Why are TV ads so irritating?

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The perfumes thread made me think of it, because the ads for the Marc Jacobs perfumes are so irritating eg

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

I'm so perfect perfect perfect perfect

And then the British Gas ads with the really loud irritating music

and the really irritating Just Eat jingle.

AAAAAGGGHHHH.

Or am I just a grumpy old woman? I know they're probably trying to be down with the kids, but kids don't watch linear TV anymore.

I still remember that insurance ad where the baby is talking articulately about life insurance and his parents looking on a mixture of smugness and wonderment.

That Guiness ad with the horses is the best ad ever!

@Appalonia
With Phat Planet by leftfield too - masterpiece

Have you seen that me as for Boss Hero where the man takes his horse for a swim ?
I think it is supposed to be an homage (or probably just copied! )

@PurpleSapphire

That ooooooooooooooh one for the card reader?
Who would EVER consider that to be witty or amusing ? Who allowed that to be made even ? They need to look for another career unless they are Hoping that it’s so horrendous it will be memorable , that’s all I can conclude really

Gladstone brooks
The one where they go ‘ooooooooooooooooooooh’
Over 40-like it’s shameful
Always-if your pissing yourself,go see a doctor
Oral b toothpaste
Go compare
Can’t remember the name but it’s a hand gel/wash-life-something
They show cartoon pictures of what it cleans and one is a nose with snot coming out
I gag everytime

Those men with baby voices. Then the adverts that go on and on but don’t indicate what the hell they are advertising unless you have good enough eye sight to read the writing at the bottom of the screen.
The dental ones where the informant has to be shown diagonally.
Ant and Dec and the bank ones.

There was a radio ad years ago for double glazing that had a really annoying jingle which repeatedly mentioned their phone number. It must be 25 years since I last heard it and I can still recite the number. Sadly annoying advertisements work.

Fortunately the really good ones can have the same result.

The M and M one that has been around for years where the guy comes home to find the woman in bed with one M and M, and the other one is perving at them from the cupboard but meant to be a look out - just weird and boring on all counts

Well you remembered it didn’t you?
Job done!

I love the one with the tortoise whizzing through traffic because of the music.

I hate all perfume ads and the Johnny Depp one makes me want to puke although I used to like him. I usually record anything important on itv or Channel 4 so I can FF through the adverts. If you use catch up you still have to watch them especially that really annoying Arnold Clark car ad.

Second Verisure but for me its the one with 2 smug couples having dinner The first one with the public school London dads was worse.

In Scotland we have ads which reference Scotland unnecessarily 'Scotland has a Champion' Blah Blah Blah Don't get me started on the Covid information films. A bossy irritating woman has her minions making salads etc then she makes them eat it outside.

@Smartiepants79

Well you remembered it didn’t you? Job done!

I suppose so if the point is to remember the ad. But I think they want you to actually BUY the product, so no, job not done! One MM shagging a woman, the other perving on them hasnt made me buy the product (though I realise I may be looking too deeply now having seen it hundreds of times!)

Me and my dd have been watching 70's and 80's adverts on you tube some are cringe but some are really great better then the ones today !!

The guy doing the loaf voiceover sounds like paddington !!

The one with the old lady telling some guy about her presumably grandchildren and their jobs. She's very weird and creepy !!

Have you seen that me as for Boss Hero where the man takes his horse for a swim

Worse IMO is the perfume one (that I cannot recall) where the woman gallops on a CGI horse along a road and up some stone steps

You'll fecking lame him you daft bat , walk

‘Like A Bosch’

All adverts are a pile of wank but perfume adverts are the most definitely wankiest of them all.

[quote BeaucoupFish]@Appalonia
With Phat Planet by leftfield too - masterpiece

Have you seen that me as for Boss Hero where the man takes his horse for a swim ?
I think it is supposed to be an homage (or probably just copied! )[/quote]
Is that the one where he comes out of the water looking like a centaur?

Unless I have missed something that horse looks like a mare. Perhaps it is supposed to be an on trend gender change type thing.

I will never, ever, buy a Marc Jacobs perfume. It could be the best smell in the world but, just no. I have to restrain myself from throwing something at the TV every time those ads come on.

Pretty much all the ads on CBS irritate me, especially the ones for programs. "Dead men don't tell tales. Only they do. That's why we're here, to tell the story for them" If you're telling the story for them, then they don't tell tales, you smug knobend.

I hate the ones like Verisure. The husband is a dick,
"did you ring"
'yes twat face, that's why you had a message to call me back/had a missed call. Anyway the neighbours got broken into'
"oh how did that happen?"
'burglars, clearly burglars.'
I'd tell him to sort out his own fucking alarm system as I am leaving him cause he is clearly an idiot in a VIJ who must be one of the DHs posted about who is incapable of doing anything in the house. Prick.

Agree with everything here

Also the celebs doing advertising now...like Beckham advertising whiskey...we shout at the telly 'dont you have enough fucking money '

One of the new Hey Duggee episodes is called the perfume badge, it's basically a piss take of perfume adverts. Go watch it on I-player.

The most irritating ones are where the company is bombarding us with their virtues rather than focusing on the product or service. Nationwide with the cringey poems read out by random people. I really don’t care about random people and their (badly written) poems. I do care about my bank providing a good service and cheap finance, and Nationwide are shit at both.

Perfume adds are crap full stop. The Marc Jacobs add actively puts me off from that brand. Would not buy it.

Same goes for the Lloyds ad with the stupid song. Sure put on a melancholic (but crap) song on in the background but why not focus on having better products.