Worst TV adverts of the moment

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.

[in funereal monotone] ooooooooon the market

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.

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

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.

my mum wouldn't win any parenting awards but was probably onto something when she said "little pigs should be seen and not heard"

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

toadally money

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.

I remember interesting adverts.

"3145???"

Brilliant...

Channel 4 playing their Paralympics advert in every single break is driving me nuts tbh.

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.

I've got no problem with the Paralympics ad I just don't need to see it - and hear it - every 15 minutes.

i only ever have Channel 4 on for The Simpsons and i feel like i've seen it about a thousand times

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?

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.

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

I thought HM.COM/KIDS was their recruitment page

Just throwing this out there but are Old El Paso adverts really fucking racist or what?

"Alexa, can you pause time?"

Maybe I just stop watching TV, seems a fair price to avoid Just Eat

Has Phillip Schofield got really bad gambling debts or what

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.

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.

I get that on my crossword app. Po-faced cunt

Feels like daytime TV is just a constant stream of adverts about dying - life insurance, funerals, cremation, wills etc etc.

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

> Watching ITV hub

you get what you deserve imo 8)

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.

(oh, i was annoyed i missed that too)
((cool, it's repeated after midnight on monday, about 3 hours after episode 2))

I think it's all on itv hub?

ptui!

Camila, the Amazon shill: "starting again in your mid thirties is hard"

Cheers, I was already depressed

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

the de-facto american version of this thread is:
worst commercials on television

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

you probably think VISA is a credit card company.. it IS you dissembling fucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKfMRk1pBg

anything with Snoop tbh

Oh, I see that Captain Birdseye has stopped taking his young relatives out on his boat, and is actually going out to net some Cod.

Well, walking around the boat while actual trawlermen do work, anyway..

studio.co.uk (who?) get added to my shitlist for first christmas advert i see in any given year, ironic or not. IT'S SEPTEMBER FFS.

I noticed the other week that one of the Freeview movie channels was trailing a Christmas films only channel to start in September, might already be up and running.

I mean, don't these people ever look at viewing figures for the shite they churn out?

yeah, what used to be Sony Movies Classic (now Great! something) has been doing that for a few years now. not even good christmas movies, normally tv movie garbage. starts thursday. ("Elf-Man - An elf, left behind by Santa to rescue the Harper family from a terrible Christmas, rediscovers his speical powers. (2012)

stars Wee-Man from jackass...

the Verisure adverts have a new episode - same couple whose neighbours where burgled (they cam in through the garden...) but this time with added verisure installation guy.

it would appear they can't afford more than 2 speaking parts ever as the wife says nothing.

it's like the oxo family, only with security cameras.

The wife says nothing and looks slightly deranged.