Worst TV adverts of the moment

proving "Charlie Bigham" exists by showing a *cartoon* of him is like saying Garfield is a real cat.

the Fixodent advert where a middle-aged couple apparently on a date eat burgers with huge white plastic chompers is one of the funniest things i've ever seen

hate the Dominic West adverts where he's a bank executive

Too cowardly to go properly nasty because they're still advertising banking services, and still somehow written really stiltedly

I can't help thinking that now we've reached Stockholm Syndrome with the wombat as we did with the meerkats, Compare the Market will introduce an even more annoying character *shudder*.

"that true, restful sleep"

yeah this is some fucked up Americana shit, fallout from a very strange mattress culture

To return briefly to Dormeo. I'd forgotten that in one of their adverts where they're talking, sorry, shouting about having guests staying over and sleeping on one of their mattresses - which you absolutely know are going to be completely underwhelming and look nothing like they look in the advert - that it'll be on a "mattress you can be proud of".

I kind of hate that AA advert where bank robbers rush out to find the AA man working on their getaway car - potentially a good idea rendered completely meh. Apart from suggesting the AA have no qualms about helping criminals commit crime and ignoring the fact any bank robber worth their salt will have a getaway driver, it's the bit where the AA man offers them Bombay mix that annoys me most - is it supposed to be funny? Quirky?

the bombay mix guy IS the getaway driver.

which is why he says 'it's ok *I'm* with the AA'

Oh right. LOL you can tell I'm not a driver. I still don't like the Bombay mix line.

(have just realised that 'I'm with' could mean 'i am employed by' as well as 'i'm a member of')

he's far too chill given the circumstances

someone should tell Pot Noodle that just because something is intended to be disgustingly obnoxious doesn't mean it isn't disgustingly obnoxious

New Verisure advert looks like it was improvised during a teabreak in the recording of a proper Verisure advert - with the crew as actors.

Dr Ranj, thank you for knowing the price of cashew nuts in Grape Tree

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