Patrick Freyne: here are my favourite corporate psy-ops of the season – or Christmas TV ads, as I believe you call them in the suburbs
Patrick Freyne: My favourite corporate psy-ops of the season – or Christmas ads, as they’re called in the suburbs
Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands As long-time readers of this column will know, I have huge problems with the foul Christmas weirdo and sentient root vegetable Kevin the Carrot. Like a German fetishist on the dark web, Kevin’s deepest desire is to be cooked and eaten. This is his whole reason for being. In this instalment he rises from where he is awaiting death on a plate beside a mince pie in order to pursue some humbugs who have stolen the spirit of Christmas. I assume the spirit of Christmas is meant to be “Baby Jesus”.
In the food advertisement a curmudgeonly Dawn French is confronted by an animated toy fairy voiced by herself. She is terrified initially but succumbs to the convenience of having an uncanny supernatural being tidy the house and dress her like a child. The fairy then organises a celebration of gluttony involving Dawn French’s neighbours, whom she hates. Anyway, if you’ve read Dawn French’s biography you’ll know this all really happened.
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