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.

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?"

some foodstuff advert has rewritten the Ruts song Into The Valley as Into Your Belly...

That's The Skids, but...

I did wonder what Richard Jobson made of it....

i always get those two mixed up, even though i share a birthday with one of them

elsewhere, there's another incomprehensible nespresso advert.

- fucking protein shit
- fucking "mental performance" snake oil shit

tv advertising fast approaching the giddy heights of stuff you see on youtube

She's proud of her grandson... what's he done exactly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2ZELhZdQc

proud is used 3 times in that advert.

YouTube followed it with a clip from gbnews. which made me look twice at the British Seniors logo

it's far from the worst but kevin mcloud calling a chair with clothes on it "bedlam" always gives a chuckle. unfortunately my wife is more on team kevin.

"clothes lost their ma-agic?"

i swear they've edited the gap in that revlon ad to be shorter

couple of ads appear to have made a comeback lately, that yogurt advert, phage or something for one

If it's not illegal why won't you tell us a single thing about it?

i broke my glasses yesterday and today I'm going to pretend I'm walking down a street unconvincingly

Advertisers absolutely obsessed with Northern (English) accents at the moment.

me with that song in my head because of your display name

new lynx advert is overly violent, it's like the Revenant or sutin

saw Jimmy Fallon pimping a mobile game, guess the Tonight Show contract doesn't pay enough anymore

there are a bunch of recent adverts for things like dishwasher tablets and washing powder where the selling point is how bad the exact same things have been up to now, but these are better, promise

lots of ex footballers doing adverts for multiple products too, Peter Crouch, I'm looking at you (detergent, paddy power, Victorian plumbing and lingerie)

there are a bunch of recent adverts for things like dishwasher tablets and washing powder where the selling point is how bad the exact same things have been up to now, but these are better, promise

this is the entire history of marketing

Please protect us from the Sure all-over deodorant advert and its euphemisms for body parts.

well yeah, 'new and improved' has always been a thing, but this seems very specific. I'm thinking of the 'i don't prewash, i don't rewash' advert and the 'boomerang smell' one which sound like they're saying the current situation isn't fit for purpose

(oh there was an ad years ago that focused on cloudy glasses in dishwashers specifically)

Who Do You Think You Are right now has an actor visiting Treblinka and Los Angeles researching his family. only the guy is the guy from the Karma Chameleon crazy dancefloor on a train advert (and only that afaik)

he's Spiderman

There's an ad which is intentionally bad (I think it happens a lot thesedays, bad acting etc..) so am not nominating it for that, but for this exchange with the "good guy"

Reeptionist: "Did you enjoy your vacation?"
Man: "Whoah yeah, i really needed it"

Then she charges him the total price for one night. That's a vacation? OK, it might be he's off to the airport after staying somewhere else, but that's clearly not a airport hotel...

he's Kloppo man

Oh, and the ads where feeding your dog "kibbles" is tantamount to canine abuse...

"Phillips presents the crown jewels" - wtf did I just see?

And now a dominoes ad with someone doing the same thing, what the hell is going on

I don't know because I don't know what the thing that's the same is tbh.

a man shaving his balls.

The best a man can get.

same as this? from late november?

Worst TV adverts of the moment

^ that one was american couples oohing and aahing over something that they weren't really showing in a wooden box, laughing and making up their own jingles.

these recent two each ad a man shaving his balls. i will not investigate further.

I ad best avoid them too, guvnor.

finally annoyed enough by that one advert to look up what he's saying - Gochujang Pasta Sauce. the ai service he's using is 18 pounds a month.

elsewhere the sun life over 50 adverts have evolved into something else - the naturists one and the woodworker. not sure they are better.

the verisure adverts have got rid of her from robot wars and are now full-on home invasion scenario.

watching Cracker repeats was odd because the ad breaks were kept quite short, mostly trails, until the middle when there'd be 10 minutes of Slam Chop and the same old mattress infomercials.

Love gochujang pasta! What is this advert?

Is that the one that's just a straight up American ad? Where he's making paahhhhwwwsta sauce?

he ruins his 'go to chang' pasta sauce because the top of his sugar container isn't screwed on correctly. so he asks gemini to help him salvage things. he points his phone at some very generic packaging (the flour is in a packet with only 'flour' written on it) and Gemini suggests he bakes cookies instead, because that's a good replacement for pasta sauce. is it a Samsung ad? it's on UK tv every 15 minutes.

Yes, that's the one. It's a bit too American I think. Which reminds me, that Sky often runs terrible, often incomprhensible, adverts during the news and there's been one recently where the voiceover pronounced leisure as leesure.

... terrible adverts aimed at businesses, I meant to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yMNvm2VzZY

Sugar does get used quite frequently in Korean cuisine but for gochujang pasta? The paste already has a sweetness to it.

But props to Google for showing its AI suggesting that someone who just ruined their savoury main could make some sweet biscuits instead, that is pretty much the level of advice it's capable of.

I'm not actual sure what ruins the pasta sauce, but it's white and powdery and sugar would be logical given the eventual output. the important ingredient in gochujang pasta sauce seems to be gochujang paste, which doesn't help.

a true ai recipe would add glue

Gochujang, butter and cream is all you really need imo. Some green onions sprinkled on top. Prob would add garlic if I was allowed.

obv after mentioning it i've not seen it again until now. but he literally says 'i added way too much sugar to my gochujang pasta sauce'