Dave 2022-Present (Witty Bumpers)

From October 2023, Dave began reintroducing their topical break bumpers for more regular occasions, harking back to what had been done in the previous presentation package. Here one of several bumpers for Halloween 2023.

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Another Halloween 2023 break bumper, this time focusing on the first people dressing up as ghosts.

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Another break bumper/sting from Dave for Halloween 2023, this time running shorter. The length of each is varied based upon how much text needs to be read.

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A pumpkin background is used on this halloween 2023 bumper for Dave.

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Advice around ghosting from Dave in this break bumper.

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More clever wordplay about in this halloween bumper from Dave.

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Another longer halloween breakbumper from Dave for 2023, this time providing skeleton advice.

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In this break bumper, Dave helps you spot a witch.

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A more general break bumper for Dave, introduced from the start of November 2023. This time talking about cheese.

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Continuing the food theme with a banana-based break bumper for Dave.

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A witty pun on riveting in this Dave break bumper.

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After the very brief appearance of a plainer 'Channel of the Year' bumper a few months earlier, a cleverer take on this was reintroduced with the new Autumn break bumper collection.

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Use of images in the foreground rather than the background features in this Dave bumper.

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Lined paper features in a very self-aware bumper for Dave.

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A cry for help in another Dave break bumper from Autumn 2023.

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Competitiveness, Dave-style in this bumper.

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Views on beds are made known in another Dave break bumper, introduced from November 2023.

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Another break bumper from Dave, this time hypothesising if they were an accountant.

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Dave casually reminding us that even catfish need love sometimes in another 2023 break bumper.

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An Ad-Free space - just the sort of thing to sit nicely between the channel pres and the ads.

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Someone at Dave needs to get rid of a lobster quickly in this bumper.

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How many dentists does it take to recommend a TV Channel?

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Dave makes an offer that's nearly too good to be true in this break bumper.

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Everything is getting a bit meta around the topic of observational comedy.

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Another more graphical bumper, this time using email attachments as the topic.

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A fullscreen snack background appears in this break bumper just to remind you you could be getting snacks yourself.

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In case you ever needed a reminder you can put the kettle on during breaks, Dave has you covered. Though I'm not sure I'd ever want a cup of tea that was quite that shade of orange!

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In a bumper harking back to one which had appeared in the previous package too, the Dave logo bounces around the screen like a game of Pong. Also making for a rare bumper from the channel that continues animating throughout the entire sequence.

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You would have to be above a certain age to remember the shortlived scratch and sniff TV fad of the 90s. But thankfully someone at Dave is clearly of that age!

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With birthday invision continuity being long gone, there has to be some place a birthday greeting could be fitted in to the modern TV channel.

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The Dave bumper writers have their heads in the clouds in this one.

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Dave gives their unique take on binge watching in another break bumper introduced from October 2023.

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A very graphic-heavy break bumper from Dave to accurately depict Grave Danger!

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A reminder from Dave that no one can avoid being distracted by a squirrel.

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For Bonfire Night 2023, some special bumpers were added in. These were of a plain textual nature, with no graphics included as had been done for Halloween.

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Another Bonfire Night bumper, this time talking about the all-female alternative story of the Gunpowder Plot.

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Observations on fireworks in another special Bonfire Night 2023 break bumper.

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A helpful PSA from Dave around the importance of not throwing things on bonfires.

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Another break bumper for Bonfire Night 2023, this time at the shorter run length due to the shorter amount of text present.

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For Christmas 2023, Dave skipped a new batch of break bumpers and instead introduced festive messages before programmes throughout the month using their 'text' house style slides. These all aired close to 9pm, with a different message featured each day from viewers.

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The message from 2nd December, aired around 9pm again.

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The festive message from Dave for December 3rd. Complete with some reminders of why putting a busy pine needle image on a slow zoom is a challenge for MPEG2 encoders (Dave on satellite was usually fine, but this problem seemed to be much more prevalent on the terrestrial and Dave Ja Vue broadcasts).

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Day four of Dave's festive calendar for 2023.

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On the Fifth Day of December, Dave's generic announcement and textual messaging gave to me...

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The Dave festive viewer message for December 6th 2023. With a programme reference thrown in for good measure too (one way of increasing your chances of getting your message used!)

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Another festive message from Dave, this time for December 7th.

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8 days into December 2023 and 8 messages from Dave viewers so far.

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Obligatory disclaimers are included in day 9's Dave Christmas 2023 message.

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The Dave festive message from December 10th, broadcast a little later in the day due to how junctions sat on the Sunday.

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The 'chat style' previously seen in break bumpers makes an appearance for December 11th's festive message.

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12 days in to the month with the messages from Dave now.

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Another message from Dave, complete with the same pre-recorded announcement as used the day previous.

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December 14th's festive message from Dave.

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What better way to mark December 15th than with a reuse of the 'Welcome to December' announcement from the start of the month?

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16 days into December and another Christmas message from Dave.

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December 17th's festive message from Dave.

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Another Christmas message from Dave viewers for December 18th 2023.

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Dave's festive greeting for December 19th, and the continuity announcements are getting even more repetitive than the different descriptions I'm managing to come up with for the clips on here.

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December 20th, and another greeting from a Dave viewer as we near Christmas now.

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Dave presents their daily night time festive message for December 21st.

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Another day, another Christmas message from Dave.

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Nearly at the end with day 23 of the festive calendar for Dave

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Reaching Christmas Eve and another advent calendar message from Dave.

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The non-decoration date argument for Christmas - do you end your advent calendar on December 24th or December 25th? Dave decided to go with the 25th, and put out one final message in the 9pm junction on Christmas Day 2023. Well it's a way to guarantee at least one primetime Christmas Day viewer!

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After taking a break throughout December and January, a fresh batch of 'witty' break bumpers appeared on Dave from February 2024. Here a progress indicator shows 2024 loading.

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Everyone's favourite overused train phrase features in this Dave bumper from the February 2024 batch.

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Dave reminds us of how February-specific some of the new batch of bumpers are with a Valentine's Day themed bumper. This was used from the very start of February.

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Another February-specific bumper from Dave, this time referencing popular music.

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Why not play adbreak bingo, Dave-style?

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Another 2024 break bumper, this time using heckling as the subject.

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References to February again in this break bumper from Dave.

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Games have advanced somewhat from Pong to reference Space Invaders now in this February 2024 break bumper from Dave. This break bumper only appeared to be used for a single day at the start of the month before being dropped again.

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A collection of 80s insults feature in this Dave break bumper.

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Another Dave break bumper asking if the other channels are in the room with us now. One of the few from the February 2024 batch to not use a plain colour background.

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Another new bumper added in February 2024 on Dave.

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Just some indistinct background chatter on this Dave break bumper.

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An Out of Office autoresponder is the theme for this Dave break bumper.

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Another bumper to actually reference the month of February, this time based off band name puns.

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Special breakbumpers were added to Dave for Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday) on February 13th 2024, interspersed with others from the February batch.

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Another special Dave break bumper for Pancake Day 2024.

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The very next day in February saw further special break bumpers for Dave to mark Valentine's Day.

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A second Valentine's Day break bumper from Dave for February 2024.

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Another new batch of witty bumpers were introduced in March 2024. Referencing rollercoasters first.

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No subliminal messages in break bumpers from Dave here.

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Because sometimes even the TV needs a hug!

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Dave talks about things being scripted in this March break bumper.

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One of two bumpers based upon elements of the periodic table for Dave.

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The second element-based break bumper introduced in March 2024.

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Motivational talk about dreams in this Dave break bumper.

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A rare bumper to use an image from the March 2024 batch.

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Dave talk about things you have and haven't got in this break bumper.

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Dave come up with clever warnings to try and prevent people stealing jokes in the middle of the night. Clearly they don't realise the Youtuber-generation would just call them 'Found Jokes' and steal them anyway!

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Dispelling myths that joke writing is not a real job in this bumper.

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A more animated break bumper with sound from Dave for March 2024, to mimic a facial recognition scan.

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A thirteenth March break bumper detailing "How To Be British", courtesy of Dave.

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April 2024 brought another fresh batch of witty break bumpers for Dave. Here a pun around horses.

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Some more clever wordplay from Dave in this April 2024 bumper.

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Passing comment about how we'll all laugh about this one day in this break bumper.

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A break bumper to show appreciation for comedy legend Bob Mortimer. Though admittedly, it could have repurposed for anyone really.

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Normally the Dave witty break bumpers will appear at only one side of an advert break, with the other side still using a regular channel bumper. However ever ones for mixing things up, with the April 2024 batch a break bumper designed to appear in two parts at either side of the same break appeared. In the first part going into the break we're told 'This is Not An Ad Break'...

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This is shortly followed by a second part bumper at the end of the break, which apologises for the fact it was a break.

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A casual reminder around aging in this Dave break bumper.

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Using simple pie charts to put across important information in this break bumper.

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One of the regular dog break bumpers is repurposed for this witty version in April, just now with a different caption overlaid.

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For this break bumper, Dave invites everyone to play a very different game of chicken.

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Some mixing of channel brands is used in this Dave break bumper, just to make sure you're all paying attention.

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