Worst TV adverts of the moment

John Lewis Christmas advert pic.twitter.com/E9QYl9johM

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) November 4, 2021

I'll save meself the trouble, play some Leonard Cohen and think about toys for 3 minutes

(tweet is not the real JLCA)

it's november so more people are getting into the xmas adverts. philip schofield can't need money *that* badly, surely? (we buy any car and craft gin club, can't decide which is the worse)

far too early for the Spector Christmas album soundtrack though

someone else who probably doesn't need the money - grace jones

Guess this tread is mostly UK centric, I expected this revive to be about those horrific VW commercials with all the people singing that dumb song about what they are doing that makes me want to claw my ears off.

The Grace Jones one is a bit o_0

(US version of this thread is here: worst commercials on television )

new verisure alarms advert! this time the women talk whilst the men stand around gormless.

"yes, it gets dark so early these days"

"we activate it every night, and when we go out"

and should i know the julie-andrews-alike on the m&s advert?

Don't think so. The Verisure tradition of only two people being allowed (paid?) to talk in an advert continues.

following the usual trajectory+ snoop dogg has been replaced with a puppet.

+see also Iggy Pop

my dad used to be a junglist...

Well, you'd better make a tribute to him..

good thing i've got fast internet

That Xmas one with "because nothing's stopping us" always struck me as pretty irresponsible but I'm kind of surprised they haven't pulled it yet.

Absolutely!

the guy with the big teeth trying to make 'cinch' a verb when it already is one that means something different

All Lenor adverts.

there's a new verisure advert, but it has no qualities worth mentioning.

but watching Big Match Revisited, 80s football, there are pitch side adverts for manhole covers, tyres and tapes (cassettes i guess). and Dickie Dirt's "for PM and Sunday" whatever that means. no car adverts, no airline adverts, nothing that i saw on Everton / Hull City before that.

Is this the new Verisure advert where the non-speaking partners (the wives, in this case) are barely seen, I think you see the top of their heads? I think Verisure are slowly moving towards something like Beckett's "Not I", where the screen is taken up by a giant close-up of a mouth endlessly blabbering to itself about household alarm systems.

the second match has Townsend Thoresen adverts (car ferries) and, yes, airline adverts, if British Caledonian Airways counts. also motor oil, tv hire, Stanley tools, Hoover, and a local car radio place by the looks

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/vhi-healthcare-doctor-learns-tiktok-dance-to-make-patient-feel-at-ease

apparently that VHI advert has been pulled indefinitely due to the level of vitriol it's provoked

If Internet ads count that Audible one about going on a trip to Westeros and visiting the moon drives me up the wall. I resent how well produced it is and I resent the implicit "you can't go anywhere because of the rona, why not stay home and give Bezos some more cash".

(I do have adblock but not on the ancient ipod I use to halfwatch twitch)

Adverts for apples? Sure why not. But who holds their apples vertically when eating them?

continuing my 'adverts seen around the pitch during the repeats of 1981 football matches on itv4' subset

Danepak Bacon
Give Book Tokens For Christmas
Lemsip

sneaky-tarian is not a thing
deluxe-tarian is not a thing
spicy-tarian is not a thing

That bugs the shit out of me too, but I guess calling people arians is a homophone too far these days.

Richard Ayoade eat a dick straight up

Why oh why are these people trying to make the portmanteau 'housebarrasment' a thing?

Can't think of a worse misuse of the English language than 'housebarrasment'? Cazoo yeah you can!

Just, where's the effort?

Spend more money on yr kitchen otherwise face reduction in your social standing

Saw this ad for Valentine's cards on TV recently. Horrible.

https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/film/thortful_dolphin

Yes, it's just disturbing, but this one is even more nightmarish if anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNAQzVAmJ8o

Fucking hell, imagine the brainstorm session that led to that.

"delish"

no no no no no

I can't hear the strapline to this company's adverts as anything other than Bastards of Fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA93y7aUte4

is that a Steven Hartley voiceover? Talk fucking Sport!

Steven Hartley & Shipley Rebel

I'm starting to think Verisure's use of non-professional actors is an aesthetic choice in a nod to Pasolini

Oh while I'm on I hope the voiceover person for Tombola gargles hydrochloric acid soon

Right, let's do Bingo, Paddy Power style....

Never mind Weight Watchers Corden you need to go on a program to lose cuntishness

GambleAware adverts <<< gambling adverts <<< other adverts and there's one every break, seemingly.

who is the bloke with the big voice and odd cadence in the paddy power(?) advert? am i meant to know him? NEVER BET WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.

new Verisure advert as well, same as all the others. a woman talks to a man, at least.

Matt Chapman? Horse racing pundit for ITV and sky sports and all round loudmouth. If like me you do watch a bit of the racing you'll be familiar with the paddy power talking horses ads that they play every break, now they're really bad

> but the Hey Car white guy rapping / miming in a car is probably my least favourite ad right now. (March 2021)

they are still showing this exact same advert in every ad break over a year later.

i do actually wish I'd bought a thinner tv