Many people have already said some of the really annoying ones, like:
Oral B (‘I didn’t even know Oral B made a toothpaste!’ What? What did you think they made? Clue’s in the name. Also the way she says ‘But how do you keep your MOUTH healthy?’ in almost a whine. It really triggers me)
Marc Jacobs Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy - just ridiculous.
But what about these...
Mr Kipling advert where the boy goes to the party and steals a cake for his miserable sister who is, for some reason, at home. This advert has always made me uncomfortable. Everyone seems to hate the boy at the party and they don’t want him to have any cake. He clearly has something on his mind and then his mother is looking at him in a worried way in the car. Then they get home and he rushes to give his sister the cake but she tells him to get out until she sees the cake and then they give each other a disturbing up and down look. I don’t like it.
Dominos advert. This has been bothering me for ages. The dad wants to get a takeaway for his rude family. He is clearly so anxious about upsetting them with the wrong choice - that he’s paying for, by the way - he creates an alternative reality where he is literally evicted from his own home and made to live in the garden in the middle of a thunder storm because he got an expensive takeaway that no one liked. He then says he’s going to order Dominos (no one has assisted in deciding what they want, by the way; they have just moaned about what they don’t want) and his awful daughter says ‘yeah’ in the most irritating scrunched up face voice as if to say ‘that’s right Dad, you idiot, you’ve finally worked it out’.
Then no one says thank you. Awful awful awful.
Go Compare - well these have always been annoying haven’t they. But since lockdown it’s got worse because the Go Compare man is now playing HIMSELF and is basically advertising himself as a tenor. ‘I absolutely love this bit’ - oh do you? What’s it got to do with car insurance? I’m confused.