Worst TV adverts of the moment

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the latest abhorrent ad trend: slogans that are meant to sound like realpeoplespeak ("i'm lovin' it"*; "you should see what's on hgtv"**; "very funny"***; "you should go"****). ugh, stop trying to relate! i hate you.

*mcdonald's
**hgtv (home & garden television)
***tbs (the turner superstation)
****t.j. maxx

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

also, dunno if it's just a local thing, but the "man on the street"-style 1-800-MATTRESS commercial with the trio of accenty longislandistas singing the jingle off-key... it's gotta go.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the...lenny...kravitz...gap...ad...

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 October 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

"they're just a kid... eatin' a drumstick... like YOU used to be."

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

"your website would be the bomb if the gecko did the robot."

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Marcello so on the money he should be the queen. And Sarah Jessica Fucking Horsefaced Harpy Parker as well! Infamy!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, Smirnoff ice or whatever and their lyriquid perfection shit. Only gaked-up ad wankers could actually watch the Niccan Micra spafe abomination and think "yeah, let's rip that off".

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"di saronno on the rocks." (woman gives come-hither look to metrosexual bartender.)

"di saronno on the rocks." (metrosexual bartender gives come-fuck-me look to woman.)

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Quote. Me. Happy.

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

is that ridiculous Head & Shoulders advert where the man won't let his gf use his manky cheap dandruff shampoo still showing?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The man in that advert is *so* in-the-closet.

"She even steals my rubber duckie ... but there's one thing I won't let her touch. Some things are just made for a man."

(plus, he looks like Will Young)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 1 October 2004 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

He's in another advert too, not as crap but still crap

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"your website would be the bomb if the gecko did the robot."

But thats a good commercial.

― Mari Schwarz, Friday, 1 October 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link

when are they going to do a new 'friendly bacteria' advert - is the geek going to get in her pants?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Will she use the friendly bacteria as a homemade thrush cure first? ;-)

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

why the wink?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Because I am making a funny.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

is the gecko ad referenced a geico ad? those are the only ads on tv I like!

still, that sprint or whatever ad, "this is the story about my life made by me" video phone crooked mouthed girl partying with her friends and getting it on with keanu-lite. makes me violent.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 October 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(a friend of mine has just auditioned for the next run of "friendly bacteria" ads - if she gets the gig she'll be bacteria-girl's best friend. So have no fear, Bacteria-man will be back!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Rock-ET! Rock-ET!

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

RADDICCIO RADDICCIO RADDICCIO!!!

You're mad, that advert is aceness incarnate.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Those 'frizee frizee' guys are so gay.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I do kind of like how the rocket lot are the hardest, though. I love rocket.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i have no idea what most of you are on about as i don't watch much TV at all anymore which is surely a good thing

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't watch the Cadbury's ones with the talking sheep.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Me neither, Cathy. They do my head in. They are totally unfunny and meaningless.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 October 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

My flamate laughs a lot at the Co-op sheep too.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't it Woolworths?

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know, perhaps there are a lot of talking and singing sheep at the moment. Perhaps they're the latest monkeys. But the one I'm talking about it definitely Co-op. They're throwing all the GM products and additives out of the shop, with pigs. Actually, the pigs are all right.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

That bacterial woman used to drink in the Phoenix a lot around the time when I was drinking in the Phoenix a lot and, for that matter, drinking a lot in the Phoenix

― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

rock and roll pigs!

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

The Post Office one where the child-ants play at having road rage makes me lose the will to live.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

The Red Bull ads have been the worst on TV for at least five years.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Vernon Kay .............................. need I elaborate?

― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

That ad is awesome!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Except it makes me sad that Girls & Boys was cancelled.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

You're very strange.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

You mean the one where he says, "I love a Brazilian, me" - have you taken leave of your senses sir!!!!!!!!

― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It's only a bit of fun!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

It's PURE EVIL

― Didoismus (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

That's what Hitler said.

xpost

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

that mcdonald's (i think) ad where the dudes are playing poker with french fries really makes me cringe. something about that winning player's gestures and expressions really hurts me physically to watch.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"HAVE BREAKFAST WITH THE KING"

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh! That Timotei advert where the naked girl has stolen the guys towel (just recently washed), and his shirt, but she can't get her hands on his timotei. I hate these couples that are so comfortable with each other that they can walk around naked all the time.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

That's quite normal, jel.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, not 'all the time'.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I know, but I'm really pleased clothes were invented.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway, that's the Head & Shoulders one I already mentioned, isn't it? Not Timotei.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah! See, I couldn't remember the product!

Sorry N.

Sorry Timotei.

I don't like that new Calvin Klien cinema ad, which goes on about not showwing logos and slogans. I am assuming it's Calvin Klien, it could be Kellogs for all I know.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, that one is awful. I'd forgotten it.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 1 October 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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