Ads To Make You Go Aargh!

[Moos]

Some ads make me wonder whether anyone ever really could have gone Yes! that's the idea to sell our product!

The Orbit gum ad, for example. What's with the dorky people pretending to fight the air? Madness.

What ads make you want to throw jam at the TV?

[dulwichmum]

It is not so much the advertisements that make me want to dispose of the TV. Has anyone else seen the episode of Doc Martin where Aunty Joan has a "love in" on the stripped pine kitchen table? OHMYGOD!!!

I can still see her carpet slippers and swollen feet swaying backwards and forwards...

I need to lie down.

[citizenED]

Those Beefy and Lamby ads for British Meat - 30 years out of date! That ad agency are surely swinging the lead.

[buggie]

...moonpig - do I need to elaborate?!!

[Asset]

All of them

[bon3yard]

I'm with you Asset. The only thing worse than a TV ad is a radio ad...

[SteveT]

The volume on all adds is sooooo much louder than any programme one's watching, more so if it is a 'white bearded' black and white movie.

The solicitor adds, of awkward ungainly dumplings, slipping on a wet marble floor in 4 inch stilletto's...........how impractical to wear such footwear. The term 'just deserts' springs to mind but the encouragement of people not taking responsibility for their actions and/or decisions arouses my impatience and anger.

There should be legislation to prevent us moving toward the Americanization of the British way of life.

[HonaloochieB]

All car ads. Except for the one in which the car transforms *Transformer-like into a robot. That's nifty.

*Robots in disguise.

[jumpinjackflash]

Worst: Picture Loan advert where bloke is on the phone arranging a loan "One less job for her". Hate it hate it.

Best: Nationwide advert - the chubby guy "That pays for the bubbly at the shareholders meeting - glug glug".

[cdonline]

Those Cadbury adverts, 'you'll need to find new ways to be naughty'. Make me want to throw.

And that ropey advert asking people to text their potential partner's name to see if you are compatible. What?

[Crona]

Cilit Bang and the dirt is gone.....I just want to pull my eyelashes out!

[SeanMacGabhann]

that one almost falls into the so bad it's good clich? Crona :))

[david_carnell]

Garnier ft. Davina McCall.

"Nutrisse means nourish".

"...even yours Mum"

Grrrr.

[jumpinjackflash]

that annoying little French (or pretending to be French) girl, "Petit Filou bla bla bla"

[PeckhamRose]

Stick around for the ad on Channel 4 for the Kubrick season of films ending with The Shining. The advert for it starts airing 1st July. It is astounding. I was involved in it. 90 second one take thingy.

Not the sort of ads you're talking about though.

The ones for Parazone wrapped round The Bill are so naff. Yes, I do sometimes watch The Bill.

[andrewc]

Did you know they had to pull the recent advert for mayo which had two men kissing...it was just a peck on the cheek..but

apparently people found it 'offensive'. I thought it was on offence to take offence at being gay???

[annaj]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Garnier ft. Davina McCall.

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> "Nutrisse means nourish".

>

> "...even yours Mum"

>

> Grrrr.

Oh, yes. I'm with you on that one D_C.

Most cosmetic ads are awful and full of bad science, but surely the worst is Pierce Brosnan for L'Oriel. Cantering along the beach and talking about the environment, whilst looking after his skin, because, well, he's worth it.

One that I quite like though is the one for the new bubbling device in cans of Kronenberg, where all the little chefs (inside the can of course) cut the bubbles up into smaller and smaller bubbles...

[boosboss]

Anything with walk in baths, conservatory blinds, stair lifts or June Whitfield (td)

[James]

"The ones for Parazone wrapped round The Bill are so naff. Yes, I do sometimes watch The Bill."

Oops...I was involved in these. Oh dear...

[Ant]

The sad thing is that the ads mentioned above have all just proved their value (in a commercial sense*). Annoying ads work, and so we're doomed to more of them.

Calm down dear, it's just a commercial.

* no pun intended.

[HonaloochieB]

James Wrote:

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> "The ones for Parazone wrapped round The Bill are

> so naff. Yes, I do sometimes watch The Bill."

>

> Oops...I was involved in these. Oh dear...

It's OK James, you've made a clean breast of it, and that's the main thing.

[bon3yard]

If you ever find yourself strapped to a sofa first thing in the morning it has to be the alternating Litigation/Loan adcycle(usually during the Jeremy Kyle adbreak). Sue someone or consolidate all those little debts into one great f**k-off debt. Either way your either f**king yourself or your f**king someone else. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside doesnt it....

[Moos]

Oh, and the other really annoying ads are the ones where inanimate things are humanised, presumably in order to convey their message more clearly to us dumb bunnies. Firemen in your stomach-settler, TicTacs that run down the street, talking germs in the lavatory... it's just weird and a bit creepy.

Except for the car/robot one, as Honaloochie B says, which is cooooooooooooool.

Buggie - moonpig?? You DO need to elaborate!

[benjaminty]

think this should answer your question.... sorry everyone.

A really poor one is the latest slimfast one.... really what does the ad have to do with Slimfast?

[bon3yard]

Anthropomorphosised? Horrible word...and no doubt spelt incorrectly.