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What TV adverts irrationally annoy you at the moment?

239 replies

MyEasterBonnet · 22/05/2026 21:13

Just a lighthearted thread, but I keep seeing a Simba advert where a guy is stacking an insane amount of biscuits up while in bed, and then his partner just acts like a dick and knocks them over, sending them flying everywhere. And the worst bit is that they’re sat on the bed and don’t have a bedsheet on.

There’s also one for blinds where the most annoying voice in the world says “It’s your home darling” and then promptly get muted by me as I hate his voice so much.

Anyone want to add any more?

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SignGrudgeBluebook · 23/05/2026 14:57

Robbie Williams advertising cat food in cartoon form is just awful. Everything about it is just awful.

Lifestooshort71 · 23/05/2026 15:04

The Neil Diamond lookalike singing Sweet Caroline to advertise some squirty mayonnaise. It's too long and he's cringe (at the end I think he says 'I'm lonely') . Possibly on Quest or Quest Red where you get the same 4 ads on repeat, every night.

FeliciaFancybottom · 23/05/2026 15:16

Claudia Winkleman's Head and Shoulder ads are excruciating; her hair looks dreadful, and I can't imagine it makes many people want to use the shampoo.

MissMoneyFairy · 23/05/2026 15:19

Pastit12 · 22/05/2026 21:33

Pepto bismal

Oh yes, it's gross.

Saladcreamormayo · 23/05/2026 15:24

MyEasterBonnet · 22/05/2026 21:23

Oh I’ve just remembered the one where there’s a guy in a bath talking about someone’s funeral, and the wife is banging on about funeral plans while standing on the other side of the door so she doesn’t look in and see her husband in the bath. And then she stands outside the open door to phone them up while he’s still having his bath.

I was going to say this one and all other funeral plan adverts. Annoys the fk out of me how excited they are to be booking their own funerals.

MarkingBad · 23/05/2026 15:27

Quite a few of them.

The co-op funeral ad with the painted stones at the end but also pretty much any funeral ad.

The heavy period pills one

All car and perfume ads, my rule of thumb is if you don't grasp what it is about it is usually a car or a perfume ad, they are bonkers.

Incontinence pants. Actually all the other ads that suggest only women's bodies fall apart as they get older and you should probably see your GP about before considering becoming a life long customer not sorting out your medical issues. 🙄

Sorry I turn off the sound on the ads. I'm starting to miss the Tango old ads.

Saladcreamormayo · 23/05/2026 15:32

Thebargeonthecanal2002 · 23/05/2026 10:48

The Trivago ad’s, the guy with the teeth to big for his mouth saying “ he didn’t check Trivago” makes me reach for the mute.

Lady in red dress who screams because he windows are being fitted badly.

Yes the turkey teeth trivago guy really irritates me too.

Crazyladee · 23/05/2026 15:32

censor22 · 22/05/2026 21:35

Oh and the Jude Law Just Eat one - “nom nom”

Cant stand it either! The way he says "It's exhausting" gives me the rage!

Saladcreamormayo · 23/05/2026 15:38

The chaser dark destroyer Sean on the Jane plan adverts. I bet he's never eaten a jane plan meal in his life.

Ladybird69 · 23/05/2026 15:39

Dominoes pizza. I have to put the tv on mute. It grates on me so much. Followed very closely by the pepto bismol one!

Crazyladee · 23/05/2026 15:39

The Holland and Barrett one where various parts of the body are singing into a microphone. Starts with a pair of knees.

The TKMaxx one with the cat with a huge shiny red shoe on its head.
The Q Casino ones give me the rage as well.

And of course the Pepto Bismol one

Juliadiesalone · 23/05/2026 15:41

Pepto Bismal is a great ad - because you’re all referencing it. That’s what ads are meant to do, alert you to the brand. So that next time you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarhhooo you will know what to get. Doesn’t matter if it irritates you.

The shit ones are all the other ones that people on here can’t even remember the name of. Waste of their money.

And yes the blinds one with the ‘darling’ man can do one

Juliadiesalone · 23/05/2026 15:42

the80sweregreat · 23/05/2026 12:05

Oh absolutely the marketing people want you to subscribe to avoid ads , so definitely making them longer and more annoying for those who just want to watch the odd programme. I can get on board with this theory tbh. I can tape and fast forwards, but I don’t always remember to do this and that can also not work sometimes or you end up fast forwarding too much and miss bits and it’s a faff. Ads used to be funny and informative, but not any more as well.

Is this serious? You know the people who own the tv channels don’t own the brands who make the adverts don’t you? People need to use their brains. Seriously

the80sweregreat · 23/05/2026 15:51

I was replying to a poster below who made the point that the ads were tedious to make us all subscribers! I was agreeing with them , but I take the point it’s not a good move for the advertisers.

Lifelover16 · 23/05/2026 16:36

The holiday adverts narrated by the loathsome Paddy McGuiness and the fat family who head straight to the buffet and cannonball into the pool.

Lifelover16 · 23/05/2026 16:40

notmoredirtywashing · 23/05/2026 11:15

the Trivago add with the bloke with horses teeth. I’d sack off the dentist who did that.

It’s Jurgen Klopp, ex Liverpool FC Manager

Sweetpea333 · 23/05/2026 16:52

@loislovesstewie I used to work with a pasty, slug like man who is just like the advert bean man. I feel sick when I see it and imagine his pale, ginger farts!

Jux · 23/05/2026 17:01

Poltrone Sofas
cat very happily and comfortably asleep in perfectly good chair. Cat removed by owner, perfectly good chair chucked out of window. Sofas tried out. Cat clearly doesn’t like any of them as it is not in evidence AT ALL thereafter.

i personally would have hung onto the chair simply because the cat likes it, maybe repositioned it, certainly not chucked it out. If my cat wasn’t even curious about a new sofa then the sofa would be exchanged for another, and another, and another. But that wouldn’t be necessary as I would have kept the chair in the first place.

Curveygirl · 23/05/2026 17:03

The All Clear couple. They seem to be on Sky News at evert ad break. He looks so smug as though he's ran and won a marathon while similtaniously solving the issues in the middle east, the col crisis and world hunger while she smiles at him like he's rabbit on full speed. They're awful.

Pinepeak2434 · 23/05/2026 17:05

Sanitary wear adverts referencing “gushing”

PlacidPenelope · 23/05/2026 17:06

The Pepto Bismol one.
The Sure All Body Deodorant one.
The ones about mattress toppers that go on and on and one and on.

The one that currently irritates me the most is one about Life Insurance for oldies where the mum has taken up Jujitsu and throws her son on the floor, the way the mum talks and pronounces Jujitsu makes me want to karate kick her into outer space.

Yellowpapersun · 23/05/2026 17:07

Bulky pee pants.

Jux · 23/05/2026 17:08

Oh, and the awful awful guy who keeps deliberately messing up his clothes so he can wash them oh so easily. Wasting water? Don’t worry about it, look! no coffee on shirt is most important thing. (DOn’t deliberately drip it in the first place. Twat.)

Jux · 23/05/2026 17:10

I automatically mute ads these days.

JohnTheRevelator · 23/05/2026 17:10

I've noticed that none of the beds in the Simba mattresses adverts have a sheet on them! Rather odd.