What tv advert is annoying you at the moment?

[TemptedToSleepInTheShed]

Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but loads of adverts are annoying the hell out of me these days.

@CassieJumped

That awful Jet2 ad that has the Jess Glynne Hold My Hand on it. We flew with jet2 a few years ago and they play the 'ooh ooh' bit on loop every 15 minutes or so. Or at least it felt like it.

Jet2 are a pretty good airline but yes, the song is so annoying! They played it while we were boarding and when we landed and even the Ryanair ear-shattering fanfare is better than hearing woooohoooeoooooeoeoeoeoo.

Speaking of travel ads, since it’s nearly that time of year. A while ago I saw a really weird advert for cruises which had lines from the poem that goes ‘the sea is calling and I must go’ or something like that. It had this really dark, ominous music and showed people in a trance like state walking towards the water. I feel like I might have imagined it because I never saw it again but it was kind of freaky! It sort of implied to me that people were wandering into the sea to drown.

The Marc Jacobs Perfect advert. Different looking models except the last one. She actually is perfect looking. So much for genuine diversity.

As annoying that one is, nothing winds me up more than DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY

Special mentions to adverts where they are too cheap to even do a half assed decent dubbing job (looking at you calgon) or those soft breath acoustic breath cover breath songs.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

‘Oi make lots of little noises when oim caring for Theodore’.

I just assume she means she has a persistent personal foul wind problem and Theodore is so apparently calm because he's actually been knocked out into a deep sleep by the dreadful stench

It's not an advert but a trailer for The Cockfields I want to smash the tv in when I hear "You've got a message from Mum, Santa Claus emoji, Santa Claus emoji" over and over...and does that woman do nothing but grin inanely? Fuck off..

The current ad for 'ITV win,' just on ITV after The Chase. The man on the ad has the most supremely annoying and ridiculous voice I have ever heard.

Did anyone see the old version advert for Seronata Flowers? It was in black and white with couples and looked like it was for funeral care or similar. I said to my husband, the first time I saw it, that they'd be lucky to sell any flowers off a black and white advert! What an odd choice when you are selling something so beautiful and colourful.
The new advert is in colour but still a bit stiff.

all of them

Does anyone else like to make up their own (usually inappropriate) versions of or alternate endings to adverts? ‘My serious cocaine habit and penchant for Eastern European prostitutes? My home helped to pay for it!’

"It's not milk".
Oh yes Cravendale, it is.

As for EE and "I can't believe we just landed a plane".
Neither can I.

Wasn’t it Cravendale that used to have the slogan ‘Tastes so good, the cows want it back’? The cows want it back?!? What are they going to do; squish it back up inside their udders?

Has anyone seen the funeral plan one where Carol Vorderman is on a sofa and turns for the camera? It is cringeworthy.. and the other equity release one where she comes on with a chainsaw and chops someones for sale ad?'
Dreadful.

Charlotte Tilbury gives me the rage

Daisy daisy daisy pissing daisy "look at us all pretty and giggly with no brains". FUCK OFF.

Ruth and Eamonn "someone's been using my revitive". It's a miracle!!!

"Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

That handwash one with the Faiers woman from last year "tic tac toe", is there anything that reality lot wont cash in on?

The sad one from the very first lockdown, empty playgrounds "soon we will be running, running", that nearly pushed me over the edge!

Ditto the new Lidl ad, after nearly two years of virtual this, virtual that I dont want to see a strange virtual Christmas dinner thanks. Piss off with your laser turkey carving!

Oh and any ad that uses a song meant to be a well known song that isn't quite the song... like the one that sounds like George Michael's "Freedom" but just repeats the same bit over and over...stop it!!! It gets stuck in my head because it never gets any further.

Branston pickle. Young girl living / working away from home. In her 20's probably. Mum and Dad ring her to say they've sent her a jar of Branston. Advert / script makes them sound as if they are in their 80's. I can't get my head around it. It's all giggly and stupid and "No Boys! Eeeh, shut up Richard" Don't know why, but is pisses me off. Same as lady in teepee who says she's 50. Get a fucking 50 year old actor to play thr part! It's partly meant to mislead, and partly busy fucking lazy, sloppy stereotyping by (probably very young) marketing / Advertising bellends.

@RainbowZebraWarrior

Branston pickle. Young girl living / working away from home. In her 20's probably. Mum and Dad ring her to say they've sent her a jar of Branston. Advert / script makes them sound as if they are in their 80's. I can't get my head around it. It's all giggly and stupid and "No Boys! Eeeh, shut up Richard" Don't know why, but is pisses me off. Same as lady in teepee who says she's 50. Get a fucking 50 year old actor to play thr part! It's partly meant to mislead, and partly busy fucking lazy, sloppy stereotyping by (probably very young) marketing / Advertising bellends.

Yes!!! I forgot about this one! The whole premise of it annoys me.

I thought the daughter must be living in America or some far away place where you can’t buy Branson Pickle, but no she’s only living in London! 🤣 She could pop out to the local shop and buy one, the whole advert comes across like Northerners thinking you can’t buy Branston pickle in the South or something it’s just so weird!!

As I wrote before, everyone of these ads is doing it’s job by the very fact that you remember all the little infuriating details that hook you in, so by design they work, there job is done, the interesting thing is though, I’ve often wondered out of all the ones that are made for the same product, how & why that special one was chosen by the company.

Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, Perfect etc. Was all on offer cheap at Boots and still wouldn't buy it. So bloody annoying.

Second Viking River Cruises = floating septic tank.

Bring back the old Irn Bru adverts I say. Ones that dont take themselves too seriously and clearly did not cost a fortune. Nicola Sturgeon should be in them.

I do get what you mean @mogsrus but.. I'd never buy any of the things mentioned on here because they piss me off or just simply not interested in the products. The perfumes and life insurance and other shit -alhough I am occasionally partial to a bit of branston pickle

Reminds me of the Victoria Wiod sketch "oh no, no I'm not trying to sell you anything. Dobbely fono bodo... And in the event of a nuclear holocaust, would you be more likely, or less likely to be eating Hellmans mayonnaise?"

@RainbowZebraWarrior

I do get what you mean *@mogsrus* but.. I'd never buy any of the things mentioned on here because they piss me off or just simply not interested in the products. The perfumes and life insurance and other shit -alhough I am occasionally partial to a bit of branston pickle

I also don’t go and seek out the stuff either.

@DoncasterHombre

Can I add a radio ad in please?

Sage - accounting software. Starts and ends with some absolute pig slurping on a cup of tea and contains all the references to things being "boshed" and "smashed" in the course of actually just doing your day-to-day tasks as a self-employed person.

It also ends with a very annoying "bring on the biscuits" . . . . and it makes me want to smash up the laptop, throw things out of the window, summon every demon from hell and go on a rampage with them that finally ends this planet and all life on it.

Not keen on that one then?

@PurpleSapphire

Oh and any ad that uses a song meant to be a well known song that isn't quite the song... like the one that sounds like George Michael's "Freedom" but just repeats the same bit over and over...stop it!!! It gets stuck in my head because it never gets any further.

Yep. Gives us the rage in this house. Musician central here, and DH gets particularly annoyed when they carve the music up to fit the ad length.

I've worked in finance departments for decades and among other things, I used to train accounts staff how to use Sage. I can't begin to describe how irritating all the accounting software ads are. No, you can't just plug it in and expect it to do everything for you. Not unless you want it to produce a load of garbage. To err is human. To really foul things up, you need a computer.

@Mrsjayy

Adam Driver racing a horse in the aftershave ad wtaf Adam you are better than that

Natalie Portman shouting in her perfume Ad

Money talks! I'd race a horse on the beach, like a moron, for that kind of moolah.

As I wrote before, everyone of these ads is doing it’s job by the very fact that you remember all the little infuriating details that hook you in, so by design they work, there job is done

It is when everybody knows what product they're trying to sell; but how often do you hear people complaining about "That stupid advert for.... I think it's some kind of washing powder, or it might be fabric conditioner" ?!

I also wonder how many adverts work but drive people straight to a competitor: i.e. an ad for X Chocolate really makes you really want some chocolate, but you think X Chocolate is rank, so as a direct result of the ad, you go out and buy some Y Chocolate?!