― Chris Lyons, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Samantha, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I also dislkie the tooth paste ad that uses MOP's 'cold as ice' and then has the slogan "cool as ice'...I always think, why use that song then? I'm very fussy.
After a night's TV viewing, I shall garnish you with more examples.
― james, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Alternately, that car ad where the teacher yaks on about how she will be there for the kids, doctors deliver babies ect... because Something Inside Is So Strong. So buy a fucking car.
― Al, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michael, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jonnie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― MarkH, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The whole Shampoo = sex thing is utterly cringeworthy. The only "urge" I get during the Herbal range ad is to dive for the off button on the TV remote.
[And I wish Jason Euell HAD ran out of the stadium on Wednesday - I would have settled for 4:3]
― Trevor, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Somebody on the best ads thread mentioned the Lupo ads, but the big flashing face that pops up every time you click on *anything* at nme.com is really, really, really, really, really, really, really annoying. Grrr!
― Madchen, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Also, Argos.
The Virgin Mobile advert with Nicole Appleton photocopying her knickers is also rather shit but then again they have ADAM AND JOE (!!!!) on another advert so perhaps I'll have to sign up with them. I hate Vodafone. Bastards bastards bastards. Adverts are SO GREAT though, I love adverts. They are often better than the telly.
― Sarah, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Wil, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. Argos christmas ad using Slade and the cheapest, shittest, most fucking awful bogus product montage ever. Totally moronic, makes all the goods look like the heap of crap they are - when that fucking cut- out Santa comes by on his skis it might as well be Jive Bunny. There's a real trend lately for mass-market store ads to be this low- rent and vile, probably because the ad people all want to work on high-budget drinks brands and actually lavishing any skills on an ad aimed at the proles would be *so* uncool. Or of course it might be that the focus groups saw the ad and wuvved it, grr.
2. Harry Potter computer game - "FOOTAGE NOT IN GAME" i.e. the game itself has graphics that would shame an Oric. Not in itself a terrible ad but seen five times an hour it gets wearying.
Also! "I'd rather have a bowl of caramelflavouredcocopops" and the Olly the Octopus choosing his cereal are vile, the latter because it is untrue - every child knows which are the nice cereals in a variety pack and it's simply a matter of getting to them first, it's not a dilemma at all you eight-limbed sea bastard.
― Tom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alext, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
As for the Nivea "you know, I might buy some" ad, you can gain some kind of succour by imaging what he's going to be getting for Christmas from all his hilarious mates...
― Mark C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
BUT WAIT NOW THERE IS ONE FOR AMERICA WITH THAT ENRIQUE IGLESIAS HERO SONG. oh no wait it's for jeep! jeep LIBERTY, at that!
― maura, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Can I just say that I think the Argos ads are totally wicked.
― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Then at the end of the ad there's the final insult, that annoying high pitched "life tastes good coca cola" jingle. It reminds me of those films where one corporation runs the radio stations and keeps pumping out muzak to keep people happy. it's ok everyone, LIFE TASTES GOOD!!! and you're all allowed to try it!
― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
2 The fabric conditioner one where the people are made out of - duh - fabric. It is disturbing to look at 'people' made out of fabric, and in fact they look horribly disfigured, like burns victims or people with hypothermia.
― Ellie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
(I really like those Argos adverts - they cool)
― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Blimey, isn't it usually the other way round?
― Tom, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ellie, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Wine ads infest the London Underground system. That and ads for ten- week 'philosophy' courses.
― Will, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Must. Calm. Down.
just seen the pot noodle slurping video with some kind of electronic noise rather than the slurping. wasn't paying enough attention to understand why that was.
there's a second slurping ad at the moment as well though, macdonalds perhaps.
― koogs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:24 (four months ago) link
The Hertz car rental ads I have been getting on youtube for about a year are driving me mad - one is a parody of Oprah saying "you get a car!" and the other is a parody of Tom Cruise on Oprah, both are just shit in every way possible.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 March 2024 19:26 (four months ago) link
haven't seen in a week but i'm still irritated so the sara cox radio 2 promo. is it calling her listeners 'you absolute legends' or the digital landscape of sad commuters making their 'everyday less everyday' by having hung up played to them, the 'less everyday' to the 'everyday' train rhythm beneath?
not that bbc radio promos don't usually annoy me, mind
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:17 (four months ago) link
"my nan was a truly amazing woman, she made shit sunday dinners with frozen yorkshire puds" is a feminist masterpiece
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 18:58 (four months ago) link
'the voice in the back of your head' is that a phrase that people actually use? 'voice in your head', yes. 'eyes in the back of your head', yes. both valid Catchphrase-style phrases, but not 'the voice in the back of your head'.
― koogs, Sunday, 12 May 2024 15:26 (two months ago) link
Yeah that would annoy me. "Back of your mind", maybe?there's some ad I've seen (ie has been on while I'm scrolling my phone) loads of times that might be for Sky Mobile? as in a network? but I've never even passively taken in what it is or what the ad is for (I had to force myself to pay attention once I'd realised it was about the 50th time it had come on). someone talking about what other people are doing in their lives? maybe? it's as if every time my mind wants to make some sort of connection it moves to something else and I assume it's a different ad but it's not.
― kinder, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:25 (two months ago) link
can something be done about the haribo adverts where they record kids and then have adult actors mime to the recording? especially the tacked on laughter, clearly from a different recording, which they plonk at the end. by something I mean arrests and long term imprisonment.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 17 May 2024 15:42 (two months ago) link
the lenor advert where she opens the bottle and the music starts... "Let the sun shine in..." only she puts the lid down halfway through the 'Let' and the music stops and then starts again. the interruption is like a punch in the guts every time.
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:27 (two months ago) link
Anything with Diane Morgan doing the voiceover.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:32 (two months ago) link
is that who it is doing the baby voice on e.g. the Cadbury's ice cream ads? because hell yes it's murder-inducing
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 May 2024 19:34 (two months ago) link
Verisure seem to have changed tack with more professional adverts with proper actors - well, a red haired Irish woman who I recognize but who is not the red haired Irish woman sitting on the bog in an incontinence pad advert.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:38 (one month ago) link
Advertisers love red hair.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 09:39 (one month ago) link
feel like there was a time when this lady was in every other ad on UK TV, but I've seen less of her recently
https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/614602985-8ae6e05b3ad3eb7460bcf09d04b65d6922995db21c86f017382d1f921ccb4deb-d
there was also a period where there were a lot of ads featuring the nerdy guy from PhoneShop (whose dad was Mr Bennett the caretaker in Take Hart and also wrote the second series of Captain Zep - Space Detective)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 11:03 (one month ago) link
i thought verisure woman was old RobotWars woman. although given that she was on strictly and has the morning breakfast show on virgin radio i'm surprised verisure can afford her. (angela scanlon)
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:24 (one month ago) link
I'm sure it's her and I'd noticed the change in production values although the script itself is still weird and unpleasant
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:31 (one month ago) link
Confused.com smug whistlers can get to fuck.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 12:52 (one month ago) link
Ah right, Angela Scanlon, I knew I recognized her. I don't want to seem like I've got something against Irish women but I really hate those Fairy washing powder (I think) adverts with the glamorous blonde Irish woman and her fake baby, there's something incredibly smug about her.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 13:36 (one month ago) link
they edited those down as well i think. 'always close with a click-clack' is now missing the '-clack'
always keep away from children.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:59 (one month ago) link
i assumed those Fairy ads are some kind of Instagram/ influencer woman because of how unnatural she is, but obviously not bothered enough to Google it
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:45 (one month ago) link
i asked above. but have forgotten the answer.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
Trish knows
Worst TV adverts of the moment
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
it starts with an engineer... who walks like a robot and talks like a robot.
― koogs, Thursday, 30 May 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
Yeah, her name is Vogue Williams. She and Joanne McNally off Taskmaster have a podcast called My Therapist Ghosted Me, which is insanely popular among basic bitches.
― trishyb, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:09 (one month ago) link
I noticed that too. I'm guessing it's because the packs are made of cardboard now, so they don't make that noise anymore.
― trishyb, Friday, 31 May 2024 11:10 (one month ago) link
I think I was at school with a girl called Joanne McNally... or Joanna.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 11:15 (one month ago) link
the shell advert annoys me more for the greenwashing aspect than the robot aspect. and the last shot where the bed covers close in from both sides with an obvious join in the middle and then cut to a shot with no join. it felt like it was shown in every single ad break i saw yesterday.
― koogs, Friday, 31 May 2024 12:09 (one month ago) link
This isn't actually a terrible advert but every single time it comes on I think he says "I am disabled" at the start.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpGIQDF2s8
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 22:03 (one month ago) link
Rapidly headed for the no. 1 spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKak3bXysWc
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:34 (one month ago) link
Plus, I don't suffer from arachnophobia but I have known someone who does, so I shudder to think what would happen if, by accident, she saw the advert with the tarantula crawling about a bald guy's head.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 06:36 (one month ago) link
All Clear travel insurance copying the security alarms / apprentice pattern in their tv ads, i notice. the only interesting thing they have going for them is that they've filmed the same ad twice with the gender roles reversed.
seems that the venn diagram for coin collectors and fans of WWII has a huge overlap.
― koogs, Monday, 24 June 2024 15:26 (one month ago) link
This advert for lucozade is really boiling my piss right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbGwzQY21ow
I really hope this piss-weak appropriation of both footwork and hyperpop was made by AI, because if a group of humans are responsible they should be banned from making any sounds every again.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
that has just started on the tv as i went to write this. the basketball one annoys me more.
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
followed by an ee advert soundtracked by Love Will Tear Us Apart which ought to be illegal
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 20:01 (one month ago) link
meta quest - use your state of the art vr headset to watch a youtube video and look at a real life screw you're holding in your real life hand!
― ledge, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 12:46 (three weeks ago) link
The Lume ads where the pitchwoman says "over the years, women have been shamed for various body odors" then offers up a product to profit from that shame. That's not altruistic, ma'am. It's opportunistic. Also "pits, underboob, butt crack" is a phrase to shelve with "upset stomach, diiiiiiiiiiiaarrhea!"
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 16:04 (three weeks ago) link
doordash ad that’s all “do you even know if you have milk in your fridge” like yes you privileged mfers i do bc it’s the most expensive it’s been in years please fuck off
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:36 (three weeks ago) link
occasional reminder that there's a non-uk version of this thread here worst commercials on television
― koogs, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 17:52 (three weeks ago) link
oh sorry thx!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:22 (three weeks ago) link
I had no idea these were two different threads.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:17 (three weeks ago) link
yeah, it's not obvious and this one tends to be in sna more because, i guess, we hate adverts more. but it is very regional and it makes sense to have two imo.
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 07:34 (three weeks ago) link
Absolutely!
― pplains, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 13:22 (three weeks ago) link
Official shampoo of the 2024 Olympic games.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:18 (two weeks ago) link
Asa Butterfield becoming best friends with Robert di Niro by asking him if he eats food and goes places.
Also, Haribo ad where the dudes in the boat speak in kid voices.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 11 July 2024 13:44 (two weeks ago) link
is the dudes in the boat a particular ly egregious example? kid voices haribo adverts have been going on for ten years
― conrad, Thursday, 11 July 2024 16:35 (two weeks ago) link
My current peev is the Sky advert, a classic of the "so random!?!?😂" genre, where a twat invites us to imagine if a chameleon sang "Karma Chameleon" how awesome and cute it would be
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 July 2024 16:40 (two weeks ago) link
is that Uber thing real? a service for fans of travel and food? (i actually quite like that one because of the way deniro is, but the concept puzzles me)
― koogs, Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:04 (two weeks ago) link
two very similar adverts for potatoes, talking to farmers. the mccain one is the worst, saying idiotic things for money.
― koogs, Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:53 (two weeks ago) link
ok Hays Travel I hope and assume you're going for knowing camp and I must admit I'm gently amused on first seeing your advert but jfc stop it
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 July 2024 17:20 (one week ago) link
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:40 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
loathe adverts like this. i felt like, to paraphrase ray gardner, the lone dissenting voice in a billion when 3 mobile did that advert of ponies by a lighthouse dancing to fleetwood mac, or the yeo valley one a bit before that. how has advertising not moved on.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 20 July 2024 14:21 (one week ago) link
It's possible that if your target market is wankers it's a good strategy but still
― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 July 2024 14:38 (one week ago) link