Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[JonRB]

AlexRS2782 said:

Have you been watching one of Jimmy Carr's recent stand up routines by any chance?

Recent? Just pick any of them. He's been trotting that one out for years.

[boobles]

AlexRS2782 said:

Have you been watching one of Jimmy Carr's recent stand up routines by any chance?

I told him that one.

[M3333]

I have grown to have a true hatred for the 'Victoria Plumb' adverts. In particular one where they guy is singing in the bath and does a stupid big scream at the end. I want to drown the fker.

[tbc]

M3333 said:

I have grown to have a true hatred for the 'Victoria Plumb' adverts. In particular one where they guy is singing in the bath and does a stupid big scream at the end. I want to drown the fker.

Have you noticed that as Victoria Plumb have got more established the woman in the advert has got more attractive and middle class. The first advert they had was some common NOrthern redhead saying something like ' ay up looked at all tha prices and got all me muck from victoria plumb'

[General Price]

The Ford Fiesta ad where the girl throws a dubbed strop because her bloke insinuates Daddy likes a drink.He then texts her saying,'forgive him for being an idiot'.He should have texted,drop me at the nearest pub and fk off to your Dad's on your own you mardy cow.

[FourWheelDrift]

General Price said:

The Ford Fiesta ad where the girl throws a dubbed strop because her bloke insinuates Daddy likes a drink.He then texts her saying,'forgive him for being an idiot'.He should have texted,drop me at the nearest pub and fk off to your Dad's on your own you mardy cow.

Not only that his text is read out as "forgive him he is a idiot"

[m8rky]

So after the awful Polo advert we now have the Yaris Hybrid advert. So showing "drivers" dancing and singing like fking idiots while driving is acceptable behaviour?

ASA sort your st out, if it is ok to show people being inattentive tts while "driving" can we be allowed to have sensible and attentive drivers giving cars a bit of welly?

[JonRB]

The Ford Fiesta.. if you can trick your g/f into reading a text after insulting her dad then you're golden.

[fathomfive]

How about this for a BOGOF offer?

Vanish tip exchange AND Finish dishwasher tablets, replete with Carol fking Smilie and a "Dishwasher Service Engineer", who always recommends Finish and even carry's them in his van!

[Morningside]

Farm Foods. It gets a ten from Len.

fk off!!!

[powerstroke]

m8rky said:

weyland yutani said:

BMW i8 ad . . . fk right off!

This.

Some of the most pretentious twaddle to ever be broadcasted.

I think you will find it's aiming to lure Audi drivers back to the fold

[KingNothing]

nicanary said:

Mcphisto said:

Werthers Originals...

Does anybody remember going into their Favourite Caramel shop for the first time?

What the actual fk is a caramel shop?

Yup. That is one of THE most stupidly worded ads of all time. Not only is there supposed to be such a thing as a caramel shop (must be exciting in there on a slow day), but the girl has a FAVOURITE caramel shop, so there must be more than one in her town. I simply cannot believe that professional ad agencies can come up with this banality AND the client buys into it. Would anyone go out and buy Werthers on the strength of that ad?

Don't know what you're talking about, among the sea of; bookmakers, pawn shops and charity shops on my local highstreet, the place is literally overun with caramel shops of all shapes and sizes.

And I agree with the end bit, there's a lot of stuff which shouldn't actually need advertising on TV. I think I went on a tirade earlier on in this thread about perfume/aftershave adverts, who actually buys aftershave on the strength of a TV advert? I normally just go into the shop, spray it on those tester strips or my hand, and if it doesn't smell like bottled cats piss, I buy it, job jobbed.

[fathomfive]

Renault Captur.

Fish in a bowl gets inspiration and motivation from an orange car and follows it to the sea, via a bizarre watery version of the Krypton Factor assault course.

All of this to flog a jacked up Clio.

Who signs this bks off?

[FourWheelDrift]

fathomfive said:

Renault Captur.

That reminds me to get a few coloured fridge magnet "e" letters just in case some imbecile actually buys one.

[JonRB]

fathomfive said:

Fish in a bowl gets inspiration and motivation from an orange car and follows it to the sea, via a bizarre watery version of the Krypton Factor assault course.

And amongst all the wrongness of it all, a freshwater fish would die in salt water due to osmotic gradient.

[Silverbullet767]

Is it just me that pronounces the Renault Captur the way it's spelt?

CAP-TURR

If they want to call it a capture then fine, but don't spell it captur and say capture. Not that it matters anyway, I'm sure they'll all be at the start of a very long queue on the roads.

[fathomfive]

There should be a ban on all car adverts featuring an empty, carless city.

It's misleading in the extreme.

[chris watton]

"get the London Look"

What exactly is 'The London Look', these days?

[JonRB]

chris watton said:

"get the London Look"

What exactly is 'The London Look', these days?

A big gap between your two front teeth, it seems.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

fathomfive said:

Renault Captur.

Fish in a bowl gets inspiration and motivation from an orange car and follows it to the sea, via a bizarre watery version of the Krypton Factor assault course.

All of this to flog a jacked up Clio.

Who signs this bks off?

Seems to be working though. I've seen hundreds of Capturs around. I have to admit that I think they look great.