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And - possibly - permanently!
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A HORROR-style chewing gum ad showing a snarling dog crawling from a man’s mouth could be banned — after record complaints.
Wrigley’s commercial for XCite — with the slogan "Avoid Dog Breath" — sparked more than 430 calls in a week.
Watchdogs at the Independent Television Commission, said: "A lot were from parents whose children were terrified by it.
"We take that very seriously. But adults also say they find it distasteful because of the realism."
The ITC may now rule it can only be shown after the 9pm watershed — or ban it completely.
The pressure group Families Involved in Raising Media Awareness said: "Its special effects are terrifyingly realistic - it’s more a horror film than an advert."
Wrigleys chiefs were "dismayed" by the reaction.
A spokesman said: "It is not our intention to upset anyone. It is almost impossible to create a powerful ad everyone enjoys."
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Horror-style? More a horror film than an advert? Scared kids? Distasteful? To be shown after 9pm or banned completely? And all because 'more than 430' people complained? What a load of balls!
Millions of people have seen this advert, and 430 complaints can have it banned? A group that aren't even large enough in number to qualify as a minority? They were just as stupid over the Xbox 'Cradle to Grave' advert.
Over half the population disagree with a war on Iraq, but no matter what they do, they can't change anything. But a few hundred pathetic individuals can complain about a TV advert with no sex, violence or bad language in it, and people bend over backwards to appease them!
For the sake of the human race, don't comply with their wishes - laugh these people off the face of the planet!
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A HORROR-style chewing gum ad showing a snarling dog crawling from a man’s mouth could be banned — after record complaints.
Wrigley’s commercial for XCite — with the slogan "Avoid Dog Breath" — sparked more than 430 calls in a week.
Watchdogs at the Independent Television Commission, said: "A lot were from parents whose children were terrified by it.
"We take that very seriously. But adults also say they find it distasteful because of the realism."
The ITC may now rule it can only be shown after the 9pm watershed — or ban it completely.
The pressure group Families Involved in Raising Media Awareness said: "Its special effects are terrifyingly realistic - it’s more a horror film than an advert."
Wrigleys chiefs were "dismayed" by the reaction.
A spokesman said: "It is not our intention to upset anyone. It is almost impossible to create a powerful ad everyone enjoys."
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Horror-style? More a horror film than an advert? Scared kids? Distasteful? To be shown after 9pm or banned completely? And all because 'more than 430' people complained? What a load of balls!
Millions of people have seen this advert, and 430 complaints can have it banned? A group that aren't even large enough in number to qualify as a minority? They were just as stupid over the Xbox 'Cradle to Grave' advert.
Over half the population disagree with a war on Iraq, but no matter what they do, they can't change anything. But a few hundred pathetic individuals can complain about a TV advert with no sex, violence or bad language in it, and people bend over backwards to appease them!
For the sake of the human race, don't comply with their wishes - laugh these people off the face of the planet!
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Actually, this makes me really angry that people are willing to phone up and complain about a 10 second advert - really, what's the point? Forget you ever saw it, no big deal. Grrrrr.
Presumably all the complaints came from parents who had no hands or eyelids, and were unable to stop watching the advert when it flashed onto their noise boxes. Muuuuh.
i loved that x box advert, but i never saw the bad side to it... but i see some slight "horrific" side to the 'avoid dog breath' advert, but still them 500 people should watch summin like aliens and then see if the advert looks scary
I'm afraid one word and one piece of punctuation comes to mind, looking at the topic:
So?
So?
i cant believe idiots phone up to complain about adverts
And - possibly - permanently!
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A HORROR-style chewing gum ad showing a snarling dog crawling from a man’s mouth could be banned — after record complaints.
Wrigley’s commercial for XCite — with the slogan "Avoid Dog Breath" — sparked more than 430 calls in a week.
Watchdogs at the Independent Television Commission, said: "A lot were from parents whose children were terrified by it.
"We take that very seriously. But adults also say they find it distasteful because of the realism."
The ITC may now rule it can only be shown after the 9pm watershed — or ban it completely.
The pressure group Families Involved in Raising Media Awareness said: "Its special effects are terrifyingly realistic - it’s more a horror film than an advert."
Wrigleys chiefs were "dismayed" by the reaction.
A spokesman said: "It is not our intention to upset anyone. It is almost impossible to create a powerful ad everyone enjoys."
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Horror-style? More a horror film than an advert? Scared kids? Distasteful? To be shown after 9pm or banned completely? And all because 'more than 430' people complained? What a load of balls!
Millions of people have seen this advert, and 430 complaints can have it banned? A group that aren't even large enough in number to qualify as a minority? They were just as stupid over the Xbox 'Cradle to Grave' advert.
Over half the population disagree with a war on Iraq, but no matter what they do, they can't change anything. But a few hundred pathetic individuals can complain about a TV advert with no sex, violence or bad language in it, and people bend over backwards to appease them!
For the sake of the human race, don't comply with their wishes - laugh these people off the face of the planet!
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A HORROR-style chewing gum ad showing a snarling dog crawling from a man’s mouth could be banned — after record complaints.
Wrigley’s commercial for XCite — with the slogan "Avoid Dog Breath" — sparked more than 430 calls in a week.
Watchdogs at the Independent Television Commission, said: "A lot were from parents whose children were terrified by it.
"We take that very seriously. But adults also say they find it distasteful because of the realism."
The ITC may now rule it can only be shown after the 9pm watershed — or ban it completely.
The pressure group Families Involved in Raising Media Awareness said: "Its special effects are terrifyingly realistic - it’s more a horror film than an advert."
Wrigleys chiefs were "dismayed" by the reaction.
A spokesman said: "It is not our intention to upset anyone. It is almost impossible to create a powerful ad everyone enjoys."
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Horror-style? More a horror film than an advert? Scared kids? Distasteful? To be shown after 9pm or banned completely? And all because 'more than 430' people complained? What a load of balls!
Millions of people have seen this advert, and 430 complaints can have it banned? A group that aren't even large enough in number to qualify as a minority? They were just as stupid over the Xbox 'Cradle to Grave' advert.
Over half the population disagree with a war on Iraq, but no matter what they do, they can't change anything. But a few hundred pathetic individuals can complain about a TV advert with no sex, violence or bad language in it, and people bend over backwards to appease them!
For the sake of the human race, don't comply with their wishes - laugh these people off the face of the planet!
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