Worst TV adverts of the moment

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Ha ha, yes that's terrible - esp. the inept dubbing!

― Kids Will Eat Them Till the Cows Come Home (Dada), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I surprised myself when I went off on an expletive-riddled tirade last night against the J Nesbitt one where he's on the phone rhapsodizing about his penis car when wifey says, "oh btw I'm pregnant," and cue the "let me call you back" and trying-to-cram-a-carseat in a 2-seater montage, then grimly phoning up about a papal carrier. As though by "pregnant" she meant "and with quints".

Combo of cliched corvette-owning jerk plus overstyled yuppie apt plus woman in role of smug manipulative killjoy really put me off! I think this is a commercial for insurance, but I'm not even sure of that.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

also, "nutrisse means NOURISH!!!" ARGH

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Manipulative wifey look slightly like Helen Baxendale (ie, "Rachel"). Coincedence?

― JTS (JTS), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

express adverts viewable here: http://www.express.co.uk/videos.html

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Did someone say Canesten? http://www.yeast.me.uk

― Gav, Monday, 1 May 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

FLOWMAX - drug for making old men not have to piss all the time. May result in reduced semen production, ya know. Anyway, great name for a drug that makes you NOT have to piss, Flowmax.

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

am already fed up of football themed adverts and the WC doesn't start for over a month.

http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ad/adidas/ukcountdown_220x85_122005.swf

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:44 (twenty years ago)

"I think this is a commercial for insurance, but I'm not even sure of that."

I thought it was for the Yellow Pages...

Anyway, what about the latest Mini Baby Bell thing, with a central casting model woman (dressed like one of the Angels from Captain Scarlet) throwing some cheese out of a plane so some geeky, gropy skydivers leap out after them, but the geekiest one of all fails to catch his and it lands on a remote-control flatbed truck that an evil-looking Scandinavian boy drives away while cackling, forcing the parachutist to chase after it on foot through a giant concrete pipe only for his chute to get caught up in the pipe making him fall flat on his arse while the evil-looking Scandinavian boy eats the cheese and laughs even more madly than before?

What the fuck is that all about?

Meanwhile, Sheila's Wheels continues...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 07:50 (twenty years ago)

"Put de lime in de Coke, you nut...."

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

― hejira, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Immigration officer: How long have you been in Jamaica?

Dreadlocked white man: We bin hunnymoonin' 'bout fifteen years mon.

Me: So how come your passport hasn't expired?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

saw a meta-advert the other day, some branding company doing a 30-second infomercial for the (mind boggling in its own way) 3-fragrance ambi-pur thing (despite the fact that an advert for said air freshener already exists)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:32 (twenty years ago)

The worst tv advert of the moment is clearly the Rennies one with the grumbling volcano. It feels like it was made circa 1978.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh, oh, also the one - for some kind of flapjack? - with the two women fishing, and one of them calls an oven "the magic box". Abysmal.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

My least favourite ads are any of the ones they show on Paramount Comedy. Because I'm addicted to reruns of American sitcoms, I end up on this station a lot. It's annoying because
1) they always run the same ads for their programmes in every single ad break
2) they don't change these ads for a whole month
3) their ads are SO LOUD compared to the programmes
4) their ad breaks are so long. I think we timed one the other night at four minutes

I hate them.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:23 (twenty years ago)

I really can't stand the sanitary towel advert with all the women marching in the streets. Grrrrrr.

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:26 (twenty years ago)

"My least favourite ads are any of the ones they show on Paramount Comedy"

Too right. How many times have they shown that promo for "Two and a Half Men" ??? The extent of Charlie Sheen's surgery makes me want to retch!!

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh, oh, also the one - for some kind of flapjack? - with the two women fishing, and one of them calls an oven "the magic box". Abysmal.

Totally otm. I've also been reduced to shouting at the telly recently by the jaffa cake advert with the woman stuck down a well and the new one for bogroll with some kind of balm on it ("I'm a bit of a clean freak" etc). Jebus, these are bad.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 12 May 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Applebee's has the worst commercials on earth. They make me want to kill.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

The Daily Mail "Free 'teach yourself Spanish' CD" one that's just been on. What Spanish phrase do they show someone saying to show how fluent in Spanish you'll be after buying their paper?

"Ti amo"

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

the Pepsi / XBox open top bus / victory parade thing.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh God, yes. It makes me feel sorry for Barry Davies, that he is reduced to such hackery.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

"Be a high rate saver!"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

What about the one for some kind of snack that has people being thrown into a dungeon by some strange king-type chappie?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Not that I can see it down here, but I am reliably informed that the current ad campaign for the Scottish Daily Record is spectacularly abysmal. Confirmation?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Be A High-Rate Saver sung to the tune of Rhinestone Cowboy.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:18 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

i quite like this Ford Focus ST advert I think. the one with weird things happening in a futuristing setting and is about kind of what you wanted to be in the future. i mean. it's alright.

anyway the point is that THEN there is another one by Zurich insurance "what happens" that talks also about the future, and how you can't predict weird things that happen. Uses an instrumental version of the same tune, and a few shots are inside a car! made me almost think it's the same advert until like right at the end it was like insurance wot!

co-incidence?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Haven't gone through all of this thread, so apologies if it's already been mentioned, but...At Home With Beefy And Lamby...dear oh dear oh dear...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

the frosties advert

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:27 (twenty years ago)

fuckin otm.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Rarely so OTM!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

what's the current frosties ad?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

They're going to be GRRR... oh, I've been shot.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah that kid needs slapping

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

The Tom Tom ads

― robster (robster), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:36 (twenty years ago)

That car advert featuring lots of 'wacky' people singing a 'zany' version of 'What A Wonderful World'. Kill them all.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

I hate seeing the same actors in different ads - 4 years at RADA to sell remedies for thrush, well done

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Quote me fucking happy.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Indeed, inexplicably it still thrives

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

4 years at RADA to sell remedies for thrush, well done

I doubt that was their motivation

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

> The Tom Tom ads

that's exactly what i was thinking needed posting to this thread. especially the one with the fish-faced woman and her accent.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 16 June 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Quote Me Bastard Happy.

Should Craig Cash now follow the Jay Leno/Doritos procedure as outlined by Bill Hicks?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

They're going to be GRRR... oh, I've been shot.
-- accentmonkey (tris...) (webmail), Today 12:34 PM. (later) (link)

They are frosties. They're all right. they aren't worth going down the street about. And in any case, you wake up, go downstaris, and have breakfast. Where's he been? Where's he going? Is he anticipating the next morning's cereal? Why would he do that? And is Ian Dury's estate getting royalties for the blatant ripoff of "I want to be straight"? Or is it his just reward for ripping "ello tosh got a toshiba" and paying Alexei Sayle nowt?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

They're gonna taste great,
They're gonna taste great,
I can hear the sound of Frosties hitting me plate,
They're gonna taste great,
With Tony your mate,
Well everybody knows Frosties taste great!
Even ladies who wait,
Or a pirate,
And your teenage brother who's out on a date!
If you live in Oz, mate,
Or the Empire State,
Even ladies with personalised number plates,
Or a bloke in a crate,
Well he knows they taste great!
They're gonna taste great,
They're gonna taste gre
They're gonna taste great,
They're gonna taste great!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

You'll be next.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

shot?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

Frosties ad slightly redeemed by presence of random pirate (even if they do make pi-rate rhyme with great). That kid's jubilant little dance as he sails off into the air at the end is just his way of asking for a doing.

My pet hate, though I strongly suspect it is just me, is the current one for the Scottish Tourist Board/visitscotland. It shows a young and good-looking couple having a grown-up and good-looking coupley type city break - in a hotel room, in a restaurant, walking around, etc. It is clearly, to my having-lived-there-since-I-was-a-teensy-ailsa eyes, shot in Inverness. I imagine this is not clear to anyone who hasn't been to Inverness, as the back of the castle and the Greig Street Bridge aren't quite indicative of Scottish City Breaks as, say, Edinburgh Castle. Yet nowhere in the ad does it go "this lovely fun and vibrant place is Inverness, please come and visit it", it just says "have a city break in Scotland". So you think "I'm yer target audience, young, handsome, fond of fine wines and good food, I must go and have a break somewhere like, ooh, Scotland", guess where it is, wrongly, and you end up having a shite time in Dundee.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

No-one goes to Dundee by accident, surely.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

shot?

You know it, toots.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

that frosties ad seems really australian to me. another awful ad is the loans one where everyone's inexplicably talking to camera in the street in the piss-down rain and one of them's an old guy who gets really ratty and goes "i'm a pensioner, where do I go for a loan?" and it cuts to a hell-hole call-centre.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

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