Why do the British hate this poor child?

Cereal killers after Frosties Kid (via fark)

The ad in question

Why does a South African sound vaguely Australian?

They’re GGGRRRREEEAAAATTT!!

He’s gone up hugely in my esteem with this quote;

Damn their hides! When I conquer the world, all will be forced to eat Frosties! Death to the Weetabix heretics! Death!

and a pi-rate#

I love that ad, but I seem to be in a minority - most people break their TV when it comes on… ergo it must be a conspiracy by TV manufacturers

Or something

You’ve watched the advert…and don’t understand? You aren’t itching to wipe that smug grin off the little bastard?!

I’d like to stuff a couple of boxes, unopened, of frosties up his arse.

That’ll wipe the grin off his chops

This MP3 from a radio show sums up the ad’s reception.

His lip-synching was about as spot on as Ashlee Simpson’s.

:::Shudder::: What a freakish commercial.

The ad reminds me of the visceral dislike I had for those old Peter Riegert “Be a Pepper” ads, plus the whole “white kid throwing black gang signs with no sense of self-irony” thing. Murderize the little creep.

I hadn’t noticed that until you pointed it out.
Prepare the thumbscrews.

I don’t understand all the fuss. Have you people actually watched kids’ programming on Saturday mornings lately? This commercial is tame compared to some of the truly dizzying & nausea-causing breakfast cereal, candy & toy commercials they’re showing these days.

yeah, it’s not a particularly good ad, by any means, but this is something pitched at 8 year olds . It barely registers among the most annoying ads I’ve seen or heard this year.

I would agree that compared to the rest of kids’ commercials, this one does not come out too badly. It’s just pretty average. Now, if anyone wants to discuss the evils of children’s advertising in general…

Haven’t seen the commerical yet, but I’m betting money that it won’t be half as annoying as that Sonic commercial about the whatever-it-was that seperates the “Boys from the men”.

Or, yaknow, most Mac commercials.

We Brits need links to your worse-than-that adverts, please

Oh, and that thing didn’t just get shown during kids’ TV, but in prime time slots.

Being American, I’d never seen this monstrosity. Just watching the first 15 seconds or so gave me a headache. I need to do something about this headache. If only there were a remedy that I could apply directly to the forehead…

Yes, but accountability begins with us drawing a line, preferably with a public caning and hanging of this kid. The general tone should rise promptly thereafter.

What really bothers me is that nobody, from what little I’ve seen (basically this thread) seems to want to go after the people who made the commercial or paid for it. Just the kid who starred in it. This is kinda like going after Hayden Christianson because you didn’t like the Star Wars prequels.

South Africans don’t sound even remotely like Australians.

David Naughton