Worst TV adverts of the moment

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There was another thread about crap TV ads before this I think, but that was about a year ago, and there are many many new crap ads on the telly now. So let us complain about them.

Bizarre thing for one of those play kitchens for kids - entire advert has two young girls demonstrating what can be done with it, only that the soundtrack has two women dubbed on it saying stuff like "Oh yes, this microwave will really make her jealous!" and "Ha ha, this superb grill will really annoy her, she doesn't have anything like that at her home!". So parents should buy this toy for their kid because it'll one-up all of their kid's poorer friends?
Despicable thing for Gillette. Two standard off the peg blokes watch cheesy Gillette advert in a living room (post-modern!). They complain about how rubbish said advert is, and at the end of it, one of them go, "It's good though, isn't it?" GNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Why don't they just get one of the ad men to come on and go "We think you're all fucking idiots, HAHAHAHAHA!"?
Weird and annoying ad for baby doll with magnets in its limbs or something. I choose this for the incredibly irritating brat on the soundtrack going "bleep bleep" for NO REASON AT ALL.

― Chris Lyons, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

New answers right after this break...

― Chris Lyons, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Anything using 9/11 and after to sell products via 'aren't we *wonderful* to help those who need it' approaches.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I've thought of starting this thread myself since there are so many lame ads on but of course all examples have slipped my mind now. damn food.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Choices Direct, of course.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I hate the ad where the kid is sitting on the toilet, and realises he's making a bit of a stink and goes "ah mum got that new press thing"...that releases a good smell.

I also dislkie the tooth paste ad that uses MOP's 'cold as ice' and then has the slogan "cool as ice'...I always think, why use that song then? I'm very fussy.

After a night's TV viewing, I shall garnish you with more examples.

― james, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Where there's blame, there's a claim.

― RickyT, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

WICKEEEEED!! SOOOORRRRTEEEED!! BANGIIIIINNN!! BACK TO THE OLD SKOOOOOOOOL!! (cue Yazz.)

Alternately, that car ad where the teacher yaks on about how she will be there for the kids, doctors deliver babies ect... because Something Inside Is So Strong. So buy a fucking car.

― Al, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

All the Red Bull ads. Every single one.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

the FedEx one where they poach the ambulance man to work for them is pretty tasteless. i presume it was made for the US originally, where they don't have the NHS which needs all the help it can get

― michael, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I don't like the Orange one with Jason Euell - eventhough he is scoring and celebrating against Arsenal. I hope everybody who watched the Arsenal v Charlton match said the same thing when he scored, namely "I wonder if he's going to run out of the ground and go and find his mate?"

― Jonnie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I really hate that one for Ocean Finance with the smug quiz-show host asking the contestants, "For ten points, tell me a reason why somebody might be.....refused....a loan?" I find it really irritating the way that the word "Advertisement" appears on the screen in the top left hand corner throughout...as if there would ever be a quiz show with questions about loans! Aaargh!

― MarkH, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The Head and Shoulders advert where the ad agency honestly think the shampoo buying public are going to be duped into believing they're talking about infidelity and shagging when really they're speaking about shampoo. I mean, since when has anyone been "seduced by the novelty" of an alternative hair product? Come on!

The whole Shampoo = sex thing is utterly cringeworthy. The only "urge" I get during the Herbal range ad is to dive for the off button on the TV remote.

[And I wish Jason Euell HAD ran out of the stadium on Wednesday - I would have settled for 4:3]

― Trevor, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The Halifax one where the woman does a doctored version of 'Livin' la vida loca' *shudders*

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The two blokes watching a Nivea ad in the Nivea ad! Who on earth came up with this? And who on earth paid them to come up with this? Also, there's first love and there's Muller love. The guy eats his yoghurt with a polaroid fer crissakes. Can you imagine the chemical- induced madness that must surely ensue?

Somebody on the best ads thread mentioned the Lupo ads, but the big flashing face that pops up every time you click on *anything* at nme.com is really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying. Grrr!

― Madchen, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The one that gets my goateee is the man who has hung up about ten blue shirts on the clothesline, then reaches into the basket for another blue shirt an sais it's his favorite.Lol He's nuttier than me!!!! lol Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Vodafone. The Dandy Warhols. That smug faced curmudgeon bloke who wandered about the desert before they took the next step into hellishness. The crusties. Their adverts when sponsoring POP IDOL with ha ha look it is HAMPSTERS making things BEEP (actually sounds okay) but this is NOT okay when it is advertising their cnutish BRAND NAME WEBSITE of vizzaavviitytytutwankwankwankwankOHPLEASE. They are DOT COMMUNISTS.

Also, Argos.

The Virgin Mobile advert with Nicole Appleton photocopying her knickers is also rather shit but then again they have ADAM AND JOE (!!!!) on another advert so perhaps I'll have to sign up with them. I hate Vodafone. Bastards bastards bastards. Adverts are SO GREAT though, I love adverts. They are often better than the telly.

― Sarah, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Hi Sarah! Adverts are better than the programmes that frame them because more time and money went on them!

― Wil, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sponsorship idents: all shit. I only ever watch commercial TV on a saturday morning so that is all I can talk of BUT two stand out for me as Pete can testify:

1. Argos christmas ad using Slade and the cheapest, shittest, most fucking awful bogus product montage ever. Totally moronic, makes all the goods look like the heap of crap they are - when that fucking cut- out Santa comes by on his skis it might as well be Jive Bunny. There's a real trend lately for mass-market store ads to be this low- rent and vile, probably because the ad people all want to work on high-budget drinks brands and actually lavishing any skills on an ad aimed at the proles would be *so* uncool. Or of course it might be that the focus groups saw the ad and wuvved it, grr.

2. Harry Potter computer game - "FOOTAGE NOT IN GAME" i.e. the game itself has graphics that would shame an Oric. Not in itself a terrible ad but seen five times an hour it gets wearying.

Also! "I'd rather have a bowl of caramelflavouredcocopops" and the Olly the Octopus choosing his cereal are vile, the latter because it is untrue - every child knows which are the nice cereals in a variety pack and it's simply a matter of getting to them first, it's not a dilemma at all you eight-limbed sea bastard.

― Tom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'You're every one to one you've ever had' DIE GOLDFRAPP DIE.

― alext, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I get so depressed when I watch ads on the smaller channels like ITV2 - they are invariably all for loans for sad, stupid people with no jobs and no money, somehow implying that rather than ending up with even less money and self-esteem, taking out a loan is the key to happiness! Celebs who do voice overs for these kind of ads (and I know the bloke who does that fucking blue telephone - how could he stoop so low?) are, IMHO, worse than those who advertise MacDonalds, Starbucks, any of the mega-corporate Incs that people seem to get so worked up about.

As for the Nivea "you know, I might buy some" ad, you can gain some kind of succour by imaging what he's going to be getting for Christmas from all his hilarious mates...

― Mark C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

oh the parade is offering me many bad ads. the lottery one with a parade of people singing the barenaked ladies' 'if i had a million dollars' is a v bad one.

BUT WAIT NOW THERE IS ONE FOR AMERICA WITH THAT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS HERO SONG. oh no wait it's for jeep! jeep LIBERTY, at that!

― maura, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

They have a gospel choir in the Lottery ad. Morons should read the bible .

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I have sky, there's no need to watch adverts.

― chris, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Like Samantha, I'm not very good at remembering the ads I hate. I will put a pen and pad by the TV and make a note.

Can I just say that I think the Argos ads are totally wicked.

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

That fuckin coke ad. I mentioned it before. The one where the guy is on the train and all his "mates" are asleep and he's drinking a can of coke, and he says "it was the best night of my life". "I was gonna miss these guys". And the way he says "these guys" like as if theres a coloured history, and they're some bunch of mad tossers who do crazy stuff but despite it all he was going to miss them. Oh the things they do! Falling asleep on trains, AND drinking coke.

Then at the end of the ad there's the final insult, that annoying high pitched "life tastes good coca cola" jingle. It reminds me of those films where one corporation runs the radio stations and keeps pumping out muzak to keep people happy. it's ok everyone, LIFE TASTES GOOD!!! and you're all allowed to try it!

― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The Argos ads are pitched perfectly at target market = 'good' ads, even though I personally dislike them.

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Those Virgin ads for executive class flying or whatever it was were truly shit.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah - I'm surprised no one has mentioned the horror of the Dorritos 'friends' adverts yet. Has that reached Ferrero Rocher/Alanis Morisette levels of flogged to deathness or something?

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I make conscious efforts not to buy things if I think the ads are stupid. though I fail.

― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The smug-faced wankism that is Archers. Stop fucking winking at me you bastard I hate you and will punch you, and oh hahaha isn't it so funny that the girl stays out later than him because she drinks Archers hahaha I bet her and the Lambrini girls love each other the stupid fucking wenches.

― emil.y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Did you say urge? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

george foreman's imac grillpan thing, WHAT THE FUCK IS ThAT!!!! "it's like a grill pan", okay, "it's ridged so you don't get as much fat in your food" riiiight "it's got a pretty coloured lid and it cooks both sides at once" okaaaaaaaaaay "george foreman say's it's really GRATE" WTF, GEORGE FOREMAN, cognitive dissonance, brain MEEEELLLLLTTTIIIINNNGG....

― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

the RETURN OF THE GRILL-SHILL!!

― mark s, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

1 Bacardi Breezer. It is undignified for a cat to be seen behaving like a cheap male nightclub smoothie.

2 The fabric conditioner one where the people are made out of - duh - fabric. It is disturbing to look at 'people' made out of fabric, and in fact they look horribly disfigured, like burns victims or people with hypothermia.

― Ellie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i mean GRILL SHILLAZ !!!

― mark s, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I can't stand those crappy Dani Behr McDonalds Premiere advert. They make me want to hurt Dani Behr more than usual.

(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

There is this one ad wherein a teenager pretends to be Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Urgh....

― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

There is this one ad wherein a teenager pretends to be Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Urgh....

Blimey, isn't it usually the other way round?

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

LAMBRINI GIRLS ARGH.

― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

(though they oppress me from posters not the telly)

― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Another hated poster ad - what do these people have in common they all drink portugese wine (or something, I do not know what horrible drink they all drink all I know is that it's yet another poster with Tony Parsons gazing at me, best selling author yes)

― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

That German wine ad is shit as well. The one with that ex-goth lass who now is a city worker of some description and has noticed the wine changing with her. I am also dismayed by by the cheesiness of that Hardys ad with the bottle making an impression on the car, hur-hur- hur. Are all wine adverts rubbish by law or something? I can't think of a single good one off the top of my head.

― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Ah now whot about the S. African wines one dominating the Northern/Victoria lines? With the funny reptile lying back in a tshirt with the S.African flag on it? Ha ha that is funny ha ha ha fetch me a bottle! As long as I can smash it OVER MY OWN HEAD argh. Tube adverts surely don't count. I still want to know why they are all so crap for car insurance (if yer on the tube = good chance you don't drive and not target demographic SURELY) and LET YER BODY KNOW WHEN TO CONCIEVE helff fads. Sheesh.

― Sarah, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I have never seen a wine ad except 'le francais adore Le Piat D'or' which I doubt even counts as wine. Is wine advertising targeted at the metropolis, or have I missed my demographic?

― Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"In France it's part of the language" => very very very angry RickyT shouting at television.

― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Spitfire Ale is even worse though.

Wine ads infest the London Underground system. That and ads for ten- week 'philosophy' courses.

― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'I AM DRUG FREE' screams trophy winning golfer.

― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Are any of the common ads on the tube any good? Travel insurance = shit, cheap phone calls = shit, wellwoman pills = very smug detoxified woman therefore shit, cartoon strip style loan ads = even shitter, car insurance ads = dreadful with particular brickbats going to Diamond (car insurance for girls NOT men) and Admiral (Tim and whatserface 'soap opera' type affair only the fuckers can't even be bothered to use the same models from episode to episode) and as pointed out above why do I want car insurance when I'm on the sodding TRAIN anyway?

Must. Calm. Down.

― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

'Scientology helped me become a successful photographer', yes yes but it also made you look like Greg Evigan.

― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

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forking caunts

― Radical Jedward (snoball), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:53 (11 months ago) Permalink

Been back in the UK for four weeks now and 'creamy but low in fat' is the most punchable ad ever made, even more than the Choo Choo Choo Trainline one.

― kinder, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:55 (11 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

"I just sold my car click click"

I just skipped your ad FUCK OFF

― Jeff Goldblum is watching you, pope! (snoball), Thursday, 5 July 2012 08:50 (10 months ago) Permalink

Since that "She's always a woman" ad where a girl goes through all her life until she's a grandma.

Not nomming that one, that's pretty good. But: This ad would not work 'as is' for a guy, he needs some sort of 'achievement' or a different twist on the tale. (I did see a similar one to the first from a guy pov, shown once, can't remember the details, anyway..)

Eventually, a guy one, where the POV is of the daughter growing up, and even though the mum is around it's all the guy's pov (carrying upstairs a sleeping girl, inflating her swilling armbands, etc) until she leaves home for College in the VW her dad bought for her.

Not that one either..

It was the one I saw yesterday. National lottery.

An old woman looks back at how she used to be a brilliant runner but the war intervened and she had to go to work instead, a brief bit of her getting married and having kids, eventually the daughter (or granddaughter it must be it all went a bit quickly) is seen just about to start the race in the Olympics. It's supposed to be uplifting and how the lottery grant committee helps to fulfil ambitions. So why did it seem so depressing in the end?

Did anyone see this one? What kind of tree am I barking up here?

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:11 (10 months ago) Permalink

swimming armbands, obv.

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

God yeah, I hate that one - there's nothing uplifting about having your dreams shattered but being all benign about it because someone else gets to do it for you 60 years later. There's one for a lawyer firm that's like that too, where some woman is burying her husband but it's all OK because a pregnant stranger smiles at her.

― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

uh? So, what, the pregstrang is the dead guy's affair or something?

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:21 (10 months ago) Permalink

I think it's some "my husband is dead but hey! there's a random new baby on the way somewhere so I have accepted the circle of life" wise old woman shit.

― ailsa, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:33 (10 months ago) Permalink

Those billboard Go Compare ads that look like they've been grafftied on. So many people have fallen for it and put it on Facebook.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:48 (10 months ago) Permalink

xpost oh ffs. "Hey widow! Get some perspective!"

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:55 (10 months ago) Permalink

current Phones 4 U tv ad is the greatest of all time btw

― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:16 (10 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Snack enlightenment. Surprised the league against asian defamation haven't created uproar.

― Stevolende, Saturday, 21 July 2012 10:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

"It has come to Jacomo's attention that the actor who played Egg in the BBC 90's series 'This Life' is about to walk in from of the camera."

― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 22 September 2012 10:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

I thought this revive would be about the John Lewis advert. Who thought that was a good idea? (Actually, much fun can be had from being with people seeing it for the first time and trying to guess what it's advertising.)

Current biggest hate is the Philidelphia one where Mum is going to be back late so Dad makes chicken wrapped in bacon - it genuinely looks like it was made by the losing team on an Apprentice task.

During the Olympics I hated the Victoria Pendleton one for Pantene or whatever it was. "Helps me win as an athlete and shine like a woman." Putting to one side the casual sexism, I can't have been the only one that continued with "NO PARTICULAR WOMAN", can I?

― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

Whoever that sofa company is who are currently running ads for a sofa with a built in iPod dock and speakers.

― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

That Costa ad that features what looks like people buried up to the neck in shit while singing 'I Was Made For Loving You' by KISS.

― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:29 (7 months ago) Permalink

really hate the truck commercial where the dude shakes the dealer's hand but first wipes mud all over it, wtf come on what is this REAL MEN GET DIRTY ARGGGH bullshit

on the other hand the truck commercial with Peyton Manning where he says "call Papa Bear" and pumps his fist is really one of the greatest commercials ever

― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

> Costa ad

this

― koogs, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 20:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

Brad Pitt. Chanel. Why?!

― kinder, Thursday, 18 October 2012 21:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

^^^ I don't understand either. I keep substituting the "you are not your job, or how much money you have in the bank" line from Fight Club.

― ILX until I die (snoball), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:28 (6 months ago) Permalink

Yes Converse Make Boots

― ILX until I die (snoball), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:29 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Vodafone advert with Yoda on a train helping a woman do a crossword puzzle on her tablet.

― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Saturday, 10 November 2012 21:24 (6 months ago) Permalink

What's not to like? It's *yoda* and he's helping People

― all the people on the right, boogaloo (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:12 (6 months ago) Permalink

Kevin Bacon, go fuck yourself

― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:28 (6 months ago) Permalink

BT Broadband students, go kill yourselves

― movember spawned a nobster (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 November 2012 00:29 (6 months ago) Permalink

are they still doing those super sexist bt ones where that one guy is constantly leching on his flatmate?

― fun facts about human waste (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:29 (6 months ago) Permalink

BT students are the worst. I pine for the return of Kris Marshall and her off of Spooks. Oh no, we can't have a party because we're all incapable of using a cd player, oh fuck off. We can all rent or buy professional dressing-up clothes to sit around our house in, but fibre-optic broadband is beyond us because 'we're students, luv' aargh fuck OFF.

I like Kevin Bacon though.

― ailsa, Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:49 (6 months ago) Permalink

The definitive Sherlock, solving crime with the help of Beechams.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 11 November 2012 12:47 (6 months ago) Permalink

The real Sherlock Holmes would have taken certain powders for a cold, but not Beechams.
btw the first result on a Google search for 'sherlock beechams' links to a sneezing fetish forum.

― Huey Lewisies & The Newsie-Wewsies (snoball), Sunday, 11 November 2012 13:44 (6 months ago) Permalink

xposts what ailsa said, yes.

― Mark G, Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:57 (6 months ago) Permalink

notice how the smug nerdy bt student has already been reduced to an animated gif in the latest BT advert ?

maybe some market research backed up ailsa's definitive view point ...

― mark e, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:46 (6 months ago) Permalink

I know someone who looks strikingly like BT advert student bloke and gets the ise taken out of him all the time, which is a shame cos he's a nice guy.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 12 November 2012 11:38 (6 months ago) Permalink

"I don't wanna grow up, I wanna be a Toys-r-us kid KID KID KID KID"

It's no 'there's a magical place, we're on our way there...', that's for sure

― kinder, Friday, 23 November 2012 17:38 (6 months ago) Permalink

(presumably) 10 and 11 year old kids beatboxing the super mario bros — you were born in 2002, shut up

― ゑ (clouds), Friday, 23 November 2012 17:42 (6 months ago) Permalink

really guys? Kevin Bacon dropping (un)knowing Frank Carson references?

― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 November 2012 03:13 (6 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I really don't like the way the man in the Wickes advert goes "Wickes" at the end of the advert.

― more like bog satin (dog latin), Monday, 28 January 2013 10:38 (3 months ago) Permalink

That kid in the 5-a-day campaign makes me want to go to McDonalds in the hopes they've started putting children in their burgers. I hope his goth sister stabs him in the eye with a fork.

― more like bog satin (dog latin), Monday, 28 January 2013 10:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

We take the piss out of Wee-eekes every time it comes on, and it's kind of spread to Air Wicks now too

― kinder, Monday, 28 January 2013 13:27 (3 months ago) Permalink

A fair few patronising ads

1) Father/TeenageDaughter
2) Studentlad/DenseMother
3) Women/Makeup ads getting worse

etc.

― Mark G, Monday, 28 January 2013 13:42 (3 months ago) Permalink

xpost

Yeah, Timothy Spall's delivery of the "Wiiiickes" pay off line has taken him down in my estimation a tiny bit. Currently irritated by the way that Webuyanycar.com have completed the abandonment of the thumping euro-techno of their original ads for James Corden giving it a faux-emotive "enter your reg number now" voiceover.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:08 (3 months ago) Permalink

Studentlad/DenseMother

God, yeah, new BT student ad is the worst. It doesn't even make sense!

― ailsa, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:09 (3 months ago) Permalink

Which aspect of it?

― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

Does she not say she's just back from having been somewhere and he's a bit "not again" about it suggesting that she's been there before, then she seems surprised at his living arrangements because the concept of flatsharing with friends is so completely weird and alien to everyone, especially one who watches the soaps.

Also, wtf, really, Samantha Bond? Is she not better than that?

― ailsa, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

BT adverts have always failed to make sense.

― more like bog satin (dog latin), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

I think time in BT world is compressed, so what seems like eight or nine months of this fascinating soap opera to us has taken up just a few weeks of their time. So his mother's visits are relatively frequent (perhaps once every couple of months or so?), but the last one took place before his flatmates moved in.

― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:22 (3 months ago) Permalink

There's now a second "failed Apprentice task" advert for Philidelphia on.

Shooting fish in a barrel, but the latest Foxy Bingo ads annoy me intensely. "One fat lady who's a flirty thirty and doesn't have droopy drawers" is the worst, especially when she waves the lacy thong over her groin, but the astonishingly racist 'asian' who likes photography and amazes the woman next to her by using her knitting needles as chopsticks is jaw-droppingly bad.

In other shitty daytime ITV adverts, the sofa woman who can't help using her hands is dreadful and there's a different version of her in the Park Hampers woman, only she's only able to use her forearms.

― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 28 January 2013 17:57 (3 months ago) Permalink

how have we not mentioned WaxVac yet?

is there a better moment on TV than the guy apparently lobotomizing himself with a Q-Tip? OW! indeed!!

― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:15 (3 months ago) Permalink

the 5 hour energy dbag

― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

the way he holds a book with his foot ugh die

― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (3 months ago) Permalink

5 hour energy has consistantly had the worst commercials on TV - actually speaks kinda well of their product

― frogbs, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

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