We all have our favourite TV commercials, and we all have those that we hate. The kind of TV commercials that have you diving for the remote or running out of the room screaming. These companies should not be allowed to get away with it, so in the interests of humanity I’m listing a few of my pet hate TV adverts here. Add your own to the list using the comments feature below.
So without further ado, here are the contenders:
Go Compare
I HATE these adverts. The tune is so annoying it has me rushing for the knife drawer in the kitchen so that I can hack my ears off and cease the appalling pain. No doubt the geniuses in the marketing department at Go Compare believe that a tune that stays in your head all day is the same as a “catchy tune”. No, it’s not. They have no right to invade my headspace with their mindless drivel and I will now go out of my way to never use their insurance comparison service.
We Buy Any Car
Another advert with a ridiculously annoying tune. Frankly though, I find the advert just as insulting as all those “send us your mobile and we’ll send you a cheque” adverts. I am not fooled. I do not believe for one second that I would ever get anything approaching a reasonable price for my car by selling it to this lot. Frankly their advert hardly inspires confidence in their professionalism.
Any of the plethora of commercials featuring the song “Here Come the Girls”
Possibly the most overused piece of feminist drivel in commercial TV history. It annoys the hell out of me and it annoys the hell out of my wife. The current offender is Boots, who have jumped upon the bandwagon of spewing out “female solidarity” instead of actually bothering to properly market their products. Are women really that stupid? I don’t think so. Change the tune.
Marks & Spencer Food
This is not just bread, it’s traditional farmhouse bread made from the finest flour milled by Polynesian nurse maids and filtered through the digestive tracts of endangered sloths… No. It’s bread with a ludicrous price tag.
Not making enough profit from your food? Film it in slow motion, get out your thesaurus and make sure the voiceover artist is in some sort of orgasmic climax. I’d rather chew off my own testicles than shop for pretentious, overpriced food at Marks and Spencer. The one occasion I bought Marks and Spencer food (because it was late and I was at a motorway services and it was the only place open), it was a sandwich and I couldn’t finish it. It was so dry and tasteless. If they can’t even get a sandwich right, there’s probably little chance of them doing anything else. Hence the adverts I suppose.
So, there’s four of my TV commercial pet hates. What are yours?
Though it pains be to say this, one of my current hates when it comes to TV commercials has to be the plethora of Windows 7 ads current burning into my screen. Don’t get me wrong – as you know – I am huge fan of Windows 7 and I think it has been a generally successful launch to market after the disaster that was Windows Vista but those ads, man they are annoying.
That aside, I agree totally with the ‘Go Compare’ and ‘We Buy Any Car’ thoughts.
I do like Marks and Spencer sandwiches though – sorry!
..and as for all of these adverts that have the words ‘Gold’ and ‘Cash’ in them – enough already. Please.
Yeah, I particularly like the one with guarantee: “if you’re not completely satisfied, we’ll return your gold to you”.
What? As opposed to stealing it?
I particularly dislike the new Christmas Boots advert: an elderly couple are enjoying a quiet and civilised meal in a restaurant, when their evening is ruined by a large group of noisy women with the ‘Here come the girls’ song in the background. It’s too painful a reminder of occasions when my partner and I have suffered similarly…
the Boots adverts have had that annoying ‘here comes the girls’ song for about 5 years now – its not new – its the same stale advert every year .
and the Natwest advert is another – they have been re-cycling that will young ‘grace’ track for too long and it sounds like will young is having an orgasm and theres a weird sound like an alarm clock going off in the soundtrack- i dunno if they added that to trick our mind or what .
The most annoying advert of all time at Christmas has to be Sainsburys and Jamie Lisping Oliver …he makes my skin crawl and grates on my last nerve .
Im annoyed that he pops up with these miracle recipes THAT HE INVENTED – like how to put cream on a mince pie or how wonderfull it would be to serve roast parsnips with your christmas dinner -and then hes telling me about having a turkey on christmas day – hes a narcissistic media-whoring idiot …like people didnt know already !
And after hearing him lisp and spit his words – i wouldnt want to eat any of the saliva sprayed food he might have cooked .
and another … ‘EDF save today, save tomorrow’ – they are the MOST EXPENSIVE energy supplier on any comparison website .
and the ‘its not easy being green’ song -they change this a lot – the first version was very depressing and sung by a choir boy i think ….the latest version is being sung by a farmer with throat cancer – its sounds demonic .
MR go compare somewhere else. They are soo annoying it is unearable
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Go Compare has to be about the most annoying advert aired in the last 10 years.
Cosmetics adverts generally have been utterly appalling for as long as I can remember. I hated them as a child and I hate them now. More than any other type of advertising, they cash in gender stereotypes to a hilarious degree, and patronise the hell out of viewers in the process.
Good examples are Gillette (THE BEST A MAN CAN GET! being quickly outdone by the laughable fusion-collider…THING), L’oréal…oh christ, L’oréal. I’ve never heard such smug, self-satisfied tones as in that cloying American actresses’ rendition of the tagline:
“Because you’re *worth* it!”
I always internally reply, “true, I am, but you’re not.”
I’m sorry – I know I’m going to be flamed for this:
But those terrible “stroke” adverts.
I know it’s a serious issue, but watching the interminable gurning just makes me want to let them get on with it.
(I’ve worked in healthcare – so I’m not really unsympathetic)
How can you not like M&S food? It may cost more than other supermarkets, but the quality is noticeably higher. You do get what you pay for.
Well Steve, for the exact reason I stated above. All the food I’ve had from there has been crap, or not worth the elevated prices. Their sandwiches are particularly appalling. It is certainly true that you get what you pay for, but in this case the thing that you are getting is a brand name. I can almost understand people paying £100 for a piece of £10 clothing with a designer name stitched on, but food is food and the notion that only rich people can afford decent food is not only incorrect, it is abhorrent.
That distemper-ridden fleabag, Churchill, gets right up my nose. I’d euthanise it given half a chance. Now we’ve got a smarmy “Credit Expert” complete with a Chinese manservant, just like Clouseau. I hope somebody mugs him.
How about that fat slob with the horsey looking wife in the Tesco ads? Then there’s that simpering woman on the Sainsburys ads with the son who looks like a crack addict. I avoid the aforesaid supermarkets for that very reason, but am afraid I’ll bump into Alan Hansen or that rodent Hamilton in Morrisons.
Time to go back to my cave, I think.
Sheila’s Wheels – God, It is the most nauseating, worthless piece of advertising ever to hit our screens….I mean, no matter what the weather and sheila’s wheels will insure you!? Beats me, but I have never been burdoned by my Insurer according to the weather. Those pathetic bimbos should sod off back to Australia – SO annoying!
Yes, “Here Come The Girls” is annoying enough when it’s used in EVERY SINGLE bloody programme where a group of women are involved. Hearing it every other ad break on top of that is just too much.
That Waitrose advert (with Heston and Delia) is shooting up the leaderboard of shame at the moment, with music so horribly cloying it makes Mantovani sound like Megdeth.
I absolutely cannot stand the shitty fuckin boots advert. Here come the girls! I wish the girls would fuckoff our tv screens to be honest. It’s about time boots got their act together and created a new advert minus that more than shit song!
what is most annoying is NEW MAYBELINE MASCARA FEATURING A WOMEN IN FAKE EYELASHES CONNING OR WHAT?
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Its the ****ing lawyer adverts that piss me off… have you ever had an accident??? lol