Worst TV adverts of the moment

Hive really is the worst of the worst. (See also the Innocent Smoothies thread.)

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

I get the most hulk smash furious at those ones as I've ever been - I don't really understand why

think because of all the private companies that pretend to be the consumer's bezzie mate, banks are right up there in the taking-the-fucking-piss stakes

yeah, though i think feeling revulsion towards matey oppressors is always reasonable. xp

That's the one that drives me insane. It is totally nonsensical, as in I just can't imagine anyone acting or thinking like this.

One accepts a meal from a new friend (the first time they'd gone out), just because your their friend?
It felt 'briwyyent', surely you would be grateful, or perhaps a bit weirded out?
This moment compared exactly to the feeling you got when found out about the cashback offer with your bank.
That you feel confident that your new friend would like this offer.. (do people discuss this crap with new friends?)

.. this and that every time I watch anything on 4OD it plays at least four times..

'you're their friend'

I have been reading too much into this haven't I?

as somebody observed on ILX - and no doubt elsewhere - months ago, the more reprehensibly the banks behave, the cuddly wuddlier the adverts get

The woman is so clearly a simpleton, because that's what banks think of the general public.

I feel embarrassed for the actually talented people who are involved in that Bud Light commercial

Does anyone in the UK actually talk like that besides actors trained to fake that accent?

Yeah it's a real accent. Lancashire maybe.

that accent is v normal! it's anjli mohindra & she is from nottingham

i've never felt like ridiculously elated when a friend covers a meal or pays for me in any way, it's always like 10% relief and 90% guilt

they should've made it about how you can guiltlessly take their money because they're a fucking bank and they suck

this new coke zero ad makes me despair for maths teachers everywhere:

A new Coca-Cola Zero campaign, launched this month during the Australian Open Men's tennis final via Host, turns the idea that 0 means nothing on its head.

Says Lucie Austin, marketing director, Coca-Cola South Pacific: "For some people 0 means nothing, our campaign will show that adding 0 gives you more; 1 idea to 10 ideas, 10 mates to 100 mates, 100 possibilities to 1000 possibilities.

Television is epic in scale and we're taking this reappraisal of what 0 means to the masses. Coke Zero is a modern cola icon, which warrants an edgier and sexier campaign, above and beyond its established 'zero sugar' positioning.

i guess 'add zero and get exactly what you started with' doesn't have the same ring?

"Divide by Coke Zero and generate a compiler error (unless you're using Java because meh)"

Agh during my degree I undertook some teaching discourse analysis and this exact description of 'adding zero' was determined to be particularly confusing to young maths students.
Why didn't they go with the actually interesting 'discovery' of zero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-_rpHoT4U

Mainly included for the "Worst thing to happen to music since garaaage" line. Sorry, not listening to anything you have to say on the subject if that's your opinion. Are we supposed to like this prick?

The girl is hot though.

That's the thing I don't get about that series of adverts - he is actually meant to be a prick, very clearly, and yet he's the one selling the product to the other characters, it seems? So... buy the product, be a prick like this guy?

I think he might be intended as an endearing dork rather than insufferable wanker.

i'm gonna go with beer commercial logic here - be an asshole, get the girl, winner

it's pitched at students, they either love being fucking pricks or don't recognize when they are

He's not the girl-getting kind of arsehole though (despite having one in the ad).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPDV1piw8w

somehow I had a feeling that was what this thread was bumped for. ugh.

some discussion here the scariest commercial of all time!

but yeah, i am totally opposed to this commercial.

I'm sure the awesome bros who wrote that ad didn't consciously mean it this way but it's pretty misogynist in addition to otherwise being terrible.

it's incredibly misogynistic. i think they made this one in order to offset that fun aspect of it, somehow, but it doesn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VjL5Y67nc

i find the puppet wife terrifying

these commercials are also ableist. what are the wires if not a disability that severely impairs motor function?

xps yeah the one with the kid is unpleasant too.

That Werther's Original ad where the narrator recalls the time she visited her 'favourite caramel shop' makes me feel irrationally embarrassed. For one, I don't think I've ever heard of a caramel shop, let alone visited enough to have a favourite one. I don't think I've even met anyone who likes caramel enough to get even remotely excited about visiting a 'caramel shop'. What's more, if I were to ever visit such a theoretical Wonka factory, bedecked in sparkling gold and where kindly old gentlemen inspect each batch with a jeweller's eye, I'd be pretty fucking annoyed if one of them were to hand me a Werther's bloody Original.

Just tried googling 'caramel shop' and all the links were either to Werther's Originals or to people making the same complaints as you on other forums.

Though I suppose those people could actually just be you using a variety of internet aliases and taking your complaint to as many places as possible.

Hah, I guess what annoys me most about the whole Werthers aesthetic are manifold:

- They've always been slightly creepy
- They try and generate a false sense of nostalgia which doesn't exist - the company has existed in some shape or form in Germany since 1903 but the brand 'Werther's Original' only went global in the 1990s, so it's bullshit basically.
- They're not even real caramels, they're boiled sweets with caramel flavourings, so it's bullshit basically.
- Just, just the horribleness of those ads - what's the opposite of a strawman? where someone creates a benefit on the basis of a false assumption (i.e. I'm obsessed with nasty hard caramel flavoured sweets).

http://www.hotpickle.co.uk/case-study/werthers-original-caramel-shops

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ygpip1XrIYc/U2EjHYn_8GI/AAAAAAAAAj8/b0GzkcJtogY/s1600/harper+2.png

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/files/2014/04/HarperGatorade.gif

For context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wywLKat-q_s

Nothing like a flying severed face with bloody tissue hanging off it to make me want to enjoy a sports drink.

The Money Supermarket Snoop Dogg Car insurance one...

THE BLOKE HASN'T GOT A CAR!

also the fact that it contains noted pornographer Snoop Dogg

"Take your kids to Disneyland before they grow up and leave you to die all alone" is pretty harsh imo

Probably true of the sort of person whose thought processes run that way.

I'm pretty sure the Direct TV Marionette commercials are about a serial killer and the conversations he has with his victims' corpses.

Fantastic us!
Da da dada da daaa daaa!

FUCK. OFF. Just FUCK OFF.

I have some Catalan friends and that advert sets their teeth on edge.