Bodyworlds

It's Christmas! Even the most hardened anti-capitalist anarchist commune-dweller has been whipped into a frenzy of unfettered consumerism! In that spirit, here's a bizzare advert from the mid-nineties for the Access credit card, set in a nightmarish netherworld populated by bobbing metaphorical human body parts with the voices of 90s sitcom actors, where the buildings and even the clouds spell out inscrutable slogans like "EXPAND", "IMAGINATION" and "THOUGHT", and in which the only personal possessions are Heath Robinson perpetual motion machines with meaningless names and features, which don't do anything but which are irresistible to the Organ Gang inhabitants of this nightmare city (although they have to come up with their own rationalisations first).

After this campaign, Money and Access were revived for a third and final time before Mastercard ate the brand whole, which was advertised via a surprisingly mournful campaign showing newsagents and drugstores scraping the Access logo off their doors and replacing it with the Mastercard one.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• advert
• commercial
• Adrian
• Edmondson
• Richard
• Wilson
• Access
• credit
• card
• money
• cash
• spending
• consumerism
• hell
• Come
• on
• and
• meet
• the
• Organ
• Gang
• again
• needs
• more
• Brian
• Cant

[easportsbig899]

Did someone on crack make this?

[Applemask]

@easportsbig899 More than likely, but then that's also true of every advert ever.

[electrogeek77]

Your statement rings true with me. It's my first Christmas as a proclaimed athiest, yet I'm so excited about it this year I'm pretty much cramming merry-ness down everyone's throat. I even played Santa at work. WTF?

[Applemask]

Autistic Female Santa is a good band name.

[easportsbig899]

Good point.

[viperxeon]

Did I just get mind raped?

[electrogeek77]

That's so awful...and yet I love it.

[TashkentFox]

Has Eddie Hitler moved in with the Meldrew's?

[hotelmario510]

I don't bloody believe it!

[easportsbig899]

I'm very disturbed.