I've just seen a traumatic advert

[Toby Gymshorts]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

They're all constipated. Apart from WOM, obvs, who is my brother in arms when it comes to bowel-related misery.

TAB is a whole new level of that, of course.

[Patrick Thistle]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Continuing the toilet theme the Toilet Duck song in the new Toilet Duck advert actually made me and Mrs Thistle stop in mid-conversation and stare at the screen, then at each other, then back at the screen until it finished. Then we both looked at each other and said "What was that!?!"

[Southport Zeb]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The M&Ms advert in which a man comes home to find his partner in bed with an anthropomorphised M&M. His concern is that she is about to eat it without him. This surprises the M&M, who didn't think that she had invited him to bed for her to eat him, which would suggest that he thought he was there for something more sexual. Quite how sex might work for an M&M is not explained.

Perhaps stranger is the end of the advert when it is revealed that a second anthropomorphised M&M was watching the woman and his fellow M&M from a wardrobe. Who knew that bits of chocolate could be peeping toms?

[3 Colours Red]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

The yellow M&M is voiced by J. K. Simmons. Whether you find this scarier than his performance in Whiplash is a matter of opinion but it's a close run thing.

[Haddock]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Heather Graham must be desperate for cash to do the current Foxy Casino ad. Lowest common denominator stuff

[elguapo4]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Even by the standards of the advertising industry the new h+m ad sets new levels of pretentious bollocks, including "I don't believe in icons....I know they're out there " and "iconic clothes are like dreams, they're fundamental " I have no idea what that even means

[Southport Zeb]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

A shop like Next has a few routes they can go down when advertising their sale - they could show their clothes being worn by models, or maybe by an "ordinary family". Perhaps they could get a celebrity or two involved. Or they could have a dog sitting in a shed, doing some online shopping.

[ian.64]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Heather Graham must be desperate for cash to do the current Foxy Casino ad. Lowest common denominator stuff

Oh god, that's who it was. I was trying to figure out where I'd seen her before. Bloody hell, talk about a comedown.

[Levin]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Bloody hell, The Lloyds advert with the slowed down version of the hymn that was used in Praise You by Fatboy Slim. They've stripped all the gospel out of it.

Why would you do that to a song?

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

I've just been reminded by a TV commercial, to really, really hate it. The commercial was for a jewellers, one of several owned by the same group. The advert is for a diamond ring, but with two stones, with the tagline "one for your true love, and one for your best friend."

Couple of things: in my case, my best friend and my true love are two different people; and anyway, fuck you. I am not going into mountainous debt because you are trying to make it a "Thing" where you are supposed to show your deep love with a two stone ring. Not even a pissing engagement ring either. Just a random "here's a ring" ring.

Bollocks.

[Jah Womble]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Levin wrote: Bloody hell, The Lloyds advert with the slowed down version of the hymn that was used in Praise You by Fatboy Slim. They've stripped all the gospel out of it.

Why would you do that to a song?

To get people annoyed. To get them talking about it. To sell them sh*t.

If there's one thing I won't miss on the other side, it's slowed-up, ersatz-emotional covers recorded by X-Factor-also-rans for TV commercials.

[Haddock]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Watching Eurosport cycling highlights and came across for the first time a DHL ad which basically tells us that neo-liberalism is good for humanity. Apparently it hasn't landed us us with a hyper-capitalist surveillance dystopia but rather a world in which we can get bionic arms delivered to child victims of those regional conflicts which are such a regrettable feature of modern life in double-quick time.

Edit: a quick search shows it's been around for two years or more. Everyone else on the planet to have been convinced by its premise so I imagine by the third time I've seen it I'll be nodding my head in agreement.

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

There's a Samsung ad with some ostriches.

All 1 minute 50 of it.

[Sam]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

I don't mind that, you know. It's a lot better than most Samsung ads with human beings in them.

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Which is quite traumatising.

[Benjm]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Marks & Spencer's new 'Spend It Well' campaign is grating in the extreme, all the more so for defiling Rebel Rebel by using it for the backing music.

Sub-sub-sub-Trainspotting manifesto for life, if you're a vapid, self-regarding turd, that is.

[Ginger Yellow]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Christ, every single ad on Youtube right now is a Tory party ad.

[Eggchaser]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Ginger Yellow wrote: Christ, every single ad on Youtube right now is a Tory party ad.

Not if you're watching kid's stuff, thankfully.

But for my own YouTube habits, I cannot understand why it thinks I would ever vote Tory. I watch stuff about electric vehicles and renewables (such as Robert Llewellyn's excellent Fully Charged channel), plus a bit of rugby highlights. Two out of three of those aren't exactly issues your average Tory is interested in, why would I want to see their bloody attack ads?

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

I am absolutely not having this "Mac'n'Cheetos" thing. AT ALL.

Imagine a stuffed Wotsit...

[3 Colours Red]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

If they're using Kraft mac 'n' cheese, it'll just taste like molten plastic anyway. Foul stuff - it says something that the Ragu stuff out of a packet is a quadrillion times more palatable.

[Benjm]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Gerontophile wrote: Imagine a stuffed Wotsit...

You can get something along these lines for cats, who do seem to like them.

Can't say I've ever felt the need to start siphoning them off for personal consumption.

[Ginger Yellow]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Not if you're watching kid's stuff, thankfully.

It seems to have been a short burst (when the campaigns were supposed to be suspended?). They've gone back to those naff Grammarly ads for me.

[Eggchaser]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Oh Lord, Grammarly. I have no problem skipping those.

Mind you, some of the stuff my son watches is insane. A baboon imploring us in song to assist in finding his missing buttocks. Dinosaur animation so bad Hanna Barbera would have rejected it out of hand. Bastard Americans singing about "zeebras" so he thinks that's how it's pronounced.

[Gerontophile]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

Gerontophile wrote: I am absolutely not having this "Mac'n'Cheetos" thing. AT ALL.

Imagine a stuffed Wotsit...

To clarify:

This is an ad for Burger King. The ad is basically Mark Morrison singing "Return of the Mac" chorus from his video, with a cartoon King's face superimposed on his, and some stuffed Cheetos.

It's the commercial for which the word 'gross' was invented.

[Benjm]

I've just seen a traumatic advert

I see what you mean, Gero.

The thing about these deliberately shonky, often incongruous (although not so much here), pop culture referencing ads is that they're just as formulaic as glossily pretentious, black and white car ones.