Worst TV adverts of the moment

Henry: "I've found something that's small time"
snoball: "Your career prospects?"
Henry: "There's nothing small time about my career. This Christmas I'll be presenting another hilarious show featuring two year old clips from YouTube."

Oh hold on, is this Thierry or Lenny we're talking about here?

It was poor old Hazell I felt sorry for.

I imagine him turning to his agent and saying, "Why don't you just put the gun to my head right now..."

They must have been mentioned before, but the WKD 'Do you have a wicked side?' commercials cause a dull, wrenching pain in my sternum.

Trying to sustain the pretense that their target buyers are not young teenagers but absolute twats so juvenile their taste buds will only accept alcohol in the form of fizzy pop.

Thierry reps for Gilette, Lenny for Holiday Inn. The "small time" quote is something Len says in the advert.

"Past your late teens but still behave like a stupid cock? Then drink WNKR."

to be fair Lenny Henry did recently get a part in Othello

LH: "To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on... and with that, on to our next hilarious GoogleTubeYouVideo clip!"

i think he's playing Bianca

Who's playing Ricky?

David van Day.

aargh "Posh Pringles" "look, the bag matches yours" FUCK YOU!!!

Seat still winning "worst of year" imo.

"(the) confused.com (website) remembers you and your details!" oh wow thx it's like living in the 21st century!!! you smug bastard diediedie

"step out of the carYOU HAD TWO PINTS THAT'S A 2 YEAR BANIt's company policy I gotta let you goI KNOWW ITS ONLY GOT 2,000 MILES ON THE CLOCK BUT THAT'S MY FINAL OFFERahh that's just GREAT MATT!! No JOb, No Car, NOW WHAT!!?????" - "So, what's it gonna be?"

He has to be the worst barman ever.

^^^ irritating advert, but at least it's a shift in focus from "you might run someone over" to "you'll experience misfortune". So it's probably more effective, because drink drivers don't give a shit about other people, but they do care about themselves.

alt punchline: "I'll have one of what you had"

barman: "ok then, roll up your sleeve and hold out your arm..."

alt punchline: "I'll have one of what you had"

"... and it said Happy Hour between 5 and 7"

"I BET YOU DIDN'T THINK EVEREST WOULD DO THAT TODAY, DID YOU!!!"

FUCK OFF!!!

Compare The Market with their SPECIAL FIVE-STAR RATING SYSTEM OMG IT'S SO SPECIAL

the barman advert isn't bad at all. it won an ad award for best casting somewhere because he has to do a range of 'characters' so quickly ha.

I know, I just wanted to say "worst barman ever" so..

I don't know about that, I reckon I've been served by worse

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/almurray300-thumb.jpg

that iggy pop car insurance advert is starting to boil my piss

I don't know whether this Microsoft Songsmith ad is on TV anywhere, but it is one of the most nightmarish things you will ever see. It's as if Stuff White People Like became a musical.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

And if you want to drive the pylon all the way through your skull:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jewxFiDQ22w&feature=related

mu-uum, i want. to. do. ae. poo.
but. i want. to. do. ae. poo. in pauuls bathroom.

Is that an advert?

unfortunately, yes. a uk advert for a bathroom air freshener but it's been dubbed from a continental ad.

red bull one with man in car ith his mum...
why?

five hour long bob dylan cooperative bank stfu

Oh crikey yes - went to the cinema yesterday and they had the full length version of that co-op ad on ie. the whole of "blowin' in the wind". Made me want to rampage in the aisle and burn the fucking place down.

Paul's Bathroom Boutique
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/BeastieBoysPaul%27sBoutique.jpg

the volvic challenge?

seriously?

revive, because I've just seen an advert for a compilation CD called "101 Housework Songs" - 101 tracks with some vague connection to housework, and I mean vague, like Queen's "I Want To Break Free"

I know it's deliberate and he's probably an actor but I would dearly like to dance wearing hobnail stilettos on the knackers of that Tiny Tim-looking twat on the Confused.com ads.

I Want To Break Free's connection with housework is not tenuous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVYgRPfC9nQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-yEWZTBQ64

My fury at this advert peaks at around 18 seconds and then has nowhere else to go.

http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tango_hi_res-9-500x749.jpg

WHAT

Can I take a second here to rant about the dessert-flavored yogurts that apparently help you lose weight and also act like a complete asshole?

- In the first commercial a woman walks into a cleaner's and tells the older woman behind the counter that she needs her clothes taken in, because she's been eating loads of Key Lime and Boston Cream pie. The older woman pretty sensibly suggests that she must mean she needs her clothes let out. Then the yogurt lady gets all argumentative and smug about it, as if it's the cleaner's fault for thinking "Boston Cream pie" refers to a pie and not yogurt.

- In the next one a woman is bragging on the phone about how she's lost weight, and how it's all due to the Key Lime pie and the Boston Cream pie and whatnot, which she always keeps some of in the house. Her husband, hearing this, starts looking around in the fridge for the pie she allegedly always keeps there. His wife then turns around and says "what are you doing, babe?" It seems to me that the answer is: he is looking in his own home refrigerator for the fucking pie you are claiming is in there, so get off his back, smug yogurt jerk.

- In the next one the husband from the previous one is bragging on the phone to his friend about how he's dropped a few pounds, all via eating Key Lime pie and Boston Cream pie, etc., and his wife reprises her "what are you doing, babe" zing and makes fun of him for acting like said pies were actually pies and not in fact yogurt flavors. I don't really get the comedic logic of this, as it seems to me that he was trying the exact same dumb-ass thing she was doing, and now she's not just a smug jerk but a hypocrite to boot.

^^ what gets me about the third commercial is that by reprising previous characters in the series they seem to be acting as if this campaign were somehow well-liked and successful, which if that's the case I might need to leave the country

(I am assuming y'all are find with this thread being transAtlanticized)

Ditto for Taco Bell. First there was a commercial where one asshole talks his asshole buddy into not tipping a barista (played by Andrew from Buffy!) because that change could be better spent on some slop wrapped up in a tortilla. Now there's that one where another asshole goes around stealing change from "give a penny, take a penny" trays because he apparently has no source of income.

I also hate those Bing ads that act as if Googling something is SO HARD. Oh my god, I typed in "back pain" and got something about back to school sales! The internet is so difficult!

Addition to the hassled husband genre: the guy who sees his wife has switched to a healthier Cheerio breakfast and asks if she's trying to lose weight. You look like a nice lady, wife, but seriously, it's an innocent and supportive question and you protest too much.

The weird thing about that commercial is they used it years ago for a different variety of Cheerios and just superimposed the new box over the original. It looks terrible. I think they re-dubbed the voices too. Pretty cheap, General Mills.

always feel bad for that guy because the fridge is stocked solely with his fat wife's yogurt. never realized there was a sequel.

worst at the moment is the palm one with the translucent albino chick talking about how she can't handle the thought of reincarnation because she lives multiple lives now and boy howdy that is only maintainable because she has a palm pilot and is an alien/hippy.

omg yes, what is with that? is she supposed to seem "futuristic" or something?

I think they re-dubbed the voices too

Oh, I noticed this, too! It doesn't sound right.