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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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Inventorofthetoasterstreudel · 24/05/2026 19:08

That awful Venus intimate one with the annoying woman that people younger than me are probably supposed to recognise.

The script, the delivery, the aggressive way she tells her friend she’s shaving wrong. Just hate it all, I get second hand embarrassment for her watching it don’t know why though, I’m sure she was well paid.

eta-just seen someone else has already mentioned this one. Still horrendous.

Jux · 24/05/2026 21:30

@sasshtry natural live yoghurt, much better.

Juliadiesalone · 24/05/2026 22:32

SockPlant · 24/05/2026 16:13

unless you are absolutely contrary like me. I am very petty and i will avoid a product if i hate the ad with no problems. To the point that i have asked for the best competitor for X product in a shop.

Wow, you’re so not like the other girls. #unique

Romeiswheretheheartis · 24/05/2026 22:32

The one where Clare Balding is out walking with a friend and the friend's struggling. Clare gives her a real eye-roll look and says something like 'It's only 10 more steps to the carpark' in a very Head-girl voice. I'd tell her where to go if I was the friend. I think it's for some sort of spa thing thats meant to fix achy legs.

Chamb · 24/05/2026 23:05

The stupid fucking gravlax bloke. Partly because he looks like Mick Hucknall but mainly because the sort of person who's never heard of gravlax is not going to order gravlax. In the real world, he'd look it up on his phone and go 'urgh, raw fish' and make a puke face in front of his GF's parents.

FleurDeFleur · 24/05/2026 23:25

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.

Then he lifts his shirt up so we can all admire his newly reduced abdomen.
I saw wanted Bradley Walsh to comment at that point.

FleurDeFleur · 24/05/2026 23:28

Romeiswheretheheartis · 24/05/2026 22:32

The one where Clare Balding is out walking with a friend and the friend's struggling. Clare gives her a real eye-roll look and says something like 'It's only 10 more steps to the carpark' in a very Head-girl voice. I'd tell her where to go if I was the friend. I think it's for some sort of spa thing thats meant to fix achy legs.

I was hoping she'd jump on Balding's back at that point and dig in her heels.

FleurDeFleur · 24/05/2026 23:32

MynameisnotJohn · 23/05/2026 20:37

I don’t know it but going by this thread the Pepto Bismol marketing team has played a blinder.
That ad with the toothy bloke who has racks of dingy white t shirts then washes them and they’re all white. He’s so dreadful I think he must be famous. Who is it?

That really tall goalkeeper with the very glamorous wife? Peter Crouch.

MyAutumnCrow · 24/05/2026 23:37

Gatekeeper · 23/05/2026 07:42

We call it the Pepto Abysmal ad in our house

We’re only articulate enough to manage ‘that pink shite’.

SockPlant · 24/05/2026 23:38

Juliadiesalone · 24/05/2026 22:32

Wow, you’re so not like the other girls. #unique

No need for that. Companies that annoy me when I can get something as good can get in the bin.

You do you, though.

SockPlant · 24/05/2026 23:39

FleurDeFleur · 24/05/2026 23:32

That really tall goalkeeper with the very glamorous wife? Peter Crouch.

(Psst. Not a goalie. Yes, I am not like other girls so much that I know about football too)

TheKittenswithMittens · 24/05/2026 23:40

Bulky pee pads.

MyAutumnCrow · 24/05/2026 23:43

I have met Peter Crouch in real life. He is very very very tall. And he was lovely to all the young kids in the room who he spent ages bending down at a 90 degree angle to speak to.

He’s a forward. Quite good at the headers, by all accounts. Can’t think why.

LondonLass61 · 25/05/2026 00:32

I can’t stand all the gambling and bingo ones - the ads try to portray them as a fun, party product when in fact, the gambling companies just want their money.
I recently saw three gambling ads in one break.

FleurDeFleur · 25/05/2026 05:36

MyAutumnCrow · 24/05/2026 23:43

I have met Peter Crouch in real life. He is very very very tall. And he was lovely to all the young kids in the room who he spent ages bending down at a 90 degree angle to speak to.

He’s a forward. Quite good at the headers, by all accounts. Can’t think why.

6' 7", very tall. I thought he was a goalkeeper? Perhaps a striker? Don't know.
Now retired.
Seems like a nice bloke.

Illjusthavethebreadsticks · 25/05/2026 08:16

There was a terrible one recently for an upmarket care home, two lads discussing their gran moving into it and basically dissing less luxurious ones.

MynameisnotJohn · 25/05/2026 08:25

Thanks for the Peter Crouch reveal. I’ve heard of him but didn’t know that was him - only that he must have been picked for being famous!
Don’t mind the Diarrhoea hHUH ad.

Allseeingallknowing · 25/05/2026 14:21

Illjusthavethebreadsticks · 25/05/2026 08:16

There was a terrible one recently for an upmarket care home, two lads discussing their gran moving into it and basically dissing less luxurious ones.

Nothing wrong with wanting the best for Gran!

Allseeingallknowing · 25/05/2026 14:25

YoBetty · 24/05/2026 15:59

There must have been so many bloopers when they were filming that advert - how could you do those lines and not laugh?

Bring back Harry Hill's TV Burp - he would have done a brilliant skit of that.

I imagine a patient going into the GP surgery, the GP saying” what’s the problem?” and the patient starts, ‘ I’ve got nausea, indigestion……..!

Errolwasahero · 25/05/2026 18:00

Yep pretty much all of these. The mouth in the head thing and stupid ‘buffet boy’ make me feel physically ill though.

SignGrudgeBluebook · 25/05/2026 18:39

midnight1331 · 24/05/2026 12:55

Any of the Tesco Woosh ones! My theory is they have to order Tesco Woosh as they’re so insufferable no one will serve them on the shop 🤣 the karate lady is the worst!

Tesco have lost the plot with their adverts. They have been appalling for years.

BigAnne · 25/05/2026 18:55

The one with the couple sitting up in bed and she hints at him to buy her a solitaire diamond ring. Can't remember what the product is but she gets on my wick.

ImthatBoleyngirl · 25/05/2026 18:58

The Always Gush advert
The Tena advert
The Poo yourself in Labour advert

I know they're to normalise these things, but it just gives immature lads / men another reason to take the piss out of us. Plus they're just annoying!

We used to have such good adverts in the 80s and 90s, they're just all shit now.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/05/2026 05:08

Yes @Livingthebestlifei heard it the other day and thought what is that awful singing. The concept is nice, granny singing a lullaby from far away but it's a horrible song and she doesn't sing well. I'd say the baby is just pretending to sleep to shut her up.

Sheknowsaboutme · 26/05/2026 06:14

Anything about vaggy dryness, willy not working or itchyness around vaggy. No need for it to be advertised on tv. Just have a quiet word with the chemist

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