TV Adverts you despise

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Lighthearted.

I hate that Sainsbury’s “hey big saver” ad. It really grinds my gears!

@Sux2buthen my dm just the other day was telling me she hates the advert where Mel C pulls a face, and I couldn't understand her at all as I can't see the resemblance!

I'm convinced they do it deliberately to make people talk about them

Mine is the vogue Williams click clack washing tablets. So annoying.

Also postcode lottery.

The Listerine one with the donkey that talks with a Scottish accent.
What were the advertising executives on when they dreamed that one up?

Go.compare
Meerkats
I think they started these things with no idea they would be stuck with the same gimmick so many years later

I remember telling a colleague I couldn’t stand that meerkat and her replying (totally seriously) that I must be lacking in empathy to feel that way. That was well over ten years ago and I was already heartily sick of it then.

Isn't it Daisy Ridley from Star Wars, rather than Mel C ?

On the donkey theme - the one for Supernoodles. It drags it out so much, there is always time to press Mute. Hate it.
(And I used to work for the manufacturer....)

Vogue Williams talks like a robot in the Fairy ads. It's though her top lip is stuck to her teeth

Anything Tena! (And now there is one for men too.) Involving a fish tank and a grey-haired chap in his undies.

Reeds - love Mondats job advert it's so bad vocally and cheesy

Oh I can't STAND the hype around the bloody John Lewis Christmas adverts and their ilk. Breathy simpering whispery "singing", theme which is supposed to tug on your heart strings. And then all the talk on here about whether it's any good. Just shite. It's an advert for a shop.

I was going to say the Pot Noodle one where the donkey is on the old foreign woman’s back!! At least I think it’s for Pot Noodle!

The old "I didn't know oral B made a tooth paste" used to make me angry.
What did you think Oral B was? A foot cream brand?

Oh wow. I always thought it was Tracy Beaker 🤣

The woke virgin Atlantic one.

I can't even think what a Verisure advert is. Is it regional?

The current Maltesers advert, with the really creepy man.

Meta
National Lottery
Co-op Funeral - really obviously scripted unrealistic conversations by actors planning their funerals - I know some people do this but it just seems so mercenary
Cancer charity ones with obvious actors and doctors wearing masks

Literally all ads. I only ever watch Netflix etc and stayed in a hotel recently so was reminded how awful they are!

GalaxyZ flip5 to the 'Don'tcha' song - what a bunch of arrogant posers especially that right madam in green at the end.

yes the fairy washing pods Williams's one. I literally hate it.

The tesco stuck down the well one might only make sense to people as old as me who remember Lassie.

The B&q one with the garden flipping over is awful.

Those bloody life insurance ones, 'Hello Barbara you look nice' he says, Barbara wearing polyester trousers and an anorak 'Hello Ted yes I've just been to a funeral'

Or the older lady whose granddaughter is trying to find her in hide & seek whilst she's on the phone 'I'll go ahead' and then a big dentured smile.

I often wonder who these people are that sit around their desks coming up with ideas and the big cheese says 'yes, amazing let's do this one!' They are all shit.

The Nivea saver with Louise Redknapp. My 'go to product'. Meh.

Advert. Not saver.

The ones with spotless white carpets when they've got dogs, cats, toddlers etc.

And sometimes the whole family sits together on the spotless white carpet and grins together.

This!

I wasn’t going comment, cause I get sucked in by these threads and sound like a loon after my 30th post

BUT am I the only one that doesn’t think her face is “as patchy as a world map”? Maybe we have a crappy tv but it looked like a suntanned face to me. I’m not a huge make up person or suntanner but sure that’s what faces look like when you’ve been on your holidays. What’s the moisturiser going to do anyway? Makes me think of those awful skin bleaching creams and then I’m mad way longer than the adverts last. I know airbrushing exists but this level of acknowledgment of needing to correct what’s fine is just sad.