Worst TV adverts of the moment

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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.

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link

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.

koogs, Saturday, 13 August 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link

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.

Grandpont Genie, Sunday, 14 August 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link

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.

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 August 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link

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

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 August 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link

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

seo layer (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 August 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link

"And here's the best bit"

Mark G, Saturday, 27 August 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

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

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link

(this is all good, adverts still bad though)

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link

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.

koogs, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 00:58 (one year ago) link

Stop lying Myleene Klass you're not busy

feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 September 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link

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

koogs, Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link

it's one of the worst kinds of medical too

or something, Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link

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

link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 9 October 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link

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

koogs, Sunday, 9 October 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link

Xpost why is that "age restricted" ?

(I have seen it, yes.

Mark G, Sunday, 9 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link

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)

koogs, Friday, 14 October 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link

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

saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link

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


Couldn’t have said it better! This cursed ad shows up constantly on bt sport’s mlb coverage and I see it about 20 times a game. It’s so cursed. The women all wearing gentle pastel colours, the sunny sky, the blowing hair, the relatability- you think it’s a tampon ad if you’re not paying attention and then it’s like NATIONWIDE CARES IF YOU CAN’T PAY YOUR BILLS. The worst.

barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 22 October 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link

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!

barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 22 October 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link

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

koogs, Saturday, 22 October 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link

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.

barry sito (gyac), Saturday, 22 October 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link

"and my lot know how to party"

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

saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 October 2022 11:11 (one year ago) link

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?

Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 October 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link

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

saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 October 2022 12:18 (one year ago) link

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

saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 October 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link

xxp reminds me of this Irish TV “classic”

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

barry sito (gyac), Thursday, 27 October 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link

I wish more commercials were like this beeper commercial from yesteryear

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

stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 October 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link

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

koogs, Friday, 4 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link

Tesco: lol politics

Yeah, great work kids

dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link

"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?

dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link

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

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link

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.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link

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

after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 11 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link

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

dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link

all ads for games that have "not actual in game footage" disclaimers on them. what are you showing me then? why would I be interested in these images?

oscar bravo, Friday, 11 November 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link

Generally it's cut scenes I think? I agree that still sucks

dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link

Remember when they'd sell dolls in the 90s and show them walking and write "doll does not walk" below in disclaimers

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link

God the number of rubbish board games we got as kids that were nothing like the TV ads

dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link

Mouse Trap,christ

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link

i saved up my pocket money for weeks for that load of shit

Burnt Norton 360 (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 November 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link

Sea Monkeys

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 11 November 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link

it was a hard lesson in life seeing something that shone out like a diamond on the pages of Kays catalogue and then later taking in the horrible realisation that you've wasted months of time, hotly anticipating a piece of shit.

calzino, Friday, 11 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link

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.

Jenny Nicholson on Evermore, right?? Can't believe I watched (and enjoyed) all four hours of that.

emil.y, Friday, 11 November 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

dear Jason Donovan, when you say you hope you're knocking on my door next, you're saying it to everybody watching that advert, which kind of defeats the purpose of a lottery you fucking clown

this display name blocked by FIFA (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 November 2022 09:31 (one year ago) link

Hi Dior, not sure still having a wife beater doing his sad rock and roll fantasy shit is a good look for your brand but it's your choice I guess

economic Maguire (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link

I’m so sick of seeing that cunt atm

bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 2 December 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link

Daisy daisy daisy daisy... stop fucking ruining Suicide!

Oh wouldn't it be rubbery? (Tom D.), Friday, 2 December 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link

oh, heard another inexplicable 80s song used by an advert - life is life

koogs, Friday, 2 December 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link


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