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TV ads that drive you crazy

189 replies

cornflakecrunchie · 28/09/2025 11:46

I mean, how many sweets must Haribo sell, to be able to afford to show their irritating ads SO often?

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JudgeJ · 29/09/2025 19:55

Nitgel · 29/09/2025 16:04

Molly may being obsessed with washing

Are we supposed to recognise her or her name?

FishPie2 · 29/09/2025 19:54

I watch Sky Stick to Football show and a couple of days ago they were asking Ian Wright why he did the Chicken tonight ad where he flaps his arms and dances across the screen. He said something like - I would have been a fool not to do it the amount of money I got paid, more than I got for playing football at that time - about 1999. Then Roy Keane said something similar about one he did.
The Wrighty one is very funny and still online.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:54

Mochudubh · 29/09/2025 19:49

The one where the design is done with "caad draaans"?

Oh yes...you know the one's.
At a richt good price.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:53

IAmThePrettiestManOnMyIsland · 28/09/2025 14:53

I can't stand the Muller advert of the teacher licking the lid. I actually have to switch it over.

I hate this too. ANYone licking a yogurt lid just makes me wanna hurl! 😖

Oh, and I also hate any womens pissy pads adverts - AND the 'spit blood in the sink' one advertising Corsodol I think it is. Always on at bastard MEAL times! Hmm

I hate the womens pissy pad ones because I find them offensive. (Yes I know!) Because they imply that any woman over 40 pisses herself when she laughs, coughs, or farts! I am nearly 60, and I DO NOT!!!!!!!!!

The Corsodol one is just gross.

Vintage Cash Cow. Every last ad of theirs fucks me off to the nth degree! 'Ooooh yer addicted to Vintage Cash Cow now aren't ya Doreen?' Grin And 'I have sent soooo many items off now and am soooo happy. Ooooh, that's my phone ringing! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!' 😂

Because your phone ringing is sooooooooooooooooo FUNNY! Hmm

Every one of the stupid twunts on the Vintage Cash Cow ads always has to laugh about something during the making of the ad. Just plop off!

Also, what they don't tell you is that they send you £37.50 for all the 'scrap' gold and silver and so on that you send, and then sell it on for £500!

Molly Mae and Vogue Williams and their detergent ads are annoying yes, but there are ads that annoy me way more!

JudgeJ · 29/09/2025 19:51

Nannyfannybanny · 28/09/2025 12:00

How long have you got! Vogue William and Molly Mae selling detergent. The muddy people in a field,put their dirty clothes in a washing machine..... which just happened to be there, and Peter Crouch,no, the washing DIDN'T come out that white. Yes Domino's.. one of my border collies loves the EE advert.

Is that the one with the smirking woman saying Hi I'm (somebody or other), today is laundry day, and has half a basket of very clean looking clothes? So stupid and patronising.
I really really hate the Saga Adverts, some bloke saying 'I bet you think we oldies sit around blah, blah, blah', this oldie reaches for something to throw but settles on the mute button!
Olivia Colman in Warbies, Jonathan I think it's gone far enough now, just stop these silly ads.

Mochudubh · 29/09/2025 19:49

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:31

Hey you want to hear the pseudo teucher one for Inverurie kitchens.
Oh a new bathroom.. that's just what I'm eftrer...🤮

The one where the design is done with "caad draaans"?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 29/09/2025 19:49

ginasevern · 28/09/2025 15:48

Bulky pee pants. Say no more.

I can't see that without thinking of Billy Connelly's "I'll take you home in a minute. - I'll just go and empty my underwear" Grin

TY78910 · 29/09/2025 19:48

Mama2many73 · 28/09/2025 18:23

Pesto bismol! Who the fuck thought that idea up??
The detergent where EVERYTHING is white!! Dont bloody paint with your kid with them and yourselves in white clothes!

My 5 YO loves pepto bismol. Finds it hilarious. Shows the real target audience 🤣

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 29/09/2025 19:46

All the ads for online gambling which make it look as though you're having a good old social with your friends rather than losing your wages by yourself in your bedroom.

It's not fun and friendly. It's gambling.

TY78910 · 29/09/2025 19:46

DisplayPurposesOnly · 28/09/2025 14:33

Holidays in Turkey.

All the toilet fresheners and loo paper ones that look so sterile, especially if they involve 'cute' children.

Washing ones with people clutching their collars to sniff them. Look deranged.

Haribo adults w kids' voices. Joke's well and truly worn off.

Omg the LETS GO EAST LETS GO LETS GO

i wake up and it plays in my head. SO annoying.

For me it’s the gambling ones. Not because they’re annoying in nature, they’re just exploitative.

And perfume 🤣 Cue woman walking on a mountain in stilettos. Sure, that’s exactly what that smells like

rumred · 29/09/2025 19:44

Domifuckingnos
Bulky pee pants
Any McDonald's ad
Any alcohol and showing happy drinkers - how on earth are alcohol ads still allowed?

autumn2025 · 29/09/2025 19:39

Nothing beats a jet 2 holiday

lizziebuck · 29/09/2025 19:38

Sainsburys with Wayne. ‘Use your nectar app’ ‘my what what?’ Then looks at his phone which is open at his nectar app. And it’s on every bloody break!

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:37

Debbie Magee.. getting her kitchen door fronts changed to save money.
Aye right.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:34

DiscoBob · 28/09/2025 11:58

The one with that smarmy banker played by Dominic west. His daughter really rudely asking for money and him calling her an AI.

It's so cringe it makes me feel sick!

I love that one! 😆 You know it's just a laugh/tongue in cheek right?!

I have loads I hate/that annoy me. Will come back to the thread soon!!!

CapabilityBrownsHaHa · 29/09/2025 19:34

I forgot the donkey one. My sister and I regularly phone each other and ask if we knew that the worst thing you can do to a donkey is break their heart?? Frankly, I'm going with over-work, lack of food & drink and no vet care, but what do I know?

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:32

Teuchter..

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:31

Bladderpool · 29/09/2025 16:13

There’s one in Scotland just now for Macintosh foods like stovies and macaroni cheese. It’s horrendous, a family with really bad pseudo posh Glaswegians accents saying shite like “it’s absolutely belting”. Just awful.

Hey you want to hear the pseudo teucher one for Inverurie kitchens.
Oh a new bathroom.. that's just what I'm eftrer...🤮

Merrilydancing · 29/09/2025 18:36

I hate the chewing gum one with the creepy mouth thing on the forehead.

chocolatemademefat · 29/09/2025 16:34

The Super Noodles advert where an old woman has a donkey on her shoulders. Just why???

Zoopet · 29/09/2025 16:23

Dying donkey/dog/ cat ( insert animal of your choice) begging adverts for charity.
Also that dreadful one where a woman skips down the path to a man on a bench and joyfully talks about planning her funeral.
WTF I'll finish her off now so that her family can claim a refund for her planned funeral etc.

Bladderpool · 29/09/2025 16:13

Nedeyk · 29/09/2025 16:06

I don't know if this was UK wide or just Scotland, but there was an advert for oxo cubes and the woman in it said "i think your dads been cooking"
Made my blood boil and then my husband started saying it allllll the time arghhhh

There’s one in Scotland just now for Macintosh foods like stovies and macaroni cheese. It’s horrendous, a family with really bad pseudo posh Glaswegians accents saying shite like “it’s absolutely belting”. Just awful.

Nedeyk · 29/09/2025 16:06

I don't know if this was UK wide or just Scotland, but there was an advert for oxo cubes and the woman in it said "i think your dads been cooking"
Made my blood boil and then my husband started saying it allllll the time arghhhh

Nitgel · 29/09/2025 16:04

Molly may being obsessed with washing

DonnyDoris · 29/09/2025 16:02

Not TV - but radio .... Trade Centre UK
Bloody awful shouty man - even my other half has to switch off when that comes on and he's usually oblivious!!
Quite often though we'll not switch back on for a while, so did make me wonder if radio stations do any research around listening figures pre / post certain ads....