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TV ads that drive you crazy

185 replies

cornflakecrunchie · 28/09/2025 11:46

I mean, how many sweets must Haribo sell, to be able to afford to show their irritating ads SO often?

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TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:37

Debbie Magee.. getting her kitchen door fronts changed to save money.
Aye right.

lizziebuck · 29/09/2025 19:38

Sainsburys with Wayne. ‘Use your nectar app’ ‘my what what?’ Then looks at his phone which is open at his nectar app. And it’s on every bloody break!

autumn2025 · 29/09/2025 19:39

Nothing beats a jet 2 holiday

rumred · 29/09/2025 19:44

Domifuckingnos
Bulky pee pants
Any McDonald's ad
Any alcohol and showing happy drinkers - how on earth are alcohol ads still allowed?

TY78910 · 29/09/2025 19:46

DisplayPurposesOnly · 28/09/2025 14:33

Holidays in Turkey.

All the toilet fresheners and loo paper ones that look so sterile, especially if they involve 'cute' children.

Washing ones with people clutching their collars to sniff them. Look deranged.

Haribo adults w kids' voices. Joke's well and truly worn off.

Omg the LETS GO EAST LETS GO LETS GO

i wake up and it plays in my head. SO annoying.

For me it’s the gambling ones. Not because they’re annoying in nature, they’re just exploitative.

And perfume 🤣 Cue woman walking on a mountain in stilettos. Sure, that’s exactly what that smells like

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 29/09/2025 19:46

All the ads for online gambling which make it look as though you're having a good old social with your friends rather than losing your wages by yourself in your bedroom.

It's not fun and friendly. It's gambling.

TY78910 · 29/09/2025 19:48

Mama2many73 · 28/09/2025 18:23

Pesto bismol! Who the fuck thought that idea up??
The detergent where EVERYTHING is white!! Dont bloody paint with your kid with them and yourselves in white clothes!

My 5 YO loves pepto bismol. Finds it hilarious. Shows the real target audience 🤣

Puzzledandpissedoff · 29/09/2025 19:49

ginasevern · 28/09/2025 15:48

Bulky pee pants. Say no more.

I can't see that without thinking of Billy Connelly's "I'll take you home in a minute. - I'll just go and empty my underwear" Grin

Mochudubh · 29/09/2025 19:49

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:31

Hey you want to hear the pseudo teucher one for Inverurie kitchens.
Oh a new bathroom.. that's just what I'm eftrer...🤮

The one where the design is done with "caad draaans"?

JudgeJ · 29/09/2025 19:51

Nannyfannybanny · 28/09/2025 12:00

How long have you got! Vogue William and Molly Mae selling detergent. The muddy people in a field,put their dirty clothes in a washing machine..... which just happened to be there, and Peter Crouch,no, the washing DIDN'T come out that white. Yes Domino's.. one of my border collies loves the EE advert.

Is that the one with the smirking woman saying Hi I'm (somebody or other), today is laundry day, and has half a basket of very clean looking clothes? So stupid and patronising.
I really really hate the Saga Adverts, some bloke saying 'I bet you think we oldies sit around blah, blah, blah', this oldie reaches for something to throw but settles on the mute button!
Olivia Colman in Warbies, Jonathan I think it's gone far enough now, just stop these silly ads.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:53

IAmThePrettiestManOnMyIsland · 28/09/2025 14:53

I can't stand the Muller advert of the teacher licking the lid. I actually have to switch it over.

I hate this too. ANYone licking a yogurt lid just makes me wanna hurl! 😖

Oh, and I also hate any womens pissy pads adverts - AND the 'spit blood in the sink' one advertising Corsodol I think it is. Always on at bastard MEAL times! Hmm

I hate the womens pissy pad ones because I find them offensive. (Yes I know!) Because they imply that any woman over 40 pisses herself when she laughs, coughs, or farts! I am nearly 60, and I DO NOT!!!!!!!!!

The Corsodol one is just gross.

Vintage Cash Cow. Every last ad of theirs fucks me off to the nth degree! 'Ooooh yer addicted to Vintage Cash Cow now aren't ya Doreen?' Grin And 'I have sent soooo many items off now and am soooo happy. Ooooh, that's my phone ringing! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!' 😂

Because your phone ringing is sooooooooooooooooo FUNNY! Hmm

Every one of the stupid twunts on the Vintage Cash Cow ads always has to laugh about something during the making of the ad. Just plop off!

Also, what they don't tell you is that they send you £37.50 for all the 'scrap' gold and silver and so on that you send, and then sell it on for £500!

Molly Mae and Vogue Williams and their detergent ads are annoying yes, but there are ads that annoy me way more!

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 29/09/2025 19:54

Mochudubh · 29/09/2025 19:49

The one where the design is done with "caad draaans"?

Oh yes...you know the one's.
At a richt good price.

FishPie2 · 29/09/2025 19:54

I watch Sky Stick to Football show and a couple of days ago they were asking Ian Wright why he did the Chicken tonight ad where he flaps his arms and dances across the screen. He said something like - I would have been a fool not to do it the amount of money I got paid, more than I got for playing football at that time - about 1999. Then Roy Keane said something similar about one he did.
The Wrighty one is very funny and still online.

JudgeJ · 29/09/2025 19:55

Nitgel · 29/09/2025 16:04

Molly may being obsessed with washing

Are we supposed to recognise her or her name?

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:55

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 29/09/2025 19:46

All the ads for online gambling which make it look as though you're having a good old social with your friends rather than losing your wages by yourself in your bedroom.

It's not fun and friendly. It's gambling.

Yes! 100% this.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:57

JudgeJ · 29/09/2025 19:55

Are we supposed to recognise her or her name?

She was/is a social media influencer who became a bit more famous by being on Love Island a few years ago. She had a baby with Tyson Fury's brother. (Tommy.) They're broken up now. Bit of a talentless and irrelevant nobody to be honest. Not shocked that you haven't heard of her. I have, because I do like to watch crap telly! 😆 (As well as good telly too!)

LadyLindaT · 29/09/2025 20:03

Anyone "curling up" to play bingo.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 20:05

CapabilityBrownsHaHa · 28/09/2025 16:01

Tui "Hold my hand". When will it go away??

Pepto Bismol "diarrhoea". Nuff said.

Oh yeah, the diarrhoea one. 😆 Dreadful!

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 29/09/2025 20:06

CapabilityBrownsHaHa · 28/09/2025 16:01

Tui "Hold my hand". When will it go away??

Pepto Bismol "diarrhoea". Nuff said.

I came here to say Pepto Bismol 😂 who thought that song was a great idea?! Haha!

The “hold my hand” ad is Jet2, not Tui. Agree it’s fucking annoying!!

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 20:08

Also, some of the ads in the afternoons for pension plans and funeral plans and cruises. They go on for 5 minutes. (Feels like 20!) DH and I tend to record stuff, then start watching it 20 minutes in (so we can cut out most of the ad breaks.) Or we watch it later that day. The long, way too frequent ad breaks are soul destroying. 😖

And the OMAZE house ads. ARGHHHHHHH! 😧

TY78910 · 29/09/2025 20:30

I forgot the Hellmans mayo one with a man and woman in a diner and she eats her chicken club sandwich making sex noises?!! That’s straight out of Mad Men and I don’t consider myself to be a prude

DiscoBob · 29/09/2025 20:32

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 29/09/2025 19:34

I love that one! 😆 You know it's just a laugh/tongue in cheek right?!

I have loads I hate/that annoy me. Will come back to the thread soon!!!

It's meant to be a laugh but it's not funny. I do find the one where they all sing about diarrhoea to be absolutely hilarious though! 🤣

CaveMum · 29/09/2025 20:38

Any perfume advert! They’re all utterly pretentious and if I hear “Daisy daisy daisy daisy” I start to feel stabby.

Achewyhamster · 29/09/2025 20:39

The molly mae persil/comfort ad

I said to dp that she could stand outside Tesco,handing that stuff out for free with £100 in cash and I still wouldn't use it

Those shitty nationwide adverts

Robinsons fruit juice with the kid what gets into trouble at school and his mum laughs about it

SkiAndTravelTheWorldWithMyDog · 29/09/2025 20:41

OMG there is nothing worse than the Indeed one about his salary. It gives me the rage.