Worst TV adverts of the moment

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Bloody autocorrect. Of those 10 words 4 were wrong.

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koogs, Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link

If you can do a proletarian accent and have no self-respect there's money to be made advertising online gambling

the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link

This one plays like 5x during every single episode of Shark Tank and rubs me the wrong way on several levels:

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dYOy/t-mobile-hats-off-featuring-bryce-harper

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link

Jesus that's some Starship Troopers shit

the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link

I mean
1) Obviously there's the dumb veteran jingoistic part, but it's a fairly benign form and I'd excuse that alone
2) But it's being used to sell phone service
3) The commercial gives you the impression that it is going to have a narrative arc but then it doesn't
4) I don't think most veterans would actually get all that excited just because someone did a thank-you-for-your-service over the loudspeaker
5) They couldn't even be bothered to make it sound like the voice was actually coming over the loudspeaker!
6) The connection between this ballgame and the product is completely unclear (other than the fact that there's a deal for veterans and the ballgame also thanks veterans)
7) The vet's maudlin facial expression kills a small part of me each time I see it

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link

I have never given a shit about early 80s children's movie Ghostbusters but this building society advert is helping me to empathise with the GamerGaters that do

Tsugumo Alanshearer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 November 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link

Wait until you see the Wizard of Oz version.

koogs, Friday, 9 November 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link

martin whatsisface looks more like norman wisdom with every new advert. he's ice skating in the new one.

koogs, Monday, 12 November 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link

I accept that I'm wrong and not getting it and being a failed ally but nothing makes you look more of a cretin than doing cosmetics adverts

Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:53 (five years ago) link

"I'm Tom" he says. he's half-naked in your daughter's bedroom but it's somehow ok because he has gum and a cheeky grin.

and not a tv advert, but every time that leaflet about a £400 reading light falls out of my weekend paper a bit of me dies inside.

koogs, Monday, 19 November 2018 09:57 (five years ago) link

Haha otm about that light leaflet! And the name of the product is the Serious Light! More like the you can't be serious light.

Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 19 November 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link

I've known this secret for a week or two
Aaaargh aaargh aaargh aargh aaargh kill die die

Danton Lok (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 22 November 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link

Eva Green cut it out with the edgelord shit

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link

real people talking about M&S food, fuck the lot of yiz

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link

Chewing gum Tom looks like 'they're gonna taste great!' kid

Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link

nothing impresses prospective in-laws more than a box of Thornton's while you cosplay being a cross-channel ferry steward

Bound 4 da Remoan (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link

nope I'm still not swayed to buy a Facebook camera and set it up in my home, A for effort though

rip van wanko, Sunday, 2 December 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link

That peloton app, if the advert is anything to go by, must have a high rate of masturbators, and what interests me is the company deals with that

Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link

How*

Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

Is it James Nesbitt doing the voice overs for BT like he's being held at gunpoint?

I Accept the Word of Santa (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 December 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

that sandcastle bloke is going to give me nightmares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsNErt1OmQ

also, maxine peake, how exactly does a smart meter save me energy?

koogs, Monday, 31 December 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link

oh man the smart meter propaganda machine, so transparent

Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link

first time i saw that sand man i got M.R. James vibes

Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Monday, 31 December 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link

If I really want to save energy, Maxine, the best option would be to keep my old dumb meter and link the fucker out with some 4mm twin and then viola! free energy.

calzino, Monday, 31 December 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link

one of those smart meter adverts had The Jellies' "Jive Baby On A Saturday Night" on it!

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link

I've gone hardcore militant against smart meters since this doorstepping prick informed me I'd be forced to pay for the install if I didn't opt for it now. I told him my meter was linked out, there was a mini cannabis factory under the stairs and fuck off and die cunt!

calzino, Friday, 11 January 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link

smart meter propaganda seems to be based on two contradictory premises:

1. when using a conventional meter you are being charged in a way that is inaccurate, tending towards overcharging.

2. we, a company looking to make money from you, wants to spend money installing a meter that will charge you less out of a sense of fairness

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 January 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link

It's because now, the supply of energy is a competitive market. So, they would prefer you give *them* a reduced amount of money rather than log in to some other supplier.

Mark G, Friday, 11 January 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link

> when using a conventional meter you are being charged in a way that is inaccurate

this is only because they read the meters once a year now, the legal minimum, rather than every 3 months like they used to.

they've just sent me a leaflet saying that they are changing my tarrif and i will be 34p better off every year. don't spend it all at once.

more worryingly, they have increased the standing charge and decreased the per-unit charge, which makes it harder for me to save money by decreasing usage, rendering the smart meter thing more ridiculous.

koogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link

anyway, tv adverts...

koogs, Friday, 11 January 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link

Pretty fucked up the level of torture I daydream of inflicting on Greg from the Halifax.

Berks & Cow (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link

It's because now, the supply of energy is a competitive market. So, they would prefer you give *them* a reduced amount of money rather than log in to some other supplier.

― Mark G, Friday, January 11, 2019 3:16 AM (yesterday)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The same thing happens where I am despite there not being competition

( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 12 January 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link

Samuel Adams commercial that's been running on youtube.

Fisherwoman hauling up her catch or something:
"It's got huge flay-vah...once it hits ya lips, ya know? Hah hah hah!"

I can't find it anywhere online except randomly ahead of youtube videos.

peace, man, Thursday, 24 January 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link

use ublock origin and you will soon forget that youtube even has ads

Dan I., Tuesday, 29 January 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link

it's terrible in its own way but putting durex lube adverts in the middle of that Fantastic Beasts film on itv2 the other day probably caused a lot of awkward questions to be asked.

koogs, Friday, 1 February 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link

use ublock origin and you will soon forget that youtube even has ads

this doesn’t work if you’re sending youtubes to your TV from your phone

sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 11:46 (five years ago) link

or just watching them on yr phone, I guess

sans lep (sic), Friday, 1 February 2019 11:47 (five years ago) link

lubeblock

Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2019 12:05 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"No time to read? Yeah right you thick bastard"

CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 February 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link

renault kadjar virtual ambassador

conrad, Sunday, 17 February 2019 10:42 (five years ago) link

fucking British Airways

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 17 February 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

In no particular order:

That Australian lizard on the weflip adverts.

The small girl channeling Tina Turner.

I didn't know oral b even MADE a toothpaste.

Anything containing the term "equity release"

koogs, Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link

OTM to the first 4. I instantaneously tune out of adverts when I hear terms like "equity release".

Bielsa, Bub (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link

I didn't know oral b even MADE a toothpaste

It's more her giant spit/lisp which turns it into pToothpTaspTe.

Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Saturday, 16 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link

"peely peely!"

koogs, Thursday, 28 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link

"The world has gone crazy about food"

It's like the copy was written by a neural network

Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 April 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Really satisfying daydream about smashing the Plusnet bloke in the face with a cricket bat

After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 April 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link

You'd do us proud if you did. They're like the 118 adverts, they doggedly persist in making them, year after year, although absolutely no-one likes them or is interested in them or remembers anything about them. Their straplines are so dull the only reason you remember them at all is because you've fucking heard them a million times.

Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link

Hilarious sex voices on supermarket food adverts, please fuck off

After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link


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