xposts what ailsa said, yes.
― Mark G, Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
(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 (eleven years ago) link
really guys? Kevin Bacon dropping (un)knowing Frank Carson references?
― only Brod can judge me (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 November 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
A fair few patronising ads
1) Father/TeenageDaughter2) Studentlad/DenseMother3) Women/Makeup ads getting worse
etc.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 January 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Studentlad/DenseMother
God, yeah, new BT student ad is the worst. It doesn't even make sense!
― ailsa, Monday, 28 January 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Which aspect of it?
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
BT adverts have always failed to make sense.
― more like bog satin (dog latin), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
how have we not mentioned WaxVac yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htbo1yW6qeU
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 (eleven years ago) link
the 5 hour energy dbag
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
the way he holds a book with his foot ugh die
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 (eleven years ago) link
Polycell talking arse (literally).
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
our local go cart/ride park, FunSpot, has appropriated Gangnam Style for their latest commercials. I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GeK8ztV0M
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 June 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
Their biggest selling point is free admission (and all rides you have to pay for individually I suppose)? That's almost as bad as that old Paulton's Park advert from the 80's where one of the 'attractions' shown was a middle aged guy dressed as a pirate waving a plastic sword around.
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:57 (ten years ago) link
I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg(guy in the middle)
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Monday, 24 June 2013 07:58 (ten years ago) link
Jessica Ennis & Rory McIlroy managing the astonishing feat of making Jenson Button seem like the guy with the most personality in an advert. Well done guys :(
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:08 (ten years ago) link
me and Joel have a running joke about Rory's terrifying zombie-like appearance in those ads and the probability that a generation of under 10s are gonna see him in their nightmares on the reg
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:12 (ten years ago) link
they're horribly misjudged aren't they. This blog post nails it IMO:http://potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/2013/03/santander-2013.html
It is one of the most unsettling pieces of film that I've ever seen, reducing advertising to a set of blank and bland facts, to be recited out of the mouths of an apparently arbitrary collection of sports stars. What are the celebrities doing in other people's houses? Have they broken in illegally? Or are we to suppose that they are ghostly apparitions?
― Neil S, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:13 (ten years ago) link
"Did you know you can get 2.4% interest with Santander's new gold current account? Also I am going to eat your soul."
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:15 (ten years ago) link
that cider ad with the "now you're downloaded, well done" etc as if it's a tech product.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:27 (ten years ago) link
The one where woman has orgasm at the thought of luxury yoghurt (don't actually see her eat any)
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link
xp
oh god yes the cider ad is winding me to a fine pitch of hatred and i'm a drunk ffs
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:31 (ten years ago) link
partly i think for the tone of "hey wow technology that people have been using for years exists!" and partly because it attempts to place the cider as some rural counterexample to iPads even tho the stuff is no doubt made in industrial vats by a petrochemical conglomerate
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:32 (ten years ago) link
probably discussed already but any of the payday loan ads, and in particular the Wonga ones with the creepy rubber dolls and the "reassuring" tones of usury shill Nicholas Parsons.
― Neil S, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:39 (ten years ago) link
any loan ads, payday or otherwise tbh. the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really.
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:46 (ten years ago) link
This fuckin' guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0acK3Jb6c&list=PL4D125C9646648E78
― MaresNest, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:52 (ten years ago) link
i kind of enjoy his work, don't feel he's taking the whole shilling double glazing thing too seriously
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 June 2013 09:53 (ten years ago) link
the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really
Ooh ooh ooh, the Cash Lady ones with Kerry Katona. Like *anyone* thinks Kerry Katona is the soothing and reassuring voice of money management.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 June 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
Those got spiked by Ofcom I think - for exactly that reason.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Monday, 24 June 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
The wonga ones make me feel ill
― kinder, Monday, 24 June 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if this thread is for UK commercials only, but the new Wendy's ads in the US are making me blind with rage.
"Roller food? Really?""I WILL KILL YOU AND HIDE YOU UNDERNEATH JIMMY HOFFA'S CORPSE""Roller food... tsk..."
― WilliamC, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
(there was a US version of this thread but it was never obvious from the titles (maybe 'ads' vs 'adverts'))
― koogs, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:04 (ten years ago) link
That Lloyds TSB advert or series of with fluffy, cartoony CGI people puffling around in their safe little world.
Some advert for a phone, possibly Samsung, where phone's owner uses it on train as an ebook reader and then wafts into their ridiculous, open plan office full of beautiful people doing some kind of creative job.
Endless soundtracks of gentle xylophones and acoustic strumming and penny-whistles, verging either towards whistful hoedown or be good to yourself, go on, be good to yourself, you deserve it.
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
It's making me want to talk in Nadsat, if you know what I mean
― cardamon, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
yarbles
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
xp I would, but I wouldn't want to end up with eggy-weg on my face.
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 07:42 (ten years ago) link
that Santander ad rules
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 12:12 (ten years ago) link
i didn't know about this thread but this is my new home nice to meet you all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIhocp5iY
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Robinson's fruit juice advert where it's 'good to be a dad, better to be a mate' or something
― cardamon, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
The increasingly meta saga of the Go Compare opera singer. It's not much use as an ad if no-one can remember wtf is being advertised, right?
― Wide Area Network King (snoball), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link