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.

_the trivago guys seem like the worst kind of men, gloating over hotel deals_

Also should we be happy about Trivago making it cheaper for American tourists (and Jurgen Klopp) to stay in hotels?

Is it? Really?

Blimey, it is!

Ok, I'll give him a pass for terrible acting, but he's not even the worst one.

The really weird advertising I come across is listening to AM/FM sports talk radio. That is a strange mix of stuff being hawked there.

I find it hard to believe that timeshares are such a thing that there is an industry existing to help people get out of timeshare contracts. And they advertise ALL THE TIME...call schmo he will get you let go.

Lots of strip clubs with happy hour advertising. I don't think I would do a nacho bar at a strip club...who knows?

did i mention the table tennis table?

^ some bumper ads i see far too often

talking to your gran is a strange thing to get a train for.

Yes that train one is irritating.

Youtbue ads must be crafted to make you want to pay to get the ad free version

Idk where this goes but wendy’s has a promo with wednesday (tv show) called the meal of misfortune. Seems unfortunate.

jfc that twat's "singing" on the John Lewis advert

Lol apparently it's Mike Skinner. Cancelled.

"is that paypal with a 'p'?"

how else are you spelling paypal?

Not a "worst advert" as such but ffs M&S whenever I hear "Perfect (Exceeder)" out in the wild it's stuck in my head for a week

I hate that I know the phrase "Auto Sergei".

not actually on TV but WTF at the hand dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMyuN-vp_nI

the Slits and Delta 5 being used as advert music at the moment

(primark, apple)

Both sounds like re-recordings?

The Slits sounds like the original, the Delta 5 sounds like a cover

Is it “Mind Your Own Business”? Automatic covered that a couple of years ago.

Yes, that's exactly what it is.

Actually, I've just listened to that cover and it isn't that after all!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_5#Legacy

this says the original was in an apple TV ad... in 2021. so probably not that.

there was a remix by alex arnout, maybe it's that

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

i've just seen the Mind Your Own Business ad and it's F+F (tesco clothing) and decidedly not the original. are there two?

Yes, I didn't think it was Apple, there must be two!

Mistakenly posted this to the US thread: the Idris Elba corporate AI shilling is on SO MUCH.

Once there were two Delta # bands

jesus that kid who says "and heroes" in the Disneyland advert needs a slap

What's Billy Bragg doing appearing in an advert for an investment fund?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS7F8_kwm20

whoever's responsible for that Pepto Bismol advert where they mime "diarrhoea" needs locking up

I feel sorry for the jobbing actors just trying to make a living.

‘I got you a big part in a national tv advert for you.’

‘Great! What is it?’

‘You’d better sit down…’

There are a few actors who seem to pop in a lot of different adverts, though that doesn't seem as prevalent as it once was. Nothing like as many as one of the 118 118 guys who was in dozens of adverts back in the day. I wonder what happened to him?

Letty Butler seems to be the best example at the moment.

I saw Jamie Quinn in one the other day. He used to have a decent career.

Yes, Letty Butler definitely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZA6a0_gQY
All they've done is replace "rhumble" with "crumble". Lazy.

Feels like 80% of ads are just 90s pop songs with the words changed to a pun

'Last night a tampax saved my vibe' to the tune of 'last night a dj saved my life'

there's another i can't quite remember for some food or other that replaces the key word with 'belly'

^ the skids' 'into the valley' -> 'into your belly'

yeo valley yoghurt

peas sure sound divine /memorex

Curry's seem to have splashed an awful lot of cash on an apparently endless series of "quirky" adverts none of which are remotely funny or entertaining.

the terrible partially-sighted-customer one seems to have resurfaced

These are part of the Diversity in Advertising awards they've set up with Channel 4. I guess the headline is that disabled people don't need to be entertained as long as they're included.

The Deliveroo advert that's an excerpt from The Exorcist, or something...

there were also two ads recently featuring people answering the door to a horde of journalists, which i think might be a Notting Hill reference, from last century

(just eat, amazon prime)

are the Christmas adverts more plentiful earlier this year or am i just noticing them more? they all seem to have chosen a classic Christmas hit as background music. stop the cavalry trumpets every 10 minutes. in the first week of November.

the Asda / Grinch one seemed to be in every single ad break yesterday

John Lewis' post-Stephen Graham advert is particularly nauseating and, yes, it's only the start of November, wtf?!!?

Have seen actual adverts on TV for the first time in a few months and am alarmed at how much AI has replaced actors, it has really gone up a gear.

The John Lewis one makes me picture myself as the Eckied Da from Limmy spoiling Xmas Day with a rendition of Short Dick Man

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM3qHuh5dEc

Haha that's redeemed it.