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AIBU?

I feel as clean as a spoon in a circus. Oh just do one. Aibu to hate this advert now?

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witchofzog · 09/11/2017 09:38

It might have been a smidge funny the first time but now it's not cute and it's as boring and irritating as fuck. Is it just me who hates the Andrex advert?

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timeforabrewnow · 09/11/2017 15:23

who pissed on your cornflakes? No one switches off the TV because of a 20 second ad.

Yes - I do actually
Definitely for the nauseating ad referred to in the OP

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SpitefulMidLifeAnimal · 09/11/2017 15:30

That AA advert - the kid's voice singing along with TT really grates on me. Also, those godawful Haribo ads.

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soupforbrains · 09/11/2017 15:32

Spiteful entirely agree on the AA ad. there isn't even any point to it!

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SelmaAndJubjub · 09/11/2017 15:33

YANBU. They are cringeworthy. Do Andrex really think we are too stupid to realise they are scripted? Bring back the pups!

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BatShite · 09/11/2017 15:36

As clean as a washed potato does my head in. I don't know why it grates so much.

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AngeloMysterioso · 09/11/2017 15:39

The Queen cover song ones drive me nuts, but the one giving me the rage at the moment is that insipid woman singing a cover of Ain’t Nobody with all the lines in the wrong order and a bloody awful voice. I have to mute it.

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toffee1000 · 09/11/2017 15:40

I’ve not seen this Andrex one.
Go Compare man can go do one.
Haribo ad is weird.
Mostly it’s all Christmas ads now though.

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SistersOfPercy · 09/11/2017 15:49

The AA one is doubly annoying. Singing child is freaky but singing childs Dad is the hugely irritating son from the old Tesco Christmas Ads.
Now him I could have happily punched.

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derxa · 09/11/2017 15:53

British Seniors ad. Everything about it is wrong!
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KurriKurri · 09/11/2017 15:55

Hate the 'clean as a.....' (and the kid who wants to make a rocket because he's been waiting aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages for the Fairy to finish)

My most hated is 'Jo Jo (wtf?) - with her 'I wrote to Lidl and told them their wine tasted like gnat's piss and they gave me a free holiday to France instead of telling me to fuck off and shop elsewhere'

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witchofzog · 09/11/2017 16:22

I remember the annoying boy who wanted to do a poo at Paul's house. I am sure Paul was just delighted Hmm

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witchofzog · 09/11/2017 16:25

derxa There is a new one now. Starring the worst actress ever who was in the British Seniors garden centre advert. The one who said "I couldn't afford a funeral like thaaaaat" Confused. She is just as bad in the new one. She MUST be married to someone on the production team. There is no way she was the best person to audition

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derxa · 09/11/2017 16:32

The one who said "I couldn't afford a funeral like thaaaaat"
She's acting all jealous about the funeral with the star gazer lilies but the fact is the poor woman's dead Confused

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Butterymuffin · 09/11/2017 16:34

derxa That one is mind-bendingly terrible! Just imagine identifying with someone who is jealous of their dead pal cos they had such a lovely funeral Confused

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Theresamayscough · 09/11/2017 16:35

Laughing at this thread.

Yes the over 50s funeral ones with ‘star gazer Lilly’s were Janes favourite’ Jane was dead so didn’t see them or care.

The guaranteed buy back guarantee or such bollocks.

Not like back in the day with the ‘secret lemonade drinker’ Wink

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GeillisTheWitch · 09/11/2017 16:37

the one giving me the rage at the moment is that insipid woman singing a cover of Ain’t Nobody with all the lines in the wrong order and a bloody awful voice

This, see also the Fairy one with Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes.

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BluthsFrozenBananas · 09/11/2017 16:42

I kind of like the British Seniors ads in a so bad they’re good way, the acting is just awful in them and they look they’ve been shot on old vhs and styled on a budget 50p.

I do like the ‘what doing’ dog ones, especially the one in the park where the other dog wants his toy thrown but won’t let the owner have it ‘no take, just throw’ that’s spot on dog logic. I’ve no idea what they’re Accor though so I’m that sense they’ve failed as an advert.

Lisping children comparing the cleanliness of their bums to random objects can do though, absolutely.

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SistersOfPercy · 09/11/2017 16:45

I admit the one for holiday insurance with the old folk at the pool amuses me, it's the bit where she says 'And "i've got my hip" followed by the bloke at the back with "And I've got my..." and she cuts him off with "NIGEL!"

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GallicosCats · 09/11/2017 17:00

I hate those toothpaste ads with earnest, implausibly young and good-looking 'dentists' telling us we should just keep using the toothpaste to stop our teeth hurting. Just get lost and get on to your next advert audition.Hmm

Although the Corsodyl ones are surreal in their nightmarishness. Bleeding teeth? The express train to tooth loss? Seriously weird and twisted.

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toffee1000 · 09/11/2017 17:12

Doesn’t Corsodyl contain alcohol which is actually bad for cleaning teeth/damaging in some way??
The “dentists” are always some young pretty woman, often from a minority background. I wonder if they’re actual dentists too; probably not. I find it weird that they go “I recommend Sensodyne” “I recommend Oral B” like one brand is really that different from the other, surely all dentists care about is that you clean your teeth twice a day with whatever toothpaste you have.

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EmilyChambers79 · 09/11/2017 17:41

Hate the Andres advert and the stupid Haribo ones. Haven't seen a good advert for a while though I did quite like the Aldi one where the lady was sat at the table comparing tea bags and she says she prefers the gin!

I loved the John Lewis Man in the Moon Christmas advert, cried buckets at that but I think that's because it was the first Christmas without my Dad and it just got to me.

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Beerwench · 09/11/2017 17:45

The andrex one is annoying. But top of my list is the yoghurt one with the woman who always gets it on her nose when she 'falls over'. Cringy in the extreme IMO.

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soupforbrains · 09/11/2017 17:49

OH MY GOD. BeerWench you are AVSOLUTELY right. Nicole SkirtSwinger, who is appallingly wooden and fake and eeeeuuuurrrrghhh!!!!

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Biker47 · 09/11/2017 17:51

"I like the eggs, because they look like flying saucers"

Surely they look more like eggs :/

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fairgame84 · 09/11/2017 17:55

YADNBU bring back the pups or even the toddlers in suits.
There's a life insurance one that's on during the day that grated on me. Might be Clearcover or something like that.

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