Worst TV adverts of the moment

The homoerotic Walker's Crisps one with Gary Lineker and the Arctic Monkeys.

Arctic Monkeys? Youtube comes up with nowt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d0agRpuSo

this just confuses me

The new ones from the Spanish tourist board are... sinister.

ha! you didn't see the ad for portugal

This monstrosity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLXMxU-FC1E

really, how dare they!

the currys ads are back too! three cheers

xp are they... crimping?

That Sugar Puffs ad is a disgrace! No doubt the coke-raddled "creative" who pitched it would argue it's a homage to The Mighty Boosh, but fucking hell that is some seriously shitty crimp that they have come up with.

Horrible on its own terms and it even cheapens the crimps that have gone before. That almost defines imaginative bankruptcy!

It not only cheapens the crimp, it cheapens the honey monster. he was brought of retirement for this

Damn right. Also, they bring the poor bastard back and he doesn't even get to drop a "Tell 'em about the honey, mummy". They've basically turned him into a Poochie...

fuck that sugar puffs ad on general principle, mighty boosh or no.

S'like when McDonalds ripped off Viz's Top Tips, innit.

Bruce Hutton, Bray Leino managing director, says: “Honey Monster is without doubt one of the classic TV ad characters. Having not been on screen for some years, we wanted to give Honey Monster the chance to express himself in a new contemporary way that only he could.

“But it was essential in doing this that we remained true to the tradition of him being seen as a fun character that kids everywhere would love to have at their breakfast tables. We feel his latest antics bring him up to date and have the power to get people talking.”

really hate the advert that uses 'she's like a rainbow', whatever it's for.

With the rabbits! Sony Bravia. It's highly acclaimed, you're not allowed not to like it.

hate that song

I like that song, but seeing it every time I walk past the Sony concession in Debenhams is getting me tired of it.

The one where the grandmother checks out Jamie Oliver's bum and he turns around and goes "cheeky!"

Makes me want to reach through the screen and strangle humanity.

God yes. I hate how every twat standing around in that advert is pissing themselves laughing.

hate that song

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:53 (49 minutes ago)

would post to the 'posts very much in character' thread but, y'know

The latest Foster's advert is inoffensive enough apart from the way they've fucked around with the lyrics to Violent Femme's Blister in the Sun: instead of being 'strung out' he's 'hung out' (what does that even mean?), and instead of being 'high as a kite' he now claims to 'fly like a kite'.

The Toyota Yaris 'treat them with respect' adverts where they screw people up just because they happen to have shut the door with their feet or got a little dirt on their car. What a couple of self obsessed, judgemental, materialistic fucks.

ITV boat race ad, lol gladiator

DHS, chainsaw, wtf

DFS should be barred from this thread, they wipe the floor with everyone

Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return.

What I find amazing is how certain adverts turn up on certain channels. OK, I admit it, I spend too much time watching NME TV (certainly far too much as I haven't read a copy in 8 years and am touching 40 years old but it's worth it to see my two year old son dancing to "Balloons"), but the adverts on there between the videos are so incongruous for the target audience - it's all Cilla Black selling life assurance and InjuryLawyers4U. WTF?

Only pensioners read the NME?

SERIOUS SYSTEMS THINKING REQUIRED on part of CRACKPOT CONOR!!

Well, pensioners and doleites I guess.

And occasional househusbands like me.

Lots of confused.com and Purple Loans input, I guess.

Gocompare, Moneysupermarket, but thankfully no Picture The Loan. Oh, but plenty of that dreadful One Account advert with that cheery chap in the call centre talking about shrinking people's mortgages.

(Speaking as a person currently sitting in a call centre taking calls, we are not like that at all)

How many actual music-related adverts does NME TV get?

I'm thinking "David Garrett £7.27 at Tesco" level but as ever I stand to be corrected.

Apart from the NME advertising itself on a regular basis, precisely none.

Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return

Imagine his agent phoning up "that guy who was Hazell" and saying, "Hi, That Guy Who Was Hazell? It's your agent, here. Look, I've got a great job for you... yeah... how do you fancy pretending to be Lenny Henry's road manager/gay lover in a series of adverts for a middle-ranking hotel chain?"

Those Taco Bell ad where everyone has long glops of melted cheese hanging out of their mouths is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on tv.

All Government adverts re. benefit fraud, car crushing etc. with unsubtle subtext of WE RULE AND WE'LL GET YOU AND FUCK YOU UP ANY TIME WE LIKE

Anywhere else there would have been a revolution by now etc.

And then there's the one where they blame climate change on us for leaving the TV on standby

There's always Nicky Campbell to save us tho. (xpost)

Can't I have Julia Bradbury instead?

No mention of the Marks & Spencer 'Lighthouse keeper' ad? Ordinarily the idea of models cavorting on a beach wearing only underwear would fill me with glee but that ad makes me want to kick the tv box in.

"how abought yghoooooo?"

The Kids' favourite, at the mo.

As for the BT ads, get used to them - they're currently employing well-known writers to brainstorm new directions for our lovable telephone-obsessed family.

Fair enough, but do they have to be on all the time? So she's lost the folder with all the kids' photos? So as the kids were born before the advent of the digital camera, this means she must have digitised the originals and then BURNT THEM. Evil bitch.

one word

Flake

Not as bad as I was expecting, the Joss Flake one.

M&S ads in general - awful, especially Erin "Thunderbirds Puppet" O'Connor and Myleene "Opening Of An Envelope" Klass.

Kris Marshall should be KRUCIFIED!

No mention of the Marks & Spencer 'Lighthouse keeper' ad? Ordinarily the idea of models cavorting on a beach wearing only underwear would fill me with glee but that ad makes me want to kick the tv box in.

-- Billy Dods, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:56 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Seriously, having watched these, I would ruin Erin O'Connor hardcore. Plasterer's radio, man.

I don't like the sound of that.

That M&S Lighthouse Keeper advert goes in one eye and out the other, if you follow the analogy. Didn't even realise it was for M&S until you lot mentioned it, and I've seen it loads of times. Show how effective that was.

That song just makes me think of A Clockwork Orange.