Tesco festive adverts with Ruth Jones....

[Postitblue]

The one where she has her son help with the shopping and can't string a sentence together/ bumps into son and tries to hide the fact she's having a NYE party. Surely I cannot be alone in thinking these are pretty shyt and annoying!!!

[OryxNotCrake]

The Tesco ads are awful. Beyond awful even. I'd ask what the actors were thinking but I'm guessing it was the large cheque.

The best Christmas ad by far was the Vodafone one with the turkey.

[MrsJayy]

Retro Sparkling

[Sparklingbrook]

I am now hating the Thomson one eyed bear ad and the tedious Center Parc bears.

[Sparklingbrook]

What's in them MrsJayy? still grey mush masquerading as mushroom?

[shazzarooney99]

These advert absolutely make me cringe, i hate em.

[Orange1969]

Awful - not a fan of R Jones anyway, but the ads are dreary.

[SwedishEdith]

Awful. But I think Ruth Jones will advertise anything (that dreadful Sky one with Robert Lindsay a few years ago) so has no credibility anyway.

As an aside - "Sparkling" - Rob Lowe is being fantastically sleazy on BBC2 atm.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

I like a nice vol-au-vent - chicken, mushroom, or prawn - but why call it a stupid, confusing name? How does that help anyone?

[YetAnotherHelenMumsnet]

but she wrote Gavin and Stacey! And I know Corden's done well but I've always credited her as the real brainz there. So how come she (or indeed Ben Miller) didn't just WRITE BETTER WORDS? And why didn't they point out that their son reads as just an annoying bloke in the queue in the first ad and a mystifying baby man in all the others? WHY DID THEY SAY NOTHING?

[Pipbin]

And I think they said all their party food cooks at the same temperature - which I thought yes thanks that is a good idea someone had - a moment of joined up thinking, which is noteworthy these days!

And is something that M&S came up with years ago.

[Cleo81]

I thought the worse one was the one before Christmas when they advertise that they brand match. Where they save all of 89p on a pack of rice crispies. Oh quick I must rush to tesco to save my 89p! They are so out of touch.

[YetAnotherHelenMumsnet]

And now I want a vol au vent.

[Sparklingbrook]

I want a vol au vent too. But I will buy mine from Iceland just to show Tesco. They had frozen sandwiches last year.

IMO all party food that is warmed up in the oven ends up as a huge greasefest.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

I only mention it really as that's literally the only bit that registered at all Pip.

The rest of it was just so confused, bizarre, and plain dire that it completely passed me by

[MrsJayy]

So do I love them even mushy mushroom

[LineyReborn]

Are they trying to channel Bless This House? Because that was shit, and the Tesco add is shitter than that. It's just lazy and irritating.

[leccybill]

I spent £40 on food shopping in Tesco today (more fool me) and saved £0.01 with Brand Match. Woo-hoo.

[IvyWall]

Terrible toe-curlingly bad

Dire script

How could these ads see the light of day?

[NorksAreMessy]

The stalking one is SERIOUSLY creepy.
Clearly there were NO women at all checking this advert before it went out. YUKYUKYUKYUK

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

OH GOD! NOW I KNOW WHY I RECOGNISE HER!

RUTH JONES!

Gutted now I realise. I thought she looked like one of the Nolans but couldn't work out which one. Now I'm going to cry.

Ruth Jones, what have you done...

[Sparklingbrook]

Yes Norks do they not have focus groups any more? They should have run it past MN first we would have told them how crappy it was.

[Girlfriend36]

Those fucking ridiculous adverts make no sense !! I am also deeply disappointed in Ruth Jones, what has she done indeed

[Sparklingbrook]

I have just seen the one with Rob Brydon on the cruise again.

[liinyo]

I agree with everything people have said (irritating, crap scripts, patronising, vooley voolays) but they make me cry with laughter. Except for the gluten free Latimer one. That is a master class in how to humiliate a child , but as DD tells me, I am probably overthinking it.

Also, never seen the CO-OP one. Sounds brill.

[YetAnotherHelenMumsnet]

He's got a hair transplant to pay for, Sparkling... he'll do anything.
FYI I am telling you because you are clearly discerning individuals but the Iceland sourdough pizzas are fantastic, FANTASTIC I tells you. £1.79 for a ten incher.