Worst TV adverts of the moment

xp I think I'm part of the problem when tom's description means I'm looking frwd to seeing it now. can't see how they'll top the golf one but I'm excited.

just seen the pot noodle slurping video with some kind of electronic noise rather than the slurping. wasn't paying enough attention to understand why that was.

there's a second slurping ad at the moment as well though, macdonalds perhaps.

The Hertz car rental ads I have been getting on youtube for about a year are driving me mad - one is a parody of Oprah saying "you get a car!" and the other is a parody of Tom Cruise on Oprah, both are just shit in every way possible.

haven't seen in a week but i'm still irritated so the sara cox radio 2 promo. is it calling her listeners 'you absolute legends' or the digital landscape of sad commuters making their 'everyday less everyday' by having hung up played to them, the 'less everyday' to the 'everyday' train rhythm beneath?

not that bbc radio promos don't usually annoy me, mind

"my nan was a truly amazing woman, she made shit sunday dinners with frozen yorkshire puds" is a feminist masterpiece

'the voice in the back of your head' is that a phrase that people actually use? 'voice in your head', yes. 'eyes in the back of your head', yes. both valid Catchphrase-style phrases, but not 'the voice in the back of your head'.

Yeah that would annoy me. "Back of your mind", maybe?

there's some ad I've seen (ie has been on while I'm scrolling my phone) loads of times that might be for Sky Mobile? as in a network? but I've never even passively taken in what it is or what the ad is for (I had to force myself to pay attention once I'd realised it was about the 50th time it had come on). someone talking about what other people are doing in their lives? maybe? it's as if every time my mind wants to make some sort of connection it moves to something else and I assume it's a different ad but it's not.

can something be done about the haribo adverts where they record kids and then have adult actors mime to the recording? especially the tacked on laughter, clearly from a different recording, which they plonk at the end. by something I mean arrests and long term imprisonment.

the lenor advert where she opens the bottle and the music starts... "Let the sun shine in..." only she puts the lid down halfway through the 'Let' and the music stops and then starts again. the interruption is like a punch in the guts every time.

Anything with Diane Morgan doing the voiceover.

is that who it is doing the baby voice on e.g. the Cadbury's ice cream ads? because hell yes it's murder-inducing

Verisure seem to have changed tack with more professional adverts with proper actors - well, a red haired Irish woman who I recognize but who is not the red haired Irish woman sitting on the bog in an incontinence pad advert.

Advertisers love red hair.

feel like there was a time when this lady was in every other ad on UK TV, but I've seen less of her recently

https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/614602985-8ae6e05b3ad3eb7460bcf09d04b65d6922995db21c86f017382d1f921ccb4deb-d

there was also a period where there were a lot of ads featuring the nerdy guy from PhoneShop (whose dad was Mr Bennett the caretaker in Take Hart and also wrote the second series of Captain Zep - Space Detective)

i thought verisure woman was old RobotWars woman. although given that she was on strictly and has the morning breakfast show on virgin radio i'm surprised verisure can afford her. (angela scanlon)

I'm sure it's her and I'd noticed the change in production values although the script itself is still weird and unpleasant

Confused.com smug whistlers can get to fuck.

Ah right, Angela Scanlon, I knew I recognized her. I don't want to seem like I've got something against Irish women but I really hate those Fairy washing powder (I think) adverts with the glamorous blonde Irish woman and her fake baby, there's something incredibly smug about her.

they edited those down as well i think. 'always close with a click-clack' is now missing the '-clack'

always keep away from children.

i assumed those Fairy ads are some kind of Instagram/ influencer woman because of how unnatural she is, but obviously not bothered enough to Google it

i asked above. but have forgotten the answer.

Trish knows

Worst TV adverts of the moment

it starts with an engineer... who walks like a robot and talks like a robot.

Yeah, her name is Vogue Williams. She and Joanne McNally off Taskmaster have a podcast called My Therapist Ghosted Me, which is insanely popular among basic bitches.

they edited those down as well i think. 'always close with a click-clack' is now missing the '-clack'

I noticed that too. I'm guessing it's because the packs are made of cardboard now, so they don't make that noise anymore.

I think I was at school with a girl called Joanne McNally... or Joanna.

the shell advert annoys me more for the greenwashing aspect than the robot aspect. and the last shot where the bed covers close in from both sides with an obvious join in the middle and then cut to a shot with no join. it felt like it was shown in every single ad break i saw yesterday.