Worst TV adverts of the moment

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.

Bostone Creme pie yogurt tastes so gross btw.

I don't know whether to talk about the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials here or on the "Best TV Adverts" thread.

For one thing, he looks like a homeless bum that some PA found and stuck in some nice clothes.

So long as I'm on the gender-roles beat here, there's this:

Can you believe there's a new commercial where a guy walks up to a random hotel employee, rips her shirt off, pins her arms above her head, applies some body spray to her abdomen, and then walks confidently off into the night?

Wait, no. That can't be right, can it? Who would run an ad like that? That would be horrifying, a commercial where some guy strips and restrains and dominates some poor chambermaid just to demonstrate his own power. That would be promoting sexual assault. I must be misremembering something.

Oh, right, I remember now: it's actually a confident, sophisticated woman who tears up a bellhop's shirt, covering his face and pinning his arms above his head, and then tests her deodorant on his abs, while he stands in passive awe at how bold and empowered she is.

I guess that's better.

WE HAVE NO R

It's on the radio, not telly, but the WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, WE BUY ANY CAR, ANY ANY ANY ANY, WE BUY ANY CAR one.

Apparently it is a TV ad too:

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

I'm sorry.

this, especially the WONGA guy who has inspired some remix videos already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJW0LKXeOE

After watching the Envirophone ad too many times, I have realised you can make any advert better by inserting "...and it's good for the environment!" randomly in it.

"And always, it has to be Heinz" = GO FUCK YERSELVES. TV equivalent of saying "lock thread" or "end of".

Also reminds of Robert Lindsay being the smuggest smug cunt in the world on those Morrison's adverts a couple of months back, surprised I didn't lay into that shit at the time.

Really? Don't remember it.

"Power to the People" ?

I'm sure (and I'm sure you all know too) that they make crap ads on purpose, just so's standup comedians can use them in their routines and mention the product while doing so.

Child that wants to evacuate his bowels at McCartney's abode, for instance...

Lindsay ad was like "I just want fresh fish that costs tuppence and gets served to me by some dude in a Victorian fishmongers outfit tugging his fucking forelock" middle class entitlement horse cobblers

The ad is very similar to Hammond's "I just want meat", in that they're both pushing supermarket trolleys through the countryside.

I take it as read that Hammond's gonna reek of smug entitlement tho

ah right. Good old brane, filtering out the crap just for me..

It's the way Lindsay delivers "Is that too much to ask?" in the same voice as the Fast Show "...which was nice" character.

Worse thing about Hammond ad is his "look" - 40 something geezer still trying to look like he's 20

DUDE THAT'S MY WHOLE STEEZ

We call this "doing a Lovejoy"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/images/2009/01/29/lovejoy_cast_470_470x352.jpg

Nah, Hammond's look is a million times worse

Mine too, xpost.

However, Lovejoy "looks like 20" in what way exactly?

Mark, you telling me you've got hair like Hammond - that's the worst part

trying to look like he's 20...

...not necessarily succeeding. At all.