Worst TV adverts of the moment

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!

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

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!

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.

(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)

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

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

Must. Calm. Down.

Lambrini girls are classic. As David Bell, chief executive of Cheetham Bell JWT, which devised the campaign said:

"It is a drink for salt-of-the-earth girls to drink before they go out, maybe while chatting or putting their make-up on. While they do that, they probably crack jokes about their boyfriends. I've never heard of any men being offended by these ads. They're quite clearly just a bit of fun.'

Who'd have thought that one day computers would allow us to watch adverts at work

Millions of years of evolution and THIS is what they expect us to aspire to.

I LOVE the Link advert, but I'm prepared to accept it's for similar "ah - a good old fashioned cheery crappy ad" reasons as my fondness for the never updated Argos campaign.

creepy animated babies who discuss personal finance.

Ooh yes - that's the original 'I have to change channels cause this makes me nauseous' ad. Apparently Madchen's gran loves it cause it reminds her of Madchen's dad at a similar age.

Pervert.

Actually, this reminds me of a girl I used to know who said she loved dentist drills.

Any ad where the magic of Animatronics allows toddlers or animals to SPEAK. GRRRRRR!

Any ad on Channel 5 which shows exactly what media buyers think of the viewers, eg debt ones, dial LAWYERS ones, old folks' maladies and life insurance ones. All the most awfyul American imports of the ages in one break from Family Affairs omnibus when I am hung over and de-motivated. SCREEEEEE!

God I hate that it is SO CONTRIVED who would say 'shall I take the old thing away' you'd say 'shall I take the old one / old telly away'. Only then of course the hilarious punchline wouldn't work.

There are many ambiguous things they could ask that would be better than 'shall I take the old thing away?'. How about 'shall I take this old pile of shit away?' or 'this isn't much use to you know - shall I take it away?' or 'do you want me to get rid of your husband?' ('husband' is slang for TV set in Berkshire)

there are 3 or 4 very slightly different versions of the 'girl somewhere in asia gets sent chocolate by her sister' ad. close enough so you think you imagined the other version, every time, until you see it again. ('cadbury' instead of 'package' is one such difference)

the woman with the ugly Better Boxes. it's another of those meta-ads where they are advertising something in place of the people who actually make them. they do the same thing with chemist stuff. Must Have Ideas / Medifacts.

Oh, and verisure will now phone an ambulance for you...

press the emergency button
verisure calls you
you answer the phone and say you need an ambulance
verisure calls the ambulance

which seems like 3 steps more than necessary

they're putting urea in face cream now?

"hi. chicken?"

"Delicate, what's a delicate?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISXbNwXzR1c

(does remind me that university must be a much different experience now because people are more in touch - when i was there we had 6 very busy payphones between 650 people. had perhaps one letter a term, if that)

Gulag for everybody responsible for Hellmann's's desperate new annoyance

i hadn't even realised that car crash of an ad was for hellmans until it was just on and i remembered your post.

(it's the one in the deli with the Neil Diamond song)

It invokes powerful feelings in me that would be best not invoked

New Birdseye Fish Fingers ad is a grotesque combination of Yankification and what appears to be cheap AI

(oh, it says 'meal diamond' on his jacket)

I know. That doesn't h3lp, right?

"Picky bits" justifies disbanding the Coop and jailing the board

GTech vacuum cleaner brags that it leaves the carpet beautifully striped. Mate, I think you'm thinking of lawnmowers

I hate all ads, violently resent their presence in my life, and have coined the pejorative “advert humour” for a particular shitty joke style that has infected mainstream films. I do not laugh at ads

EXCEPT the knife crime ad that sometimes plays at the cinema, I have never not laughed at the kid going “oh my days - there is no safe place to get stabbed” (although I have never laughed as much as the first time)

I haven't seen that one, I shd go to the cinema more

Same on the violent hatred of adverts tho

currently cringing at sharipova's squeaky voice and clumsy shrug. that's somehow meant to get me to drink beer.

Sure deodorant are running world cup adverts, official sponsor

Lynx deodorant are running world cup adverts, official sponsor

two deodorant sponsorships seems excessive. turns out it's unilever in the list of sponsors and they own both the above (and lots more)

also includes

The Home Depot, the "Official home improvement retail supporter in North America"

YouTube advert, and I can't find the actual video to share. Only this screenshot from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CommercialsIHate/s/39PBupyxnc

Whole-ass pop song about how if you take their oregano oil supplement, you will shit out the parasites that cause life's problems and become a sexy, fit skeleton instead of a fat, bloated, and tired one.

Sounds good...

Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez447l_jQUc

usual friendly reminder that the US version of this thread is here:

worst commercials on television

(i did ask the mods to add a UK to this thread title but...)

I think she has some other shit to worry about besides bloating

Loving Taylor Swift's new direction

usual friendly reminder that the US version of this thread is here:

worst commercials on television

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Oops, I didn't realize. I'll take my hot, shitting skeltons elsewhere.

At least 2 adverts at the moment using that "haha so fucking amusing" faux 1940s RP voiceover style, the aural equivalent of a "Keep Calm and Carry On" mug. Death wished on all involved,obv.

The tennis / deodorant one?

there's a crisps advert that is the same, tyrells?, but i've not seen that for a while

yes, terrible

Yes and there's a Maltesers one that's current but not as overplayed as the deodorant