuff message gets ignored.
Those who thought paedophile as humour need to take a long hard look at yourselves.

Sandwich - Member
I took a contact old lonely people message from that, as we do for our neighbours. It is effective for that

Exactly the same for me. I imagine for a lot of older folks on their own at Christmas, they feel like they may as well be on the moon for all they're involved in the festivities. Coupling that with a child's nursery rhyme is the art of the advert.

Best Xmas ad of the year so far for me...

Poor show at John Lewis blocking the dark side vid...however http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2015/11/06/john-lewis-christmas-ad-2015-dark-side-version/

Just watched it

I thought about my gran and an old guy that I used to go and chat to on my way home from school. He used to tell some great stories about the war and how the local area used to be. We invited him to Christmas dinner one year. I think he was over the moon

I welled up watching that...

😆

my kid has that dinosaur helmet

Coupling that with a child's nursery rhyme is the art of the advert.

What nursery rhyme?

fervouredimage - Member
What nursery rhyme?

[url= http://www.rhymes.org.uk/a80-the-man-in-the-moon.htm ]http://www.rhymes.org.uk/a80-the-man-in-the-moon.htm[/url]

Prior to advert, small girl hears the nursery rhyme. In advert, uses telescope to look for man in moon.