1. The star or stars of the adverts are always female, always slim, and always doing active sports. They are always bending over and showing how happy they are.
  2. All actresses in adverts are laughing a lot. Perhaps when they walk around something tickles.
  3. The backing music is dominated by some woman going "Wooooaaaaiiiiaaaooooh ... for yoooooooouuuu".
  4. The narrator (or anyone else in the advert) never actually say what it is they're selling.
  5. However, whattever it is, it is now ultra-comfy/thinner than ever/ with a longer string. (Delete as applicable)
  6. In those 'interview' adverts, they're always sat at a table, with patio doors behind them.
  7. All interviewed women claim they have a much more active social life as a result of 'moving over' to this new brand; as if wearing slabs of cotton wool down their pants makes them more attractive to the opposite sex.
  8. When the computer graphics appear, the drops of liquid which drop onto the surfboard-with-wings are blue, thereby implying that the people who make these ads are some sort of mutant, something which we've all known for quite some time.
  9. They always claim that their product holds more than other brands. What does that mean?
  10. They claim it instills confidence. To me this implies that psychologists are rapidly being replaced with the notion of using sanitary towels as security blankets. Which means that if Linus from Peanuts ever grew up to be a transvestite ...