Worst TV adverts of the moment

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

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.

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)

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

Passing ref: "You know how they say, life begins at fifty?"

No they don't. They say forty.

Anyway, the one I wanted to mention was the one where it's a website for holidays/hotels, and the pug keeps barking "BOOK!"

Mainly because it's way louder than the rest of the ad, the button it is sampled on is pressed way too much, and it's very headache inducing.

little sweet.

How come no-one's given this old queen a kick in the bollocks yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGs3S17V0xI

I think that's Joanne Heywood appearing halfway through, who was once in one of the BEST TV adverts of ALL TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_e9fh7388

Why do so many voiceovers pronounce 'cherries' as 'charas' and 'babies' as 'behbehs'? Listen out next time there's an ad for Special K or Pampers. No one speaks like that IRL?

Not sure if this one's on anymore but it invariably caused me to *say out loud, "What the fuck's it got to do with you anyway?"

(*I talk to the television... sometimes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIv350V2Tg

just cannot fathom the thinking behind this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xegsh1CmPU

More annoyed that they didn't follow up "is man... kind?" with is "is flame... able?" or some other such stupidity

There is this Panera Bread commercial that plays on the Comedy Central website that has this hippy dippy lady doing a whole passive aggressive "We think food should be good for you" schtick.

Whoever thought the world needs more of that welsh opera singer on the go compare adverts needs a good kicking. They killed him off, went postmodern with him, introduced replacement characters but now he's back like some kind of messiah.

the replacement characters were even worse though, I think it's good that Go Compare realised there mistake and brought back the opera singer. Halfifax should take the hint and bring back Howard

'their' mistake, even.

also this guy was in the replacement adverts, I don't think any advert can really be a candidate for worst without him appearing at some point:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/files/images/m33_newsimg_a30ba016-2947-43e9-bde0-d07f09345e0f.jpg?width=219&height=411

He's in about 1 in 3 adverts being shown on British TV at any given time. He's a 118 guy, I think?

2015, Commercial, Problemo, CSA PAPER TOWELS, Blink, Tim James Brown
2014, Commercial, Belvita Bloke, BELVITA
2014, Commercial, Dad, B&Q
2014, Commercial, Mick Mechanic, GO COMPARE
2012, Video, Type 1, COLLAPSING IN PARTS (LIVE ART FILM), Cally Spooner, Cally Spooner
2012, Site Specific, Mad Hatter, WONDERLAND, Teatro Vivio, Sophie Austin
2011, Commercial, The Man, XFINITY ON DEMAND COMCAST, Patizan, Jared Eberhardt
2011, Animation, Norris, NORRIS AND STEPHANE, Azam, Rachael Le Feuvre and Ali Taylor
2011, Commercial, Explorer, MIKADO, Quad
2011, Commercial, Col, CARLING, BMB, Guy
2011, Commercial, Man, HORNBACH, Radical Media, Sebasstian Slesser
2010, Commercial, Man, DELL BLUE STREAK, Gorgous, Peter Thwaites
2010, Workshop, Bob, BANDAGES, Nwebury Corn Exchange, Kirsty Housley
2010, Commercial, 118, 118118, Brooklyn Brothers, Johnathon Hopkins
2010, Commercial, Dancing Man, SEAT LEON, The Gang, Sebastian Grousset
2010, Commercial, Col, CARLING HOME DRAUGHT UNIT, BMB
2009, Cabaret, Eye Dad, LIVE ART SPEED DATE, Stoke Newington International Airport, Brian
2009, Commercial, Karl, DAS HANDWERK, Gorgeous (Germany Only), Peter Thwaites
2009, Commercial, Col, CARLING, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2009, Commercial, Crying Man, VW, Radical (Germany Only), Sebastian Strasser
2009, Commercial, Explorer, RUBY SPLASH, Buiscuit, Jim Hoskin
2009, Commercial, 118, 118118, Brooklin Brothers, Kinka Usher
2008, Workshop, Hector Mann, THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS, National Theatre Studio, Kirsty Housely
2008, Voice Over, Voice Over, AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS, Art.War, Libby Liburd
2008, Commercial, Colin, CARLING 'BELONG' COWBOYS, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2008, Documentary, Presenter, CARISBROOKE CASTLE, 1,000 YEARS OF HISTORY, Visual Light, Felicity Fair Thompson
2008, Commercial, 118 118, ASK US ANYTHING, WCRS, Simon Cole
2007, Commercial, CARLING 'BELONG' OUT, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2007, Viral, 118, FLASHDANCE, WCRS, Anson Haris
2007, Commercial, Trainers, CARLING 'BELONG' SPACE, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2007, Voice Over, Narrator, TWINKLE
2007, Commercial, 118, 118118, Owen Harris
2006, Dance, FACE DANCE, The Place, Jonathon Stone
2006, Commercial, 118, 118118, Jim Hoskin
2005, Viral, 118, 118118 SHOW, Meme, Anson Harris
2004, Commercial, 118, 118118, JJ Keith
2004, Commercial, Soaked Bloke, BBC3, Maggie Zackenhiem
2003, Commercial, Runner, 118 118, Jim Hoskins
2002, Commercial, Bolognese Boy, E A SPORTS
2002, Commercial, FRIDJI IDENTS, Elimidate
2002, Commercial, Student, GROLSH (HOLLAND ONLY)
2002, Commercial, Young Lover, KNORR SOUP
2002, Event, N.E.S.T.A. CONFERENCE, Greame Miller
2001, Commercial, Cool Dude, MAGNUM CARAMEL & NUTS

Is it possible he actually did some acting in 2013?

can't believe that Halifax replaced Howard with this garbage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3veZJjvhzM

I seem to remember it being revealed that these ppl were in fact actors, not real Halfix employees plucked from obscurity like Howard?

though apparently Howard was not very popular north of the border, don't know if you can confirm this, Tom

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HOWARD'S+AWAY%3B+Customers+hated+the+singing+banker.-a0123984964

that Air N'nB ad missed a trick by omitting a Don't Look Now reveal at the end, with the baby in Juggalo make-up or similar

13 Howard Brown You're The The First The Last My Everything Mar 2005

From April 2008, Brown no longer starred in the Halifax adverts, instead taking a role in its public relations department.[5][6] In 2011, he left the company.[7]

CAPTION(S):

KEPT ON: Angela; SWITCH OFF: The; fat lady has sung for Howard, above

halifax made a big deal out of auditioning internally - YOU COULD BE THE NEW HOWARD - but iirc you didn't get much ££

I wonder what happened to Thomas Yau

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/i-m-into-something-good-a-halifax-ad-1-2166505

not a lot of recent activity of his bebo fanpage

http://o.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5687710758

oh wait, here he is

http://cs322328.vk.me/v322328020/6299/AI7vJG22ILM.jpg

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-9/11988753_421007178092874_6926802536226818241_n.png?oh=e7ac350a4ce241b4d5d319459019e311&oe=56A4BF4E

argh, wrong thread

Was wondering what on earth that was an advert for

God.

"Be my hope beating in my chest
you're the only thing I need to make make me the best, singing .. WO WO OH OH.."

Asda ad. Presumably this fakey Coldplay type song was a real song once, but he sounds too puffed up w/ his own importance to need a g/f/ or anything out of Asda anyway.

http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OKM/richedit/Screen-Shot-2015-10-15-at-15.35.24.png

I genuinely feel angry every time I see one of these ads, according to the article below they are going to using these characters in their ads for the foreseeable future

The spot will show the family in a supermarket with Ben Miller's character Roger playing an 'embarrassing dad' figure, quizzing the checkout colleague on the mechanics of the Brand Guarantee.

It will be followed by a spot showing Ruth Jones' character Jo, who "gets on her high horse about certain things", tutting the word "typical" when she sees a queue at the till before being pleasantly surprised when a Tesco colleague opens a check out to serve her... The characters in the campaign represent a modern family, with "sexual chemistry" between the parents and banter between the father and son, Freddie, who represents a 'boomerang' child back living with parents in his 20s.

http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1368572/tesco-unveils-major-brand-campaign-family-played-ruth-jones-ben-miller

has there ever been an ad campaign of this type, centered on a fictional family, where the family have not been completely hateful and enraging?

Christ that's terrible. 'Make the average customer out to be a completely embarrassing moron' is never a good strategy. I quite like Armstrong and Miller as a comedy duo, so it's extra annoying

I never liked those Paul Whitehouse insurance (is it insurance I don't even know?) ads where he plays different people in each one, but doesn't say or do anything remotely funny in any of them, just talks about insurance (or whatever it is he's selling).

in different accents though tbf

sometimes with a fake nose

Based on many commercials that I see these days, I'm led to believe that ad execs find most people stupid and loathesome and also believe that most people find one another (and, presumably, themselves) stupid and loathesome.

has there ever been an ad campaign of this type, centered on a fictional family, where the family have not been completely hateful and enraging?

OXO family? Or maybe I'm being a) nostalgic, b) comparing them favourably to my own deeply flawed relatives.

OXO family beats the new Tesco ads in the 'with "sexual chemistry" between the parents' stakes, at the very least

I find no sales technique quite as persuasive as the suggestion that the fictional characters making a pitch are engaged in a whole lot of offscreen fucking.

RIBENA BERRY ORGY!!!

TETLEY TEA FOLK GANG-BANG!!!

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2nx7qPVa-OU/hqdefault.jpg

the sexual chemistry between Nicholas Lyndhurst and Nicholas-Lyndhurst-in-a-wig is the gold standard here imo

I used to work with someone whose wife looked like him in a wig. It was rather disconcerting.

Saw two new Tesco ones yesterday - in the first the son tries to pick up a woman closer to his mother's age than his, and the second is about 'gluten free' and how stupid the son is.

That "pick-up" one is the most cringe-inducing and yukky ad ever.

ever.

Look forward to seeing it!