The Official Bad Ads and Cr*p Commercials Thread!

We haven't had one of these threads in quite a while, and they've usually been quite popular in the past.
In which case, here's your chance to nominate the cr*ppiest commercials out of all the really rubbish
adverts currently running across all the non-license funded TV channels at the moment.

Here's my current crop of annoying ads that I hate right now . . .

Renault Megane - "Shakin' that ass!":
I'm not all that bothered about the gratuitous booty shaking, just the annoying soundtrack.
If anything, it's actually a great advertisement . . . for buying a new Ford Mondeo instead!

11 11 88:
The recent animated ads for the new 11 11 88 directory assistance service were cheesy,
but not too annoying. The current batch of live action ads for the service of the numbers
dancing about on the stage of an empty theatre, singing their numbers to the tune of
an old footie anthem are being played so often now, each time I see it, I'm sorely
tempted to break something expensive. Such as the TV!

118-118:
Not quite as annoying as 11 88 88, but still quite annoying, none the less.

Currys:
The latest ads featuring Linda Barker: the main content of these new Currys, ads I don't mind,
but the cheesy end jingle would sound better suited to something like a 1983 Rumbelows ad!

Those are all the bad ads that spring to mind right now. I'll probably have some more later . . .

Well, I would have thought that the most hateful, obscenely horrific advert which would have you despairing about the state of civilisation would be the bloody Halifax ones.

And then there's the SCS ones with that woman who used to be in Corrie. And McDonalds - "Things To Make You Go Mmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!".

I quite like the new 11 88 88 ones, their utter nonsensicalinity (not that that's a word but you know what I mean) rather appeals to me.

The silly "free your arms with Impulse" adverts - who really walks around like that for want of some spray?

The adverts for Ocean Finance - what those people need isn't Ocean Finance, they need Alvin Hall!!

Oh, and that perishing bloody blue Lombard Direct phone as well!! STOP SHOWING IT!!!!!!!!

The elephant.co.uk advert wins my vote. I can see why the man says elephant.co.uk so many times because if people hear elephant.co.uk and listen to elephant.co.uk so many times it will elephant.co.uk get into their elephant.co.uk minds and they will want to elephant.co.uk go to elephant.co.uk.

For gods sake!! Stop saying elephant.co.uk!!!!! Its just irritating now and to be perfectly honest - I've heard elephant.co.uk so many bloody times, I don't want to ever visit elephant.co.uk!!

AHH!

Or the Norton Finance one with the man on the tightrope?

Or perhaps the life insurance ones with Timothy West saying, "Look at you. You're getting old. Soon you'll be dead. Why not give us some of your money?", or words to that effect.

Or any number of chatline adverts? My personal favourite, never seen any more, was "Come on, call Chatback! Oh-eight-nine-one, FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY! Oh-eight-nine-one, FIFTY FIFTY FIFTY!"

Or those unintentionally hilarious Magnum Seven Deadly Sins ones that look like they're from about ten or twelve years ago, when all adverts had to be deep, stylish and intensely unironic?

pretty much any of the adverts for loans for people who can't get credit would go on my list of bad ads, and the ones for the ambulance chasers trying to sue anyone they can because of your own ill fortune/lack of care/stupidity

Yeah, the 11 88 88 ads (both the original cartoon ones, and the new live-action ones) are really poo. I actually quite like the 118 118 ones, only because of the retro moustaces of the two blokes. 60's-tastic baby!

Any and every advert for debt management and/or compensation companies should be banned.

As should all the adverts that have kids on the toilet (e.g. Kandoo - "you are lord of the loo" etc; and that Air Wick one with the oriental kid saying "poo".) NOT WHEN I'M HAVING MY F*CKING DINNER!!!! How they ever got past the censors is beyond me.

My vote goes to those Time Life ads on Satellite for the Power of Love compilation album ("Not available in the shops" - No, but there are hundred of similar ones available for a fraction of the price with same tracks). Not only is the ad 16 minutes long, it has been on MTV Dance so many times I know the order they play the music clips, backwards. (You can replace the Power of Love with about 62 different compilation albums that Time Life do.)

The worst terrestrial ad has to be the one for Otex ear drops (always on during Countdown for some reason) with the computer images of ear wax being graphically dispersed. Yuk!

What about the 'Yes Car Credit' ads with the shouting blonde woman in what looks like a reject Asda uniform? Or the Disposable camera ad with the two kids 'WITH FREEEE PROCESSINGGGGGGGGG' . Yuk

This ad is always shown together with an ad for ibuprofen gel stuff (well, I haven't seen one without the other immediately after anyway).

Pain relief without pills - Ibuleve....