Worst TV adverts of the moment

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

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.

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.

This fuckin' guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0acK3Jb6c&list=PL4D125C9646648E78

i kind of enjoy his work, don't feel he's taking the whole shilling double glazing thing too seriously

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.

Those got spiked by Ofcom I think - for exactly that reason.

The wonga ones make me feel ill

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..."

(there was a US version of this thread but it was never obvious from the titles (maybe 'ads' vs 'adverts'))

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.

It's making me want to talk in Nadsat, if you know what I mean

yarbles

xp I would, but I wouldn't want to end up with eggy-weg on my face.

that Santander ad rules

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

Robinson's fruit juice advert where it's 'good to be a dad, better to be a mate' or something

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?

Yeah, he's getting like those fucking meerkats.

I already mentioned this on the old IA thread, but Corden using the word "part-exing" in the Webuyanycar advert really gets on my tits.

Everyone involved in this should be shot

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

(I can't see youtubes on this browser so i hope it's the right one)

That's sort of ...

You know when an advert tries to take 'a common situation' as its starting point? But that situation in that advert isn't 'common' in the way the advert thinks it is

Indeed I do

Rather like if the 'naughtiness' in question were a young man wondering what it would be like to push an old lady in front of a bus -

plinky strummy plinky plonk

(Bites into chocolate)

I wanna watch your skull get cracked open
and see all the brains come dribbling out
what's your life worth anyway
you piss yourself everyday

'Allow yourself a bit of naughtiness'

DAD is preparing barbecue

KIDS are running around shouting

(Bites into chocolate)

doo-be-doodle plinky plonk plinky ba-dum

Why don't I take this can of petrol and douse
every inch of this fucking house
then drop a match on it
kids I never wanted and a life gone static
everything's so still and automatic
then drop a match on it

'Allow yourself a bit of naughtiness'

(Am enjoying this a bit too much actually)

You know when an advert tries to take 'a common situation' as its starting point? But that situation in that advert isn't 'common' in the way the advert thinks it is

Advert equivalent of The Wright Way, then?

otm xpost

that ad is fucking weird

it's a bit post-Savile tbh

the setup is botched too. Maybe it's just my american doltishness, but the first time I watched it I didn't even understand what had happened in the first few seconds

Advert for some car with estuary english soulful cover of 'reasons to be cheerful' by Ian Dury but it isn't really a cover.

First direct tv advert with a fucking platypus

subway commercial with each different sandwich matching some racial stereotype. lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fcISeVF4k

Hate all of these kids so much, I feel kind of guilty about this though.

never feel guilty for hating children

Just saw a shorter version of this video on the TV and felt physically ill. Totally ruined my enjoyment of the episode of Murder, She Wrote I was watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHisgGPiL4o

Loads of people on Facebook are going nuts for this, but I think it's horrific.

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

I tear up whenever I watch this, does that make me a bad person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6XjRdbU9hQ

Anything for yow, cupcake.....grrrrrrrr

that budweiser commercial would be great if the guy was stoned to death at the end

Hive really is the worst of the worst. (See also the Innocent Smoothies thread.)

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

I get the most hulk smash furious at those ones as I've ever been - I don't really understand why

think because of all the private companies that pretend to be the consumer's bezzie mate, banks are right up there in the taking-the-fucking-piss stakes

yeah, though i think feeling revulsion towards matey oppressors is always reasonable. xp

That's the one that drives me insane. It is totally nonsensical, as in I just can't imagine anyone acting or thinking like this.

One accepts a meal from a new friend (the first time they'd gone out), just because your their friend?
It felt 'briwyyent', surely you would be grateful, or perhaps a bit weirded out?
This moment compared exactly to the feeling you got when found out about the cashback offer with your bank.
That you feel confident that your new friend would like this offer.. (do people discuss this crap with new friends?)

.. this and that every time I watch anything on 4OD it plays at least four times..

'you're their friend'

I have been reading too much into this haven't I?

as somebody observed on ILX - and no doubt elsewhere - months ago, the more reprehensibly the banks behave, the cuddly wuddlier the adverts get

The woman is so clearly a simpleton, because that's what banks think of the general public.

I feel embarrassed for the actually talented people who are involved in that Bud Light commercial