Worst TV adverts of the moment

"They call it the remainder, that's the number that remains" and I'm like "he must've thought they were shooting the part that would be behind the voiceover."

yep

dear god that McCain's advert

the 'you only have two years to claim your ppi' advert (with arnie's head on an RC tank) is worse than most of the ppi adverts themselves. i'll be glad when it's all over.

Two weeks

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I keep seeing this Amazon commercial on Youtube(like literally it's the only ad I see now on every other video) with a couple and their baby, the baby's scared of their large dog but likes a stuffed lion toy, they buy a fake lion ruff to put on the dog the baby loves the dog hooray. And it has this terrible soft-sung song starting with a tremulous "I wiiiish I could ask you... how was your day?"

dear god that McCain's advert

Saw billboard at the Southbank just saying "here's to the stay at home mums". Perfect level of not-offensive-in-theory-but.

(xp) Oh God, it's hideous.

The latest Shreddies ad.

Same bloke, split screen horizontal. Top=he had shreddies, bottom=he doesn't. Standard stuff, bottom bloke cycles into river, throws football badly and gets pursued by bikers, etc. Last frame set, top=he brings flowers to his wife, bottom=he goes home scruffy. Only, topwife=slim, bottomwife=fatwoman.

So, how does he manage to get a different wife? Or is it that by eating shreddies makes him have a slim wife in the first place? hmm?

hi Mark G - I just viewed the advert and the bottom one isn't his wife

looks like a cleaning or dinner lady for the bin he's found himself in
https://adsoftheworld.com/media/film/shreddies_shreddie_or_not

Amazon commercial on Youtube(

The dog never looks happy! Where's my emotional payoff?

alexa, make the living room bluuuuuuueeeeeeeee

I really don't want to see American adverts on UK TV, especially if this is what they're like...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHoTD0cC0cE

In case of confusion this is running on UK TV, and I have no idea what it's about.

I keep seeing this Amazon commercial on Youtube(like literally it's the only ad I see now on every other video) with a couple and their baby, the baby's scared of their large dog but likes a stuffed lion toy, they buy a fake lion ruff to put on the dog the baby loves the dog hooray. And it has this terrible soft-sung song starting with a tremulous "I wiiiish I could ask you... how was your day?"

I hate this ad as well. It says something about making the world conform to people's cutesy notions, or something. Like, rather than putting the work into seriously socializing their baby with their dog, these idiots turn the dog into a giant cuddly toy and think that's job done.
And, as with all of these things, I imagine the people in a factory in Sri Lanka making these things and thinking, well, this is fantastic. I'm working seventy hours a week and barely keeping my family fed making you a fucking lion costume to put on your dog. Capitalism!
I am a joyless person, though.

Can't believe how bad this ad for a Scottish jobs site is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9JEc8yAiNw

There are several variations, absolutely identical except for the guy starting to type different words.

somewhere in there there's a good and relatively funny concept but it's been convoluted and complicated way too much for it to work. Very cringey

these new Progressive commercials with Flo the insurance lady and her bumbling coworker seem completely pointless. just go the GEICO route and commission your own sitcom already.

In case of confusion this is running on UK TV, and I have no idea what it's about.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, September 29, 2017 12:03 PM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's an HR management interface. They use it at my company and you can check your payslips and holiday etc.

This commercial is some full-on bullshit

https://youtu.be/vVZi4tMLkrA

there is one where a car of yuppies is driving down the road obliviously cuccooned in their Smart Car and almost run into somebody. this person is another yuppie, who walks up to the car, the camera panning over to two black people sitting to the side saying "Oh this is about to get good" some popcorn.gif hype talk and we are supposed to think he is going to be upset about nearly killing him. no. instead he walks up to the driver and asks them about the car, what kind of features does it have, what is the cool electronic shit it can do. nobody mentions the accident, everyone is in a daze about how amazing this technology is. the subtext is literally death and injury is acceptable because we got it so good with our talking cars. it is sickening.

by the way the car stopped itself in this commercial. this guy literally was so dazed by consumerism he was about to commit vehicular homicide and the AI gives more of a fuck about human life.

this is way more deeply cynical and post human than any "post apocalyptic" movie mashup.

that workday ad managed to cast a guy who exists at the exact midpoint between thomas middleditch and tj miller and place him in a setting that recalls the site of a SILICON VALLEY subplot

Good grief @ all this

This advert isn't particularly terrible but do men not eat chocolate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFjJvWDj9o

Possibly fake Australian voiceover guy on Samsung advert, I will find you and I will kill you.

Guy who says "extraordinary powers" a lot in washing powder advert, I hope you roast in hell

wondering who that fucking awful singer was on the sad doggo advert, turns out there's another cult indie hero who I can't abide

The advertising industry, disgusting savages.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/pick-week-audis-clowns-outstanding-ad-car-brand/1446517.

i quite like that one ? (sorry)

maybe cos i'm a very nervous driver and that's exactly how i feel about other drivers when i'm on the road

I just see lots of clowns, that is obviously unacceptable.

This fucking BDO ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO6TnSbiKEE

Wispy Tech Jesus' "Yes! It is!" and the woman's smug "we aren't!" and the fact that everyone at this company apparently answers questions incompletely before immediately walking away...

Bad scripting, appalling acting. Evidently I don't know and I don't know BDO

I am 100% ignorant and will dwell in blissful holy not-knowingness

There is something very wrong with the ad I saw this morning, to do with promoting British Army Veterans a for the purposes of employment. The principle of it is fine, but ..

It has Joanna Lumley, Matt Barber.....

The antibiotics one. Unless there is a black market for antibiotics I don't know about, if you've got antibiotics then your doctor prescribed them to you, so you are following your doctor's advice? How about tell doctors to stop overprescribing antibiotics not admonishing patients for taking them?!

There's a long-standing story that mean old patients badger poor, feeble-willed GPs into prescribing antibiotics against their better judgement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ni3jN_DH20
This is actually pretty good. The first clown deliberately looks like a cross between Ronald McDonald and Pennywise from IT. Not that BK don't have their own creepy AF mascot of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB1Jbajy6Yw

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That Xmas PAddingtonBear one.

It does sound a lot like "fuck you little bear" right at the end..

must have took a real leap of the imagination to cast Martin Freeman as a mansplaining twat

He's a bit more likable in the third one, probably because of all the people hating on the first two.

Have been home for two hours and still haven't seen the John Lewis commercial.

feel like he's worse in the new one tbh

I really hate this advert with this homely fucking heartwarming Yorkshire twat talking about growing fucking peas - he says he's been growing them for 30 years, so why does he sound like he's 80 years old? You're an actor in a sound studio in London, you've never been near a *pea field in you life. (*if that's where you grow fucking peas).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qT39e68G48

I think you grow peas in a pod. The hard part is sorting them so all the alike ones to grow together.

the Audi/Send In The Clowns ad is excellent. The part where the different shaped objects fall out of the back of the lorry is quite beautiful.