Worst TV adverts of the moment

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.

(istr there being two of these threads, one for merkins and one for britishers. can't tell which this is)

anyway, the mentos bumper ads that wrap all the e4 programmes at the moment, the 'cool' members of the public break-dancing or free-running, are some low-quality, sub-apprentice-task bollocks.

I think this is the American one:

worst commercials on television

"Adverts" is a British thing, I think?

Walkers' Market Deli: you pitiful bastards

In August 2014, Blackwood made his dramatic return to the small screen as the face of Burger King. He fronted a range of crtically acclaimed advertisments, promoting the new Big King and New King Chicken 'King Deals', priced at £3.79 in stores nationwide.

Haha I saw this yesterday and the first thing that ran through my head was "even just smelling this a little bit has already made me more suggestible".

Trivago guy. That is all.

Those Harvey Keitel "Wolf" ads..

I like them

But I can imagine some people might disagree...

the samsung(?) amoled tablet advert that shows me how good it's new screen is compared to old led screens. it does this ON MY LED TV. how does that work?

Yep, we all had a good laff at that ol' classic yesterday.

Trivago guy. That is all.

― Iago Galdston, Monday, September 1, 2014 10:15 AM (Yesterday)

http://youtu.be/ThunXjagQEk

trivago guy is some experiment/genius idea to make the human equivalent of a jingle that is so obnoxious it stays in your head forever

Belvita :-(

trainline.com app adverts.

The worst music related TV ad I've ever heard.

So bad, that even Universal have realised and swopped out the voice over for another, the fucking clots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXv0-whZlo

Kasabian-looking dad on the new O2 advert i'm calling social services just in case

The woman on the new Park Hampers advert is going for 'sympathise that things are tough' but her eyes are screaming 'oh god how did my life come to this, why can't I get a proper job on a daytime soap or something'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

if you can make it more than 1:23 into this you're a far, far braver boy than I