Worst TV adverts of the moment

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I WANT "LEASE FOR NAUGHT" DEAD

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

any advert that says "you do the... we'll do the...". also that stupid "Bigsmall, a new word used to describe something that is big but also small" I mean GNUH GNUGH NGUH! As if the Spafe ad wasn't atroicious, you cuntos have to come along and rip it off and make it EVEN MORE FEEBLE!!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Magazine advert with Jeffrey Archer in it. GET OFF MY TELLY!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"We work hard, so you don't have to"

"We work, so you have to pay us."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost: OMG YES, DOG LATIN OTM, the Toyota Yaris advert is quite possibly the worst, most insulting, and most risible piece of CROLLOCKS (yeah, work that one out guys) I've ever seen. OMG I feel sick thinking about it now. ARGH!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

'bigsmall' seconded. don't like clement freud anyway.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

also that Mr. Opportunity cartoon dude's "outtakes" is moranic

― PappaWheelie, Olives, Red Wine, Coffee, Scotch, and Me (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

worst moment in history of television adverts:

"I'm a mother...but is there anyone else out there who sometimes feels a little...overwhelmed?"

*half of stadium (which contains everyone in the WORLD, lol) stands up*

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Mr. Oppurtunity is SOOO budget. Classic case of big ad firm letting some senior exec who hasn't done anything creative since the late 60s come up with the creative.

No, worst ads ever are the VW ads where people are just driving along and suddenly get in a car accident. That kind of shit would make a movie R rated.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate it when Mr. Opportunity bangs on the glass of my television set. The fucking nerve he has to do that.

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

there's a triumvirate of industrial strength glue adverts that always seem to be aired together and all say exactly the same thing: 'superglue is now stronger. nomorenails is now stronger. (some tile adhesive) is now stronger (and anti-fungal)'. seems pointless.

(last nights was followed by a CILLIT BANG ADVERT, just to add insult to boredom)

(re the yaris advert, what took you? 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

"If Jesus came to earth today they'd crucify him straight away upon a cross of MDF and they'd use No Need For Nails."

— HMHB, Upon Westminster Bridge

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

That cunt from the Confused.com advert has been replaced by a less annoying woman. Don't think we've forgotten what you've done though, Confused.com. I am still going to track you down and gut every last motherfucking one of you with a rusty fruit knife.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god, the Skechers reality tv ad breaks my brain. OH NO, YOUR SKECHERS.

If you haven't seen it, it's here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1rkAmupwY

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't tell if that ad is taking the piss or what

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I got my home insurance through confused.com :(

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Anything involving:

1. Evangelical churches
2. Perfume

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The ones clearly made to be shown across Europe, and then dubbed with language for each region. But we can tell it's made in Germany, cos everyone looks German!

Worse yet when they try and have them dubOverThe actress.

Kinder are the worst of all for this. Milk bars indeed.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

There used to be an advert with a v. famous actress - prolly Andie Macdowell - with her voice dubbed. WE KNOW WHAT SHE SOUNDS LIKE, NOBS.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

And that horrible soya fruit drink advert. I got given a test carton of it, and it's nasty, but the advert nonsense of the highest order. I mean, what's even the point of that product? Is it for people who are lactose-intolerant AND allergic to Vitamin C? It's certainly not gonna get vaguely Mediterranean policemen doing an Irish jig.

I remember that Andy McNab advert. All shampoo adverts must die.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Have we talked about

"Mr Judge I urge you to..."
"Urge?"
"I've got the uuuurrrge"
"She's got the urge to 'erbal"

It just speeds ahead in terms of being irrelevant to anyone, let alone the UK.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the way the soya drink people are trying to pretend that we won't pronounce the name of their drink AIDS. Off the market in 3 months.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It is foul tasting muck too

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i think I started a thread about AdeZ. Apparently it had a phenomenal marketing budget.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Gotta do something with all that unwanted GM soya.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It might have been a good idea to taste the stuff before trying to flog it

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! And Southern Comfort trying to convince us to order a "SoCo" while Jack Daniels would like us to think they make Ye Traditional Whisky, and not Drink That Means Fighting With The Police Later

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I like fighting with the police.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The ones clearly made to be shown across Europe, and then dubbed with language for each region. But we can tell it's made in Germany, cos everyone looks German!
Worse yet when they try and have them dubOverThe actress.
Kinder are the worst of all for this. Milk bars indeed.
-- stet (vmdnb900...) (webmail), Today 11:44 AM. (later) (link)

Plus, those ads contain German Humour. Which does not translate! It just makes UK viewers go ".... ?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

There's one doing the rounds on daytime and digital where some ad exec has clearly decided that people with LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS need to be told over and over again that it is an advert aimed at people with LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS, so the besuited man standing in front of a blank background says "LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS" over and over again, over-stressing the words LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS every time he does so.

"Do you have LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS? If you've got LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS it can be very hard to get insurance, so people with LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS should try the insurance company that only takes on people with LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS, like you. So, if you've got LOW NO CLAIMS BONUS, call Feckless Drivers Inc on....

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread need more youtube.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The moment youtube is introduced is the moment bad ads become ironically appealing ads and that would be a horrible thing :(

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

It's basically TV spam innit

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be if it was "xxLOE KNOCLAIMS BONUSS"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

A Nigerian 419 scammer advert would be the best thing ever.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link

beep.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

those hmv adverts were they take a classic b&w film and add something in hmv corporate purple, i don't like those.

(on the other hand, i do keep seeing adverts for Echo & The Bunnymen. didn't think i'd live to see the day but apparently i have)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a new British Gas advert which is fairly nondescript as adverts go, but the bloke doing the "we're dead nice, please get your gas from us" spiel is Jonny Regan from BB3. I thought he was a fireman?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

C'mon!

FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my God, there's a Frosties radio advertising campaign on just now where they ask kids to phone in and sing the Frosties advert. I heard it about five times last night in the space of an hour, with squawking out-of-tune brats going "they're gonna taste great", each ad done by kids from a different part of the country, so Glaswegian kids, Scouse kids, Geordie kids, etc. It actually makes you appreciate the wee git in the proper advert on the telly, which is some feat.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

the bloke with the woodpecker on his head. why? and why does the waiter say 'what's in your wallet?' at the end? it makes no sense.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

while Jack Daniels would like us to think they make Ye Traditional Whisky

I'm generally quite relaxed about all these adverts that seem to wind everyone else up (and am an active fan of the Frosties boy) but hearing that twat fake on in that cloying way about fucking "Mr Jack" and the good old boys of Moore County makes prohibition seem appealing. Even the Tube posters make me move down the platform.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 October 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Not just because they have affected my career, but because their ad makes no sense: Two or three horse-faced office twit women stand around talking about how one of them is going out with "Jenkins" simply on the basis that he recommended broadband for £14.99. None of it makes sense and Jenkins is this ugly little oik who is dwarfed by his staggeringly lanky date.

― changed me name (dog latin), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

In the BT ads yer man from My Family bought a house simply on the basis that they had a BT broadband router lying around!

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

You missed out the fact that they imply that JENKINS FLASHED HIS SCHLONG AT HER AT THE BUS-STOP.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

Am I alone in hoping smug BT boyfriend dumps his older woman and she goes crazy apeshit mental and kills him, then the kids, then herself?

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The big Broadway Musical number - Chips, Glorious Chips - to advertise McCains Home Fries makes me want to throw things at the TV set. Do people really get paid to think up these adverts?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I was talking about that the other night. That advert must have cost a small fortune to make, and yet it makes me puke with annoyance.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

> JENKINS FLASHED HIS SCHLONG AT HER AT THE BUS-STOP.

yes, but isn't there also the implacation that she's going with him DESPITE that rather than BECAUSE of it?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, at which point you think "surely signing up with Tiscali and grassing him up to the rozzers are not mutually incompatible?"

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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