Worst TV adverts of the moment

imagine taking a job in advertising, i can't grasp that level of moral bankruptcy

I imagine a job where your dialogue goes,
"hey remember that are you gonna bang song from 10 years back that was playing in the SU when you got smashed and accidentally puked in Sarah's mouth as you tried to kiss her?"
"yeah?"
"we should probably pitch that as an ad cause bingo sounds a bit like bang doe."
"yeah."
and it doesn't seem that much worse than anything else.

McDonald's punk chicken wraps is a fantasy hellscape of sub-literate romance

no its fresh and cool....like a mcdonalds wrap

good counterpoint

let's go and jump around a bowling alley with a hosepipe

waaay ahead of you

ooh ooh what if maybe

Cadbury's Twirl boldly chases the stoner market

― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Friday, July 27, 2018 10:27 PM (three days ago)

i thought it was meant to be set in the 80s when i first watched it

All those adverts where different people speak sing the lines of some popular song. Drown them all

v much yes

In 'ordinary people' voices. Unbearable.

Bernard has an ordinary voice?

Who is Bernard?

ordinary would be over-selling it

this is some kind of terrible, carabao energy drink, new from thailand apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORVP9JsKRAE

The launch was accompanied by a high profile TV advertising campaign featuring the company founder, rock star Yuenyong Opakul, also known as Aed Carabao.[3] This campaign was investigated by the Office of the Consumer Protection Board for being too violent.[4] but went on to win a gold and a silver medal at Media & Marketing magazine's Asian Brand Marketing Effectiveness Awards in 2003.[5] A second ad, featuring clips of late actor Denholm Elliott, digitally altered so he was drinking Carabao from a trough, was less successful.

Morrison's wonky vegetable man, your voice is excruciating and I hope something bad happens to you

win-win orgasms sounds like an edgy noughties New York indie band

"I'm in France because i told lidl that their wine tasted like mouthwash, ha ha"

this is a dangerous precedent to set...

I don't reckon their Bahama llama steaks really come from there..

“Still winning”.

Is that Flo from those singing sisters?

not sure why you thought giving a saucy wink to your thrush infection was a good look but what do I know?

depends what youve winked spose

the Trivento bumper adverts on Quest etc.

an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU5Lz3kv7UA

they are all this smug and cover things like parachuting, rugby scrums, bungee jumping, mountain climbing.

do women not drink melbec?

slightly Ed Harris looking Confused.com guy: get tae fuck.

Fuck me we linkify dot coms?

kudos to Gillette on convincing me to emasculate myself

Those bank adverts that have mutated from using new animations of old cartoon characters (Flintstones, top cat etc) into splicing themselves into old films (Wizard of Oz, ghost busters) really do need to stop.

The over-50 life insurance ads have gone from having Michael Parkinson in them to having unknown people in them who talk about having seen the advert with Parkie in it. Which is a way of cutting costs, I guess. Like the Iggy Pop / puppet version of Iggy Pop thing that the insurance ads did.

Yeah, but they had to pay Iggy as well as the puppet makers

Anyway, John Lewis Waitrose Bohemian Rhapsody ad.

Once is OK, but you know you will see it 20 times at least.

Is it Christmas already?

I reckon voiceover prices are a lot cheaper than appearance prices. Puppet probably easier to schedule / wrangle too.

Philip Schofield seems to be on a reverse trajectory with his ads, getting more screen presence as time goes on.

it's not a bad ad (there's not a thread for ads that aren't bad) but there is one now that uses Fruity Flutes (Farmhouse Kitchen) by Reg Wale which is rather nice to hear once a day or so!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7M8ljDl9B4

I think it's a baking advert though.

Biscuit company I think, or there used to be an old ad that used it. I also love that tune.

i think i knew that about you :)

.xls

someone should do a version of it where it goes full deconstructed skronk about 4 minutes in.

I don't know where this trend for making added protein versions of food products started but pack it in you wankers

Just pondering...

Would they really open a nursing home called "St Peters Gate"?

I understand why the David Brent song is in the Freeview advert but I'm equally sure Gervais is thinking it's because he wrote a brilliant song so... <Gervais face>

voice cracking with emotion at Morrison's centrality to the circle of life

They couldn't get it for being infuriating, so they had to go down the 'misleading' route... but they got it, praise be, they got it! God bless the Advertising Standards Authority...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/vodafone-advert-break-up-video-banned-martin-freeman-30-day-guarantee-a8577006.html

Does the ASA have a death penalty?

Graham gets called upstairs. He gets half way up before being told not to bother. Then a baby does. Then Graham does again.

What is that about?

softcore cleavage-fest for Mya cosmetic surgery just made me irl lol

still really fucking funny this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svt6TuGbT6I

there's a few MYA adverts that exist - I only ever seem to catch them during the ad break in Countdown though. They're hilarious, I like to imagine a director trying to coax a horse to bounce harder to really convey the sense of augmentation

Everybody seems v happy

i don't remember hallowe'en adverts before, but a bunch of people are doing them this year (including one using the 'round the twist' theme tune)