First they were just on the likes MTV and VH1 , then they spread to other “minority” channels. Now they are on mainstream channels such as ITV and Ch 4. These extremely annoying adverts for those equaly annoying ring-tones seem to have taken over the whole commercial TV system. Sometimes they are shown two or three times in the same advert segment, including prime time slots such as Coronation Street. Who the hell buys this junk? the only people I can think of is a brain-damaged 10-year-old.
For goodness sake let’s get these adverts banned before we all go mad. I know people have complained to ITV , OFCOM and the ASA but the standard answer they get is to be referred to one of the other parties in this triumvirate. Many viewers are now saying the hit the mute or off button as soon as they come on. There may be hope here. If other advertisers on the same slot are suffering because of this switch-off, perhaps they might put pressure on ITV to get these things taken off air.
They’re the most annoying thing on TV. Stupid fucking chicken, frog and whatever is next.
Really annoying. It’s going to get worse as the money made from these things is just getting bigger and bigger.
A girl who sits close to me in work has the chicken ring and doesn’t make her mobile mobile by taking it with her. I’ve heard the fucking thing about 8 times today alone :mad:
Fuck yes, it was bad enough when you had to listen to them every three songs, but now they’ve migrated to the ‘traditional’ channels too it’s just too much. If only everyone would fucking stop buying the fucking ringtone then they would stop. May unpleasant things happen to people with the crazy from polyphonic ring tone.
They’ve started playing them in the U.S. as well. The first time I saw it I was laughing my ass off because of the little blue frog guy with his wang flapping around while he danced. The second time I saw it I laughed my ass off because they had put a black bar over the thing’s prick. Now it’s just really annoying and gets more so everytime they run the ad.
Here in the Netherlands we not only have frogs, we have cockroaches too. :eek:
I hate those commercials also. But next time you see them, pay close attention to the frog, to find out if it’s a he- or a she-frog. Hint: his tallywacker is clearly visible
I thought Sweety the chick was quite cute the first time I saw him. The 10th time, it was getting a little old. Now, when I’ve seen the ads for about 1,376,596 times, I am constantly hurling things at the TV. Of all the other Jamba animated characters, so far I find the Party Bee the most annoying, closely followed by the tutu-sporting Devil. None of them, however, can hold a candle to the sheer unmitigated horror that is Crazy Frog.
The frog penis came as a little shock to me. Our tv has a relatively small screen, so the first time I saw the ad, I thought the protruding thingy was the frog’s belly button. I commented to my SO that I thought it was rather weird that they would put a navel on an amphibian, and he fell down laughing and told me it was a willy. The ensuing argument lasted for three weeks until we were at my friend’s house and I was conclusively proven wrong by the sight of a Crazy Frog penis on a huge flat-screen TV.
This is the most richly deserved pitting EVER! They just about drove me crazy last night and actually had me screaming at the television.
The people that came up with them, the morons at the networks who are inflicting them on an innocent populace, should be arrested and charged with torture. Their punishment: at least six months locked in a cell with the ads playing 24/7.
I’d love to start a company. My product would be downloadable video screensavers for mobile phones of me kicking the creators and marketers of Crazy Frog repeatedly in the crotch.
The ironic thing is that I killed a frog the other day - the poor sod had an argument with my lawn-mower. How I wish it had been the Crazy Frog , instead of this innocent bystander.
This ring-tone creature has but back the lovable image of frogs, so carefully built up by Kermit , a thousand years.
I’ve recently returned from my first trip to London, and that frog is one of the indelible impressions Britain made on me. (That, brown sauce, and hordes of rude French teenagers.) I almost never turned the TV on, but no matter what, there he was, rapping away in Hindi. I never saw the wang version, it was the riding on a motorbike while a Star Wars villain tries to kill him one.
It took almost the whole week for me to figure out what in the hell the ad was for. For a long time I assumed it was a soft drink of some sort and I was just missing the slogan. I never heard anyone using this as a ringtone, and London is cellphone mad. I’d hate to think anyone would use it as a ringtone.
The really bad thing was that I kept trying to sing the song days after hearing it. I recognize the music as '80s jazz, Herbie Hancock maybe, but can’t name it or finish it beyond the sample. Plus the Hindi frog rap sounds like the Super Milk-Chan promo on Adult Swim. (Ri, ri, ri, ri! Dabu, dabu, dabu, dabu!) Nothing like exploring the Assyrian lion hunt reliefs at the British Museum while your mutinous brain raps in Hindi to Herbie Hancock in the voice of Super Milk-chan. Can somebody tell me what the song is so I’ll quit singing it?
The vast majority of people don’t read that little weeny bit of small print that tells you that by texting the number you are signing up for a recurring service that will regularly send you things at £2.50 a pop. They continue to not be aware of this, until they, or their parents, receive their bill. Then I get to listen to them bitching about it. Hurrah!
*Avenger works indirectly for a major mobile phone company *
A senior manager at a place I was working recently had it as a ringtone. And he would frequently leave his mobile lying on his desk while he was in meetings … Senior manager or not, people were running around looking for mallets.