Friendly bacteria

[zaffra]

Imagine the ad agency who had to deal with this product, the client tells them:

It's called Yakult - okay
It's quite expensive - okay
It's contains live bacteria - okay
It's a yoghurt drink in a tiny bottle - okay
It has no proven benefit to your health, but it won't kill you - okay

So the ad agency come up with th idea that it's 'friendly' which just meas it won't kill you or harm your health, they then inlist a geek who becomes a fanny magnet through his knowledge of 'bacteria management'. Pulling a pretty girl at a party in advert one, then in advert two she bumps in to him in a cafe and two girls laugh at him when he says 'it small but effective', pretty girl then tells them they need to be friendlier, before rushing off after the geek.

I must admit I like the look on the face of the girl who is told she needs some 'friendlier bacteria', she looks like she just smelt some shit.

I think they need to take the story live further, perhaps she could take him shopping for some more fashionable clothes, and when the shop assistant laugh at him she could kick her up the chuff give her some Yakup and tell her it's what's inside that matters or some such drivel
_{If you steal this grate idea I will send you my invoice}

This advert ensures I will never buy or try this product.

[Robbing the Dead]

They have to say "friendly bacteria" because the word bacteria is mostly assosiated with negative things. It's the same with the word "Nuclear". MRI scans in hospitals are actually called NMRI scans (Nuclear Magnetic Resolution Imagery, I just the last two words). They removed the N because people were scared of anything Nuclear.

[audrey notwhatsheusedtobe]

I would like to see them become the new Gold Blend couple. I think Yalkult need to sex it up a bit though. Hey RELEVANCY ALERT: friendly bacteria is highly beneficial to muff-health. I think anorak man could be quite nice if he washed his hair.

[3am]

The girl is called Gemma and used to present the Disney Channel with some geeky guy called Nigel.

[jode*]

A year and a half ago the woman from the bacteria adverts was in no less than 5 adverts at the same time... yes five.

And then she turned up Eastenders at Shane Richie's date.

[Cherubic]

Wasn't she Mel Hart in the initial cast of Family affairs? The one who became a police woman and then was blown up on her own weding day?

[Chocolate]

This advert used to do my head in, but then I noticed the bit where the woman asks the geeky bloke to wait a second while she talks to the snobby woman, then rushes outside to catch up with him saying that she stood up to her. OK, it's probably just a continuity error, but I like to think she was doing his head in just as much as mine and he was trying to escape. They could make it a long runner with him gradually making it more and more obvious he doesn't want to hang around with her and her not getting it, preferably with some sort of psychotic ending with a not-so-friendly-bacteria joke.

[Cherubic]

Chocolate said:

...preferably with some sort of psychotic ending with a not-so-friendly-bacteria joke.

Like giving her Botulism?

[joined up talking]

My mum bought me some of this stuff because she doesn't think I'm healthy enough etc etc, but the adverts have really put me off it as regardless of it being good or not, I don't like the idea of drinking bacteria. And the drink clings to your tongue which isn't nice.

[Cherubic]

It's just natural yoghurt for godsakes!

[joined up talking]

Yeah but when you eat yoghurt no ones gone on about how theres good bacteria in it before you eat it. And I'm quite neurotic when it comes to eating anyway.