Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up. (Vol 2)

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Langweilig

4,347 posts

213 months

Monday 27th June 2022
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Ribena - Surrounded by weird cats all saying, "Maaaate!"

There must be a lot of dipsomaniacs in advertising agencies, these days.

Milkyway

9,552 posts

55 months

Monday 27th June 2022
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ETSY:
Two ads for the price of one...still rubbish.

rwindmill

436 posts

160 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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JagLover said:
Rick_1138 said:
I saw an advert for Formula E on C4 while on wirk trip this, weekend in hotel room.

I was sat staring at it as it went on and in, with 3 parkouring drivers in full kit after getting out of their crashed cars running through a city with proclamations of climate Doom on telly etc, then get back to start line of track to 'race' the cars on foot to the line...

In the words of the Critical drinker "WHAT... THE... fk!"
That has an idea for some entertainment. Have the Critical Drinker review some of the more bizarre adverts hehe
Now that he has given up completely on both Star Trek and Star Wars, I'm sure he will have some spare time he can devote to TV adverts.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

188 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Plymo said:
Squeaky-voiced Vodafone woman is back! mad
I just came to say the same... "Voydafoyne Woman" as I call her.

The Hypno-Toad

12,371 posts

207 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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rwindmill said:
JagLover said:
Rick_1138 said:
I saw an advert for Formula E on C4 while on wirk trip this, weekend in hotel room.

I was sat staring at it as it went on and in, with 3 parkouring drivers in full kit after getting out of their crashed cars running through a city with proclamations of climate Doom on telly etc, then get back to start line of track to 'race' the cars on foot to the line...

In the words of the Critical drinker "WHAT... THE... fk!"
That has an idea for some entertainment. Have the Critical Drinker review some of the more bizarre adverts hehe
Now that he has given up completely on both Star Trek and Star Wars, I'm sure he will have some spare time he can devote to TV adverts.
Off topic but his demolition of the Kenobi series last night was brilliant. He really is one of the best things on youtube at the moment.

Milkyway

9,552 posts

55 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Gtech.... Annoying voice over & ‘noise’. irked

raceboy

13,151 posts

282 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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Radec said:
The Trade Centre UK.

At first I thought my TV was broken, its has no sound in the advert at all.
While the advert is pants, I think the concept is pure genius, what does everyone do now the moment adverts start if you can't fast forward them...pick up your phone, when you hear 'silence' like you say you think the TV's broke, you look up, and see the advert, you even do it when you encounter the advert for multiple times, but it does only work as it's the only one doing it, there is another one that even includes a bit of 'white noise' to make you 'look up' hehe

rider73

3,098 posts

79 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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not an Ad as such, but it made me laugh a bit -

BBC now "advertising" within Wimbledon programs, it started with showing the ever diverse bbc programming (although note.... not the ones sold to GOLD and BRITBOX) and extra-ordinary planet saving david attenborough telling us how great the bbc is and it belongs to everyone of us, then straight into 3 middle aged white men, smashing up cars and driving high polluting low mpg supercars while cursing and deriding each other,..... paid for by everyone one of us....


Radec

3,922 posts

49 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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raceboy said:
Radec said:
The Trade Centre UK.

At first I thought my TV was broken, its has no sound in the advert at all.
While the advert is pants, I think the concept is pure genius, what does everyone do now the moment adverts start if you can't fast forward them...pick up your phone, when you hear 'silence' like you say you think the TV's broke, you look up, and see the advert, you even do it when you encounter the advert for multiple times, but it does only work as it's the only one doing it, there is another one that even includes a bit of 'white noise' to make you 'look up' hehe
I just thought, they must have blown all their budget on the visual so couldn't afford any audio.

Halmyre

11,306 posts

141 months

Tuesday 28th June 2022
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I hate the McDonald's ad just for pinching 'On Days Like These'.

BertieWoosterUK

19 posts

71 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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The Carmoola is so badly made I think day 1 film students could do better.

FatboyKim

2,311 posts

32 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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Cazoo, Cinch, Motorway TV and radio adverts... They seem to be the new car insurance adverts, whereby a boring product and subject (selling/buying cars) is made as loud and colourful and interesting as possible in order to assault the senses and stick in your mind.

Much like the meerkats...

Nickp82

3,226 posts

95 months

Wednesday 29th June 2022
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BertieWoosterUK said:
The Carmoola is so badly made I think day 1 film students could do better.
Much like their radio ad which has some sort of weird attempt at humour based around a woman’s son being kidnapped.

anonymoususer

6,010 posts

50 months

Thursday 30th June 2022
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Women footballers great
Plugging Pandora tat as some kind of girl power enabler - not great

hidetheelephants

25,123 posts

195 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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anonymoususer said:
Women footballers great
Plugging Pandora tat as some kind of girl power enabler - not great
It's wild; I keep expecting Gerald Ratner to pop up and wink at the camera.

Milkyway

9,552 posts

55 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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hidetheelephants said:
anonymoususer said:
Women footballers great
Plugging Pandora tat as some kind of girl power enabler - not great
It's wild; I keep expecting Gerald Ratner to pop up and wink at the camera.
Just don’t mention ‘Pandora’s Box’.

FatboyKim

2,311 posts

32 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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The exact opposite to the thread, but it's worth a quick mention.

Recent Dove (soap) advert, no music or anything, just a few simple words about how social media is trashing the self-esteem and confidence of young girls and directing people to scan some QR code on the screen which I guess links to this page.

https://www.dove.com/us/en/dove-self-esteem-projec...

LargeRed

1,654 posts

50 months

Saturday 2nd July 2022
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Renault Ad

"what is it you do ?"

"I can't tell you, as you are too stupid to understand !!"

Plymo

1,153 posts

91 months

Saturday 2nd July 2022
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LargeRed said:
Renault Ad

"what is it you do ?"

"I can't tell you, as you are too stupid to understand !!"
Despite the terrible dubbing, monstrously ugly car and so on, I quite like the concept of that one really boxedin
It would be a good advert if it was acted better and had a less awful car...
It's certainly better than the CGI car going around an mysteriously empty city, with a discordant jingle at the end and a tagline like "movement that excites" or some similar pish

rwindmill

436 posts

160 months

Saturday 2nd July 2022
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The latest Viking Cruises advert.

A silver haired old gent stares wistfully over the sea and in a voice over tells us that 'the only true scarce commodity is time'.

The silver haired old gent is Torstein Hagen, founder of Viking Cruises and with a personal net worth of $1.5 billion.

I tell you what, Torstein me old mate, go spend a year living on the breadline and having to accept hand outs from food banks, and then comeback and tell me if you think that time is still the only true scarce commodity!!