Worst TV adverts of the moment

I also dislkie the tooth paste ad that uses MOP's 'cold as ice' and then has the slogan "cool as ice'...I always think, why use that song then? I'm very fussy.

After a night's TV viewing, I shall garnish you with more examples.

Alternately, that car ad where the teacher yaks on about how she will be there for the kids, doctors deliver babies ect... because Something Inside Is So Strong. So buy a fucking car.

The whole Shampoo = sex thing is utterly cringeworthy. The only "urge" I get during the Herbal range ad is to dive for the off button on the TV remote.

[And I wish Jason Euell HAD ran out of the stadium on Wednesday - I would have settled for 4:3]

Somebody on the best ads thread mentioned the Lupo ads, but the big flashing face that pops up every time you click on *anything* at nme.com is really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying. Grrr!

Also, Argos.

The Virgin Mobile advert with Nicole Appleton photocopying her knickers is also rather shit but then again they have ADAM AND JOE (!!!!) on another advert so perhaps I'll have to sign up with them. I hate Vodafone. Bastards bastards bastards. Adverts are SO GREAT though, I love adverts. They are often better than the telly.

1. Argos christmas ad using Slade and the cheapest, shittest, most fucking awful bogus product montage ever. Totally moronic, makes all the goods look like the heap of crap they are - when that fucking cut- out Santa comes by on his skis it might as well be Jive Bunny. There's a real trend lately for mass-market store ads to be this low- rent and vile, probably because the ad people all want to work on high-budget drinks brands and actually lavishing any skills on an ad aimed at the proles would be *so* uncool. Or of course it might be that the focus groups saw the ad and wuvved it, grr.

2. Harry Potter computer game - "FOOTAGE NOT IN GAME" i.e. the game itself has graphics that would shame an Oric. Not in itself a terrible ad but seen five times an hour it gets wearying.

Also! "I'd rather have a bowl of caramelflavouredcocopops" and the Olly the Octopus choosing his cereal are vile, the latter because it is untrue - every child knows which are the nice cereals in a variety pack and it's simply a matter of getting to them first, it's not a dilemma at all you eight-limbed sea bastard.

As for the Nivea "you know, I might buy some" ad, you can gain some kind of succour by imaging what he's going to be getting for Christmas from all his hilarious mates...

BUT WAIT NOW THERE IS ONE FOR AMERICA WITH THAT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS HERO SONG. oh no wait it's for jeep! jeep LIBERTY, at that!

Can I just say that I think the Argos ads are totally wicked.

Then at the end of the ad there's the final insult, that annoying high pitched "life tastes good coca cola" jingle. It reminds me of those films where one corporation runs the radio stations and keeps pumping out muzak to keep people happy. it's ok everyone, LIFE TASTES GOOD!!! and you're all allowed to try it!

2 The fabric conditioner one where the people are made out of - duh - fabric. It is disturbing to look at 'people' made out of fabric, and in fact they look horribly disfigured, like burns victims or people with hypothermia.

(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)

Blimey, isn't it usually the other way round?

Wine ads infest the London Underground system. That and ads for ten- week 'philosophy' courses.

Must. Calm. Down.

occasional reminder that there's a non-uk version of this thread here worst commercials on television

oh sorry thx!

I had no idea these were two different threads.

yeah, it's not obvious and this one tends to be in sna more because, i guess, we hate adverts more. but it is very regional and it makes sense to have two imo.

Absolutely!

Official shampoo of the 2024 Olympic games.

Asa Butterfield becoming best friends with Robert di Niro by asking him if he eats food and goes places.

Also, Haribo ad where the dudes in the boat speak in kid voices.

is the dudes in the boat a particular ly egregious example? kid voices haribo adverts have been going on for ten years

My current peev is the Sky advert, a classic of the "so random!?!?😂" genre, where a twat invites us to imagine if a chameleon sang "Karma Chameleon" how awesome and cute it would be

is that Uber thing real? a service for fans of travel and food? (i actually quite like that one because of the way deniro is, but the concept puzzles me)

two very similar adverts for potatoes, talking to farmers. the mccain one is the worst, saying idiotic things for money.

ok Hays Travel I hope and assume you're going for knowing camp and I must admit I'm gently amused on first seeing your advert but jfc stop it

My current peev is the Sky advert, a classic of the "so random!?!?😂" genre, where a twat invites us to imagine if a chameleon sang "Karma Chameleon" how awesome and cute it would be

― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:40 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

loathe adverts like this. i felt like, to paraphrase ray gardner, the lone dissenting voice in a billion when 3 mobile did that advert of ponies by a lighthouse dancing to fleetwood mac, or the yeo valley one a bit before that. how has advertising not moved on.

It's possible that if your target market is wankers it's a good strategy but still

the layers of bullshit in the current Coop advert are too dense and disorienting to pick apart tbh beyond an instinctive "die motherfucker" reflex

I hate every Currys advert without exception.

not an advert but a trailer on Sky for their new game of thrones spin off - We're going to King's Landing, i think he says. I've never seen game of thrones but did live in Hertfordshire for 10 years so i hear it as We're going to King's Langley.

the joe wicks asda advert, not for the advert itself but for the fact that it says that the money is going towards books for primary schools and sports equipment etc and i'd kinda hoped that primary schools already had those.

i hadn't really considered that aspect of the badness because as soon as it comes on i'm in "fuck off Joe Wicks" mode

simply safe adverts are generally better these days but:

the continuity around the biscuit in the new one needs some work.

"two free smoke alarms set up" is clumsy phrasing.

I'm beginning to miss the classically terrible Verisure adverts because all 67 of them have been replaced by one (smug Irishwoman/biscuit) that's ON ALL THE FUCKING TIME!

(when i said simply safe i meant verisure, obv)

new car out from Vauxhall called the Grandland. but all i can hear in the advert is 'Grand-dad'.

Christmas adverts before Halloween. freemans is on this year's shitlist.

New verisure, yoga, obv has to work of all those biscuits.

every year i forget how relentless the Christmas adverts are.

everytime I hear Domino-hoo-hoo I want to put my foot through the screen

Not sure if YouTube ads are relevant to this thread but at the moment I’m wading through tonnes of releases on Discogs and every single one of them that is monetised is playing me a Muller advert for some new crumble yoghurt with a jingle based on PJ & Duncan’s ‘Lets get ready to ‘rhumble’. I must have heard it 50 times today - they can completely get fucked, I’m never eating it. Psyche!

If it’s not that it’s adverts for Wix website creation tool. Not sure how they got the idea I was a lazy dev stuck at a laptop thinking of snacks all day the bastards.

i see Colin the carrot has gone blue...

the gnome puns are atrocious. if i lived near an asda i'd boycott it

nothing makes me long for the apocalypse like a supermarket christmas ad

there's a horrible sky movies xmas one at the moment, just the most cynical, saccharine type of ad possible.

i may have tuned that one out so far but idk, they all blend together. loathe Stephen Fry all year round but Sainsburys and the Big Twee Giant is maybe the most tooth-grinding in a strong field

a related note is that horrible voiceover register for "oh our food is so sexy" but this is also all year round i guess. so much M&S stuff seems like "throw a bunch of ingredients together cos we always need to be doing novelty" and really? just stop ffs

wtf has Christmas got to do with a gigantic nonce terrifying kids + doing home invasions? I guess perhaps a lot really!

twee giant is really detestable, hope he gets shot dead by the met police. It's so fucking rude + presumptive to peer into ppl's homes and think being twee gives you full cover.

Yes, I had to turn away Belle & Sebastian from my front door the other day, they assumed they had right of entry, had to set them straight.

the Amazon ad with the singing janitor is bleak as fuck

yeah that's a bad one, really ticks all the "patronising sentimentality pushed by the actual cause of your misery" boxes

thing is it is a fucking ripoff business for the hapless consumer as well as the poor bastards horribly exploited at their torture centres. I always find stuff cheaper than their bullshit "black friday" deals. I managed to get an Oukitel large screen tablet for £31 cheaper than their black friday offer, just buying it from an Oukitel products e-bay account. This happens every year, so they can fuck right off and die - although admittedly I haven't seen the tv ad yet. Will be yelling at the tv if I do.

"Yahlo Kingu, Yahlo Kingsha" (Apparently this is someone called Tom Grennan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx-L9SxKxPM

I really don't like that Maltesers ad that's been running way too long now where the gran introduces her "companion" to her family. Like, I don't get it - is it meant to be funny?

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

Yes God I hate it. It's not funny or rude or anything just slow and annoying and on all the time

i am not sure if the Shave Your Balls advert is real, a euphamism for something or just parody. but i am curious how they can air it mid-afternoon on Sky Mix.

Yes God I hate it. It's not funny or rude or anything just slow and annoying and on all the time

― kinder, Monday, 25 November 2024 12:54 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

It summarises a lot about what I don't like about some British comedy culture. Writers are hooked on this type of childish, euphemistic, post-Carry On sense of humour where it's all "SEX! Harharharhar! Oh and especially: Old people having SEX! FWAAARHHRHRHRHRAAAARR - except we don't say the word 'sex' because we're British so we say something silly like "Hankypanky" which is also extremely funny for some reason". Hate it. Hate this.

And it's constantly deployed, not just in adverts, but even quite elevated UK comedy where suddenly a decent sitcom or stand-up routine is brought crashing down with a big "nudge-nudge wink-wink" barely-disguised double-entendre that would make secondary school kids groan. I don't really see this outside of UK comedy and advertising, and it serves only as crassness for crassness' sake

Still, it's just like real life: ref Gregg Wallace, crashing down...

my own Personal Hell

Sky Sports HD UK Christmas Advert 2024 Football DartsMas⚽🎯🎄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lCe4oOj6X4

christmas break at Home, no tv of my own, sport on the tv for hours at a time, including repeats of the previous day's matches.

and a Merry Football DartsMas to you too koogs

beyond the carry/on crassness mentioned upthread the malteasers advert is a good example of how dialogue/story in adverts is so odd and disjointed these days. obviously dialogue in adverts has never sounded realistic but there are cases now where it just seems to barely make sense. this m and m's ad feels like it might be the nadir. I mean why is the dad just gardening at a bbq?? forced inclusion of internet speak likely only makes it worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRf7xa2xoes

I haven't seen any of these but don't have cable so maybe that's why?

Sophie Ellis Bexter's at the door and she's about to pull a face...

God there are a lot of annoying ads on TV at the moment. That said, I admit I actually got a laugh out of "Are you on giff gaff or something?"