Worst TV adverts of the moment

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.

Worst beer ad slogan "mannen weten waarom" (men know why) for Jupiler. GRRRRRR.

During my recent brief visit to the states I saw an advert for a bank or aftershave or something I dunno, which used, without any apparent irony, the song with the following lyrics:

Stop wasting my time
You know what I want
You know what I need
Or maybe you don't
Do I have to come right
Flat out and tell
you everything?
Gimme some money
Gimme some money

If you recognise the song hopefully you will share my WHAT THE SHIT sentiments.

Oh ok it was by The Thamesman aka Spinal Tap (originally, they used a cover in the ad).

"Lick the lid of life"!!

One of the ads is exrEMELY Creepy!!

WATER SPORTS, GOAT CHEESE PIZZA, HEROIN AND CHEVROLET

?!

Also the plethora of ads dredging up obscure novelty songs from the earlier decades of the last century, like that blubba blubba whatever tongue wobbling one for car insurance, or the yankee choir singing about april showers for some mobile telco - CUT IT OUT. Christ it's not even as if I would particularly hate the songs normally but being forced to listen to the same 30 second snippets over and over again...

I have recently seen Kevin Trudeau's informercial _Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About_ . I thought that shit, that is more than stupid lies - it was criminally irresponsible, was b& from tv everywhere.......
if i see it again I'll remember the channel and join the multitude of official complaints.

i seriously have no idea for the appeal of the cadbury ad. it's NOTHING

i'm really sorry for bringing it up here, but my work colleague has pushed me into it by blabbering on about how she's a member of some stupid facebook or myspace group dedicated to the 'brilliant and hilarious' ape.

omg shoot world now

agree. what's the big deal?

Yes. Plus I've only just realised it's an ad for chocolate.

It's a gorilla playing some drums. It does make me wonder what it is you look for from your ads? Information on the excellent product being hawked? Do you like Cillit Bang?

I agree though that I don't see why Cadburys, of all people, went for this ad. There are many "quirkier" brands, or brands who might seek to be leftfield in some way, who could have done something similar. But Cadburys? What benefit do they get from this kind of "edgy" "credibility"?

It does make me wonder what it is you look for from your ads?

Advertising agency awards I imagine. Don't know what the companies actually paying for the ads think they're getting.

i don't want anything from ads really -- but why the fuss over this entirely average ad?

Also I am sooooooooooooooooo fed up hearing adverts with drippy nu-folk troubadours on the soundtrack... fuck off you useless hippy cunts, the 60s was 40 years ago!