Worst TV adverts of the moment

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Sheila's wheels. Die. Die. And leave that poor dog alone, doesn't he have enough problems driving you harpies around for 24 hours a day. Plus - another fucking 'it's for women, let's use loads of pink.'

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Carlsberg's best takeaway in the world – in fact all the carlsberg ads

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 24 November 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Sheila's wheels
also, on the last shot the road is going the wrong way so it looks like they're reversing at great speed which is not really a good advert for women drivers (not that i have a problem with them before you start).

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

But the Sheila's aren't even driving! That poor put-upon dog is driving! I don't even like dogs and I feel for that one.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

not-goodwin mistakes dogs for women = he is even worse than those who complain about women drivers

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I didn't even know there was a dog in that advert...

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

not-goodwin mistakes dogs for women
after 4 pints, who doesn't?

rumpie, me neither.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

"That's more than Lucky..."

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I think the only Sheila's Wheels advert I have seen involved an australian transvestite and no dogs.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I *love* the Sheila's Wheels advert.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it's Sheilas' Wheels isn't it? I remember checking it and approving at the cinema.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Not Australian, actually just part of esure, yawn

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

On a slightly less amusing note, there's an ad currently running on the digital channels for an animal charity. This ad features one of those dancing bears which has gone mad. It's just horrible. I watched it all the way through once, thinking it was going to have a happy ending (like the Dogs' Trust ads do), but it didn't. I have to leave the room when it's on, I find it so upsetting.

Back on the normal side of things, I still am the only person who likes the man in the Phones 4 U ads. He's crazy, yes, but he seems to have enormously strong roots in the community.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

"Car insurance at mice's prices"

Eh? Are mice well-known for securing excellent deals on their third-party policies?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, if you look there's a small dog driving at the wheel. In the idents before, um, Charmed they point at it and give it a variety of different hats.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

a dog wearing hats? how can this not be good?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/images/travel/dog_with_shades.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Koogs otm with that gate half open drivel - that 'why don't we open it all the way?' bit always makes me angry. Because it's not any kind of gate, obviously.

Also Accentmonkey otm re that horrific bear charity advert. It keeps summoning up for me a bear in a cage in the park in Istanbul below the Topkapi palace. The cage seemed maybe 3-4 times the volume of the bear.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, it's like the kind of things that Calvin's dad used to tell him to f*ck with his head.

― -Stroke-Model (kate), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Anyone seen that advert with Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone as the soundtrack for a Noodles advert?

"Are you a noodlehead?"

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

i hate the ads with churchill the bulldog (i adore bulldogs but not talking toy bobble-headed ones), and the ones for various loan companies showing grinning idiots about to borrow £25k against their homes with no consequences.

I have to leave the room when it's on, I find it so upsetting.

oh god. totally otm. as someone who watches digital cable a fair bit, especially late at night, i'm often completely horrified by the various child and animal and cancer charity ads, which basically boil down to showing you an abused dog/baby or bald leukemia patient whilst playing portentous music and implying that if you don't send off your two quid a month then the person/animal in question is a goner.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

pepperami ads are awful as well, and so are the heinz mexican baked bean ads with the little bean that talks like cheech marin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

"where are my socks?"

"in the drawer...next to your loincloth"

die Herbal Essences advert, die.

>Back on the normal side of things, I still am the only person who likes the man in the Phones 4 U ads. He's crazy, yes, but he seems to have enormously strong roots in the community

The Phones 4 U ads are grebt - the one where he runs down to the car window to repeat the slogan ("how's that for you Billy Boy?" "YEAH! YEAHH!") is class, as is the one where it ends with the scary long-haired woman and a bell tolling in the background.

― Bill A (Bill A), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

it's weird that they've brought those same Pepperami adverts back years after they were first shown.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah who the fuck puts pepperami with pasta? gross!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

oh! and the kerry katona iceland ads!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

I feel nostalgic for the STUPID, JUST STUPID man.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

yes, that whole meat + spaghetti idea has never caught on really...(xpost)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Despite stiff competition from the prick with the football trying to borrow £25K, confused dot com and the 'borrow money to buy your council house' one, Kerry Katona's "are these breasts large?" advert SICKENS AND APPALLS ME.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

The always reliable Pringles people who start making monkey noises and doing monkey dances and are then confronted by King Kong. Aaaaaaargh.

(p.s. I love Churchill. Oh, yes.)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

yes, that whole meat + spaghetti idea has never caught on really...(xpost)
-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...), November 24th, 2005.

er yeah but PEPPERAMI?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

It's fantastic on pizza, peperami.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

tf.

lauren also otm re. katona, i think they must be the actual worst.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

if my mum was a millionaire, i'd be really really upset to get frozen pizzas and mystery meat ready meals for dinner.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

ew 'mystery meat'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

That's why mums go to Iceland.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

the soft bake Nutrigrain ads freak me out - they're in the same vein as the Phones for You 'slightly touched in the head people' adverts.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Phones 4 U.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

what about the starburst ad with the rapping/stripping grandma? i'm getting traumatized all over again just thinking about it.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

oho, jeremy clarkson's smug-as-shit bt ads.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

THEY ARE NOT SMUG

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah they are. it's completely stupid, but it tries to induce smugness in long-standing bt customers. his voice just *is* smugness.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

I like Phones 4 U.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Do you like their adverts?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i think Clarkson and BT got the balance right.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

also when he says 'LAG-GING' i smirk

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

there's a rather appalling advert where a girl (wearing spectacles) brings her boyfriend home to meet her mum but ::gasp:: her mum has started to wear contact lenses. So now this girl is all distraught and thinks her boyfriend will now fancy her mum.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

specsavers strike again.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I meant the adverts. The whole world of mobile phone shopping scares me.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

There's some sort of claims advert where a big bearded guy starts saying "Have you been injured,.. ?" but then I don't know what happens next because I cannot begin to tell you how fast the channel gets changed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

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