The man with the golden face

The director went for an unusual tactic of, instead of hiring an actor, holding a small child at gunpoint and forcing her father to read out the lines he needed. In close ups you can see the light glinting off the gun barrel reflected in the ‘presenter’s eye.

The divorce guy- “…only got £80 for my wedding ring. Then they offered me £50 to appear in the advert. Fantastic…. I wish I was dead.”

Because they secured Prince William to be their spokesperson. This recession has hurt us all.

Odd things:
- The premise that getting money for gold is in some way difficult
- The way the presenter strides into shot while staring into the camera
- Presenter’s hair line seems to bob up and down in a frightening manner
- “Got divorced. Didn’t know what to do with me wedding rings” Rings? What? “Got eighty-five quid” with which he bought all that old tat on the shelf behind him

I’m quite tempted to send them my gold plated hifi leads. Particularly since there won’t be any middlemen involved.

Err, err, that “gold” they keep showing. It looks like silver and pearls ! Am I missing something? Maybe it’s white gold. But surely a pile of actual gold coloured items and not silver coloured ones would have been a better idea? Oh dear.

Just the sheer number of times he says the word “gold” until it starts to not even sound like a word any more.

It made that bush baby man ‘so happy’ – who are we to criticise this fine organisation?

Grizzled old prospectors will be kicking themselves.

He says the phone number, but it’s not shown.

enjoying the previous comments…

it’s also odd that they say the ‘phone number, but it’s not displayed on the screen. it seems they only want you to use the website… which then begs the question “why the eye candy pretending to be telephonists?”

I suppose it is is his wooden and scared/scary manner. And the sheer volume of times the word ‘gold’ is mentioned.

What an amazing forehead. It’s like it’s been poorly computer animated. The programmers are just randomly assigning movement for the sake of it. (Reminds me of the 3D Richard Burton head from the recent live performance of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds)

The fact that they feel the need to illustrate “gold” and “cash” every time.

The fact that they have chosen to illustrate “gold” with something that does not in fact appear to be gold.

The continuity between “I got four hundred and twenty four pounds.” and “I got divorced”, making it seem like they will pay you in either cash or marital breakdown.

The presenter seems about to explode with the excitement of the whole thing, like he can’t take it any more and it’s gone from a pleasurable thing to almost a torture, like when you can’t wait another second for your presents on Christmas day and you start crying with the tension of it.

Watching that again the only non-creepy bit is the asian gentleman who does seems genuinely surprised and delighted at his windfall.

I know that every time I see this on TV the aspect ratio flips depending on whether the presenter or the members of the public are on screen. Not sure what they’ve done there

the presenters blinking seems to have been scripted. they prob thought “its creepy if he doesn’t blink … put on in after he says ‘and you can do the same’ and another, very long one, when he says ‘the privacy of your own home’ … there its fine now, his eyes are as moist as bread soaked in gravy.

every time they show gold it fails to look like gold. especially in the smelting process. the ‘refiner’ needs to turn the lights on and pull his finger out.

some of the girls in the attic have headsets while some the one on the end is forced to hold a phone – how archaic! its as if they’re not recieving bags of gold a day!

you have to put your gold in a bag.

computer goggles

asian mans ears

the fact that your gold is fully insured in transit – because heaven forbid you give it away for nothing, not after you put it in a bag and everything

the divorcee’s only problem seemed to be what to do with the excess ring he was now carrying around instead of facing a death alone … with only £85 to his name

Why does it seem to be filmed in an Old Womans loft

The ‘presenter’ seemingly being Christopher Eccleston in a state of permanent sexual climax. Put that on your list.

And every time the word ‘cash’ appears on screen, it’s accompanied by the sound of a sword being unsheathed.

The director went for an unusual tactic of, instead of hiring an actor, holding a small child at gunpoint and forcing her father to read out the lines he needed. In close ups you can see the light glinting off the gun barrel reflected in the 'presenter's eye.

I have a strange urge to send them my soul