Worst TV adverts of the moment

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I *love* the Sheila's Wheels advert.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, it's Sheilas' Wheels isn't it? I remember checking it and approving at the cinema.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Not Australian, actually just part of esure, yawn

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

On a slightly less amusing note, there's an ad currently running on the digital channels for an animal charity. This ad features one of those dancing bears which has gone mad. It's just horrible. I watched it all the way through once, thinking it was going to have a happy ending (like the Dogs' Trust ads do), but it didn't. I have to leave the room when it's on, I find it so upsetting.

Back on the normal side of things, I still am the only person who likes the man in the Phones 4 U ads. He's crazy, yes, but he seems to have enormously strong roots in the community.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

"Car insurance at mice's prices"

Eh? Are mice well-known for securing excellent deals on their third-party policies?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, if you look there's a small dog driving at the wheel. In the idents before, um, Charmed they point at it and give it a variety of different hats.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

a dog wearing hats? how can this not be good?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/images/travel/dog_with_shades.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Koogs otm with that gate half open drivel - that 'why don't we open it all the way?' bit always makes me angry. Because it's not any kind of gate, obviously.

Also Accentmonkey otm re that horrific bear charity advert. It keeps summoning up for me a bear in a cage in the park in Istanbul below the Topkapi palace. The cage seemed maybe 3-4 times the volume of the bear.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh come on, it's like the kind of things that Calvin's dad used to tell him to f*ck with his head.

― -Stroke-Model (kate), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyone seen that advert with Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone as the soundtrack for a Noodles advert?

"Are you a noodlehead?"

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate the ads with churchill the bulldog (i adore bulldogs but not talking toy bobble-headed ones), and the ones for various loan companies showing grinning idiots about to borrow £25k against their homes with no consequences.

I have to leave the room when it's on, I find it so upsetting.

oh god. totally otm. as someone who watches digital cable a fair bit, especially late at night, i'm often completely horrified by the various child and animal and cancer charity ads, which basically boil down to showing you an abused dog/baby or bald leukemia patient whilst playing portentous music and implying that if you don't send off your two quid a month then the person/animal in question is a goner.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link

pepperami ads are awful as well, and so are the heinz mexican baked bean ads with the little bean that talks like cheech marin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"where are my socks?"

"in the drawer...next to your loincloth"

die Herbal Essences advert, die.

>Back on the normal side of things, I still am the only person who likes the man in the Phones 4 U ads. He's crazy, yes, but he seems to have enormously strong roots in the community

The Phones 4 U ads are grebt - the one where he runs down to the car window to repeat the slogan ("how's that for you Billy Boy?" "YEAH! YEAHH!") is class, as is the one where it ends with the scary long-haired woman and a bell tolling in the background.

― Bill A (Bill A), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

it's weird that they've brought those same Pepperami adverts back years after they were first shown.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah who the fuck puts pepperami with pasta? gross!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

oh! and the kerry katona iceland ads!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I feel nostalgic for the STUPID, JUST STUPID man.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, that whole meat + spaghetti idea has never caught on really...(xpost)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Despite stiff competition from the prick with the football trying to borrow £25K, confused dot com and the 'borrow money to buy your council house' one, Kerry Katona's "are these breasts large?" advert SICKENS AND APPALLS ME.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

The always reliable Pringles people who start making monkey noises and doing monkey dances and are then confronted by King Kong. Aaaaaaargh.

(p.s. I love Churchill. Oh, yes.)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, that whole meat + spaghetti idea has never caught on really...(xpost)
-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...), November 24th, 2005.

er yeah but PEPPERAMI?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It's fantastic on pizza, peperami.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

tf.

lauren also otm re. katona, i think they must be the actual worst.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

if my mum was a millionaire, i'd be really really upset to get frozen pizzas and mystery meat ready meals for dinner.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

ew 'mystery meat'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

That's why mums go to Iceland.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

the soft bake Nutrigrain ads freak me out - they're in the same vein as the Phones for You 'slightly touched in the head people' adverts.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry, Phones 4 U.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

what about the starburst ad with the rapping/stripping grandma? i'm getting traumatized all over again just thinking about it.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

oho, jeremy clarkson's smug-as-shit bt ads.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

THEY ARE NOT SMUG

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah they are. it's completely stupid, but it tries to induce smugness in long-standing bt customers. his voice just *is* smugness.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Phones 4 U.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you like their adverts?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i think Clarkson and BT got the balance right.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

also when he says 'LAG-GING' i smirk

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a rather appalling advert where a girl (wearing spectacles) brings her boyfriend home to meet her mum but ::gasp:: her mum has started to wear contact lenses. So now this girl is all distraught and thinks her boyfriend will now fancy her mum.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

specsavers strike again.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant the adverts. The whole world of mobile phone shopping scares me.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

There's some sort of claims advert where a big bearded guy starts saying "Have you been injured,.. ?" but then I don't know what happens next because I cannot begin to tell you how fast the channel gets changed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

There's something wrong with the Specsaver girl's hair. It's like a really bad, badgery wig.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

it's hollyoaks hair.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Bwah hah ahh hah hah hah!

Stripey Hollyoaks badger.

But no one on Hollyoaks wears glasses....

― -Stroke-Model (kate), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

what about the starburst ad with the rapping/stripping grandma

what's wrong with that, it's a classic.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the girl in the Specsavers ad actually reminded me of her in As If.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't get that Specsavers ad. I mean, don't you guys also sell, you know, SPECS????

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

what's wrong with that, it's a classic.

you're obviously deranged. that's what's wrong.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Has ANYBODY ever got a phone call asking about lagging?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Yup. I am now subscribed to the telephone preference service.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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