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 '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.

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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.

which is why he says 'it's ok *I'm* with the AA'

Oh right. LOL you can tell I'm not a driver. I still don't like the Bombay mix line.

(have just realised that 'I'm with' could mean 'i am employed by' as well as 'i'm a member of')

he's far too chill given the circumstances

someone should tell Pot Noodle that just because something is intended to be disgustingly obnoxious doesn't mean it isn't disgustingly obnoxious

New Verisure advert looks like it was improvised during a teabreak in the recording of a proper Verisure advert - with the crew as actors.

Dr Ranj, thank you for knowing the price of cashew nuts in Grape Tree

xp I think I'm part of the problem when tom's description means I'm looking frwd to seeing it now. can't see how they'll top the golf one but I'm excited.

just seen the pot noodle slurping video with some kind of electronic noise rather than the slurping. wasn't paying enough attention to understand why that was.

there's a second slurping ad at the moment as well though, macdonalds perhaps.

The Hertz car rental ads I have been getting on youtube for about a year are driving me mad - one is a parody of Oprah saying "you get a car!" and the other is a parody of Tom Cruise on Oprah, both are just shit in every way possible.

haven't seen in a week but i'm still irritated so the sara cox radio 2 promo. is it calling her listeners 'you absolute legends' or the digital landscape of sad commuters making their 'everyday less everyday' by having hung up played to them, the 'less everyday' to the 'everyday' train rhythm beneath?

not that bbc radio promos don't usually annoy me, mind

"my nan was a truly amazing woman, she made shit sunday dinners with frozen yorkshire puds" is a feminist masterpiece