Worst TV adverts of the moment

(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)

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

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.

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

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?

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

haven't seen "chips, glorious chips" but the "big broadway musical number" idea is nothing new.

THREE-STAGE AIR "FRESHENER"

wtf?

not even freshener but fucking "christmasy" smells like wood and fire and shit.

WEIRD

And yet... I didn't like it at first but, almost unheard of for an ad, it's growing on me.

As for the BT ads, get used to them - they're currently employing well-known writers to brainstorm new directions for our lovable telephone-obsessed family.

Marcello?

it never really occurred to me that someone actually sits down and writes that crap. probably takes about 6 months to write a 30 second ad.

salman rushdie famously started as a copywriter. 'naughty but nice' etc.

Details of a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority over 'Miracle Spring Water':
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_42553.htm

I particularly like: "They believed that no-one had ordered the products as a result of the broadcasts".

Ugh. Anyone seen the advert (I think it's for Heineken or Kronenbourg - some foreign beer anyway) with the woman in the bath with the lobster? The concept is not funny, not even remotely, it's just fucking crap but the scene with the lobster is actually repellent, there's something creepy and obscene about it, it fair made my flesh crawl, I'm tellin' ya.

Also that advert with the woodpecker peckin' on the side of the guy's head with the smug waiter WHO IS IN ABOUT 1000 OTHER ADVERTS at the moment - get a proper job, dickhead!

It is creepy (the Heineken ad). But more than that it's just crap.

See it here...
http://www.duncans.tv/2007/heineken-lobster
(NSFTomD)

...and read hilarious Marketing Director as he explains it..
With our new campaign we’re targeting successful, well travelled, male urbanites who, like a growing number of consumers, are seeking out more authentic and individual brands and experiences.”

taht car ad that rips off <insert any indie pop song>

I hate that lobster one as well. It's for Heineken. I hate the creepy lobster, but I also hate the idea of "hey, Brits, stop whining that we put a head on your beer and so you got less beer for your money. It's European!"

I also hate those FUCKING memory hotel ads, and they are on ALL THE TIME. Clearly someone spent a huge amount of money on them, and they're just rubbish. I had to see the first one three times before I understood the concept.

Also, as I said on another thread, the Ariel ads suggesting that people turn to 30 degrees on their washing machine. Fine, except that the woman in the ad blatantly turns her washing machine to something other than 30 degrees. Stupid.

The advert with the two guys chained on the gates outside a factory - I realise this must have been a rush job for the advertising agency after the Mastication For the Nation campaign got pulled but, nonetheless, LAME-O. I've got a horrible feeling the waiter from the woodpecker advert might be in this one too...

don't diss folks in ads Tom D it's silly money for little work. allegedly.

bILL hICKS TO THREAD.

oOPS CAPS off...

don't diss folks in ads Tom D it's silly money for little work. allegedly.

I know that but it annoys me seeing the same faces in different adverts.

I know that but it annoys me seeing the same faces in different adverts.

it annoys me when TV presenters are on more than one channel e.g. Lauren Laverne on BBC's The Culture Show trying to get a rise out of Dizzee Rascal, and then next week Lauren Laverne on C4's Transmission trying to get a rise out of Dizzee Rascal.

the lobster ad doesn't seem THAT bad. not as bad as the beer ad a few years back with the woman getting her husband to clean the house with his tongue, or countless other tacky beer ads.

can't think of any good recent beer ads. bring back the talking John Smiths horses etc.