Worst TV adverts of the moment

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.

they're trying to be inclusive but they're hamfisted and they're adverts

^^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgUqmKQ9Lrg

Oh yes, seen that one dozens of times

they're rubbishy adverts because they're adverts but I'd imagine a lot of disabled people are happy to see any representation that doesn't involve people being plucky, inspiring victims

this is mint if you've never seen it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx9fAEJeI0E

what's the problem with Gaz and Leccy?

they're rubbishy adverts because they're adverts but I'd imagine a lot of disabled people are happy to see any representation that doesn't involve people being plucky, inspiring victims

― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), donderdag 19 januari 2017 13:28 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^ this. and it takes a special kind of ninny to be offended by it.

the problem with Gaz and Leccy is they make me want to kill whoever came up with them

reckon its just because they hit each other?

I'll never forget hearing my step father ringing up and complaining to the BBC over an episode of Jim'll Fix it. He used to work as an ICI safety officer, and in the episode they had kids playing around with liquid nitrogen or something.

Just youtubed and have never seen Gaz and Leccy before.

Or Gourmet Burger Kitchen.

These must run on channels I don't watch or have. Sky maybe?

those T-Mobile ads where "fees" are represented by giant lice crawling all over are really disgusting

Up against the wall, come the revolution...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPaknE25GL0

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hwoijXA_M84/hqdefault.jpg

why is this guy in every advert all of a sudden? taking the food out of the mouths of belvita bloke's kids

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

Maybe the Belvita guy went back to experimental theatre.

Pukka Pie mom seems way too posh to be sat tucking into a Pukka Pie

Nathan Sykes tickets!

Pukka Pie mom seems way too posh to be sat tucking into a Pukka Pie

She's not, she needed a payday loan to fix her boiler the last time I saw her on telly.

posh people get payday loans, but only in the adverts

dear Aviva, it's not a "social experiment", it's a shitty fucking advert. cheers.

I'm in the cinema rn and there's an advert for a bank that has top cat in it and is unbelievably long and bad, they've hired some mook who cannot do the voice of top cat to do the voice of top cat

You haven't seen the Flintstones and Scooby Doo ones yet?

yabba-dabba-don't

a stoner and a magical dog want to sell me financial products

Top Cat is a vagrant and con artist, I don't know if that's better or worse.

Fred Flintstone is a noted abuser of dinosaurs. Which shoddily drawn cartoon character CAN I trust to sell me a mortgage???

Deputy Bank Manager Dawg

done for impersonating a police officer IIRC

You haven't seen the Flintstones and Scooby Doo ones yet?

yuck, no - are they also unbelievably long with terrible voice work?

The Flash ad where the dog sings about all the mud being gone makes me hate dogs and television and everything. Jesus, the person who wrote that ad must hate themselves.

(xp) Terrible voice work is a given, I assume you saw a long version for cinema.

i find the Flash advert weirdly endearing, i like the 2-person perspective

i mean it's no Duck but