Worst TV adverts of the moment

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also the fact that it contains noted pornographer Snoop Dogg

Angkor Waht (Neil S), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 08:29 (nine years ago) link

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

Naamloze vennootschap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link

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

Try Leuchars More! (dowd), Saturday, 14 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link

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

Three Word Username, Sunday, 15 June 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link

Fantastic us!
Da da dada da daaa daaa!

FUCK. OFF. Just FUCK OFF.

kinder, Monday, 23 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link

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

now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

(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.

koogs, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link

I think this is the American one:

worst commercials on television

"Adverts" is a British thing, I think?

oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 August 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link

Walkers' Market Deli: you pitiful bastards

Daphnis Celesta, Sunday, 31 August 2014 07:39 (nine years ago) link

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.

I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Sunday, 31 August 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link

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".

and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Monday, 1 September 2014 07:16 (nine years ago) link

Trivago guy. That is all.

Iago Galdston, Monday, 1 September 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link

Those Harvey Keitel "Wolf" ads..

I like them

But I can imagine some people might disagree...

Mark G, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 09:28 (nine years ago) link

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?

koogs, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 09:49 (nine years ago) link

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

Mark G, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 10:11 (nine years ago) link

Trivago guy. That is all.

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

http://youtu.be/ThunXjagQEk

╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link

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

╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link

Belvita :-(

jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link

trainline.com app adverts.

koogs, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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

MaresNest, Thursday, 2 October 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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

The Falun Gong Show (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link

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'.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 10:29 (nine years ago) link

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

imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link

Someone's been hired for 'blue sky thinking'.

(let's have a cloudy white sky!)

Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link

Actually, with maybe one exception, the supermarkets have uniformly gone with the "look how posh our customers are folks!" (Lidl, Asda in particular)

Mark G, Thursday, 13 November 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link

advert would be better if all the soldiers were played by Paul McCartney

soref, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link

looool

imago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link

When my van's off the road I'm not working
So what am I gonna do?

Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link

The Guiness ad with the stalwart lady bartender putting out the elijah's cup guiness every night until one day her soldier boy husband returns home and the other skeevey dudes who hit on her raise a glass to him -- that one made me soooo IA

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx0MRawkrj4

my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link

right now it's a toss up between the real creepy Viagra commerical with the long, uncomfortable close up on the Australian lady or the literal "come play, my lord" commercial with Kate Upton

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link

Cravendale advert no longer has Martyn Jacques on it, so now falls here.

Aldi have Jools Holland doing boogie twatting woogie.

the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 24 November 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link

Yeah. Boo to crummy Cravendale swap-over

Mark G, Monday, 24 November 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link

Those Harvey Keitel "Wolf" ads..

I like them

But I can imagine some people might disagree...

I don't know what you mean by "Wolf" but if you mean those insurance ads, I like them too.

Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link

Wolf was the character he played in pulp fiction who did a similar cleanup job.

koogs, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link

I totally hadn't realised that was Harvey Keitel in the ads, I thought it was just some guy

soref, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link

Oh, that's sort of ruined it now. (xp)

Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link

That's the whole point though!

koogs, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link

I've seen 'Pulp Ficton' but don't remember anything about it so I thought Keitel was just playing some arbitrary menacing Mafia like figure.

Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link

That's pretty much what he does in Pulp Fiction.

just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link

The adverts are better though.

Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link

Don't open this thread often but knew there was going to be talk about those Harvey Keitel ads. They are pretty good.

Should have hundreds of posts due to xmas.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link

seven months pass...

Not a fan of the current 3 Mobile advert with the purple muppet and East 17 singalong for some reason. If 'it's really alright' is the best tagline you can muster...

cod latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link

The first time I saw that Pussycat Dolls' "Don'tcha wish yr girlfriend" Sharon Osborne ad, I knew this would be played well over the sell-by date, and yet I hated it on first go.

OK, moneysupermarkt, you can drop it now. Yeah?

Mark G, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link

yeah that's a really annoying one. it's like a perfect storm of things that total idiots would find amusing.

cod latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link

OK, moneysupermarkt, you can drop it now. Yeah?

They're still making 118 118 adverts after 143 years, despite the fact that noone has ever found those funny or entertaining or interesting.

holger sharkey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link

yeah what are those even? i always assumed other people understood them and i was just ignorant of their subtle charms.

cod latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link

Inexplicable, it's like whoever owns 118 118 is locked into some PFI-like contract and have to carry on forever with something that doesn't work and never has worked.

holger sharkey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link

You remember the number, though, that's all they want.

(Though why anyone would phone the number instead of just using the internet, I have no idea)

Let's go, FIFA! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link

good god those Nicole Scherzinger Muller ads make me want to join the men's rights movement

kinder, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link


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