Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[Brigand]

AlexRS2782 said:

Patch1875 said:

Have we had the Aviva ad with DC yet?

I'm surprised this one, along with the spinning the car until it parks Mr Corden, hasn't been pulled by the ASA yet for encouraging bad driving Especially when some previous car manufacturer adverts have been pulled for that reason in the past (and they weren't even that bad).

I must admit I found the Aviva advert a bit poor, mainly due to the fact Aviva are trying to sell the passengers as a real couple that are unaware of what's going to happen when it's clear the entire local area has been shut down for filming. Although this whole "fake real customers" does seem to be the current trend in adverts.

My guess is that it's possibly going to end up part of a sponsorship tie in with Aviva and the F1 coverage on C4 this year, in place of Kayak from last year.

Especially as the advert states at the beginning something about it being an "experiment" or something. An experiment in what exactly?

[Antony Moxey]

Brigand said:

AlexRS2782 said:

Patch1875 said:

Have we had the Aviva ad with DC yet?

I'm surprised this one, along with the spinning the car until it parks Mr Corden, hasn't been pulled by the ASA yet for encouraging bad driving Especially when some previous car manufacturer adverts have been pulled for that reason in the past (and they weren't even that bad).

I must admit I found the Aviva advert a bit poor, mainly due to the fact Aviva are trying to sell the passengers as a real couple that are unaware of what's going to happen when it's clear the entire local area has been shut down for filming. Although this whole "fake real customers" does seem to be the current trend in adverts.

My guess is that it's possibly going to end up part of a sponsorship tie in with Aviva and the F1 coverage on C4 this year, in place of Kayak from last year.

Especially as the advert states at the beginning something about it being an "experiment" or something. An experiment in what exactly?

Yep, I thought that too - what 'experiment'? Also that we're told it's on closed roads, so how do our unassuming couple - natch one white, one black - end up innocently on a closed set and conveniently only want a ride to somewhere else on the closed set? And why aren't they screaming in terror in the back instead of laughing their heads off?

But whatever, I'd rather see that than the dreadful builders v 'strutters' ad, I genuinely have to change channel as soon as I see that bloke's foot wearing a stiletto appear from underneath the open car door...

[Hrimfaxi]

Benecol - "Takes a little push, for things to fall"

[FourWheelDrift]

Currys PC World, couple in browsing iPads and iMacs just picking them up. None of them have those cabled security alarms, if you tried that in a real store alarms would be going off everywhere.

[cuprabob]

Antony Moxey said:

But whatever, I'd rather see that than the dreadful builders v 'strutters' ad, I genuinely have to change channel as soon as I see that bloke's foot wearing a stiletto appear from underneath the open car door...

Just saw an updated version of this and they have to be given credit for making it even more cringeworthy.

[Rich_W]

Clearscore!

FFS the first one was interesting and amusing. But now they've just rehashed the same "talking dog" gag in about 60 different ways.

fk off will you!

[Europa1]

cuprabob said:

Antony Moxey said:

But whatever, I'd rather see that than the dreadful builders v 'strutters' ad, I genuinely have to change channel as soon as I see that bloke's foot wearing a stiletto appear from underneath the open car door...

Just saw an updated version of this and they have to be given credit for making it even more cringeworthy.

The one crumb of comfort is that that dreadful old trout Sharon Osborne isn't in them anymore.

[bristolracer]

Rich_W said:

Clearscore!

FFS the first one was interesting and amusing. But now they've just rehashed the same "talking dog" gag in about 60 different ways.

fk off will you!

I dont really get the whole credit score industry anyway.
Are people constantly checking their scores?
Maybe when you get a mortgage or a loan it would be useful to know,but how often does that happen?
If its free where do they make money to constantly advertise?
And why would you get your Nan to check her score too? Very odd!

[torqueofthedevil]

bristolracer said:

I dont really get the whole credit score industry anyway.
Are people constantly checking their scores?
Maybe when you get a mortgage or a loan it would be useful to know,but how often does that happen?
If its free where do they make money to constantly advertise?
And why would you get your Nan to check her score too? Very odd!

Used to work with a lad who loved it - could never understand why! His main thing was using it to check his wife wasn't getting a credit cards in his name! She had in the past!

[Rich_W]

bristolracer said:

Rich_W said:

Clearscore!

FFS the first one was interesting and amusing. But now they've just rehashed the same "talking dog" gag in about 60 different ways.

fk off will you!

I dont really get the whole credit score industry anyway.
Are people constantly checking their scores?
Maybe when you get a mortgage or a loan it would be useful to know,but how often does that happen?
If its free where do they make money to constantly advertise?
And why would you get your Nan to check her score too? Very odd!

I have a mortgage, several direct debits and obviously a credit card. Yet have no idea what my credit score is!

[AlexRS2782]

cuprabob said:

Antony Moxey said:

But whatever, I'd rather see that than the dreadful builders v 'strutters' ad, I genuinely have to change channel as soon as I see that bloke's foot wearing a stiletto appear from underneath the open car door...

Just saw an updated version of this and they have to be given credit for making it even more cringeworthy.

Yep, they now seem to have introduced a larger sized lady that proceeds to enter and do some twerking before scaring off both the builders & strutters.

[generationx]

I think this one has been mentioned before.

That fking Lloyds advert with the slow-motion horse running through people's significant moments. All the while with a brutalised version of Tears For Fears' "Mad World" played on the piano in the key of smug.

Does my tits.

[Blown2CV]

the tesco advert where the oppressed lying cuckold 'confesses' after 15 years marriage that he never liked spicy food after getting together with the girl under that pretence. Hope she divorces him for living a lie, and a pathetic one at that!!

[Biker 1]

generationx said:

I think this one has been mentioned before.

That fking Lloyds advert with the slow-motion horse running through people's significant moments. All the while with a brutalised version of Tears For Fears' "Mad World" played on the piano in the key of smug.

Does my tits.

It drives me fking nuts! As do most bank ads; that TSB utter bullst with the stupid cartoons/muzak, & for some reason, my teeth seem to itch from Scottish accents. Apologies to any jock PHers....

[XslaneyX]

Chiming in to say that those "what's my claim worth" adverts are getting on my tits at the minute.

Someone stole my eyebrow.....you get me.

stE!!!

[Brigand]

Blown2CV said:

the tesco advert where the oppressed lying cuckold 'confesses' after 15 years marriage that he never liked spicy food after getting together with the girl under that pretence. Hope she divorces him for living a lie, and a pathetic one at that!!

"You won't tell her, will you?"

Yes I fking will tell her if it gets your mug off my screen. fk off.


(ETA: I've just noticed that the auto-censor has put a lower-case "f" on my last expletive. It should be a capital "F". I do not approve.

[poing]

Shpock

Beyond it being a really stupid name for a company the advert is just full of annoying looking people with fake smiles living in fake worlds. Then they have the catchy phrase: snap, sell, kerching!

Please make them go on fire. It's one of 2 adverts right now that make me mute the TV, the other is the baby meerkat with the snow and the annoying kids film song, flogging a dead horse there and just awful. I admit I am a grumpy old git and dislike happy clappy music anyway so that doesn't help.

[Blown2CV]

the currys PC world app where the daughter and dad are searching for a ridiculously expensive laptop for her to take travelling. Firstly she looks about 30 so not sure what it's all about for starters, although she does act about 12, and secondly he comes across as a bit of a bell. First he tells her to shush because adults are talking, then he doesn't listen to her (even though he was biffing at the start about her never listening to him) and then proceeds to tell her what she wants after only 3 seconds of talking to a sales assistant!!

[Piersman2]

poing said:

Shpock

Beyond it being a really stupid name for a company the advert is just full of annoying looking people with fake smiles living in fake worlds. Then they have the catchy phrase: snap, sell, kerching!

Please make them go on fire. It's one of 2 adverts right now that make me mute the TV, the other is the baby meerkat with the snow and the annoying kids film song, flogging a dead horse there and just awful. I admit I am a grumpy old git and dislike happy clappy music anyway so that doesn't help.

Every time I see this advert it reminds me of the best(/worst) efforts of the advertising challenge episodes on The Apprentice. I'm genuinely not sure if they are doing it on purpose though in an ironic manner or whether they are really just that ste!

[iandc]

I see the "As clean as a man called David" is back! FFS how does a kid know how clean David's rear end is!!!
Can the advert be reported to the Perv Police?