Under normal circumstances upon finding out that a group of middle aged men are spending too much time thinking about our children we’d be completely justified in forming an angry, torch wielding mob and hunted them down like the dirty dogs they are.

But not when it’s the middle aged men at the ASA. 

That’s because they’re not thinking about your children just for cheap sexual kicks but alos because 51 feckless crackers – seemingly without even the most basic of parenting skills – complained about the NHS’s Scared anti-smoking advert. 

These whingers complained that the advert featuring a little girl telling us what she was and wasn’t scared of, somewhat ironically, scared their children so much that the only way they could calm the little blighters down was to give them cigarettes. Tsk, what are the chances?

After thinking long and hard about it, the ASA adjudication concluded: 

“We considered that the ad could cause distress to children if they were watching TV alone without their parents or family to explain the ad to them”

Don’t you just love parents who are so concerned about their children’s well being that they can find the time to complain to the ASA about adverts frightening their kids but can’t be bothered to sit and watch the fucking nightmare box with them (the kids not the ASA).

Anyway, it turns out though that the number of compaints that the ASA received over that NHS advert was patheticly small in comparisson to how many they got about the VW Golf Fight advert. 1066 Daily Mail readers were so concerned that this advert was too violent and that it might lead to copycat behaviour that the lodged complaints.

And although it’s easy to scoff at these people and dismiss them as “over-reacting” and “too easily offended”, it turns out that some mindless idiots did copy scenes from the advert. I, for one, was so influenced by this advert that I took the Walton sextuplets to a scrap yard and made them fight each other with car spares to the death.

Needless to say, it was fucking brilliant. 

After a lot of soul searching the ASA decided that neither of these adverts should be shown before 9pm to protect our innocent and so easily influenced children.

But never shy of controversy TV’s Worst Adverts is pleased to bring you the adverts that you can watch at whatever time of day and regardless of how old you might be.

Enjoy.

NHS Smokefree Services – Scared 

VW Golf Fight Advert