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Favourite and least favourite TV ads

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Shinamae Wed 12-Feb-25 10:56:03

I love the Gingsters (pasties)ad and also I think the Specsavers ads are really clever
The one that really gets to me is Andrex it’s just so weird
I’m not sure if we see the same adverts in all parts of the country 🤷‍♀️

Marilla Wed 12-Feb-25 11:06:04

I like the Specsavers adverts too. The music for East Anglian Railways is excruciating and I have to grab the remote control to turn it down. Curry’s adverts are very silly and infantile.

Grandmabatty Wed 12-Feb-25 11:17:37

I don't like any adverts these days. They aren't amusing, catchy nor witty. Previous adverts I did appreciate were the Smash one with the robots, the Oxo family and the coffee ones that told a story

Indigo8 Wed 12-Feb-25 11:19:26

No favourites. They all just interrupt whatever I am watching, especially annoying when it's a film.

Least favourites; the big man in the small bath, the pee pant women, the various men and women who go into ecstasies about various cleaning products and smells. I could go on but I won't as they have all been mentioned before on other threads.

tanith Wed 12-Feb-25 11:20:08

Don’t watch them and turn the sound off when the adverts come on. Mostly they are annoying.

Bellasnana Wed 12-Feb-25 11:28:30

I have to mute most of them. My particular bugbears are the smug Derek in the garden centre waxing lyrical about his Sun Life plans, the bulky pee pants woman (which always seems to come on just as I’m eating my dinner) ditto the ‘oh my gush moment’ woman.
All of the funeral plan ads but particularly the twee woman talking through the door to her large husband who is in the bath.

Also can’t stand the huge Kellogg cockerel parading through the city, nor the Lucozade ad, nor the bloke who whistles, can’t think what it’s for.

I wonder what they get paid for coming up with this drivel?

I like the Gillette ad as the tune is nice, and the Haribo policemen.

dragonfly46 Wed 12-Feb-25 11:30:37

We avoid adverts by recording programmes.

Rula Wed 12-Feb-25 11:37:59

I like the Airbnb adverts. Strangely! I just love the little characters and the story line of growing family etc etc

However I'd not go on an Airbnb trip so the ad hasn't worked too well for me!

I don't think I like the poor chicken being surrounded by zombies but I like the music.

I can't stand the gush adverts for tena lady nor the one with Scarlet from Gogglebox telling us how easy it is to insert a tampax. It wasn't 50 years ago and I doubt it's much easier now.

Most adverts today are awful.

Cossy Wed 12-Feb-25 11:40:48

I’m not sure I have any advert I like anymore!

I loathe all the sanitary ads, the incontinence ads and the blonde woman on the mobility aids ad.

Cossy Wed 12-Feb-25 11:42:54

Bellasnana

I have to mute most of them. My particular bugbears are the smug Derek in the garden centre waxing lyrical about his Sun Life plans, the bulky pee pants woman (which always seems to come on just as I’m eating my dinner) ditto the ‘oh my gush moment’ woman.
All of the funeral plan ads but particularly the twee woman talking through the door to her large husband who is in the bath.

Also can’t stand the huge Kellogg cockerel parading through the city, nor the Lucozade ad, nor the bloke who whistles, can’t think what it’s for.

I wonder what they get paid for coming up with this drivel?

I like the Gillette ad as the tune is nice, and the Haribo policemen.

Oh yes, I do like the Haribo ad, we ARE the police

But you also reminded me of all the other awful ads 😂😂😂😂

pamdixon Wed 12-Feb-25 13:16:49

I simply hate the man whistling (at his daughter's wedding?) - SO annoying.

Georgesgran Wed 12-Feb-25 13:24:18

My ‘hobby’ and yes, I obviously need to get out more, is spotting the same actors in different ads!

The lady who wants dancing at her funeral has just won £10K on the Marie Curie lottery and bought a new car with it.
The pee-pad lady, sitting on her chap’s shoulders at a gig, has a new kitchen, courtesy of Wickes, while the lady who glues in her dentures is now dancing in Chums clothing and the widow, gazing mournfully at her late man’s pic on her coffee cup is plastering Philadelphia on both sides of her bagel with new man.

DamaskRose Wed 12-Feb-25 13:28:01

I mute them.

Beechnut Wed 12-Feb-25 13:29:36

Georgesgran

My ‘hobby’ and yes, I obviously need to get out more, is spotting the same actors in different ads!

The lady who wants dancing at her funeral has just won £10K on the Marie Curie lottery and bought a new car with it.
The pee-pad lady, sitting on her chap’s shoulders at a gig, has a new kitchen, courtesy of Wickes, while the lady who glues in her dentures is now dancing in Chums clothing and the widow, gazing mournfully at her late man’s pic on her coffee cup is plastering Philadelphia on both sides of her bagel with new man.

😂😂I’ll have to pay more attention.

Flo122 Wed 12-Feb-25 13:31:24

I cannot stand the woman's voice on the Viking cruise ad. Is she trying to appeal to older people?, if so, it's not working. Generally any ads with OAPs in, makes them look either imbeciles or patronising. I quite like the one with the badger in, I think it's for Capital, it always makes me laugh, likewise the Nationwide ones.

whywhywhy Wed 12-Feb-25 13:32:40

Turn the sound off for adverts.

Thisismyname1953 Wed 12-Feb-25 13:33:44

Georgesgran, your hobby made me laugh . I have never noticed who is in which advert but I’ll be looking out for it in future 😂

MiniMoon Wed 12-Feb-25 13:34:08

I dislike the LNER train line advert with the red haired puppet and the terrible music.

HiMay Wed 12-Feb-25 13:37:37

Never watch them

dalrymple23 Wed 12-Feb-25 13:39:23

By the sound of it, I am very glad that we no longer have a television!!!

HousePlantQueen Wed 12-Feb-25 13:43:47

All of the funeral plan ads but particularly the twee woman talking through the door to her large husband who is in the bath

I agree, and I always imagine the next stage where she throws an electric heater into his bath...........

jusnoneed Wed 12-Feb-25 13:44:07

I noticed the pee pad lady in her new kitchen too lol.

Dislike the funeral plan/cremation adverts, and the whistling ones (is that insurance?). The expensive car adverts which always state that the car shown is not the same spec as ones in this country, so why show it?
Anything to do with bodily functions.
Ant and Dec building society one, so stupid. Can't stand them anyway.

One I do like, always has my foot tapping, is the young guitar playing lad on the EDF advert. He is playing, what a talent.

I nearly always record anything on advert channels so that I can whizz through them, usual saves about 15 minutes.

Dee1012 Wed 12-Feb-25 13:45:09

I really like the Petplan advert and also the Sky advert that featured the rather lovely Andrew Garfield (totally due to self interest!)
I loathed the Daisy perfume ad' with the word just repeated but hopefully no more, until the next festive season.

Foxyferret Wed 12-Feb-25 13:46:17

Pure cremations on nearly every ad break. Don’t keep reminding me I am nearer the end than the beginning, it’s so depressing. Pee pants woman, adverts that use some of my favourite pop songs butchered to fit, Keira knightly screaming ad for perfume, whatever happened to jingles?

sazz1 Wed 12-Feb-25 13:52:27

I hate the incontinence adverts where she says Let it all go. Also all the funeral adverts so morbid and not what I want to think about yet.
I like the ebay ads and vinted makes me want to declutter