Worst TV adverts of the moment

The Toyota Yaris 'treat them with respect' adverts where they screw people up just because they happen to have shut the door with their feet or got a little dirt on their car. What a couple of self obsessed, judgemental, materialistic fucks.

ITV boat race ad, lol gladiator

DHS, chainsaw, wtf

DFS should be barred from this thread, they wipe the floor with everyone

Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return.

What I find amazing is how certain adverts turn up on certain channels. OK, I admit it, I spend too much time watching NME TV (certainly far too much as I haven't read a copy in 8 years and am touching 40 years old but it's worth it to see my two year old son dancing to "Balloons"), but the adverts on there between the videos are so incongruous for the target audience - it's all Cilla Black selling life assurance and InjuryLawyers4U. WTF?

Only pensioners read the NME?

SERIOUS SYSTEMS THINKING REQUIRED on part of CRACKPOT CONOR!!

Well, pensioners and doleites I guess.

And occasional househusbands like me.

Lots of confused.com and Purple Loans input, I guess.

Gocompare, Moneysupermarket, but thankfully no Picture The Loan. Oh, but plenty of that dreadful One Account advert with that cheery chap in the call centre talking about shrinking people's mortgages.

(Speaking as a person currently sitting in a call centre taking calls, we are not like that at all)

How many actual music-related adverts does NME TV get?

I'm thinking "David Garrett £7.27 at Tesco" level but as ever I stand to be corrected.

Apart from the NME advertising itself on a regular basis, precisely none.

Lenny Henry, Premier Inn - at last, Britain's own Jay Leno/Doritos/Point Of No Return

Imagine his agent phoning up "that guy who was Hazell" and saying, "Hi, That Guy Who Was Hazell? It's your agent, here. Look, I've got a great job for you... yeah... how do you fancy pretending to be Lenny Henry's road manager/gay lover in a series of adverts for a middle-ranking hotel chain?"

Those Taco Bell ad where everyone has long glops of melted cheese hanging out of their mouths is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on tv.

All Government adverts re. benefit fraud, car crushing etc. with unsubtle subtext of WE RULE AND WE'LL GET YOU AND FUCK YOU UP ANY TIME WE LIKE

Anywhere else there would have been a revolution by now etc.

And then there's the one where they blame climate change on us for leaving the TV on standby

There's always Nicky Campbell to save us tho. (xpost)

Can't I have Julia Bradbury instead?

No mention of the Marks & Spencer 'Lighthouse keeper' ad? Ordinarily the idea of models cavorting on a beach wearing only underwear would fill me with glee but that ad makes me want to kick the tv box in.

"how abought yghoooooo?"

The Kids' favourite, at the mo.

As for the BT ads, get used to them - they're currently employing well-known writers to brainstorm new directions for our lovable telephone-obsessed family.

Fair enough, but do they have to be on all the time? So she's lost the folder with all the kids' photos? So as the kids were born before the advent of the digital camera, this means she must have digitised the originals and then BURNT THEM. Evil bitch.

one word

Flake

Not as bad as I was expecting, the Joss Flake one.

M&S ads in general - awful, especially Erin "Thunderbirds Puppet" O'Connor and Myleene "Opening Of An Envelope" Klass.

Kris Marshall should be KRUCIFIED!

No mention of the Marks & Spencer 'Lighthouse keeper' ad? Ordinarily the idea of models cavorting on a beach wearing only underwear would fill me with glee but that ad makes me want to kick the tv box in.

-- Billy Dods, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:56 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Seriously, having watched these, I would ruin Erin O'Connor hardcore. Plasterer's radio, man.

I don't like the sound of that.

That M&S Lighthouse Keeper advert goes in one eye and out the other, if you follow the analogy. Didn't even realise it was for M&S until you lot mentioned it, and I've seen it loads of times. Show how effective that was.

That song just makes me think of A Clockwork Orange.

Show how effective that was.

most people would recognise the models from the previous M&S ads tho surely

Noemie Lenoir is somewhat hot in that ad too.

Obviously wasn't watching too closely either. Frankly I wouldn't recognise these people if they thumped me in the face, except for Myleene Klass who I would thump back.

Not of stalking standard Rob, huh?

sad to see the previously high-production-value woolite adverts head down the same shoddily-dubbed road as cillit bang :(

The new Skechers advert. Sweet christ.

the Bianca Jackson Five thing is kind of an ad. and genuinely the worst thing i have ever seen.

That Tesco ad with Martin Clunes in a wetsuit and Fay Ripley demonstrating exactly why she doesn't have a TV career any more.

The Clarks ad on uk tv that is trying far too hard to be wistfully twee with a catchy indie song a-la the sonybravia or tmobile ads. It Fails.

>The new Skechers advert. Sweet christ

OTM. Both of these ads (ie. mens and womens ranges) are of a quality that could be knocked up by three drunks with a camcorder in an afternoon. Given the size of the Skechers brand it boggles me that their marketing have actually okayed them. Also, those skechers are *hideous*.

That Tesco ad is a satire on ridiculous product placements in dramas.

So, I vote it OK.

aren't the Skechers ads meant to be deliberately/ironically naff? i haven't seen the latest ones tho

Fair enough, but do they have to be on all the time? So she's lost the folder with all the kids' photos? So as the kids were born before the advent of the digital camera, this means she must have digitised the originals and then BURNT THEM. Evil bitch.

no wai she had a cannon ion 640x480 greyscale and all.

The new one where he drops his trousers and she ignores him and carries on talking to her friend on the phone is the oddest yet.

The Bianca Jackson Five will be the year's biggest selling single.

Sketechers need to go back to being advertised by Christina Aguilera in PVC.

the energy drink commercial that promises "zero sugar." zero is a number; it is not grammatically the same as "no." it's like saying "two sugar."

signed,
one pedant

Somerfield!

one is also a number. You can say "one sugar" right?

if you're in a greasy spoon!

Irrationality annoyed by the advert for the film "21", bit where they says "Taken from the true story." ... uhhhhhhhhhh, are you going to end that sentence? ... so... like, the true story.... what true story?... the true story?... the only one ever?... or the only one that has mattered in the lives of millions in the past few years, that I am some kind of inadequate for not being familiar with?... that true story?... The True Story?