Worst TV adverts of the moment

The Visa wedding streaker at a time of DIRE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Pompous car advert - take your pick really - with female bodybuilder ("Is this beauty... or obsession"), CCTV ("Is this for our safety... or theirs"? (or something like that)) etc etc etc, shut up, it's a fucking car

There's that advert for Berocca which is plainly ripped off the video for OK Go's single - you know, the one with them on treadmills.

Sexy Mike Batt posing at the piano to promote his new album Where Is Summertime City Band?

The Carling advert where they're possibly in the Wild West or something I dunno.

We've been whinging about this ad on the mongrel thread. Does it make you want to visit Melbourne?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnaWc8pxQgs

In fairness, it does give you some advance symbolic warning of Melbourne's traffic problems.

DIE, EVIL FHM-READING BULMERS ADVERT, DIE

SQUEEZING THE LAST DREGS OF DIGNITY OUT OF THE BRITISH TELEVISION CORPORATIONS

DOES ANYBODY ELSE FEEL THE SAME FURY

Latest UK McDonalds advert (where adults and children are making a garden representing McD's foodstuffs) is a horrible piece of faux-sincere bullshit including:

1. Use of every tired cliché from every advert made in the last five years ie. indie-twee whistling song, outdoors setting, people working "togevver" to make pointless object which is revealed at the end.

2. Implication that teamwork and community are a part of McDonalds "core brand values".

3. Dreadful chummy reference to potatoes as "Spuds".

4. Hateful reprise of indie-twee whistling shitbaggery for "I'm Lovin' It" motif at end.

1. Use of every tired cliché from every advert made in the last five years ie. indie-twee whistling song, outdoors setting, people working "togevver" to make pointless object which is revealed at the end.

otm, this got tiresome rapidly

Advertising needs to get nastier I think.

"Buy 1 Big Mac get 17 free, you cunts"

New McCoy's ad yet another celebration of pig-ignorant laddishness, apparently knowing about anything that isn't football is grounds for immediate banishment, possibly death.

What's up with that ad for a generic brand of Asian cars, featuring what appears to be a miniature version of The Feeling playing a shit song from inside the glove box?

this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq9stciOBTM

lol gender sterotypes/daily mail

o god yes

halifax strike again :(

BT couple's relationship is on the skids :(

that lynx bloke with the eyes. i can't see his appeal - even without the wonky eyes he looks like shaggy.

Fuck Off Nigel buys fuck off DVDs fuck off

nice to see the emergency campaign changes on DSG stores' adverts

THAT.
FUCKING.
BULMERS.
ADVERT.

Paul Tomkinson needs dat money

*keeping track of the Esther Hall availability status*

Fuck Off Nigel buys fuck off DVDs fuck off

^^^^^^This. Trying to make a meme out of their stupid anti-piracy campaign is super annoying.

DFS nickelback

Please stop rapping about Sugar Puffs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sDQfeXHiSNc

Uurgh so bad.

just recently left uk for canada, so i feel your pain esp re: halifax. but the adverts here are seriously 10x worse. this one is on all the fucking time and the tune has burrowed its way deep into my head, but this insanity makes up for it somewhat.

"I'm the cashman" probably best advert ever.

Cashman sounds like an extremely low rent Batman villain.

KILL EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS ABOMINATION:
http://www.i-am-everyone.co.uk/home.php

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can't believe i didn't raise the issue here myself

There is a specific level of hell reserved for the people who conceive mobile phone adverts

I am all the ILX posters I've zinged, and all the ones I'm yet to zing.

^^^ self-zing

2. Implication that teamwork and community are a part of McDonalds "core brand values".

-- Bill A, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:33 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Would say that they are.

Jont is a Twont, his sole purpose seems to be to make James Blunt, Chris Martin, and the guy from Travis slightly less punchable.
FFS that Orange ad though - "I am the bloke I will meet travelling who will teach me to play the guitar" - er, no, by the look of him he'll teach you how to squeal like a pig, boy!
I hardly watch TV anymore anyway, so it's "nice" to see what Orange are actually doing (making wanky TV ads) when they should be making with the fixing on their f***ing e-mail servers.

I would pay Orange not to have those people come round to my house, if I had to.

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My poorly made point here was, I suppose, that surly 18 year old "Johnny No Stars" McDs staff (teamwork) and McDs general efforts to cram its grease-n-salt specials into as many mouths as possible (community) are perhaps not most honestly represented by men, women and children happily working together to make a garden.

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Maybe that's their new business model? Pay up, or we send the unutterably awful folk singers round to caterwaul in your living room?

Perhaps Orange's priorities should be:

1) fix the bottleneck problems at the e-mail server farm at smtp.0r4ng3h0m3.c0.uk so that people can, you know, actually send e-mail
2) fix d/l speeds so that someone who lives less than a mile from the exchange can maybe get somewhere near the advertised 8 meg
3) make some wanky TV commercials
4) send a public school trustafarian hipster with an acoustic guitar and a hat three sizes too small to people's houses

...instead of their current priorities which seem to be that list completely reversed...

During all of my 32 years on this earth I hadn't once considered forcing my thumbs into my eye sockets to forcibly blind myself...until now. Not since Oedipus realised he was unlikely to win "Son Of The Year" has there been such a good reason to deny yourself the gift of sight. The rock star advert manages to offend on a number of levels. The song itself is predictably middle of the road and is at best only midly contemporary having been released in the UK in November 2007. However, this lazy approach at stradling popular culture pales into insignificance compared to the visual car crash that is the god awful bunch of performing monkeys who mime and play air guitar during the advert. Each one gives me a different reason to hate them - whether it's the funk-free black guy, the sexless desperate blonde, anoxeric coked-up brunette, fat gran or gay dad, watching each of them makes me convulse with embarrassment. I detest them all.

But more than anything, I hate myself for watching it. Well done DFS, you've hit a new low.

from the dfs wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dfs_%28retailer%29

lol amazing

Richard Hammond talking about meat while staring unblinkingly at the camera in a disturbingly creepy way

I wonder if Jont minds if your phone goes off in the middle of his song.