Badvertising: Kinder Surprise

Everyone likes Kinder Surprise - the fiddly wrapper, the insubstantial chocolate, the crap toy that you'll either get bored of within thirty seconds or choke to death upon (thereby becoming a playground urban myth for many a century to come, just like that boy everyone 'knew' who swallowed a biro lid). Why, then, did the people behind the 1980s advertising ...

Badvertising: Legend Of Zelda It's so easy to hate, you know. Just take a look at hecklerspray's regular Badvertising feature, in which we take commercials presently oozing from your television screen and vehemently assert how rubbish they are. It's a non-stop loathefest. And we're tired, people. Tired. So. We've decided to take a short break, see. Instead of showing you something ...

Badvertising: Jackie Chan’s Woolworths Ad For years, western celebrities have been able to make a quick buck by flying to Asia and making shameful adverts that they hope nobody will ever see. That's all a bit one-sided, which is why we should rejoice to the heavens the fact that Asian megastar Jackie Chan has decided to come to England to make ...

Badvertising: Suggs Whoring Himself Out To Birds Eye

When you think of Birds Eye, you think of food. You don’t think of once popular singers who hail from East Sussex.

Sadly though, it seems that Suggs, the singer of Madness has decided to suck the corporate cock of Birds Eye and let them ejaculate a substantial amount of money in his direction. All so he can promote their

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Badvertising: Tabasco Sauce

Adverts don't sell products, they sell lifestyles - you're shown a beautiful, successful, happy person and told 'you too can be like this, if only you'd use Daz'.

So with that in mind, what the hell kind of a lifestyle is the Tabasco sauce advert trying to sell? Look at it - literally the only aspirational thing in there is

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Badvertising – Hedgehog Road Safety Campaign

We all know that the roads are dangerous, what with chavs thinking they own the road in their 1995 custom designed Renaults, to cyclists believing they can do what they want.

Crossing the road was once a simple procedure, but it is now a risky thing to do and could result in death. So what could the government do to help

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Badvertising – Robocop Vs Drugs

It seems that if you’re young, indie and naive then drugs are the way forward for you. After all, it’s impossible to go to prison for doing it.

You can be videoed by The Sun apparently taking drugs like Amy Winehouse or yo-yo in and out of court like Pete Doherty and you'll never ever wind up inside a jail

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Badvertising: Use Your Head, Teach

They say that teaching is a noble profession, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Face it - spending your days trapped in a room with 30 hormonal bell-ends who vocally despise you isn't anyone's idea of fun. But you wouldn't know that from watching the government's current TV advert to try and encourage people to become

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