Congratulations McDonald's you've made me hate laughter
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 8 July 2021 09:05 (two years ago) link
... and people.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 July 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link
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.
― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2021 08:49 (two years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 July 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link
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
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 15 July 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 15 July 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
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.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
I think this was probably mentioned already but the car ornament singing Pet Shop Boys.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 15 July 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
nobody's singled out the Just Eat adverts with the voiceover that sounds like a phone-line option menu yet.
― koogs, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Still far too many adverts with 'ordinary people' singing - out of tune, out of time etc, because obviously no ordinary person can sing.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
[in funereal monotone] ooooooooon the market
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
there must be a lot of money in hair loss and erectile dysfunction given the number of numan adverts i have to sit through.
just glad i don't have children i'd need to explain them to.
― koogs, Saturday, 17 July 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
currently getting an almost fullhouse of terrible adverts in every break in episodes of SVU.
whiney kids trying to shame us 'dults on climate change whilst being co-founded by 'hobby-astronaut' bezos
diesel mis-selling (the new PPI)
horrible baby with a man's voice selling insurance
halifax ad with whiney oasis soundtrack
ubiquitous meerkats
ade edmundson trapped in the body of a dog
― koogs, Thursday, 22 July 2021 10:33 (two years ago) link
Yes to all of those but especially the obnoxious brats lecturing us on climate change, makes me want drive a coal powered SUV made entirely of non-degradable plastic. A new Verisure advert has appeared btw.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 July 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
my mum wouldn't win any parenting awards but was probably onto something when she said "little pigs should be seen and not heard"
― MoMsnet (calzino), Thursday, 22 July 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
Inevitably, because ad agencies have never come across an idea they didn't think was worth flogging to death, there is now virtually a subgenre of irritating eco-kids adverts
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 July 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
toadally money
― koogs, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
get bill bailey to look daft on the premise that a pc's startup speed is an important metric, the thing you do literally only once on any given day? why?
talk talk advert is pretty terrible terrible.
*and* the one with the suits you overcharging waiter.
i remember a time when there were interesting adverts, there's a companion thread for that, but it never gets bumped.
― koogs, Friday, 6 August 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
I remember interesting adverts.
"3145???"
Brilliant...
― Mark G, Friday, 6 August 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Channel 4 playing their Paralympics advert in every single break is driving me nuts tbh.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Monday, 9 August 2021 09:24 (two years ago) link
i like it but it's a long old thing
"it was designed to improve brushing. it ended up changing: everything". no, it didn't, it's still only a toothbrush.
current toyota ad has a virtual car that it says isn't available to buy. so is that an advert or a political statement? ditto the whiney eco-kids.
― koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
I've got no problem with the Paralympics ad I just don't need to see it - and hear it - every 15 minutes.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Monday, 9 August 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
i only ever have Channel 4 on for The Simpsons and i feel like i've seen it about a thousand times
― Tumbledown Duck (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 August 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
The kid who takes a cake from the party, back for his sister.
I mean, it's been on for two years now, every crummy day!
What kind of advertising budgie do Mr Kipling have? Did somebody book a series insert, accidentally book it for five years, then quit?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
That's his sister? I couldn't work it out. Also the fact that he's a slightly weird and creepy looking young boy is only emphasized by the fact that he appears to be wearing some kind of Star Trek uniform.
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
the kid in the Mr Kipling advert looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 October 2019 21:20 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Tumbledown Duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
I thought HM.COM/KIDS was their recruitment page
― Tumbledown Duck (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Just throwing this out there but are Old El Paso adverts really fucking racist or what?
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
"Alexa, can you pause time?"
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
Maybe I just stop watching TV, seems a fair price to avoid Just Eat
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 August 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Has Phillip Schofield got really bad gambling debts or what
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 September 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
My 6-year-old says that the name of Just Eat is very rude, and he wouldn't eat if someone said that to him.
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
when I'm playing Golf Rival on my phone sometimes I'll agree to click on an ad for golf club update points. And the one that keeps repeating is a Tik-Tok ad featuring that sea shanty singing postman twat. Keelhauling is too good for him.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 September 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
I get that on my crossword app. Po-faced cunt
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 September 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
Feels like daytime TV is just a constant stream of adverts about dying - life insurance, funerals, cremation, wills etc etc.
― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 September 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link
Watching ITV hub and there's a stupid car dealership ad that sounds like Kate Bush at the start and every time I'm like 'what is this? oh yeah' and being an online thing it's the same ads every time for every break forever
― kinder, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
> Watching ITV hub
you get what you deserve imo 8)
― koogs, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
i know! it was Stephen, with Steve Coogan, who I can't take seriously doing that accent when it's not Alan Partridge doing a bit.
― kinder, Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
(oh, i was annoyed i missed that too)((cool, it's repeated after midnight on monday, about 3 hours after episode 2))
― koogs, Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
I think it's all on itv hub?
― kinder, Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
ptui!
― koogs, Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
Camila, the Amazon shill: "starting again in your mid thirties is hard"
Cheers, I was already depressed
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Jake from State farm is b-b-black now??? Drake from State farm?????? excuse me, no. this is ridiculous. change a character beloved by millions for years for no reason other than wokeness. what is this world coming to
― lumen (esby), Wednesday, May 6, 2020 3:26 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
okay I'm gonna admit it. this bothers me. the original "Jake from State Farm" ad aired like three billion times. it was played so much during NFL games that it's permanently seared into my brain. State Farm apparently loved it so much that they even brought it back after a year off the air. and then a few years later "oh now instead of being some frumpy 3rd shift office drone he's this super handsome dude that everyone loves". its not the same character. they could've called him anything else. I know this shit shouldn't bother me but again, the original ad was played so fucking much
― frogbs, Monday, 13 September 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
the de-facto american version of this thread is:worst commercials on television
― koogs, Monday, 13 September 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link
I will never attain satori until I can stop dreaming about a log trap pounding into the Vinted beardo's face over and over and over
― that which does not chungus makes us chonger (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 September 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
you probably think VISA is a credit card company.. it IS you dissembling fucks.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 18 September 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKfMRk1pBg
― xzanfar, Saturday, 18 September 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
anything with Snoop tbh
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 08:08 (two years ago) link