worst commercials on television

I didn't this ad:

There was just something really creepy about the animals (not just all the sexual shenanigans)

"like"

Wasting your extra hour on ILX: classic or dud?

lol i find tht ad kind of funny :/

i don't know what's wrong with me tho, i'm generally a fan of animal ads

Burger King's sissy troubadours singing about the steakhouse shroom & swiss -- what the FUCK.

Hot Zebras, never thought i'd see that :-/

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww at the orangina ad

Holland & Barrett ad totally absurd

and mention must go to that awful awful AWFUL whatever the fuck 'more minutes / seance' advert. fuck a shit catchphrase.

This commercial makes me want to punch something/one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocuvU1ve5Q

The BMW commercial with Brian Unger (love him) has got to go.

"Americans are always finding ways to be... more responsible".

I keep waiting for the punchline or any clue that he's joking, but it never shows up.

how did Brian Unger go from being the best correspondent on the Daily Show to randomly doing voice overs and commercials?

Anyway, the worst ads right now are the Coors Light ads with the standup comic that are on TBS.

Glad to see there's already a coupla Axe commercials up in here. Absolute fucking worst ads for some years now. I will NEVER buy one of their products! (If I did, I'd be tempted to spray it in my eyes every time another of their commercials aired.)

re that brian unger ad, there's one brief moment in that ad when they do a close-up on his face and he looks absolutely horrifying! i froze the frame and snapped a picture recently. will post to frighten everyone soon.

that one Allstate ad where the president from 24 does the whole sales pitch and some random guy at a mailbox goes "no way" and then 24 guy goes "way" and smiles, my wife thinks i'm insane the way i rant and rave about this commercial, but i mean...that's it? that's all they've got?

yeah but i bet keanu reeves bought it

wtf @ that 'go meat' advert.

double pits to chesty

it hurt to type that

Anyone else noticed there's a lot of red-haired people - children and adults - in TV adverts these days?

YES! but why is this in the "worst" thread? it makes me very happy

Redsploitation

bright'something or other'

two northern lassies on about paying for tv rental or something. the annoying part is at the beginning where the black haired woman makes some fucking stupid facial expressions when she says "mandy loves her weekly spa treatment"

"webuyanycar anyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyany"
FUCK OFF!!!

Brighthouse are evil, basically loan sharks.

webuyanycar is also one of a growing number of commercials where the advertising executives used the fact that it's a World Cup year to shoehorn in a football reference - in webuyanycar's case, the fake newsreader starts playing keepy-up for no reason, and is then joined by loads of other people doing the same.

I had a sneaking fondness for an old Ocean Finance one (not the new ones with the people with light bulbs strapped to their heads, which I find vaguely disturbing); it was a vox-pop one where a woman said, 'I like Ocean Finance, they don't try and babble you with science.'

I assume these were genuine vox pops on this occasion, as the thought of a scriptwriter coming up with that is almost as disturbing as the light bulbs.

confused.com - "The Internet is the most important invention of the 21st century."
FUCK. OFF.

T Mobile, seriously get 2 fook

anyone else notice how that car commercial where the kid is getting chased home by bullies is now about a kid being challenged to race home? of course he still leaps into the safety of the minivan and all the other kids were also racing to his house for some reason. an effort to be sensitive to the whole bullying issue thing.

i've noticed an increasing number of commercials which are shot in reality show style, complete with sit-down interviews of some random person who owns a toyota or w/e, mixed in with shots of them in their car, and they're actually copying the shitty audio edits heard in reality shows (frankenbiting.) considering the budget companies have for such national ads, it has to be intentional.

can we talk about these state farm commercials?

ugggh the miller lite "man up" ads are so awful in just about every respect

THE FUCKING TACO BELL TWO SHRIMP CRASHING DUDES. FUCKING DIE.

i dunno, tbell's always had really stupid commercials

ha kind of like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWeOhezlwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6bT8_ji2k&feature=related

that one drives me nuts too.

there's a whole 'behind the scenes' with 'buddy mignon' the singer on youtube, not crossing that line. glad that dudes getting work though, he's a tv commercial trouper from way back

I swear this commercial is like 3 minutes long.. some guy who thinks he's hilarious pretending he's a Billy Mays dude and it says nothing about the product until the last 15 seconds.

aaaaargh these state farm "like a good neighbor" commercials

"I have blah blah insurance so person come help" I want to shoot these people and leave their bodies rotting by their cars

this one is kinda tone deaf in the same vein as that "life is good" honda ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNvgT93GATo

The anti-smoking ones with the lady ("Terry") who was dying of some vicious form of cancer talking with her tracheotomy tube in place. Jesus Christ.

New iPhone ad (GIGAANTIC! GIGAANTIC! A BIG BIG LOVE!) is annoying and ubiquitous as hell, but at least a return to "LOOK AT ALL THE FUN YOU COULD HAVE BUT WON'T!" as opposed to the horrible "profound" streak Apple ads were on.

iPhone "I'm living the life of dreams" ad. Horrible song, horrible "you can't raise your kids without Apple" message.

well yeah apple is terrible

u.s. tv ads have gotten slightly funnier in the last month or so. there was a wave of over the top wtf misogynism for a while there that seems to have ebbed

The ones with the giant marionettes interacting with people.

mummy, what's neu-ter-ing?

The new "I've fallen and I can't get up" ad with a woman at the bottom of her basement stairs crying and yelling "HEEEELPPPP!" is just a little too realistic and horrifying.

There's one about Chicken wrappers where the dad starts rapping that I find really wearing.
I think there are another couple that I tend to hit the remote over but I can't think what they are right now.

I do not understand these AT&T Lily commercials at all, every single one comes off like half the dialogue has been removed

"I'm Cologuard and I detect altered DNA in your stool"

I know this falls into the rather wide category of ads that are really just trying to get you to pester your doctor or whatever but jesus the ubiquity of this one on any show streaming on Paramount+

also yeah the Lily commercials are very very strange

feel like Rule #1 of writing/directing commercials is knowing that the vast majority of your audience isn't really paying attention. so all this intricately produced stuff that's paced like an Avengers movie is just kinda falling on deaf ears, particularly those which have very little to do with the product itself. back in my day a commercial was just two dude yelling "ZESTY!" at each other

Geico doing a bunch of "TV dad" commercials who I presume from the sweaters is trying to resemble Bill Cosby

Think he's supposed to resemble the character he played on Family Matters (the Urkel show)?

Me, I could live without the Cologuard (place that sends you a box you shit in and return to be tested for cancer) commercials that feature a rewritten version of My Way.

lol ok, didn't watch it so I didn't realize it was the same actor