Worst TV adverts of the moment

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

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.

Hilarious sex voices on supermarket food adverts, please fuck off

they appear to have got rid of the original voice-over woman and are having the cast do it themselves in a slightly ironic way.

the epitome of the ads that go on forever that nobody likes = go compare

also, that terrible "Graham, love" advert appears to have come back.

the epitome of the ads that go on forever that nobody likes = go compare

The Go Compare ads differ from 118 and Plusnet in that they're intensely and viscerally annoying, people hate them, 118 and Plusnet aren't that interesting. Go Compare ads (tragically) have entered the national consciousness, the 118 and Plusnet ads are just there endlessly - particularly true of former, which feel like they've been running for decades without making any particular impression on anyone.

They often make the impression on me that everybody involved in the advertising industry is a cunt

That's too easy though.

how come the UK gets its own pronunciation of Breyers?

I'm irrationally angry about the Stiehl advert that only seems to be on ITV channels with numbers higher than 2 after them. There's a slowed down section of a chainsaw and, unless I'm very much mistaken, the blade is on the wrong way round.

those Harvey Keitel ones where he intimidates punters into buying insurances products falls into the "never-ending, much hated campaign" category

They're running out of steam now but I liked the earlier ones.

is this real or has someone edited two separate ads together?

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Oh sweet Jesus, I've just seen the G-Tech advert with the bloke from Worcester rapping on it.

Why does the new Anchor advert use the theme from Desmond's?

These people are determined that you pronounce their name to rhyme with 'kangaroos', even if you don't want to and even though they know no-one will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKsFk7Yz-KY

an aside: the Dark Milk that's currently being advertised by jason donovan and kim wilde, has anyone seen any in actual shops?

I had some, it's an unremarkable halfway house between dairy milk and bournville, almost certainly appearing at one of those shops that sells end of line food cheap near you, soon

yeah, the clue is in the name 8)

and that description makes me think of the supermarket own-brand dark chocolate that's like 35p for a large bar

Poor guy, must need the money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keOaQm6RpBg

"and 72% of us have the same lunch every single day"

get tae fuck you lying wanker

72,000 he says, not 72%.

no. you're right, 72%. you're also right about that being a bag of shit.

Skoda landfill indie rock guys singing about how they "gotta be me"; mimsy f-ing McDonalds advert with that horrible Innocent Smoothie singing

It isn't easy talking to your family about killing bankers

it's sad those actors can't talk about money

What exactly are they supposed to be talking about?

"Mam can you lend us a tenner?"

"Nah fuck off I can't talk about money"

McDonald's coffee adverts right now "we don't need to [some gimmick] to sell you our coffee" No, you have a captive audience for your fucking horrible coffee, nobody is choosing to go there for a coffee when other options exist.

I've thought about a separate thread for that whole world of "we hate trendy advertising language" adverts produced by, er, advertising agencies

xxp "sorry about that time I embezzled the family's saving to spend on slot machines, booze and crack cocaine"

xp this should do nicely "croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT

Yeah good shout

> "we don't need to [some gimmick] to sell you our coffee"

and yet they trot through half a dozen during said ad, whilst telling us they wouldn't ever.

the coca cola tongue advert. who signed that off?

and i forget the advert but it tickles me how keen that one kid is on having a new driveway.

"Good girl Phoebe"

Go Away!

I'm confused because obviously the RAF are dead woke now but they're still murderous cunts

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

i saw this again yesterday and they've changed it. at least they've changed the audio - she still mouths the above but different words come out.

Yeah ever time I see that cut I think of this thread

Oral B is Crest elsewhere. I think they made Crest into Oral B in the UK because Crest is not a very highly regarded brand here.

I haven't seen the ad in question but if a Crest ad was made outside of the UK then it makes sense that it might be overdubbed.

An Oral B ad, rather.

We're usually in tuned to ads where the audio has been redubbed from a different accented English, I didn't get any hint of that from the oral b ad.

I did see they added a "Hello, I'm a dentist, and I use this toothbrush too" addition.

How are we only just talking about the oral b ads that turn up twice in every single ad break on UK telly in the past two years? I've seen these women more than my closest friends and family

i mentioned it 5 months ago and brought it back up again yesterday because i'd noticed they'd messed around with it somehow and removed the offending line

oh right, carry on

For some reason the dentists in (these?) toothpaste adverts often seem to be Irish, or have I imagined that?

oral b toothpaste is good, i haven't seen the ad my dentist told me to use it

they're all shills for Big Toothpaste

the spookiest toothpaste related person is that woman with the unnaturally white teeth and white hair who i'm sure i saw on the bridge in one of the star trek reboot films.

stand-up comedy *and* financial advice? Nationwide, you are really spoiling us

^ this. and they get worse with repetition.