Worst Advert Evah

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Not so much a taking sides... cos in the "Don't... don't you want me, baby?" thread that Fiat advert is proclaimed Worst Advert Evah, but some of the ones at the moment (especially Woolworths) are running it incredibly close...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 7 December 2002 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I nominate every single radio spot running in North America today. Has anyone heard that DirectTV (?) spot with the hockey players singing Christmas carols? MUST SMASH RADIO NOW

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 7 December 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I would like to nominate that really stupid KFC one where they have the weakest joke ever ("100% real chicken, 100% real chicken" / "Unreal!!!") coupled with an actor portraying what has to be the world's dimmest KFC employee (how difficult is it to grasp the simple (though possibly untrue) fact that KFC's burgers are made from, of course, real chicken?).

Also that Sensodyne ad with the attractive yet unpleasntly smug (and sadistic) dark haired woman. She seems to pop up in all sorts of adverts, actually, and is unpleasently smug in all of them.

Oh, and how can I forget the bloody Mr Frosty ads? Fucking LIES. Your average Mr Frosty machine would be hardpushed to crush paper, let alone ice.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 7 December 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Homemade TV ads by local businesses, where the business owner a) sits at a desk and reads their lines hesitantly off a cue card b) leaps around their car lot grinning stupidly.

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 7 December 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The nervous smile and false emPHAsis are the best things about those ads. Ooh, except when they are wearing an obvious toupee.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 December 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

my nominations:
"I'm Janie Porsche and I saved Christmas" Oh really?

and that car ad that is using "Cars" as the song. That freaked me out more than "London Calling" in the Jaguar ad. Isn't it pretty obvious that "cars" is not a celebratory song?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 7 December 2002 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's that hideous little bastard-child on the Sun Alliance adverts? "Granma what's an index-linked pension?" "Step closer to this deep hole and I will tell you. Closer. CLOSER."

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Sunday, 8 December 2002 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Homemade TV ads by local businesses, where the business owner a) sits at a desk and reads their lines hesitantly off a cue card b) leaps around their car lot grinning stupidly.

Cock Ring Warehouse!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 8 December 2002 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

You can still buy Mr Frosty machines???????

― michael (michael), Sunday, 8 December 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

How about the one where the girl waits on the curb for her bf to come out of the car once he's finished singing along to "American Pie". Then she teases him with "You're such a dork..." and they flounce off to the beach. But by God you really ARE a dork if you drive a yellow Chevy Cavalier (I think that's it) and like "American Pie". If it was a slightly less dorky car the ad might work.

― Aaron A., Monday, 9 December 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i hate those IAMS adverts that seem to be claiming that your dog/cat will die a lot quicker if you don't give it this certain brand of pet food.

then there are the carphone warehouse adverts done in the style of rspca 'a dog is for life, not just for christmas' information scare films - footage of people opening bin bags and retrieving live phones. ick.

― koogs, Monday, 9 December 2002 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

'You text a lot, don't you?'
'How did you know?'
'It's just a feeling I had'

Yes, kids, the folks at The Link are PSYCHIC!

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, the Link one is the creepiest (as well as the gayest) thing evah. Ooh but I REALLY hate those patronising monstrosities which are for some nasty processed sauce or something: 'it's not just your eldest who can express himself'/'why only experiment in the bedroom' yuck yuck kill me now.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

So many adverts encourage my rage at the moment. That Carphone Warehouse one is indeed sick as. It actually shocked me slightly the first time I saw it, that warping of really serious imagery into phone-fashion-conscious twaddle with Ed Byrne being chirpily Irish on the voiceover. Ewww.

Also Marks & Spencer are mostly making me spit with their celebrity grab-bag ad proclaiming that the shop is filling the world with 'Magic & Sparkle'. Damn their eyes.

Of course, nothing is as horrible as aol adverts with THAT BLOODY WOMAN. Fortunately they don't seem to be spending much money on TV slots at present.

Must go to the Victoria & Albert to see the D&AD Awards exhibition: 40 years of fine advertising: http://www.dandad.org/events_frame.html

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh too many colons. Maybe a good title for a mashups CD?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I must also go!!! Liz I want to go!! I wanna I wanna!!!

Actually after looking at 'Beanz Meanz Heinz', I just want a baked bean toastie.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Starry my child, you _shall_ go to the V&A. Just wander down there on the weekend, or even after work if you're feeling cheeky.

Ooh! Baked bean toastie?! I never thort of that before...you could put cheez in as well and it would go all gooey and stuff. 'Beanz Meanz Heinz' = copywriter earning their pay. See above for laxer examples of humangity.

Rewind = title of exhibition = makes me think of Craaaig David (when the crowd say "bo!")

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 December 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

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― My Eyes!, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

erm.....is this real?!

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

No, it is not real.
Read the text under "Lickable"

― Chris Bergen (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc0Cpp4Lz5A

― visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

cf: feminism threads, marketing of masculinity, etc etc etc etc etc

― visit europe more (acoleuthic), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

God, that advert is mad creepy rapey and makes me die a little inside every time I see it.

― ailsa, Monday, 9 August 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgCzKQJyWdk

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 21:17 (twelve years ago)

this back to '96 bullshit has got to stop.

― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:11 (twelve years ago)

there are individual videos devoted to each of those imaginary people but i'm not sure i can manage to watch those

― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:35 (twelve years ago)

nothing says "real lad" like being a mug punter

― Tributes as popular Lichfield cat dies (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 May 2014 06:28 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

Blimey, old thread..

Anyway..

Barclays over fifties life insurance.

Grandads funeral, back at the house.

Everyone smiling, happy, sunny day, jokes about grandads crap DIY skills and his tiny shorts, but also how the daughter is off travelling thanks to what was left her in his will.

I'm surprised they didn't break into the hokey cokey!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:08 (eight years ago)

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