Worst TV adverts of the moment

He symbolizes everything that disgusts me. Obviousness.

Semi convinced Kris Marshall, Dan Walker and Jake Humphries are the same guy and a particularly loathsome one at that.

Mark G at 8:30 10 Oct 21
I actually did see Kris Marshall in our 'local' Tea garden with his fam (mum&dad) a few years ago. 

I am increasingly troubled by the radio 2 TV advert where they dress up the presenters as bad family photos, they have gone for retro laffs and ended up making some extremely unfunny, fairly cursed images. Every time I see it, it looks worse.

Lindor are now also on my 'christmas adverts in october' shitlist.

"get you sold"?

get you fucked

"I'm only six..."

So shut the fuck up, you little prick.

still convinced that lad's older than 6

Yes, lying about his age and trying to make the rest of us feel guilty.

So I just seen an advert for a Motorhead album, which was very strange cos who does tv adverts for albums in 2021? and the voice guy sounded like Tommy Vance, and I'm like I'm sure Tommy Vance is dead, so I Googled Tommy Vance and yes Tommy Vance has been dead for several years, so somebody has made a TV advert for a Motorhead album and got somebody to do a Tommy Vance impersonation on the voice-over, also now I know Tommy Vance's birth name and it is very funny

so many names, and none of them is Thomas

Why were all 60s pop DJs so posh I wonder?

I mean also why were they all nonces but maybe this is connected

I've just noticed that the terrible, sexist, creepily cgi-looking advert for Aunt Bessie's roast potatoes has a "based on a true story" caption at the beginning, lol ffs it's just some voice over lad saying he liked his nan's Sunday dinner

Yeah, the radio station he joined had pre-recorded idents for the real Tommy Vance who dropped out,so that was the condition of employment for.. him.

belatedly noticed that they've changed up the scenario in the ad for direct prescriptions with the hen picked/useless husband and disapproving wife couple. this time he's mixed up her prescription with that of a mates wife after going for a quick pint on his way from collecting it, the useless fucker. last time he made a mistake whilst distracted by an article about collectable toy tin soldiers or some such idiocy. kinda love him tbh.

John Lewis Christmas advert pic.twitter.com/E9QYl9johM

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) November 4, 2021

I'll save meself the trouble, play some Leonard Cohen and think about toys for 3 minutes

(tweet is not the real JLCA)

it's november so more people are getting into the xmas adverts. philip schofield can't need money *that* badly, surely? (we buy any car and craft gin club, can't decide which is the worse)

far too early for the Spector Christmas album soundtrack though

someone else who probably doesn't need the money - grace jones

Guess this tread is mostly UK centric, I expected this revive to be about those horrific VW commercials with all the people singing that dumb song about what they are doing that makes me want to claw my ears off.

The Grace Jones one is a bit o_0

(US version of this thread is here: worst commercials on television )

new verisure alarms advert! this time the women talk whilst the men stand around gormless.

"yes, it gets dark so early these days"

"we activate it every night, and when we go out"

and should i know the julie-andrews-alike on the m&s advert?

Don't think so. The Verisure tradition of only two people being allowed (paid?) to talk in an advert continues.

following the usual trajectory+ snoop dogg has been replaced with a puppet.

+see also Iggy Pop

my dad used to be a junglist...

Well, you'd better make a tribute to him..

good thing i've got fast internet

That Xmas one with "because nothing's stopping us" always struck me as pretty irresponsible but I'm kind of surprised they haven't pulled it yet.

Absolutely!

the guy with the big teeth trying to make 'cinch' a verb when it already is one that means something different

All Lenor adverts.

there's a new verisure advert, but it has no qualities worth mentioning.

but watching Big Match Revisited, 80s football, there are pitch side adverts for manhole covers, tyres and tapes (cassettes i guess). and Dickie Dirt's "for PM and Sunday" whatever that means. no car adverts, no airline adverts, nothing that i saw on Everton / Hull City before that.

Is this the new Verisure advert where the non-speaking partners (the wives, in this case) are barely seen, I think you see the top of their heads? I think Verisure are slowly moving towards something like Beckett's "Not I", where the screen is taken up by a giant close-up of a mouth endlessly blabbering to itself about household alarm systems.

the second match has Townsend Thoresen adverts (car ferries) and, yes, airline adverts, if British Caledonian Airways counts. also motor oil, tv hire, Stanley tools, Hoover, and a local car radio place by the looks

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/vhi-healthcare-doctor-learns-tiktok-dance-to-make-patient-feel-at-ease

apparently that VHI advert has been pulled indefinitely due to the level of vitriol it's provoked

If Internet ads count that Audible one about going on a trip to Westeros and visiting the moon drives me up the wall. I resent how well produced it is and I resent the implicit "you can't go anywhere because of the rona, why not stay home and give Bezos some more cash".

(I do have adblock but not on the ancient ipod I use to halfwatch twitch)

Adverts for apples? Sure why not. But who holds their apples vertically when eating them?

continuing my 'adverts seen around the pitch during the repeats of 1981 football matches on itv4' subset

Danepak Bacon
Give Book Tokens For Christmas
Lemsip

sneaky-tarian is not a thing
deluxe-tarian is not a thing
spicy-tarian is not a thing

That bugs the shit out of me too, but I guess calling people arians is a homophone too far these days.

Richard Ayoade eat a dick straight up

Why oh why are these people trying to make the portmanteau 'housebarrasment' a thing?

Can't think of a worse misuse of the English language than 'housebarrasment'? Cazoo yeah you can!

Just, where's the effort?