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.

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.

improve your christmas dinner by doing scratchcards at the table

are all adverts for gambling now?

"I've always wanted to come here"
"It looks great doesn't it"

it's a dark room with some blue neon lights.

I'm not sure i can parse the Google ad where everybody has an ice-cream instead of a phone. are they, a billionaire company, throwing shade on the billionaire company apple for doing the exact same thing they are doing?

It's not the same! this one has an AI internet website on it!

that Christmas national lottery scratchcards one, that is trying to normalise the idea that buying multiples of scratchcards is a fun family tradition.

"I've spent all the gas/electric money on scratchcards, but don't worry I'm applying for a crisis loan"

There are now two adverts where young children go into jewellers shops and buy expensive trinkets for their mothers

One of the ads described themselves as "always there for you" like they were the Samaritans or summat!

I watch a lot of itv3 daytime so half the ads are for charities but of the rest the one the jars is the folk duo on stage singing about funerals.

Yeah, they had one idea (normalise talking about funeral preparations) and took it too far

dementia as an excuse to shill your product seems popular these days. dad can remember when i bought him that chocolate he doesn't like, even if he doesn't recognise i'm his daughter. mum likes this apple pie i got the recipe off tiktok for...

it's the grim but logical conclusion of the whole "consumer products are the most meaningful aspect of your life" ethos

Oh lickle Wayne with your "Sainsbury's can you save me a few quid?" you are truly an everyday guy, you pathetic cunt

what if cleaning wasn't a chore?

what if it were jazz?

I take it that couple of folkies singing about cremation at the folk club gig is beyond comment? I mean, come back Pomplemousse all is forgiven amirite?

Oh yeah, dreadful advert.

insurance company i can't remember the name of with the admittedly adorable boxer dog - what English person uses the word "sneakers"?

most German-looking woman in the world talks about German shampoo brand with hugely German body language - that dubbed voice ain't fooling anybody, kids

dont know if ive ever seen it outside of itvx but the carmoola ad with the australian? woman saying give me the moola into a phone disturbs me greatly, not because of her but because of the non speaking actress in the car showroom whose task it is to have the stupidest open mouthed expression on her face.

itvx viewers get what they deserve...

those voiceovers are generally limited to toilet cleaner and cakes, nice to know they've branched out.

i have now seen the folky funeral ad, it is about 3x too long

taking sides:

a folk song about pre-paid cremations

a rap about ai-enabled pdf software

Age Concern that's a powerful new advert about older people faced with the choice of heating or eating, but I'm afraid I'll need full voting histories for anybody you're supporting before I decide whether this is heartbreaking or not