Whats the worst advert currently on TV? (mini rant)

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Oh yeah, and the Halifax ads. That guy's an idiot, to put it nicely.

HATE IT BIG TIME

[BlackDwarf]

Boswellox. I think that has to be the least convincing

Bifidus Digestivum

[Brucelles]

I hate Injury Lawyers for You with that irritatingly smug bad-mannered woman pretending to badger the Injury Lawyers for You.

Woman in whiny voice: "So Injury Lawyers for You. Will I be able to fleece my boss because I'm so stupid that I hurt myself?". "Will I get all of the money they have?" Forking dreadful cow.

And all loan adverts.

The trouble is that I normally forget the really bad ones so I can't come up with many at the moment, but I know that when I'm watching Heroes on tape tonight I will have to fast forward past some horrors.

[clearlyolly]

I can't beleive no one has mentioned the gillette adverts from around christmas. The REALLY cheesey ones!

[Dareos]

That loan advert with the stupid couple and the mower. Several things wrong with that

1) Who can an electric mower belch out steam when it breaks?
2) who buys a ride on mover for 3sq/ft of garden?
3) why are the kids playing next to a sit on mower?
4) why is the dog playing next to the sit on mower?
5) why is the dog not scared of the sit on mower? my dog was scared of the hoover and hairdryers!
6) They make it look like the loan in the root to eternal hapiness as opposed to a life of over priced finance that is secured on their non-descript house.

Ooh, i was having a go at this one the other day, how the hell does he turn that fricking tractor around on the postage stamp piece of grass???

and those loan ones where it says something like *My Darrens a great dad, fantastic with the kids, but he doesnt have a clue about finance...* yep, well just because he spent 4 and a half grand on the kids at christmas doesnt mean he is a great dad, it just means he's a ****** that tried to buy the kids affection then plunged the whole family into a chasm of debt, will develop a serious drinking problem, start getting viiolent and finally get put away for 1`5 years for knocking over the local post office because little spoiled Sammy wants a plasma tv for his birthday...


btw, Lynx adverts rock!

[snedger]

last night I got inexpicably annoyed at the using the Nissan Samsquanche (not real name) as a skateboard ad when I saw it for the second time.

Any advert that reinforces stereotypes e.g. Iceland, Pizza Hut, loan adverts.

poorly synched overdubbed American or European ads - cheapskates!

that stupid Syndol pain killer advert that tells you it has a special ingredient - which turns out to be nasty otc addictive codeine!

[Brucelles]

Also washing powder. Who gives a shirt? It's powder. You put it in a washing machine and your clothes come out wet and cleaner. Big deal.

[redlight]

btw, Lynx adverts rock!

My 12 year old son wanders around going "Bom Chicka Wah Wah" and steals my Lynx.

[dannyboy83]

All loans adverts are horrible, E4 is riddles with them.

In particular, the one where the georde woman is on the phone and her little b*stard brat of a kid is shouting "Mum, where's my scooter" and such like.

Picture loans!

"I'm on the phone to picture to sort out our debts" - well don't get into such bloody debt you stupid cow. Your house looks huge on the advert, downsize it if you can't control your spending habits!!!!


Also.. the old Norton finance where the girl in teh background answeres the phone, "Hello, Norton Finance". She sounds the thickest airhead in the workd - makes me want to headbutt my TV until the screen breaks.

[b0redom]

http://www.cillitbangremix.com/

[99Flake]

Those evil stupid Vauxhall Zafira adverts with the kids who think they are grown up. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr makes me mad!

[Funkstar]

http://www.cillitbangremix.com/

that is genius!

[Dareos]

point taken Brucelles, but... the Right Said Fred Daz adverts is kinda funny, all the others suck though.


what we are looking for though, is the kind of advert that really just wants you to find the offending exec that is responsibly for said advert and beating him/her to death with his/her own product.

Shampoo adverts annoy me, are we supposed to believe that Andy MacDowell actually uses head and shoulders when its blatantly obvious she has about 15 people applying different treatments to her hair every time she walks out in public? Do we take pension advice from Gloria Hunniford for the over 50's when its blatantly obvious its a rip off and set to trap people with little or no pensions into paying a small fortune for something they will likely never see.

but that crazy frog advert really annoyed me, and as the punishment should suit the crime then i believe that the entire committee involved in the creation of those adverts should be bound and gagged in a room, made to listen to it repeatedly at shockingly high volumes before Zinadine Zidane is pushed into the room with an AK-47, high on PCP and told that all these people called his mum a terrorist. (crazy frog, geddit?)

[pollaxe]

All the adverts already suggested here.

My particular bugbears at the moment are the toothpaste adverts where we're supposed to believe the hair-tossing, minty fresh, white-toothed, raised eyebrow people are real individuals. "It's my choice." Tosh, piffle and cobblers. Complete with documentary-style shaky filming too. Grrr.
There's also a Norwich Union ad (I think) where the music sounds like someone gargling or making weird noises in their throat. Very annoying.

I'm getting increasingly irritated with adverts. I don't watch t.v. much these days but there seem to be more and more of the bloody things. Watching Lost or the ABC channel is painful. Usually I flick straight to the music channels when an ad comes on.

[Funkstar]

Oooh! the mouth wash one where she spits down the sing and the fire hydrant explodes..... but that is a completely different set of pipes grrrrrrrr.

[GoNz0]

Mrs and me cringe when we see naked babies on adverts...

wrong, very wrong..

slightly Bias as the Mrs works in the probation service, and has seen 1st hand what the sick pedos look at, our thoughts are adverts like this are encouraging paedophiles.