September’s TV’s Worst Advert Award

1 October 2007 by Silky

Another month, another load of rubbish adverts.

And we have another tie at the top this month chart as well, between two loans companies - Picture Loans and Ocean Finance. Whether this shows a greater public dissatisfaction with the services offered by these loan’s companies or whether they just make rubbish adverts, I don’t know, but here’s the top 5 with them sat atop of it:

  1. Picture Loan - Dad’s Found your Scooter
  2. Ocean Finance - Long Grass
  3. Head & Shoulders - Everyone Knows a Bloke Like Mickey
  4. Olay Regenerist - The Worst Kept Secret
  5. Dulco Ease

So I have to make a coin toss decision to choose between encouraging people to buy a ride on mower (heads) and making taking out a loan and putting your children’s home at risk look like a spur of the moment decision (tails).

I’ve just got the coin out of my pocket. It’s a two pence piece, minted in 2001.

I’ve tossed, caught and turned over the coin onto the back of my hand.

It’s heads!

Ocean Finance and the Long Grass advert are this months winner of the TV’s Worst Adverts Award!

Congratulations on being so shit.

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In other news, I’m thinking of making a few changes to the look-and-feel and to the functionality of TV’s Worst Adverts over the next month or so (including getting a proper *monthly* voting system). If you have any suggestions about how I can improve TV’s Worst Adverts (apart from “stop writing it” etc) or if there’s anything you’d like to see on here then please leave me a comment below and I’ll see what I can do to make you lot happy(/-ier).

Cheers, Silky.

2Responses:

  • [...] as I mentioned a few weeks ago I’ve been working on a new theme for TVs Worst Adverts and here it [...]

  • Please tell me what the current Asda ad is telling me - my dad is now 76, and thinks it’s hilarious - mainly because, being Jamaican (he came over to the UK in 1954), his feet start skanking everytime he hears the ska tune - but wait…it’s the tune that confuses me. I’m now 45, and remember the Dad’s Army programme in the seventies, with the ‘Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler’ song, in that trad jazz stylee. Even my hubby cannae catch the message (but he’s from Aberdeen)- damn…you’ve even got the ‘arrows’ shifting across the telly. Please put me out of my misery, and tell me what the message is. Was wondering if it was a backhander at the Tesco people (who are Jewish), but maybe I’m looking too deep into it! Honora xx

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