Worst TV adverts of the moment

Seat (car, not chair) advert with "crazy" employees doing zany stuff, soundtracked by an Avalanches rip-off.

Campaign Magazine's ten worst TV adverts of 2008.

Can't really argue with those, tho I still insist the John Lydon one isn't that bad

Apart from anything else, the Gillette one annoys me because Thierry Henry is not even remotely in the same league as Tiger Woods and Roger Federer

in what sense?

As a sportsman

As an actor, he's better, I'll give him that

well football is a team game so you can't really stand-out as much as in golf or tennis but he's not exactly been unsuccessful.

But he's never been considered the greatest in his sport at any given time, let alone a possible G.O.A.T. like the other two

He's not even the best footballer of his generation, let alone one of the best footballers of al time

Although I dunno if an advert with Henry, Ian Poulter and Mardy Fish would have worldwide appeal.

In South America I seem to remember it being Kaká instead of Henry.

I think he deserves it more than Henry

in fact I'm talking crap it was Kaká with Rafa Marquez and some brazilian now that I think of it. Not the same campaign.

Henry probably as famous as the other two because he plays an almost universally popular sport and thus makes sense from a marketing point of view?

Lydon/Country Life advert is fine

This new apparently global Mr Muscle advert is the worst of the year just for sheer lameness - not a patch on those old ones with the 'hilariously' weedy bespectacled guy

plus a lot of women I know fancy him while none fancy Federer or Tiger.

should've had real athlete Phil Taylor instead of Henry

plus a lot of women I know fancy him while none fancy Federer or Tiger.

I see, this advert is aimed at the niche bearded lady market?

who is a more preferable role model to your nuts reading 18-30 male, goofy looking guy who is good at golf/tennis or footballer who women would like to fuck?

a woman might wanna get a man a razor

that seat advert is all-time FOAD

There's a few adverts now that have some kind of awful drippy neo-avant-folk warbling rubbish on their soundtracks that force me to dive to hit the mute button whenever they come on.

that's not the worst of the gilette adverts (although it is terrible, 'i never think about yesterday'), the worst one is where they are bullying that poor bloke by firing tennis balls at him whilst he's trying to shave.

o_O at that orangina advert though.

all "you have to be INSANE to produce a car like this" then a fucking shitty mundane family hatchback appears at the end, like a bad joke told by idiots

There's that new Renault advert that goes "remember when you said you'd never buy a Renault?", because it a) implies that Renaults were once shite, b) further implies that now they're not shite. Hint: they are more shite than ever, evidenced by the new model Megane which looks like every nondescript family car currently being made.

There's that new Renault advert that goes "remember when you said you'd never buy a Renault?"

I, mentally, say "no" every time I hear that

It's like that other advert about "your house smelling of fish"... but it doesn't

Adverts are crap if they do not 'advertise', right?

Still like the Lydon one.

The Lenny Premierinn one is alright, it's where I end up living when I'm away. Hey, it could have been worse.

The Orangina one is pretty dumb/doesnotwork. The Renault/dubbing one is poor/cheap.

xpost the kids are both "ha, dad, did you ever say that? did yer? ay?" and I go "Anyone fancy walking to school tomorrow, hmm?"

Apart from that, the rest I do not care for or against.

Out of these ten the one which still reeks most of Pass The Hat/Pull The Trigger is the Lenny Henry Premier Inns one. Why oh why oh why &c.

His career was going so well too

It was poor old Hazell I felt sorry for.

Henry: "I've found something that's small time"
snoball: "Your career prospects?"
Henry: "There's nothing small time about my career. This Christmas I'll be presenting another hilarious show featuring two year old clips from YouTube."

Oh hold on, is this Thierry or Lenny we're talking about here?

It was poor old Hazell I felt sorry for.

I imagine him turning to his agent and saying, "Why don't you just put the gun to my head right now..."

They must have been mentioned before, but the WKD 'Do you have a wicked side?' commercials cause a dull, wrenching pain in my sternum.

Trying to sustain the pretense that their target buyers are not young teenagers but absolute twats so juvenile their taste buds will only accept alcohol in the form of fizzy pop.

Thierry reps for Gilette, Lenny for Holiday Inn. The "small time" quote is something Len says in the advert.

"Past your late teens but still behave like a stupid cock? Then drink WNKR."

to be fair Lenny Henry did recently get a part in Othello

LH: "To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on... and with that, on to our next hilarious GoogleTubeYouVideo clip!"

i think he's playing Bianca

Who's playing Ricky?

David van Day.

aargh "Posh Pringles" "look, the bag matches yours" FUCK YOU!!!

Seat still winning "worst of year" imo.

"(the) confused.com (website) remembers you and your details!" oh wow thx it's like living in the 21st century!!! you smug bastard diediedie

"step out of the carYOU HAD TWO PINTS THAT'S A 2 YEAR BANIt's company policy I gotta let you goI KNOWW ITS ONLY GOT 2,000 MILES ON THE CLOCK BUT THAT'S MY FINAL OFFERahh that's just GREAT MATT!! No JOb, No Car, NOW WHAT!!?????" - "So, what's it gonna be?"

He has to be the worst barman ever.

^^^ irritating advert, but at least it's a shift in focus from "you might run someone over" to "you'll experience misfortune". So it's probably more effective, because drink drivers don't give a shit about other people, but they do care about themselves.

alt punchline: "I'll have one of what you had"

barman: "ok then, roll up your sleeve and hold out your arm..."

alt punchline: "I'll have one of what you had"

"... and it said Happy Hour between 5 and 7"