Worst TV adverts of the moment

Was bombarded with Postcode Lottery adverts when in England for a couple of days. Hoooooboy... They completely copied the aesthetics of this vile Dutch lottery, down to the logo and colours. And with the same fake plastic smiley celebs you want to punch in the face again and again. They've got it down to a tee. Depressing and disturbing. Another Dutch export success!

they're the worst and absolutely pitched at the poorest section of society, something feels very real and very fucked about the emotional impact of winning a five figure sum of money to people and on some level i can relate, i didn't even realise the cunts doing the advert were "celebs" until i looked them up

the cancer charity one is the worst tho, some 15 year old twat in specs and a lab coat so you're supposed to think he's a scientist

i hate advertising on some visceral dna puritan level tbf tho, also i'm a depressed moaning bore

I've said it before but I can never listen to Let Em In again and I liked that song a lot

I admit using 'celebs' rather freely there, but over here it's exactly the same: crestfallen soap opera 'stars' and strictly come dancing ppl etc. Fuck, I looked the UK one up and the wiki says even Attenbrough is an "ambassador", sad lol. I was taken aback seeing it on English telly because I naively thought this tragedy had been confined to this country. But of course the cunts exported this lottery that plays on FOMO and guilt, because it does so very well what you just said: wring out some more dough from the poorest, instilling them with the fear of their cunt neighbours winning a huge prize and them being left behind. It's criminal.

A Dutch add (viewer discretion is advised). Same aesthetics, same "celebs" you want to slice open. All I want for christmas is the bald fucker to be decapitated, plz Santa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZZSGs5nWW0

oh shit i didn't realise it was an international property

the irony is that "postcode lottery" started life as a phrase describing something v negative

Above ad amazingly, defiantly doesn't even contain tears. It's in the fine print that if you win, they can waterboard and taser you till you cry and admit your darkest fears and secrets. Because some GRATITUDE hello people. xp

oh shit i didn't realise it was an international property

A fine Dutch invention :(

the irony is that "postcode lottery" started life as a phrase describing something v negative

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Would campaign for that meaning to overtake the better known one here tbf

Dear Macmillan I bet you think you're so clever with your chirpy song about death which is fucking horrible you scumbags

it's Marie Curie I think, not Macmillan?

that's a double-edged one really. I could really do without the endless parade of funeral planning and life insurance for the over 50s ads, and this falls into that for me, but my wife doesn't mind this particular ad because she thinks people should be talking about death more. I doubt she'd feel the same way if it was Macmillan doing it though, because she hates Macmillan

i hate advertising on some visceral dna puritan level tbf tho, also i'm a depressed moaning bore

That makes two of us - at least.

Now I love red hair and I love redheads and, if I were to let my beard grow, you'd soon see I've got the gene myself - having said all that, any chance that advertising agencies can stop using redheads (women and children especially) in every second advert? It's the abject lack of imagination displayed by these advertising 'creatives' that irritates me rather than people with red hair fwiw.

i think you're right CP, i didn't bother to factcheck. otm about all the funeral plan ads but i find that Marie Curie thing particularly triggering even tho your wife is right, really.

That fucking screamy "I want my bang bang" song on the phone advert, now that's *really* triggering, but it triggers hatred

jfc at that Tesco Casablanca advert

i like the way they don't even try to sound like the actors

And I keep hearing it as ‘...that can’t stop talking about’, instead of ‘...you can’t stop talking about. It’s annoying, in a minor way.

Is there anything more let's nuke the planet from orbit than perfume ads?

I get great joy from the TV perfume ad that goes
"Shall I.... rephrase the question?"
"..... I'm not going to be the person I'm expected to be any more"

It is SOOOOOOOOO SHIT
and it's for a MEGA LUXURY BRAND
and it's DIRECTED BY SCORSESE

and it's like something Alan Partridge would come up with

I still don't like it when Natalie Portman glowers at me like it's my fault

Oh my god Scorsese directed that ad that rips off Mishima?

New andrex one with skincare vloggers can fuck off

Any advert with 'ordinary people' (actors) singing a famous song badly - because ordinary people (stupid plebs) can't sing.

Any advert with actors playing homeless people because real homeless aren't sympathetic enough

they keep showing THE SAME 'on the beach' advert twice in a single ad break. why?

I can't tell why the voiceover is a Lee Marvin impression.

I thought John Goodman, which makes about 3 things he is currently advertising

oh, it's Iggy Pop

ctrl+f 'peloton guy' not found, wtf people

I'm guessing we won't be seeing it any more now the season is over, thankfully, but the Sky TV ad with Idris Elba singing "In the days over Christmas I like to watch mov-eez" to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas was one of the more irritating things over the holiday. Jeez, you'd think a copywriting agency would be able to find someone to write some new words where at least one of them fit with the melody.

Peloton got a brief mention a year ago but, yes, annoying. I never saw their controversial advert, just this current one and the earlier one which was the same but with a woman leading. "Smashed it"

can't work out if "what do i want from a vacuum cleaner?" woman was asked to play stranglably smug on purpose or not

I've noticed they've re-edited the the latest Paddy MxGuinness/Jackpot Joy advert and replaced the most disturbing scene - the one on the bus. I'm sure they must have had complaints.

Lads, solidor have come out with another banger

Grammarly

This BUPA mental health ad is making me quietly radge

Peloton

Oh it's been mentioned

I hate everything about it. Expensive exercise bike and app subscription so that twats in a certain wage bracket can look like porn superheroes or whatever it's supposed to be. Go for a fucking run round the park. You smashed it! Awesome work guys, dress down/beer fridge Fridays!

And it's all about putting in the work at home to be one up on the next schmoe isn't it. The idea of free time as an opportunity to make yourself fit and competitive, stitched into our normal so seamlessly there's an app for it

does anybody else see those adverts for HelloFresh and Gousto and their ilk and think "fuck me how much money do some people earn?"

on an unrelated note I hope Kevin Bacon dies soon

watching things recorded around Christmas and I'm surprised the m&s jerky jumpers thing never got mentioned here. it's in every ad break.

i liked the dancers :D

That godawful Gumtree "poem" really grinds my gears

this new campaign for the Clear travel system has one of the stupidest and most annoying slogans I've seen in a good long time. https://www.thedrum.com/creative-works/project/red-antler-clear-you-get-you-places

"You Get You Places" - what? You pays your money and you gets you places.

a four star hotel with a pool for this price?

(didn't there used to like 100 different trivago adverts? why did they settle on this one to replay repeatedly?)

Lad in a launderette with a gretsch guitar.

Seen it three times this morning!!

(oh, and I own the same guitar, it doesn't sound like that, unpluggedin)

Nothing wrong with the advert per se but I suspect this ad campaign might need to be pulled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjrmP4fKSIg

I'm very sorry but I kind of want to batter the little twat off the British Heart Foundation adverts

So many horribly inappropriate TV ads still running, it's pretty funny.

Yes, some grim laughs to be had.