Worst TV adverts of the moment

The woman on the new Park Hampers advert is going for 'sympathise that things are tough' but her eyes are screaming 'oh god how did my life come to this, why can't I get a proper job on a daytime soap or something'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

if you can make it more than 1:23 into this you're a far, far braver boy than I

Someone's been hired for 'blue sky thinking'.

(let's have a cloudy white sky!)

Actually, with maybe one exception, the supermarkets have uniformly gone with the "look how posh our customers are folks!" (Lidl, Asda in particular)

advert would be better if all the soldiers were played by Paul McCartney

looool

When my van's off the road I'm not working
So what am I gonna do?

The Guiness ad with the stalwart lady bartender putting out the elijah's cup guiness every night until one day her soldier boy husband returns home and the other skeevey dudes who hit on her raise a glass to him -- that one made me soooo IA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx0MRawkrj4

right now it's a toss up between the real creepy Viagra commerical with the long, uncomfortable close up on the Australian lady or the literal "come play, my lord" commercial with Kate Upton

Cravendale advert no longer has Martyn Jacques on it, so now falls here.

Aldi have Jools Holland doing boogie twatting woogie.

Yeah. Boo to crummy Cravendale swap-over

Those Harvey Keitel "Wolf" ads..

I like them

But I can imagine some people might disagree...

I don't know what you mean by "Wolf" but if you mean those insurance ads, I like them too.

Wolf was the character he played in pulp fiction who did a similar cleanup job.

I totally hadn't realised that was Harvey Keitel in the ads, I thought it was just some guy

Oh, that's sort of ruined it now. (xp)

That's the whole point though!

I've seen 'Pulp Ficton' but don't remember anything about it so I thought Keitel was just playing some arbitrary menacing Mafia like figure.

That's pretty much what he does in Pulp Fiction.

The adverts are better though.

Don't open this thread often but knew there was going to be talk about those Harvey Keitel ads. They are pretty good.

Should have hundreds of posts due to xmas.

Not a fan of the current 3 Mobile advert with the purple muppet and East 17 singalong for some reason. If 'it's really alright' is the best tagline you can muster...

The first time I saw that Pussycat Dolls' "Don'tcha wish yr girlfriend" Sharon Osborne ad, I knew this would be played well over the sell-by date, and yet I hated it on first go.

OK, moneysupermarkt, you can drop it now. Yeah?

yeah that's a really annoying one. it's like a perfect storm of things that total idiots would find amusing.

OK, moneysupermarkt, you can drop it now. Yeah?

They're still making 118 118 adverts after 143 years, despite the fact that noone has ever found those funny or entertaining or interesting.

yeah what are those even? i always assumed other people understood them and i was just ignorant of their subtle charms.

Inexplicable, it's like whoever owns 118 118 is locked into some PFI-like contract and have to carry on forever with something that doesn't work and never has worked.

You remember the number, though, that's all they want.

(Though why anyone would phone the number instead of just using the internet, I have no idea)

good god those Nicole Scherzinger Muller ads make me want to join the men's rights movement

Passing ref: "You know how they say, life begins at fifty?"

No they don't. They say forty.

Anyway, the one I wanted to mention was the one where it's a website for holidays/hotels, and the pug keeps barking "BOOK!"

Mainly because it's way louder than the rest of the ad, the button it is sampled on is pressed way too much, and it's very headache inducing.

little sweet.

How come no-one's given this old queen a kick in the bollocks yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGs3S17V0xI

I think that's Joanne Heywood appearing halfway through, who was once in one of the BEST TV adverts of ALL TIME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_e9fh7388

Why do so many voiceovers pronounce 'cherries' as 'charas' and 'babies' as 'behbehs'? Listen out next time there's an ad for Special K or Pampers. No one speaks like that IRL?

Not sure if this one's on anymore but it invariably caused me to *say out loud, "What the fuck's it got to do with you anyway?"

(*I talk to the television... sometimes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIv350V2Tg

just cannot fathom the thinking behind this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xegsh1CmPU

More annoyed that they didn't follow up "is man... kind?" with is "is flame... able?" or some other such stupidity

There is this Panera Bread commercial that plays on the Comedy Central website that has this hippy dippy lady doing a whole passive aggressive "We think food should be good for you" schtick.

Whoever thought the world needs more of that welsh opera singer on the go compare adverts needs a good kicking. They killed him off, went postmodern with him, introduced replacement characters but now he's back like some kind of messiah.

the replacement characters were even worse though, I think it's good that Go Compare realised there mistake and brought back the opera singer. Halfifax should take the hint and bring back Howard

'their' mistake, even.

also this guy was in the replacement adverts, I don't think any advert can really be a candidate for worst without him appearing at some point:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/files/images/m33_newsimg_a30ba016-2947-43e9-bde0-d07f09345e0f.jpg?width=219&height=411

He's in about 1 in 3 adverts being shown on British TV at any given time. He's a 118 guy, I think?

2015, Commercial, Problemo, CSA PAPER TOWELS, Blink, Tim James Brown
2014, Commercial, Belvita Bloke, BELVITA
2014, Commercial, Dad, B&Q
2014, Commercial, Mick Mechanic, GO COMPARE
2012, Video, Type 1, COLLAPSING IN PARTS (LIVE ART FILM), Cally Spooner, Cally Spooner
2012, Site Specific, Mad Hatter, WONDERLAND, Teatro Vivio, Sophie Austin
2011, Commercial, The Man, XFINITY ON DEMAND COMCAST, Patizan, Jared Eberhardt
2011, Animation, Norris, NORRIS AND STEPHANE, Azam, Rachael Le Feuvre and Ali Taylor
2011, Commercial, Explorer, MIKADO, Quad
2011, Commercial, Col, CARLING, BMB, Guy
2011, Commercial, Man, HORNBACH, Radical Media, Sebasstian Slesser
2010, Commercial, Man, DELL BLUE STREAK, Gorgous, Peter Thwaites
2010, Workshop, Bob, BANDAGES, Nwebury Corn Exchange, Kirsty Housley
2010, Commercial, 118, 118118, Brooklyn Brothers, Johnathon Hopkins
2010, Commercial, Dancing Man, SEAT LEON, The Gang, Sebastian Grousset
2010, Commercial, Col, CARLING HOME DRAUGHT UNIT, BMB
2009, Cabaret, Eye Dad, LIVE ART SPEED DATE, Stoke Newington International Airport, Brian
2009, Commercial, Karl, DAS HANDWERK, Gorgeous (Germany Only), Peter Thwaites
2009, Commercial, Col, CARLING, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2009, Commercial, Crying Man, VW, Radical (Germany Only), Sebastian Strasser
2009, Commercial, Explorer, RUBY SPLASH, Buiscuit, Jim Hoskin
2009, Commercial, 118, 118118, Brooklin Brothers, Kinka Usher
2008, Workshop, Hector Mann, THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS, National Theatre Studio, Kirsty Housely
2008, Voice Over, Voice Over, AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS, Art.War, Libby Liburd
2008, Commercial, Colin, CARLING 'BELONG' COWBOYS, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2008, Documentary, Presenter, CARISBROOKE CASTLE, 1,000 YEARS OF HISTORY, Visual Light, Felicity Fair Thompson
2008, Commercial, 118 118, ASK US ANYTHING, WCRS, Simon Cole
2007, Commercial, CARLING 'BELONG' OUT, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2007, Viral, 118, FLASHDANCE, WCRS, Anson Haris
2007, Commercial, Trainers, CARLING 'BELONG' SPACE, BMB, Fredrik Bond
2007, Voice Over, Narrator, TWINKLE
2007, Commercial, 118, 118118, Owen Harris
2006, Dance, FACE DANCE, The Place, Jonathon Stone
2006, Commercial, 118, 118118, Jim Hoskin
2005, Viral, 118, 118118 SHOW, Meme, Anson Harris
2004, Commercial, 118, 118118, JJ Keith
2004, Commercial, Soaked Bloke, BBC3, Maggie Zackenhiem
2003, Commercial, Runner, 118 118, Jim Hoskins
2002, Commercial, Bolognese Boy, E A SPORTS
2002, Commercial, FRIDJI IDENTS, Elimidate
2002, Commercial, Student, GROLSH (HOLLAND ONLY)
2002, Commercial, Young Lover, KNORR SOUP
2002, Event, N.E.S.T.A. CONFERENCE, Greame Miller
2001, Commercial, Cool Dude, MAGNUM CARAMEL & NUTS

Is it possible he actually did some acting in 2013?

can't believe that Halifax replaced Howard with this garbage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3veZJjvhzM

I seem to remember it being revealed that these ppl were in fact actors, not real Halfix employees plucked from obscurity like Howard?

though apparently Howard was not very popular north of the border, don't know if you can confirm this, Tom

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/HOWARD'S+AWAY%3B+Customers+hated+the+singing+banker.-a0123984964

that Air N'nB ad missed a trick by omitting a Don't Look Now reveal at the end, with the baby in Juggalo make-up or similar

13 Howard Brown You're The The First The Last My Everything Mar 2005

From April 2008, Brown no longer starred in the Halifax adverts, instead taking a role in its public relations department.[5][6] In 2011, he left the company.[7]

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KEPT ON: Angela; SWITCH OFF: The; fat lady has sung for Howard, above

halifax made a big deal out of auditioning internally - YOU COULD BE THE NEW HOWARD - but iirc you didn't get much ££