Worst TV adverts of the moment

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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)

That Andy Gray one, "If you think playing football is hard, try watching it". Apart from the statement itself being bollocks, I hate that Anglo Scottish accent he has, if I ever end up sounding like that then I hope someone will do me a favour and shoot me

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Is it actually Andy Gray? There seems to be a few adverts around at the moment featuring what sounds like and Englishman doing a poor impression of Andy Gray.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Friday, 16 June 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

All loan ads are terrible, but I reserve a special piece of spleen specifically to vent at that one with Phil Tufnell pretending to look really interested in the debt-hawking fuckwit call centre staff.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 17 June 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

ok i don't know if it's particularly bad but wtf is that becks ad with the 4 dancing guys in various states of animation about? i don't get the concept at all.

― michael wells (michael w.), Saturday, 17 June 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

the concept explained

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

meanwhile: at one o'clock on the morning of father's day, the airwaves are full of adverts for, er, father's day CDs. well, i suppose you can pick one up at the petrol station cheaply before paying that cursory annual visit, you miserable GBP fucks.

this one is particularly nauseating and deserves a thread to itself.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 17 June 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

the transport for london one really annoys me; partly because of the mendacity; partly for the velvet underground thing; partly for the gordon ramsey product placement.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:21 (twenty years ago)

*looks up mendacity*

yes, agree with you on all three counts

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

i was on bus for 90 mins from highgate-camden this morning. fucked if i have time for all the other stuff.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Last night chez-moi:

Son (aged 13) : hey dad, you've got to see that transport for London ad, there's a guy trying out a Fender Jaguar.
Me : cool! Give me a shout if it comes on again.
(Later)
Son - it's on! (split-second later) oh you missed the Jag!
(Later)
Son - it's on again! Quick!
Me - where? where's the Jag?
Son (tetchily) - you missed it again.

Is the bloody guitar in the ad, or is he having me on?

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

yes he buys or tries a guitar in a shop in denmark street.

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

he is the indiest man ever!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

It's the sort of advert which makes me want to emigrate to Greenland.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

The TalkSport one with that "de-der-de-der-der" tune at German immigration control is awful, with them pullinng things out of their jackets is awful but strangely compelling, a bit like TalkSport itself.

What is that "de-der-de-der-der" tune anyway?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

...then seize control of the island, split from Denmark, develop a nuclear weapons programme and destroy London.

xpost (obv)

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

awful.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

All those ads which start 'Dave Halfwit was trying to fix an aerial to his roof during a thunderstorm. "I was trying to fix an aerial to my roof during a thunderstorm when I slipped and quite badly grazed myself - I was off work for a year but [some dodgy law firm] helped me get back on my feet with a cheque for £7"' I especially hate the one with the woman slipping over and I don't know why, 'cos I feel I should feel sorry for her.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

No...just emigrate to Greenland. To get away from the Cool Police.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

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.

OTM

The quote me happy ads really need to be stopped don't they.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

What is that "de-der-de-der-der" tune anyway?

Its the changing expression on the customs official as the items get more and more silly

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

is anything on itv4 NOT sponsored by 888.com? they've also done the compression trick to make their advert louder than the program it interrupts. it's also, because it butts right up against the programs, immune to tivo ffwd. curse them.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

HAVE YOU GOT A WKD SIDE?

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to have to once again bring up that awful loan advert where the guy is wandering around the house on the phone bouncing a football around, and his wife is filming him with a camera.

"who are you talking to?"
"Mike!"

good grief

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I shall just say...

"Ooh, Homebuyer man!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

wkd is the worst of all possible ad campaigns

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

OTM Enrique and RJG (did I just say that?). Is WKD supposed to be marketed at closet homosexuals who want their mates to cockblock them every time they're in a situation where they could pull? That's the only message I'm getting from the ads.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ste OTM

The "They better not cancel football" bloke is extremely punchable.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

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