Worst TV adverts of the moment

but surely such a storyteller...could only be a story himself??

I'm having an Easter Dinner but it's all just going to be chocolate.

^ this. the true meaning of easter.

Historically illiterate advert from these reliably (as clockwork) irritating cunts.

Glad I am not the only one annoyed by confused.com ads. Not just this one (which inventor of which clock? he used a sundial you FULE, etc etc) but the "why did we start keeping money in pigs?" one which ends with the pig vomming up the coins. It's coz cheap clay used for making money boxes was called "pygg" and eventually people took advantage of the pun to make them pig-shaped, BTW.

and the woman with the cactus for arms who wins the inflatable guitar?

the woman with the cactus for arms should probably not got out at all ever. Would make a good kids' book about celebrating difference, I guess. Cassandra's Cactus Arms.

I watch MLB on BTSport quite often and American erectile dysfunction ads occur every so often and this one showed up last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z694OneOac

Has that McDonald’s (?) slurping ad been mentioned yet, cos it’s disgusting

Not American afaik. Americans would be too prudish for an advert like that. There's a lot of Numan ads on TV in general, and they're all irritating.

that's a particularly stupid one as we all know Action Man hasn't got anything down there to become dysfunctional! Which was the topic of a much better Hamlet ad on a poster with Action Man in bed with Barbie, back when the tobacco ad ban had been announced and the industry was going hammer and tongs to push the boundaries / be as wacky as possible before the axe fell.

wonder what Gary Numan thinks about this product?

"EMMA LOOKS GREAT...I LOOK DREADFUL"

Roast shoulder of lamb is one of my favourite meals so I will take any excuse to eat it.

I was way into my 30s before I clocked that every shop was shut on Easter Sunday just like Christmas Day. "Easter Day" didn't used to be much of a big thing, apart from in church.

the downside of ridiculous amounts of hours spent watching golf every week and the demographic that suggests means that aside from betting ads, and the same trailer for whatever new show sky is pimping every single break( no I don't want to watch lily allen goes to Margate) is that I end up seeing roughly one hundred erectile dysfunction and hair loss ads per week.

SimpliSafe! There's a new player in the wooden acting security cam game

s that I end up seeing roughly one hundred erectile dysfunction and hair loss ads per week.

And because I bingewatch box sets on All 4 while knitting, I get bombarded with ads for pisspants. I really feel that if you are incontinent, you shouldn't sit on people's shoulders at a festival, even if you are wearing absorbent pants. And I certainly shouldn't have to ever think about you doing it.

(Unless you are an actual baby. That is acceptable.)

the advert I've seen about a dozen times now, about the autistic girl struggling with external stimuli, is, it turns out, for washing powder

I've been barraged by this Temu ad while playing cheesy phone games recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgNuwb9lpeg

I like it
*Yup!*
It’s mine
The prices blow my mind
*Cha-ching!*
I feel so rich
*Ooh yah!*
I feel like a billionaire

Most chilling part is when the little girl opens the Temu box and there is a Temu employee/oompaloompa grinning up at her.

Yup.

who is gig hadid and why does she think pasta and diet coke is such a treat?

(gigi)

There's nothing particularly wrong with this advert beyond the fact that the male character looks like the late England football manager, Graham Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZGEjK_J1w

two different adverts (bank, squash) using the same alicia keys song. ick.

i see the 4 people in a cafe upsetting the 5-obsessed clientele far too often. i'm sure it means something to someone.

this new Argos advert is bad trip fucked up

Rob Quartermain, head of marketing campaigns, Argos said: “We can’t wait for the nation to fall in love with Connie and Trevor as they bring the assortment of products we offer to life, using premium brands as well as our iconic Habitat range.”

Toby Allen, ECD, The&Partnership said: “One of the nation’s best loved retailers sells the grown-up stuff too. Who better to deliver that message than the toys themselves? A savvy doll and a lovable dinosaur are the new faces of Argos, showing a new side to what it sells.”

i mean it goes without saying that everybody who works in advertising is evil

"are you still using your hands when putting on your shoes?"

i am and i feel like such an idiot

opened next week's listing magazine and out fell six (6) Pure Cremation leaflets. 'as seen on tv'

Did you burn them?

Bit of a sick joke these Channel 4 adverts for coverage of England's Euros campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I5-G0yNXdE

Typical English modesty.

There's an advertising campaign for nappies (diapers) which has been running for a few years, one of those where they've coined a new word, which in this case in "poonami."

I get the word is a portmanteau of poo and tsunami, but it doesn't look like poo and tsunami, it looks like "punani" - which given that the adverts feature an eyebrow-raising baby is previously undiscovered levels of ick.

I regret to inform you that "poonami" has been used in the world of parenting for sone time...

yes I noticed that too. immediately put filthy dancehall track "Punami" in my head which I have to assume was not the intention.

The Thames Water ones annoy me. Are they even ads, given that in any place in the UK you have no choice of water supplier? Maybe they are just PR campaigns.

One goes on and on about how they're fixing leaks 24-7. Oh the thing that is literally your job, and also why did you let the pipes get in such a state in the first place? (dividends, shareholders, grumble grumble).

Also the one with the puppet, which is a terrible puppet. Apparently it is supposed to be an otter. I thought it was a rat, given they live in the sewers.

Voyage Privé's current TV ad states that they sell "packaged holidays", a comically Mr Burnsesque commitment to faux poshness

Rightmove's decision to do a normcore "this is the place where we're happy" celebration of the nuclear family but drench it in unspoken melancholy is a bold one

that annoying cornetto advert is back, the one with the shrieking and the unfunny reveal.

the tesco emoji face advert is creepy, like a rictus grin.

Burger king: making people feel like idiots for ordering almpst anything on your menu doesn't seem like a great marketing strategy.

that one annoys me because someone is obviously singing "chicken royal" amongst the others singing "chicken royale"

in a perhaps related note, "reading eggs".

Burger King writing "You rule" on all of their signs is a weird campaign

is it the burger king advert or another fast food outlet in the uk at the moment where the serving staff solemnly shake the customers hand? no thank you.

that's the KFC ads

if anybody shakes my hand instead of putting chicken in it, arms get broke

actual lol at "as soft as sea foam, as pure as a parent's love"

i like the ones that end with the sinister "always keep away from children"

are you chatting shit about my milk-slice??

yeah that is loool

the dove advert for anorexia, or something, needs to stop. must've seen it 10 times today and that weird squeal she does at the start bugs me every time.

"I'm glad you didn't buy an electric car" ad also needs to go

"They got me back in the game baby!"

The one that is sticking with me these days is this golfer Lee Trevino add for knee pain help. That tag line makes me chuckle. They seem to show it every 3 commercials during Jeopardy every night.

New Verisure with the golfer has some of the worst acting yet in their ever expanding oeuvre.

i've been meaning to comment on that one. the layers of possibility - is he meant to be a parody of a toff? why would you portray your target customers as buffoons? is this about creating "aspirational" characters that are in a higher class bracket than your actual target market, and it's been done very ham-fistedly, or are they going for some cult ironic badness thing in a Go Compare mode? why does the Verisure lad guarding the patio look vaguely familiar from some ancient sitcom or something?

Good questions, one and all. I don't think Verisure do irony though.