Worst TV adverts of the moment

I just end up shouting "just leave them, you're better than that mate" at the telly when that's on.

Your son gets to throw you out of the house because he doesn't like your dinner and your wife takes his side? Grow a pair and/or get them tae fuck.

You're a better person than me then, I'd encourage him to jump in front of a train

oh aye those Dominos adverts are some bullshit it's true

"NEVER LEAVE YOUR COMFORT ZONE"

fuck you overpriced pizza lads

I didn't think it was possible but somehow Barnardo's has lowered the bar for cunts overacting wildly over shit tiny lottery prizes

the William Hill Vegas gaming app adverts have some good (bad) overreacting. "Olympia Megaways!". website looks full of cheap cookie-cutter slot machine apps.

but the Hey Car white guy rapping / miming in a car is probably my least favourite ad right now.

i enjoy hatewatching the Billy Hill ads yes, surely borderline legal in their depiction of win win win

Hey Car ad actor looks like a mate of mine which is unfortunate

I can imagine this advertising agency were very pleased they'd managed to do an advert about pet food without mentioning pet food, or even pets - but they're wrong, it's some shite about pet food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnJf4I-n5c

nationwide have tripled down on the 'bloke complaining about exercise' ads after the bloke who said the best thing about home yoga is not having to do it.

the new ones have a jogger who likes the sauna and the footballer who eats chocolate. and NEITHER of them have diddly to do with building societies.

at least they don't rhyme.

Footballer eating chocolate is particularly annoying. I mean if it's his favourite thing to do with his mates presumably he does it all the time and they have a routine booking and a way of divvying up the costs - so is he just trying to be Billy Big Bollocks by saying I've got this to the bill for the foreseeable future?

Or is it something he's done once or twice and would rather deny the rest of the public the opportunity to play football coming out of lockdown on the offchance once it comes round he'll want to play over and over again?

Presumably he's contacted the place and already booked but he just says "so I can book" which suggests he hasn't, so isn't he rather hoping that nobody else has had the same brilliant idea as him in order to play football at all?

Equally presumably he's already discussed this with enough mates to form the teams and that they haven't got anything else they'd rather be doing with their new found freedoms like just going to the pub. And they're ok with letting him pay for it all, so they clearly don't like him that much (although they're obviously as selfish as him).

It's amazing how many ways someone can make it clear they're a wanker from such a short ad.

Why does the Vanish voice over man say "revive carpets" like he wants to hurt me?

the purple bricks ad where the blonde woman kicks the punch bag is doing my head in because I can't decide whether the awkward nod, facial expression, and handshake at the end is just, well awkward, or is in fact the greatest piece of acting I've ever seen.

those ads make me wonder if making your agents look like complete twunts is a good idea (it's not).

the shrieking also unpleasant on the ears.

toksvig mansplaining vanilla.

the woman talking back to the peleton trainers as if they care.

All peleton adverts are the worst TV adverts

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d2B5/humira-crohns-colitis-not-always-where-i-needed-to-be

Must be an irreplaceable tone, because all she appears to sing is "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa".

Dreams Beds proudly sponsors nights on 5USA.

cue family, two small kids, hunkering down in bed to watch TV.

this just before an episode of Special Victims Unit where a boy is sexually abused by his father and shoots up a school.

maybe they should rethink

lol

There is an ad for Seat featuring a Mumford & Sons style cover of Walk On The Wild Side which makes me slightly mortified that I drive a Seat.

Einstein in the bath. why?

archimedes i could understand...

He sounds like a Holgar Czukay promo 12" I owns..

language problems aside, would anyone in 79ad ever refer to the date as 79ad?

Plusnet is the new 118 118 in the sense of having an interminable long-running series of adverts that were shit as an idea and have been shit in practice from the very first one to the latest one and can't they just stop?

79AD was meaningless in 79AD but more importantly that lad is a cunt

No real human being has ever used the phrase "that's a low price"

Re 79AD, yep I say that every time!

Also, if you whisper a question to Alexa, does she whisper the answer back to you?

I could try it, but... cbb.

> No real human being has ever used the phrase "that's a low price"

there's another one where someone asks about a neighbour's security camera by make, and that's similarly unnatural.

It might be considered disproportionate to wish a violent death on you Matt Berry so I'll confine myself to hoping you lose your vocal cords gently but suddenly and forever

the dr oetker school of bad lipsyncing has produced a surreal dj-in-a-bathroom toilet block advert that is a sight to behold.

Dominos Yodel seems like it lasts several minutes.

Sorry, Procter & Gamble, but I will never hear this as anything other than White Dung...

https://vimeo.com/499134257

Why does google advertise? Everyone knows what it is, everyone uses it. It just feels like rubbing it in.

this Verisure advert is absolute god tier

the dinner party one is slightly more natural than the two guys on the doorstep one i alluded to upthread. but only slightly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-KI3AmZkaQ

"you should, it'll make you feel really safe"
"i'm gonna do it right now"
"nice one"

the dinner party one is very not natural unless there are circles i've been lucky not to move in

don't think it's going on anybody's showreel

Yes, the (silent) acting by the men in the dinner party one is absolutely abysmal.

so, new macd's advert has I Think We're Alone Now in it.

virg advert has 99 Red Balloons

i heard Snap yesterday on something

there's also a p power ad with dogs yapping to, of all thing, Nu Shooz' I Can't Wait.

things they can licence cheaply? all the current ad execs grew up in the 80s? can't decide.

(oh, apple using delta five as well)

that last one slightly different, i guess

virg advert has 99 Red Balloons

I have espoused the theory that Virgin's use of 99 Red Balloons is a secret signal that Branson is working on nuclear weaponry.

Congratulations McDonald's you've made me hate laughter

... and people.

worst thing about tv adverts at the moment: the streaming services where if you're watching in a browser and you switch to another tab, it pauses the ads.

Oh, and I don't listen to "commercial radio" much, but when I do, I hear Dermot et al doing the "termsandconditionsapply" speedlearn at the end of every advert...

My partner has commercial radio on in the car and they make me want to die. Like, would saying "termsandconditionsapply" not suffice? Some of then seem to go on for minutes

I think my least favourite genre are the insurance/saving/whatever ads which depict rapid stepwise aging of the protagonists. Aw, your little toddler is having kids of her own now, THINK ABOUT THAT, and here is your 65yo future self enigmatically thanking you on your doorstep for yr recent prudent financial decisions and then vanishing back into their timeline. There should be a TW for all of that content.

ads which depict rapid stepwise aging of the protagonists

I'm sure I've mentioned these itt before. I hate them, or rather I hate the fact that advertisers keep making them because someone had the idea for them once and might have produced a good one, but copying and stealing ideas from each other is what ad agencies do.

I just did a search, just to see how long we've been sick of this sort of ad... and you were already sick of it in 2017 :) Eventually child actors from the first wave of these inter-generational future-shock ads will be able to play their own parents in... oh forget it.

I think this was probably mentioned already but the car ornament singing Pet Shop Boys.

nobody's singled out the Just Eat adverts with the voiceover that sounds like a phone-line option menu yet.

Still far too many adverts with 'ordinary people' singing - out of tune, out of time etc, because obviously no ordinary person can sing.

I think I might be late to this one, but our Hulu has suddenly been inundated with that awful LG ad using the Ol Dirty Bastard song, but with people singing along, "baby I got your laundry". As egregious as the Bourdain AI voice, imo.