Does anyone else find the advert with the child on the toilet to be really disturbing??

Question

WHY do advertisers think that a child, that by it's own admittance, is dropping a stinkbomb was a good advertising policy?

I cant be the only person that finds it offensive to my eyes....... any one in advertising please justify this monstrosity of an advert!!

Answer 1

I HATE that advert. It's all gone, it's all gone, that's the most annoying bit!

Answer 2

I don't like that advert either. Why would they make an ad like that.

Another one that should be taken off is the one for quorn...the girl points a fork at her brother and says something like "touch my food, feel my fork". Imagine young children doing that if they had a disagreement at the table. It could lead to a child losing an eye......
Children do copy. There was an ad some time ago for icecream, where a child screamed all the way home from school so that her throat would hurt and her mother would give her icecream to cool it. I remember hearing children screaming non stop every day on the way home while that ad was on.

No point in talking about it though, they will still make more of the same to try and sell stuff. I do the only thing possible for me and that is never buy the things in the ads that I think are wrong.....and I draw the attention of my friends to them too and they also cross the offenders off the shopping list.

Answer 3

Are you talking about the little asian boy on the toilet seat who's complaining along the lines that "it's gone" ...ie the toilet thingy he'd press afterwards to scent the air and reduce the smell is finished?

If so, YES, I hate it
a) because they're showing a little boy on a toilet seat
b), because his mother is outside the door asking what is wrong but with a totally unconcerned smile on her face
c) it shows total lack of imagination or public empathy from the advertisers who thought this up!

I can cope with crass adverts for diahorrea (sp) or even vaginal thrush, cos whilst they're unpleasant and not often discussed openly, at least the adverts feature adults!

Surely the toilet smell thing would have been far better understood if you'd seen a fat bloke on the loo after being in the pub and local curry house?!!! And not just understood, but not include kids and be at least mildly amusing?!

Shame on whoever came up with the kiddy idea.

Answer 4

Possibly the most annoying advert in the history of tv and so wrong on so many levels.

1. Chinese kid - but white European mother. Why? How? If they want to be seen as encompassing all creeds/cultures why not a Chinese mom as well?

2. The kids voice. "its all gone its all gone". Grates on my nerves. What accent is tht??

3 The mother. Seeing as the scent holder is empty at the start of the ad, somebody (her?) must have used the last of it, emptied it and not bothered to refill it. Why not??

4 Where did the pen and paper come from??

5 Why use pen and paper. Why not just say what has 'all gone all gone'?.

Horrible, horrible, horrible. Purely on a point of principle I refuse to buy this product and go out of my way to tell people about it to stop them using it too

Answer 5

You stated your self that that is pc photos - there is not any similarity between the advert and the activities of 9/11, that have been real, or in case you like in 3-D and finished color. could I ***** to the ASA with regard to the advert displaying a cat ingesting some 'luxurious' cat nutrition while my cat died a pair of months in the past? do no longer take existence so heavily!

Answer 6

Aside from the fact that there is a young child on the toilet, what I find offensive is that there are virtually no Chinese people on adverts and yet when there is one, it`s a boy having done a number two.　It`s as if ONLY Chinese people make terrible smells in the toilet...GRRRRRRR

Answer 7

I'm so glad you brought this up! I hate that advert! I worry also about pervies getting off on it. There are far more subtle ways of advertising than this.

Answer 8

My husband and i hate it too there`s no need for it My husband always seems to be eating when the advert comes on TV and it really turns him off his food

Answer 9

It is a little disturbing, maybe that's the point, it gets people talking, there's no such thing as bad advertising.

Answer 10

OMG - absolutely HATE that advert!!! I can't realy see how it's going to make people go out and buy that stuff... and please, did he just happen to have a pen and paper in there to tell his mum what he wants...