Worst TV adverts of the moment

"You have a duty as our national department store to keep the spirit of Christmas alive..."

lol

Have u noticed how many commercials are advertising products for “…my/our/your business.”

"How many millions?"
"56 millions"
"Blimey"
Fuck off you pub bore

i was going to ignore the irritation of "Asda have a poppin' offer" - a classic ad-speak "things no human being has ever said, ever" pain in the brain, but they've really ramped up the repetition of the ad over the weekend and fuck them, it's horrible, i hate it

only noticed the 'self-inflicted injury' disclaimer on the over 50s life insurance ads this morning. that's pretty grim.

Energizer Noir, what the fuck is wrong with you American ad industry?

god bless whoever decided to dub in the "yes"es on the Armani Si advert, for monolingual viewers who don't get it

they are asking questions about the new corsa. the third one they ask is 'will it charge my phone?'

what's the car that's advertising chat GPT included? presumably so you can follow driving instructions that get more and more wrong as you progress on your way.

the Heinz Beans ad really is vile and i expect it'll be gone or edited v differently in pretty short order

― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2023 11:22 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Still on, shorter but mostly the same...

Tesco Whoosh. not necessarily the bumper ads, more just the name.

the 'on the beach' advert, his accent makes me hear 'fucking geniuses' every time

Yes, before the New Year I was actually looking for a Youtube of that to post here!

nothing more Marxist than soundtracking a hotels.com advert

I know, right?

It doesn't actually sound like them, though! I'm guessing it's the publisher that's OKed this.

I mentioned in one of their threads but little did I know they'd already been used for various other adverts.

are/were they 'marxist' like spectator columnists though? thats what i read somewhere once.

I guess that's where they are now, at any rate

who are you on about?

I'm having fun guessing. Stereolab? Radiohead?

stereolab. lo boob oscilator is used on some ad. see the future of stereolab thread.

Lol I didn't even look at that one

you know what lads? i really don't care if your robbing bastard supermarket is price-matched to a different robbing bastard supermarket

I can't decide whether the pitiful non-acting of the fake phone call "oh the poor thing" or the pompous fuckwit giving it "it's just completely unacceptable" is the worst bit of the RSPCA advert but it might well be my most hated ad of all time

We have to talk about the Dormeo Octapsring adverts. It might be that these are only on Freeview, if they are count yourself lucky as they are the longest most boring adverts imaginable as well as being on all the time. The other thing is the shouty enthusiastic voiceover guy has a very odd and annoying way of pronouncing the letter "o", which is unfortunate as the word "foam" is mentioned 300 times, "bonus" 200 times, "zone", "sofa" etc.

"that true, restful sleep"

yeah this is some fucked up Americana shit, fallout from a very strange mattress culture

funnily enough i need a new mattress but i'm not paying whatever wacky price these lads are asking

while i'm on, the Lenor Dream Team are a bunch of freaks and that dubbing isn't fooling anybody

i'm sure you could sleep forever on a series of 100-day loan matresses

stereolab. lo boob oscilator is used on some ad. see the future of stereolab thread.

― koogs, Friday, January 5, 2024 12:16 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is one of my favorite songs. Thankfully it hasn't ruined it for me yet.

The commercial that I hate more than anything is that Jet2Go one with the "I'm ready for this . . ." song. MAKE IT STOP.

"All he ever spoke about was bike this, bike that". Boring cunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5CMmjj_SU

... by the way, is that The Shend playing Tony the dead biker?

I think so! As someone said elsewhere, how have they fitted The Shend into that coffin?

The thing about the Stereolab ad is it makes me so relieved it's not that horrible cover of "Roam" that I don't have much energy left to feel outraged.

It's one of those tracks I don't mind hearing for whatever reason. A bit like those Marc Jacobs ones that used Suicide...

Fuck that daisy daisy daisy shite though.

Oh yeah..

used ITV X for the first time and was repeatedly faced with a terrifying Wiltshire Council advert about flytipping (you MAY be prosecuted) with a banner at the bottom throughout with an owl staring into my soul. this was the only light i had going at 3am.

I loathe the daisy daisy daisy ad beyond comprehension. My least favourite advert of the past few years.

Martin Rev being paid makes that go away pretty quickly.

itvX is messed up on my t.v.. often the ads will flicker past then pause for a few minutes, or a show will come back after the ad break with no sound. I did watch Heathers on it yesterday though and it worked well enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscMMieVuzY

proving "Charlie Bigham" exists by showing a *cartoon* of him is like saying Garfield is a real cat.

the Fixodent advert where a middle-aged couple apparently on a date eat burgers with huge white plastic chompers is one of the funniest things i've ever seen

hate the Dominic West adverts where he's a bank executive

Too cowardly to go properly nasty because they're still advertising banking services, and still somehow written really stiltedly

I can't help thinking that now we've reached Stockholm Syndrome with the wombat as we did with the meerkats, Compare the Market will introduce an even more annoying character *shudder*.

"that true, restful sleep"

yeah this is some fucked up Americana shit, fallout from a very strange mattress culture

To return briefly to Dormeo. I'd forgotten that in one of their adverts where they're talking, sorry, shouting about having guests staying over and sleeping on one of their mattresses - which you absolutely know are going to be completely underwhelming and look nothing like they look in the advert - that it'll be on a "mattress you can be proud of".

I kind of hate that AA advert where bank robbers rush out to find the AA man working on their getaway car - potentially a good idea rendered completely meh. Apart from suggesting the AA have no qualms about helping criminals commit crime and ignoring the fact any bank robber worth their salt will have a getaway driver, it's the bit where the AA man offers them Bombay mix that annoys me most - is it supposed to be funny? Quirky?

the bombay mix guy IS the getaway driver.