bad commercials

[Dell19]

Zoom Zoom

I hate it.

That now reminds me of scrubs.

I quite like some adverts, at least the first time they show them.

 

[King Flevance]

BEEP BEEP! DOT COM!
TO SHOP FOR CARS ONLINE!

*me frantically searches for the remote to change the channel ASAP*

EDIT:If I am on the brink of sleep this song will make my heart stop and scare the hell out of me. I went back through to read some of the others as well. Sounds like alot of the ones I dislike are already posted. Like the new "Lymon's" and that freakin Gieco Gecko.

 

[azzaman333]

Beer ads are awesome. I only wish there were more of them...

Car ads are the absolute worst. You havent seen a bad car ad until you've seen any of the Ford ads shown on tv here.

(btw, I'm spartacus )

 

[Mr. Do]

Have there been no Brits in this thread yet? I'm amazed. (Well, apart from the previous poster)

Currently 90% of all adverts over here suck, because they are nearly all implying that by buying their product, you'll be showing your love for football, and support for ENGERLAND in the world cup.

The worst of the bunch, by far, has got to be Asda though... there's something about choruses of kids singing really bad old songs. Everytime I hear, "Vindaloo, na na naaaaaaaa", I reach for the mute button, and appallingly, the ad was in the break of every TV show I watched last night. I hate hate hate it.

They're not all bad though, I'll happily divert my attention to watch the new Becks advert (With the Flaming Lips playing as some actor does a groovy dance next to animated versions of himself) or the Citroen C4 Transformer ad

 

[Truronian]

The worst of the bunch, by far, has got to be Asda though... there's something about choruses of kids singing really bad old songs. Everytime I hear, "Vindaloo, na na naaaaaaaa", I reach for the mute button, and appallingly, the ad was in the break of every TV show I watched last night. I hate hate hate it.

I love that advert now Owen has been ruled out of the world cup. Something hilarious about Asda advertising with the player who fell over, injuring himself for 5 months.

 

[Mr. Do]

Well I'll make do with the pizza hut advert with Owen locked in the closet. You can almost imagine that's what's really happened...

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Have there been no Brits in this thread yet? I'm amazed. (Well, apart from the previous poster)

Currently 90% of all adverts over here suck, because they are nearly all implying that by buying their product, you'll be showing your love for football, and support for ENGERLAND in the world cup.

The worst of the bunch, by far, has got to be Asda though... there's something about choruses of kids singing really bad old songs. Everytime I hear, "Vindaloo, na na naaaaaaaa", I reach for the mute button, and appallingly, the ad was in the break of every TV show I watched last night. I hate hate hate it.

They're not all bad though, I'll happily divert my attention to watch the new Becks advert (With the Flaming Lips playing as some actor does a groovy dance next to animated versions of himself) or the Citroen C4 Transformer ad

I already mentioned the 'Esure' commercial with 'calm down dear' moron. Thankfully they're mostly gone, except he's been replaced by a mouse.

 

[azzaman333]

(Well, apart from the previous poster)

Wait... did you just call me a Brit? Me? A Brit? Incase you cant see the "Location:" part of the profile, ill show it to you.

Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia
I'll repeat.
Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Wait... did you just call me a Brit? Me? A Brit? Incase you cant see the "Location:" part of the profile, ill show it to you.

Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia
I'll repeat.
Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia

Damn colonials, regardless

 

[Evil Tyrant]

I don't like Burger King comercials, they are dumb and their mascot is a creepy abomination with dubious sexual orientation. I think Burger King should sack their advertising agency and hire a new one, because I don't particularly like any of their ads, even ones without the mascot.
I don't like car ads, they are annoying and I don't really care, if I am going to buy a car, I wont be taking the advice of some guy on tv.
I also dislike the petmeds ad, it was very long and boring when it was new and running for several years has not improved it any.

 

[Mr. Do]

Wait... did you just call me a Brit? Me? A Brit? Incase you cant see the "Location:" part of the profile, ill show it to you.

Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia
I'll repeat.
Location: Croydon Hills, Victoria, Australia

I saw the word "Croydon" in the corner of my eye after seeing the avatar, and put two and two together to come up with 5. Regardless, I apologise whole-heartedly to my countrymen for confusing an Aussie with one of us.

 

[Paradigne]

Hmmm talk about your North and South divide... LOL

 

[Grisu]

the burger king ad with Oliver Kahn is pretty stupid, IMHO

then, of course, all ringtone ads, they cater to idiots, so the ads are particularly idiotic...

the only manufacturers that can produce decent car ads seem to be the french. the baguette, weisswurst, sushi-ad is simply hilarious.

 

[Mr. Do]

Saw another ad that deserves a slating today, though not on TV. Burger King are again the culprits, with the ad showing how they'll give you extra mayo or ketchup on your burgers... and how do they do this? They show a football fan with metchup and mayonnaise smeared all across his face to make the England flag (red cross on white background). It's freaking disgusting, the people who come up with this stuff must be utterly ********.

I look forward to an ad campaign from McDonalds to counter BK, perhaps they could show a hamburger made of poo, with the caption, "McDonalds: we're the ****".

 

[7ronin]

Example: 9 full grown Chinese adults in an elavator are bending over and sniffing this 6 year old Chinese girl because her school uniform was washed in Tide. Does this creep anyone else out?

The Chinese have apparantly stumbled upon a treasure trove of 1950's U.S. commercials that they are copying. That kind of theme was typical back then. Just give them sixty years to catch up.

 

[LLXerxes]

Those new lemon-lime "lymon" commercials drive me insane. They are just literally stupid. I mean the image of a two huge fat guys, one yellow, one green, running in a forest to rub their bellys on a kid is just flat out disturbing.

That's the only half-decent one they can pump out. The other one with the eye and the mouth... very very disturbing.
Geico and Capital One should shut up. Geico is a stupid annoying gecko being a stupid whack off and pretending to be cute by his whole 'You're at a party if you get ripped off at our website!' gag. And Capital One used to be cute, but now it's all about people getting hurt without doing anything to advertise their problem.

In fact, I hate any commercial that goes too much for the gag without saying ANYTHING about the product. Geico, anybody?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Some of the Geico commercials are funny, ie the "But I did just save a lot of money on car insurance by switching to Geico!" following a ridiculous setup unrelated to car insurance. But yes, the gecko must die.

 

[Leonel]

Oh! Another terrible commercial! Those Honey Nut Cherrio ad's! AUGH! Especially the one where it's a restraunt that serves only Cherrios and they're like "Oh this looks yummy!"

 

[Elta]

who hates the gecko‽‽‽‽‽‽
Now that I've mastered his accent I am sure I can move to the UK and fit in
Trust me the commercials in mexico are ooooooo so bad

Can I use my frequent flyer miles for canada?
NO
how about cancun?
NO but, You can watch me do the robot *comences robot*


...lets not forget this

 

[Leonel]

...lets not forget this

Oh yes! McDonald's! i'm lovin' it! What a moronic ad campaign! What percentage of the potential customer population is that kind of urban? What, 0.5%? That annoyed me for the longest time but overall I think we increase our tolerance to terrible ad's.