Worst TV adverts of the moment

He's a polar bear!

all tv ads for subscription services that are aired on terrestrial tv can get in the sea, but especially the current paramount / coffee delivery one.

the woman hiding in the wigwam in the life insurance advert who gives her age as "50" has obviously had a hard life because she looks at least 10 years older than that.

i thought you meant Brit Box and i was gonna wholeheartedly agree

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/water-related-deaths-in-scotland-at-highest-point-in-last-five-years

... and yet...

https://abancommercials.com/uk-ad/33357/highland-spring-commercial-be-natural-self-advert

OK, it's 30 degrees outside and I've just seen an advert for Christmas trees.

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There's an Irish ad about road tolls that I only see when I'm watching stuff on All 4, and I genuinely can't understand what's happening in it, except that it makes paying your toll through the app seem incredibly complicated and scary, which is probably not the intention.
Oh, it's also really sexist, but that's a given.

It might have been too much to expect a Shetland accent but couldn't they have least hired someone who can do a convincing Scottish accent?

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

new verisure ad is borderline incoherent given she's talking on the phone as she's rushing out the door.

elsewhere: who wears jeans to yoga classes?

50? Aye, right.

https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=CvlXSq2CAbI

another one for the "who they?" pile, the Microsoft Evo advert.

i'd like to remove Stephen Fry's vocal cords with something blunt and rusty

Meanwhile Diane Morgan is the new Jane Horrocks.

there's one where a young woman and her grandmother are talking over zoom, the granddaughter just passed a job interview and is being congratulated by the grandmother, the granddaughter says something about "it must run in the family!" But the grandmother has a Welsh accent and the granddaughter has a Polish accent, so I'm just left wondering what history this family have, her son/daughter must have moved to Poland in the very early 90s and settled down there? But they seem too close for that. Then at the end of the advert they just sit there grinning silently at the camera for 10 seconds.
I have seen this 100+ times on TV and pre-roll on YouTube and cannot remember what it is advertising.

the pet charity adverts, someone has a strange sense of humour. there's a cat with one eye, they called it odin. there's another that was found inside a wall and they've called that one mccavity.

if my auntie bought me a magnifying glass for my birthday and i was older than say 4 years old I'd be livid.

Meerkats and Go Compare guy have not only outstayed their welcome, but the newer ads are actually worse. Like when meerkat Sergei has the blue cyborg eye thingy coz he's now AUTO Sergei, or when the Go Compare singer is talking to the actual tenor who plays him, and/or he's dressed up as a woman who is supposedly his wife.

fuck this jingle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYtkbhPE0s

Meerkats and Go Compare guy have not only outstayed their welcome, but the newer ads are actually worse. Like when meerkat Sergei has the blue cyborg eye thingy coz he's now AUTO Sergei, or when the Go Compare singer is talking to the actual tenor who plays him, and/or he's dressed up as a woman who is supposedly his wife.

It's 118 118 all over again. Also there's the Plusnet ads, I have no idea why they've persisted with them when they've never been interesting or entertaining or amusing even for a second.

Cunts dancing in charity lottery ads.
That's the post.

"Hi my name's Jane and my diet plan makes your eyes go wonky so you look slightly mad"

"And here's the best bit"

gambling adverts now have been regulated to the point that they look like anti-gambling PSAs, reminds me of the glossy magazine cigarette ads in the 90s where it was just an artsy photo with the colours of the brand and a huge anti-smoking notice underneath

(this is all good, adverts still bad though)

seems like life insurance and funeral services are being downplayed recently, which has left a gap for payday loans ads to fill.

the mattress wars continue. i think one of them is now offering a 200 day trial.

"how was the dreaded school?" every 15 minutes is starting to grate.

Stop lying Myleene Klass you're not busy

Medical negligence, it's one of the worst kinds of negligence...

it's one of the worst kinds of medical too

Can someone please send some money to Nu Shooz so they don't need to agree to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ElALjIHaA

there was a spate of similar things in 2021 - Worst TV adverts of the moment

Xpost why is that "age restricted" ?

(I have seen it, yes.

i know christmas club adverts aren't really christmas adverts, but if you're going to be playing wizzard in the background they might as well be.

(it's only 2 weeks until they start in earnest, i'm only kidding myself)

really moving ad for the Nationwide at the moment where a normal woman discusses her personal fears during the current cost of living crisis with her friends

EXCEPT IT'S A FUCKING ADVERT FOR A FUCKING PRODUCT AND MASS POVERTY IS REAL YOU CAPITALIST CUNTS DIE DIE DIE

really moving ad for the Nationwide at the moment where a normal woman discusses her personal fears during the current cost of living crisis with her friends

EXCEPT IT'S A FUCKING ADVERT FOR A FUCKING PRODUCT AND MASS POVERTY IS REAL YOU CAPITALIST CUNTS DIE DIE DIE

Actually, while I’m here, the most cursed repeat ads on BTSport when they’re looping the same five ads over and over again to block out American ads:

Mason Mount spot/any football team ad

I can’t find this online which is good as I think it edges me nearer to a brain aneurysm. MM/or the team/player who’s the subject taps the screen, talks directly to the viewer while being filmed from below, the cutting is fast to disguise the fact that it looks like someone’s kid knocked it up. Generic music too.

Pixel 7 ad

I have an iPhone. I’m not going to change that any time soon.

McDelivery ads

It’s amazing how much you can grow to hate I Think We’re Alone Now and Hungry Eyes.

ads for the channel I’m already watching

A whole atrocity of their own!

Quest goes one better and does trails for the show you're currently watching

Oh yeah I watch stuff on Now when I do the dishes. Now knows that I watch House of the Dragon on there and yet serves me up ads for it anyway.

"and my lot know how to party"

cut to tribe of ungainly white zombies wobbling side to side in an ice cold suburban lounge

Yes, the same guy is in one of the Verisure ads too.

I hate all of those ads for I think it's accountancy software, or some other boring shit aimed a small businesses, with annoying tiny people bullying people into buying their incomprehensible product. Especially the one where the woman says, "I don't like tech". Has anyone ever said, "I don't like tech" irl? About some piece of software?

Yeah I hate that woman a lot, sorry I'm a misogynist now

Just seen some other home security think called SimplySafe, hopefully they can get into it with Verisure and kill each other

xxp reminds me of this Irish TV “classic”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l74083zafAM

I wish more commercials were like this beeper commercial from yesteryear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2QNuDUTocE

it's Christmas, people are dancing on the moon again before suddenly dressing as matadors for reasons i can't discern.

Tesco: lol politics

Yeah, great work kids

"who said electrification can't spark excitement when unplugged?"

nobody. literally nobody has ever said this, it makes no sense, wtf is up with car adverts?

remembering the 90s when all car commercials were "hey there's a woman in a bikini sunbathing on the hood, women will dig you if you buy this car", now it's a bunch of random gobbledegook featuring some old classic rock song they licensed to use.

from sexism to incomprehensibility

In the online ads category (at least I think they don't do these on telly) - Uber, the ship has long sailed on trying to trick people into thinking your drivers are treated anywhere near fairly. I will not interrupt my 4 hour video on a failed theme park to sign up for your fleet no matter how many times you try me.

That John Lewis ad really doing an “ironic” acoustic version of All The Small Things huh

lol i've seen that ad and hadn't a clue what it was for tbh