Worst TV adverts of the moment

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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

"OMG LAG! BS! REG! BS BS BS!!"

― g-spot (g-kit), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

G-KIT OTM

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

is Lagging some new sex thing?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I just saw a Telegraph advert where they claim to be packed with "world class sporting opinion" and I keep imagining people saying "That's a word class opinion you've got there, mate!" and the like.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 November 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

'We call it Kodak'

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ah the kodak one is indeed teh suck

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Partly because US ads don't look right in the UK and partly because it is a pile of crap in its own right

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never seen the ad, but "World Class Sports Opinion" is really terrible copy. Using "World Class" to modify anything that doesn't actually compete on local vs. national vs. world levels (athletes, etc.) is really idiotic.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 28 November 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Having only seen it twice over the weekend I am already sick of the Vodafone "I'm gonna be with you, you'll be with me" song that they will be plugging endlessly until Christmas. And they are also releasing the song as a single. The fact that I work for Vodafone and it has now been included as Vodafone's hold music (replacing "Lovers" by Pete Doherty and Wolfman, if you're wondering) means that it will be unavoidable for me for the next six weeks.
"Can I put you on hold while I connect you to that department?"
"Not if you're going to play me that shite song again, no".

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i saw the sheilas wheels ad over the weekend. one of those moments i was glad not to own a gun as i probably would have unloaded into the tv.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Reminds me of something else I hate – 'quality' as an adjective without qualification. It's a quality paper? It could be a shit-quality paper – you haven't told me.
xxpost

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

the kodak thing, yes. far too pompous.

those adverts for MRI imaging systems puzzle me. who's going to buy expensive, specialised medical equipment after seeing it in the middle of coronation street?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha i know right?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I think those MRI adverts are a way of showing that Philips don't just made cd players and electronic goods, it's like "Hey, we're a multinational company producing products which help save people's lives, be nice to us and buy our cd players".

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i don;t get the 'beyond petroleum' ads.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I guess the idea is that although you ignore the advert consciously, you're subliminally impressed with the amazingness of the company's industrial-scale products – so when you go to dixons for a packet of triple-A batteries you pick up their brand, feeling you're a part of something much much bigger.
hah xpost

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Yeah, if you look there's a small dog driving at the wheel."

Caught the full-length Sheila's Wheels advert this morning and, thanks to the live pause function on Sky+, I'm pretty sure that it's actually a kangeroo behind the wheel.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

those adverts for MRI imaging systems puzzle me. who's going to buy expensive, specialised medical equipment after seeing it in the middle of coronation street?

Tom Cruise?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

(does Tom Cruise watch Coronation Street? - subs please check)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I find myself falling into a trance whenever the HP advert comes on because the music is so damn catchy (you know the one - out of the picture do be do dum dum out of the fra-ame do be do dum dum) and the repeated face-framing business is strangely hypnotic.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

1. The Kleenex advert, there is no reason to ever show huge closeups of spiders on television ever, unless it's in a programme where celebrities have to eat them in the jungle and we arachnophobes know to stay well away.

2. Ginger kid on LSD breaks into people's sheds and bedrooms and asks "what do you keep in this vase?" "how long are you going to feel like THAT for?" "What's wrong with your face?", then the voiceover bloke, in a "for fuck's sake" tone of voice, says to talk to FRANK about drugs

3. The advert for some educational electronic toy that goes along the lines of "Tom is learning about numbers, while James is crashing cars into walls. Tom is discovering new worlds of verbs and learning, while James is running around smashing things up". Bear in mind that this is Tom's toy that's being advertised and is supposed to sound much more fun to children than James'.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Why is that fucking woman in the Christmas Vodafone advert wearing pedal pushers? It's SNOWING and MINUS TEN DEGREES OUT. Let the fucker freeze I say. That'll shut her up.

As for Kerry Katona at Iceland, I like the way that she's put the Christmas turkey on the table at the same time as the savoury snacklets, value mince pies and the arctic roll, leaving no room for things like veg or table settings. Also I don't get the joke at the end but it seems to revolve around wellies.

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Once more my non-tech self is confused. There is no such ad for brown sauce, I thought. Then remembered.
Mr. Monkey does not like the face framing thing. It freaks him out.
And speaking of freakouts, it is not big or clever to advertise Lucozade using zombies. They are just frightening, okay? And why the fuck would I want to buy something that may or may not turn me into a zombie?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Re: The Sheila's Wheels one.

Am I right in assuming they can't actually refuse to insure a driver based on their gender? Is this a case of making the product so 'horribly girlie' that us 'yorkie eating men' would never stoop to applying for the insurance?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I love that HP advert, partly because the cute bloke in it looks like a friend of mine.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

first off, the jamie oliver flavour shaker ads, WTF. oliver, fuck off you money grabbing lisping shit!

secondly, the dixons advert, with the ladys in tight clothing, hmmm, i love dixons!!
cant believe there are places like this where u can bitch about ads

― smallhippo, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I think that any prescription drug being advertised is the worst. They are vague and often don't mention what condition the drug is for, yet they mention the brand name 10 times in the advert and tell you to request it from your doctor. WTF? Then they proceed to tell you all the side effects of the drug, but they say it so fast (because there are so many side effects) that you can't begin to comprehend what the disclaimers are except...my personal fave at the end "including death". I don't think Rx drugs should be advertised at all!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

there's a thread somewhere where, i think, JtN complain about those micra(?) adverts with the made up words like Modtro and Spafe. the new honda(?) advert tries to introduce the word 'bigsmall' to the world. an e for effort there i think.

saw an advert on space tv whilst home over christmas (couldn't miss it, it was on every 15 minutes) where the bloke in a cheap suit in a white studio used the phrase 'zero no claims bonus' about 6 times in 15 seconds.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

"mmmmm Danone!" Biffidus Digestivum????? Thay made that word up so these rediculous women on low calorie diets would think they were actually buying something with scientific research to it! Biffidus sounds like a fucking pokemon and Digestivum is just digest with a VUM on the end for christs sake! Stupid people... *tuts repeatedly*

Bleugh and that breathe easy strips advert or whatever they are - "this is the exact size of your nasal passages when you have a cold - theyre not full of snot, its the veins in them exploding" or something like that. I feel physically sick especially when I'm eating tea in front of the telly. Sickening.

― Amy Turner, Sunday, 15 January 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

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