worst commercials on television

"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.

this creepy miller lite commercial where they claim the invention of lite beer led to your, the viewer's, conception

SIX CALLERS AHEAD OF US, JIMMY

Some of these commercials these days make me miss the good ole days of Go Meat!

For instance, those Geico ones: "Everybody knows that ... yeah but did you know that ... " Ugh.

The new Blu e-cig ad with the soul song in it is terrible - Stephen Dorf livin' it up in various C-list ways, the line "TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM" apparently designed to appeal to angry white guys - but that song is fucking hilariously bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVYMP1skvk

It's apparently by a band called T-Bird and the Breaks, which... yeah. Perfect.

Recent terrible songs in commercials:

Some fake Fred Cole sounding guy singing too fast to be deciphered over modern garage pop, required catchy "WHOOO HOOO OOOOH OOOH" chorus inserted as predictably as computer code. Car commercial. Garage-indie-pop bands really need to stop selling songs to commercials.

Think this other one is for a clothing store or something, pseudo-mod-soul vibe with a woman singing what sounds like "You and me we could be BAEH-FOOT-AHN, perception to get AROUND, WHAHH-OHH WHAHH-OHH."

I just last night saw a nauseating commercial for an IBS medication with this thing as the mascot:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSMxKqmUcAAHByg.jpg

And yes, it is indeed an anthropomorphic pile of intestines. At one point, this horrific thing sits down for a meal and tucks its napkin between the ropes of intestine. It was to barf.

Good god.

I think I contracted IBS from that commercial.

all of them

"I'm in the Buick."
"BUHHHH I DON'T SEE ANY BUICK!!!!!!!!!!"

Essentially they're saying "yeah, our cars are shit but now they don't look like shit. As much."

"You won't believe it's a Skoda"

Fuckin Bon Jovi shilling for some cable company.

Those are horrible, but the Chevy focus-group campaign is worse. Almost revived this thread to gripe about those.

3) Two dudes playing piano with their cocks (Aus erectile dysfunction ad [fucking horrendous])

ILX posts that haunt you.

Those are horrible, but the Chevy focus-group campaign is worse. Almost revived this thread to gripe about those.

yeah definitely. wish I could explain why they piss me off so much, guess it's just the toxic smugness of bearded guy + the incredible stupidity of the totally-not-fake focus group..."IS THIS A LEXUS!? DOES IT COST FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!??"

"...and I want you to reply IN EMOTICONS!!!"

"If I throw eggs at you, will you be more likely or less likely to buy a Chevy?"

"How many fingers would you be willing to chop off to drive this pickup?" *places meat cleaver on butcher block*

The apple ad with this shite, maudlin British hip-hop track about a guy who, sigh, just wishes he had a little sister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HiB-hNt_mw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8UV7SAhvG4

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