Worst TV adverts of the moment

Beowulf Borritt! who is the son of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Boritt

disappointingly, his other sons have fairly boring names:

Together they have raised three sons: Beowulf Boritt is a set designer in New York City, Jake Boritt is a filmmaker who lives in Harlem, and Daniel Boritt is a biologist specializing in birds who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

I don't think I've seen the one where a guy that isn't Will-I-Am talks about throwing up, are you sure that exists?

The Nationwide advert with the young poet guy annoys me intensely and because of one specific thing to do with the poem itself; he does a bit early on where he lambasts "dads dad dance to dad music centuries since it made it in the charts" but then boasts later about him and his mates coming home drunk "singing to Britpop" because that's of their time and is their thing.

The guy's about 20. His dad will be from the Britpop era, that music from 20 years ago.

these contradictions resolve themselves if you remember that the guy is a cunt doing a cunt poem for cunts

the worst bit about that ad is it goes on long enough to make me vomit up my entire skeleton before it ends

crikey

didn't realise quite how strongly it affected me tbh

John Harris white-nostalgia-supremacy repacking a cheap cartoon of working class community to sell it back to the shattered diaspora is pretty aggravating tbf

in an age where something as magical and life-affirming as the Duck commercial exists there's just no need

Ice T at a lemonade stand

if you want to know more about the guy from the Nationwide ad, the has an impressively comprehensive wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skint_%26_Demoralised

Skint & Demoralised began when Wakefield teenager Matt Abbott started doing stand-up performance poetry in late 2006. With comical themes such as tales from Seaside towns[1] and tragic nights-out,[2] he was often a hit with a pleasantly surprised audience.[3]

He's not 20 years old then.

Ice T at a lemonade stand

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, October 24, 2016 10:50 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's good that he is shooing away all those pedophiles though.

Tragically he seems to have forgotten his own name.

The other one in that series where the guy that isn't Will-I-Am says "When I was young, I promised myself that I would never throw up" I was all "What has that got to do with the laptop or the films you do?"

wait, do you mean the ad with these two? I'm pretty sure he says he promised himself that he would never grow up, not throw up

http://www.winbeta.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Capture-d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran-2016-08-01-a%CC%80-17.18.37-1040x580.png

He's definitely not Will-I-Am though, seems to be some kind of hipster Pac Man

> The other one in that series where the guy that isn't Will-I-Am says "When I was young, I promised myself that I would never throw up"

Will-i-isn't is actually the bloke who did Book Of Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Gutierrez_(animator)

and it is 'grow up' but in a thick mexican accent.

nice of Nationwide to let Kate Tempest have a crack on their other advert

I'm not usually fussed about Phillip Glenister either way but that one where he's badgering you into comparing energy prices makes me want to KILL

Hi,

It took me a couple of viewings to work out what he actually said. Was being ironic. Ad is OK otherwise.

xp i usually find his onscreen persona noxious, that's just an especially ripe example

does Glenister actually do any acting these days aside from adverts where he trades off his lovable bent cop persona?

i think the worst part of the current one is the suggestion that people are moaning about paying high energy bills and need to snap out of it and get on that internet, whereas in real life people moan about the relentless tirade of shitty comparison sites offering you the chance to save £1.40 a year by committing to a 10 year contract with Ulan Batteries Inc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZCk4eUUMAAzp7t.jpg

there's a commercial for a new car that brakes by itself. it starts off with a woman singing to herself and then imagining she is a star at a concert while the car stops for her just barely avoiding crashing into another car. then it cuts to a really dumb look on her face. it's terrifying.

dear old lady in the Bisto advert, just because you are in the twilight of your years and feeling a little socially isolated, there's no need to talk like such a fucking feeb, kthanx enjoy your dinner

getting bullied on a scary estate? put a dog in your jacket

lifetimepaybackguarantee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbxz4XuB4oQ

Wow that's like an alternate universe version of our Alex Trebek-sponosored Colonial Life insurance commercials

kia soul advert anyone. anthropomorphic rodents playing guitar in central park etc.

that British Seniors ad reeks of client interference

the money supermarket ads have obviously popularised it, but I feel like there was an earlier specific ad that started this bad trend, I can't remember what it was, though.

― soref, Sunday, October 23, 2016 2:50 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Makes me think of this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI2n_qlxuzk

People who check their credit scores on a website hardly qualify as a "subculture". The ad makes it sound like they've joined a credit-based version of Fight Club or something.

I only see these in the cinema where they are uniformly unwelcome; the trend these last few years in uk ads seems to be this horrible kind of... slam poetry? dribble that sounds like it's been written by a nine-year-old but is either intoned by standard vo people in tones of great import or yeah a kate tempest type, the nadir (so far) is the oxfam xmas ad I saw today, it's like "shop to stop the hate we hope we shop we breathe the light to shop the mop the blop sip sop" and it fucking goes on like that for like 5 minutes

"Wyeargh.. Alright, I could have made some extra spendin' money by sellin my car to Webuyanyoldmotorforafiver.com but my time means more to me, so I set light to it! I don't have to do anyfing I can't be bothered to do, do I small child?"
"No, daddy!"

wins otm (xp)

fair enough..

not seen the webuyanycar ad, but it actually sounds pretty funny (?)

wins otm about the slam poetry ads. usually it's down to the copywriter being totally uninspired and just scribbling down random catchwords with the help of the rhyming dictionary.

Frylight advert with nodding head middle class families. Smugness dripping out of the screen.

why are they nodding? what is the reason? is there an added ingredient?

I think it's just "Aren't we great? Yes we are."

Oh and fuck off Tesco with yer man Dave who always puts yoghurt in his curry because HIS ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP IS BASED ON A LIE.

It's not heartwarming, what else is he lying about? That he had to take out a second mortgage to fund his scratchcard addiction? His second family on an estate outside Telford? That he used to be a conjoined twin?

a couple of particularly egregious, pompous "inspirational" high street bank ads out there at the moment: Natwest "hmm makes you think" and Lloyds "For the journey" GTFO

banks are just so fucking clueless about everything.

tactic now seems to try and be our fwend to undo some of the reputational damage from the financial crisis. Good luck, multinational financial institutions!

10 most complained about ads via BBC

1. MoneySuperMarket.com (dancing bodyguard) 1,063
2. MoneySuperMarket.com (gang dance-off) 898
3. Match.com (kissing women) 896
4. MoneySuperMarket.com (solo dance-off) 530
5. Paddy Power (blind football) 450
6. Smart Energy GB (Gaz and Leccy) 253
7. Paddy Power (Scotland fans) 220
8. Home Office (domestic violence) 216
9. Gourmet Burger Kitchen (vegetarianism) 195
10. Mars/Maltesers (disability) 151
Source: Advertising Standards Authority

Interesting how match got made a link there...

1. MoneySuperMarket.com (dancing bodyguard) 1,063

Eh? That's easily the least annoying MoneySuperMarket advert.

apparently he grabbed his dick.

people who complain about ads seem to be of a certain political stripe, see number 3.

has anyone seen the maltesers ad? apparently it features a woman in a wheelchair joking that her boyfriend mistakes spasms for orgasms.

without seeing it it's hard to know if it's massively offensive or quite inclusive.

There's at least two of those. All I can say is, if you find them massively offensive then you are a massive twunt.

Hold on though, I don't think I've seen the one you described, but I don't pay too much attention to Maltesers ads tbf.