British TV Commercial Awards

A group of us went to the Walker to see the British TV Commercial Awards. We've gone before. Supper at Kinhdo and then the Walker - it's an annual tradition. This year my favorite was PG Tips Queen. I think PG is a brand of tea. This puppet monkey, playing the Queen in her annual Christmas address to the commoners, was NOT drinking tea. Each attempt to give the speech was worse than the one before because it as not tea in that glass but alcohol. This commercial reminded me of that one Lucy episode where she is selling vitamins on television. It was pretty funny. Again Volkswagen had a lot of very entertaining and creative commercials. Funny they don't show them here in the states. Other commercials obviously could not be shown here as we are not as accepting of alternative lifestyles. I am speaking of a commercial for the Satinelle Ice Epilator - definitely something we will not be seeing here anytime soon. Several public service announcements won awards. There were a couple anti-binge drinking spots that showed young people getting ready to go out for an evening. The people would tear their clothes, smear makeup, mess up their hair, hurt themselves by banging into walls or hitting themselves with objects, vomit, smear food on their clothes, and one guy even tore an earring out of his ear. The point was, if you don't want your evening to end like this, don't drink too much. Several charities for children had ads that were hard to watch. A teenager was being verbally and physically abused and that was tough to see. One creative commercial showed a guy going home from his office by undressing and walking over by the elevators to take a water slide down the building, through other buildings, outside, back inside, through a grocery store where he picked up a banana and swiped his card to pay for it, outside, back inside, next to a sidewalk, down a hill, outside and eventually into his own living room. Wouldn't that be a wonderful way to go home at the end of the long day (except for the part where you walk through your office in your swimwear)? Audi had a great commercial using gymnasts to represent the workings of a car engine. All the commercials were good.