Worst TV adverts of the moment

^^^ I don't understand either. I keep substituting the "you are not your job, or how much money you have in the bank" line from Fight Club.

Yes Converse Make Boots

Vodafone advert with Yoda on a train helping a woman do a crossword puzzle on her tablet.

What's not to like? It's *yoda* and he's helping People

Kevin Bacon, go fuck yourself

BT Broadband students, go kill yourselves

are they still doing those super sexist bt ones where that one guy is constantly leching on his flatmate?

BT students are the worst. I pine for the return of Kris Marshall and her off of Spooks. Oh no, we can't have a party because we're all incapable of using a cd player, oh fuck off. We can all rent or buy professional dressing-up clothes to sit around our house in, but fibre-optic broadband is beyond us because 'we're students, luv' aargh fuck OFF.

I like Kevin Bacon though.

The definitive Sherlock, solving crime with the help of Beechams.

The real Sherlock Holmes would have taken certain powders for a cold, but not Beechams.
btw the first result on a Google search for 'sherlock beechams' links to a sneezing fetish forum.

xposts what ailsa said, yes.

notice how the smug nerdy bt student has already been reduced to an animated gif in the latest BT advert ?

maybe some market research backed up ailsa's definitive view point ...

I know someone who looks strikingly like BT advert student bloke and gets the ise taken out of him all the time, which is a shame cos he's a nice guy.

"I don't wanna grow up, I wanna be a Toys-r-us kid KID KID KID KID"

It's no 'there's a magical place, we're on our way there...', that's for sure

(presumably) 10 and 11 year old kids beatboxing the super mario bros — you were born in 2002, shut up

really guys? Kevin Bacon dropping (un)knowing Frank Carson references?

I really don't like the way the man in the Wickes advert goes "Wickes" at the end of the advert.

That kid in the 5-a-day campaign makes me want to go to McDonalds in the hopes they've started putting children in their burgers. I hope his goth sister stabs him in the eye with a fork.

We take the piss out of Wee-eekes every time it comes on, and it's kind of spread to Air Wicks now too

A fair few patronising ads

1) Father/TeenageDaughter
2) Studentlad/DenseMother
3) Women/Makeup ads getting worse

etc.

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Yeah, Timothy Spall's delivery of the "Wiiiickes" pay off line has taken him down in my estimation a tiny bit. Currently irritated by the way that Webuyanycar.com have completed the abandonment of the thumping euro-techno of their original ads for James Corden giving it a faux-emotive "enter your reg number now" voiceover.

Studentlad/DenseMother

God, yeah, new BT student ad is the worst. It doesn't even make sense!

Which aspect of it?

Does she not say she's just back from having been somewhere and he's a bit "not again" about it suggesting that she's been there before, then she seems surprised at his living arrangements because the concept of flatsharing with friends is so completely weird and alien to everyone, especially one who watches the soaps.

Also, wtf, really, Samantha Bond? Is she not better than that?

BT adverts have always failed to make sense.

I think time in BT world is compressed, so what seems like eight or nine months of this fascinating soap opera to us has taken up just a few weeks of their time. So his mother's visits are relatively frequent (perhaps once every couple of months or so?), but the last one took place before his flatmates moved in.

There's now a second "failed Apprentice task" advert for Philidelphia on.

Shooting fish in a barrel, but the latest Foxy Bingo ads annoy me intensely. "One fat lady who's a flirty thirty and doesn't have droopy drawers" is the worst, especially when she waves the lacy thong over her groin, but the astonishingly racist 'asian' who likes photography and amazes the woman next to her by using her knitting needles as chopsticks is jaw-droppingly bad.

In other shitty daytime ITV adverts, the sofa woman who can't help using her hands is dreadful and there's a different version of her in the Park Hampers woman, only she's only able to use her forearms.

how have we not mentioned WaxVac yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htbo1yW6qeU

is there a better moment on TV than the guy apparently lobotomizing himself with a Q-Tip? OW! indeed!!

the 5 hour energy dbag

the way he holds a book with his foot ugh die

5 hour energy has consistantly had the worst commercials on TV - actually speaks kinda well of their product

Polycell talking arse (literally).

our local go cart/ride park, FunSpot, has appropriated Gangnam Style for their latest commercials. I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GeK8ztV0M

Their biggest selling point is free admission (and all rides you have to pay for individually I suppose)? That's almost as bad as that old Paulton's Park advert from the 80's where one of the 'attractions' shown was a middle aged guy dressed as a pirate waving a plastic sword around.

I can't get this dude's goofy face out of my head.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/GordonBarenakedLadies.jpg
(guy in the middle)

Jessica Ennis & Rory McIlroy managing the astonishing feat of making Jenson Button seem like the guy with the most personality in an advert. Well done guys :(

me and Joel have a running joke about Rory's terrifying zombie-like appearance in those ads and the probability that a generation of under 10s are gonna see him in their nightmares on the reg

they're horribly misjudged aren't they. This blog post nails it IMO:
http://potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/2013/03/santander-2013.html

It is one of the most unsettling pieces of film that I've ever seen, reducing advertising to a set of blank and bland facts, to be recited out of the mouths of an apparently arbitrary collection of sports stars. What are the celebrities doing in other people's houses? Have they broken in illegally? Or are we to suppose that they are ghostly apparitions?

"Did you know you can get 2.4% interest with Santander's new gold current account? Also I am going to eat your soul."

that cider ad with the "now you're downloaded, well done" etc as if it's a tech product.

The one where woman has orgasm at the thought of luxury yoghurt (don't actually see her eat any)

xp

oh god yes the cider ad is winding me to a fine pitch of hatred and i'm a drunk ffs

partly i think for the tone of "hey wow technology that people have been using for years exists!" and partly because it attempts to place the cider as some rural counterexample to iPads even tho the stuff is no doubt made in industrial vats by a petrochemical conglomerate

probably discussed already but any of the payday loan ads, and in particular the Wonga ones with the creepy rubber dolls and the "reassuring" tones of usury shill Nicholas Parsons.

any loan ads, payday or otherwise tbh. the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really.

This fuckin' guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0acK3Jb6c&list=PL4D125C9646648E78

i kind of enjoy his work, don't feel he's taking the whole shilling double glazing thing too seriously

the soothing, playful invitation to rack up your levels of debt is on another level of moral repugnance really

Ooh ooh ooh, the Cash Lady ones with Kerry Katona. Like *anyone* thinks Kerry Katona is the soothing and reassuring voice of money management.

Those got spiked by Ofcom I think - for exactly that reason.

The wonga ones make me feel ill