RTE ads from the 80s...

Sam Kade · 09-10-2014 10:30pm

James 007 wrote: »

Two other ads that I remember well is the Corneto ad and I'm not too sure if this is correct 'Triple X, golden maverick'

Triple A acidfied, accelerated growth and anti scour the brand you can really trust

James 007 · 09-10-2014 10:33pm

Eeden wrote: »

I remember it as Triple A, not Triple X. But I could be wrong, it's a long time ago! :P

You both got it right, long time ago..

What about the bisto ad, 'never ending sundays' or something like that

Sam Kade · 09-10-2014 10:46pm

Anyone remember these two UK ads? I put them up before with very little reaction :mad:

DoozerT6 · 09-10-2014 10:50pm

James 007 wrote: »

What about the bisto ad, 'never ending sundays' or something like that

"Never in a month of Sundays!!"

Eeden · 09-10-2014 10:53pm

(Supersoft shampoo) I remember the first one, but not the second one.

Sam Kade · 09-10-2014 10:53pm

DoozerT6 wrote: »

"Never in a month of Sundays!!"

Is Trevor ever getting up
Never in a month of Sundays

Sam Kade · 09-10-2014 10:55pm

Eeden wrote: »

(Supersoft shampoo) I remember the first one, but not the second one.

Both were on RTE at the time, Jaysus we're getting old

Eeden · 09-10-2014 10:57pm

Sam Kade wrote: »

Is Trevor ever getting up
Never in a month of Sundays

Will Dad ever get that garden dug?
Never in a month of Sundays!

DoozerT6 · 09-10-2014 11:29pm

Eeden wrote: »

Will Dad ever get that garden dug?
Never in a month of Sundays!

"But there's one thing they won't miss out on, in a Month. Of. Sundays!!"

An Riabhach · 10-10-2014 11:38pm

DoozerT6 wrote: »

"But there's one thing they won't miss out on, in a Month. Of. Sundays!!"

'....coz Bisto gravy thickens with a stir,
no wonder it's the one they all prefer,
you'll never get the 'R' in gravy without Bisto..."

Kerrydude1981 · 16-10-2014 2:52pm

This legend of an ad from back in the day got a re vamp I see

An Riabhach · 18-10-2014 8:12pm

We all remember the ESB ad which had the song "Only You" in it.
But was it another ad for ESB which had this song:

"Now the night has come and the land is dark,
And the moon is the only light we see.
But I won't be afraid,no I won't feel afraid
Just as long as you stand by me.
So darlin darlin stand by me,
Please stand,stand by me...."

??

An Riabhach · 03-12-2014 10:33pm

This ad used to scare me(well,a lot of ads used to scare me-even harmless ones).....

This ad was for Clearsil-and with a classic horror movie setting,it starts with these girls sleeping in a large dormitory in what was possibly a boarding school,theres thunder and lightning and the girls are tossing and turning in their beds and the scary voiceover says..."When you go to sleep,don't fall prey to the night time terrors like ghouls,and spectres,and SPOTS"....and then one of the girls wakes up screaming while looking into her mirror,and she goes tearing through the corridor amid the thunder and lightning....
And when the ad is over,the scary voiceover says:
"Clearsil will help stop spots going BUMP.....in the night."

darkdubh · 04-12-2014 3:05am

Seasan wrote: »

This ad used to scare me(well,a lot of ads used to scare me-even harmless ones).....

This ad was for Clearsil-and with a classic horror movie setting,it starts with these girls sleeping in a large dormitory in what was possibly a boarding school,theres thunder and lightning and the girls are tossing and turning in their beds and the scary voiceover says..."When you go to sleep,don't fall prey to the night time terrors like ghouls,and spectres,and SPOTS"....and then one of the girls wakes up screaming while looking into her mirror,and she goes tearing through the corridor amid the thunder and lightning....
And when the ad is over,the scary voiceover says:
"Clearsil will help stop spots going BUMP.....in the night."

I remember that now,had forgotten about it for years.

An Riabhach · 30-01-2015 12:24am

Seasan wrote: »

They used to frighten the crap outa me-one of them had the sponge hanging on the clothes line,and the V.O.,scary as ever,saying "TV SPONGERS BEWARE-THE SQUEEZE IS ON!!" and then the sponge hanging on the line screamed ".....and tis not nice!!!"

There is an ad on the radio which I'm hearin a lot lately,with a fella talkin in a crazy voice calling himself "Banana Badger".I think the ad is about tiles or something.
But his voice sounds scarily similar to that of the TV sponger....

Eeden · 30-01-2015 2:00am

D'ya remember the creepy TV Licence "ads" with the "detector vans"?? :pac::pac:

An Riabhach · 30-01-2015 2:21am

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can't say I do-and I remember a good lot of them coz TV Licence ads used to creep me out big time back then after the TV Spongers ads.Which ones were the detector vans?

Eeden · 30-01-2015 2:32am

Unfortunately I can't find any RTE ones online - but there are some BBC ones about. It just seemed absurd that a van would drive around a housing estate at night with some serious-looking technology, trying to find out which houses had a TV on

! And that they could even tell what you were watching!

This one is from the 70s, BBC:

An Riabhach · 30-01-2015 10:16pm

Jaysus.......these TV licence feckers really did love to use the scaremongering tactic.
And all this just to pay the broadcasters wages.

An Riabhach · 30-01-2015 10:16pm

Jaysus.......these TV licence feckers really did love to use the scaremongering tactic.
And all this just to pay the broadcasters wages.

An Riabhach · 14-03-2015 9:16pm

Guess what's back on the market....

Remember that ad from ages ago which had the funny song:
"Um Bongo,Um Bongo,they drink it in The Congo...

Well anyway,in the shop where I work,Um Bongo seems to have made a comeback and as soon as I saw it on the shelf I remembered that song from the ad :-)

Eeden · 14-03-2015 9:42pm

"Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.
He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.
The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.
The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin.
The parrot painted packets, that the whole caboodle landed in.
So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle,
They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo!"

An Riabhach · 14-03-2015 9:48pm

Eeden wrote: »

"Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,
A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.
He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.
The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo"
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.
The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin.
The parrot painted packets, that the whole caboodle landed in.
So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle,:)
They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo!"

Yeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!

Eeden · 14-03-2015 9:56pm

Actually, now you say it... what sort of drink was Um Bongo??!?

An Riabhach · 14-03-2015 10:38pm

Eeden wrote: »

Actually, now you say it... what sort of drink was Um Bongo??!?

Well,what I saw today were small cartons which come in 5packs,they are fruit juices with mixed flavours e.g. mango and passionfruit etc.

An Riabhach · 25-03-2015 9:51pm

Don't ask me why this ad has entered me mind but I remember an ad with a woman looking into the camera and talking with a real raunchy voice,saying
"I won't wear anything.....without Cross Your Heart.And neither should you."

I used to tell my classmates that if we didn't cross our hearts we'
d have to take our clothes off instead...joking,of course!!

fryup · 27-03-2015 12:06am

^^^^^^^^^^^^

bra ad?

An Riabhach · 27-03-2015 12:46pm

^^^^^^^^^
Yes!!!

An Riabhach · 12-08-2015 10:20pm

Don't ask me why this ad has just come into me head,but this shampoo ad,I think,was one of the older Herbal Essences ads.

This really posh and old fashioned teacher finds a bottle of that shampoo left behind in the classroom,and she makes all the girls stand outside and gives them a strict lecture on vanity,and she reads out from the bottle what differences the shampoo can make to their hair.She warns them that if nobody came forward to say who left it behind,that it would not be returned.But at the end of the ad after she sends the girls home after nobody claims it,it becomes obvious that she just wanted to keep the shampoo for herself all along!

An Riabhach · 07-09-2015 11:22pm

Just captured these from tonight's episode of Aprés Match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqFGxq5buVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANDPz6l_UbQ

darkdubh · 08-09-2015 1:57am

An Riabhach wrote: »

Just captured these from tonight's episode of Aprés Match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqFGxq5buVM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANDPz6l_UbQ

I kind of wish they'd bring back ads like that fudge one.Droll and to the point and none of those tiresome attempts at knowing irony that make so many modern ads so irritating.

An Riabhach · 05-10-2015 10:53pm

A slight spoof included,but anyway....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_IjyG8jpE

That music used to terrify me.
Instantly recognise Harry Molloy from Fair City sitting at the table!!

branie2 · 06-10-2015 9:11pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Don't ask me why this ad has entered me mind but I remember an ad with a woman looking into the camera and talking with a real raunchy voice,saying
"I won't wear anything.....without Cross Your Heart.And neither should you."

I used to tell my classmates that if we didn't cross our hearts we'
d have to take our clothes off instead...joking,of course!!

And she was pulling up her bra straps as well at the start

An Riabhach · 06-10-2015 9:51pm

branie2 wrote: »

And she was pulling up her bra straps as well at the start

Sheesh...how could I have forgötten that part?
My young innocent eyes I suppose....:-) :-)

darkdubh · 06-10-2015 11:41pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

A slight spoof included,but anyway....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_IjyG8jpE

That music used to terrify me.
Instantly recognise Harry Molloy from Fair City sitting at the table!!

Ha,I'd been searcing for that ad on YT.Always though that Harry was a dead ringer for Desperate Dan from The Dandy

An Riabhach · 07-10-2015 12:21am

An Riabhach wrote: »

A slight spoof included,but anyway....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_IjyG8jpE

That music used to terrify me.

That ad was one of the reasons why I didn't like the word "gamble" back then.

Here's the other reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghQVJ3qAcAU

An Riabhach · 07-10-2015 4:11pm

^^^^^^^^^^
Before they became famous....
Introducing...Fair City's Harry Molloy in the Golden Maverick ad playing cards....and Glenroe's Peggy Connors in the AIDS ad,also playing cards!!

Getting back to the Golden Maverick-was there another ad with that same music,which showed a cow being branded?

An Riabhach · 20-10-2015 12:32pm

Cén chaoi a bhfuil Máire?
Máire?? Ó tá sí i San Fransisco anois.But sure we keep in touch.

Can anyone remember which ad that was in?i.i.r.c. it had the song "Always Something There To Remind Me" playing in the background.

Lucena · 20-10-2015 12:40pm

The 'i San Francisco atá sí' one was Telecom Eireann, I think.

road_high · 20-10-2015 2:38pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Cén chaoi a bhfuil Máire?
Máire?? Ó tá sí i San Fransisco anois.But sure we keep in touch.

Can anyone remember which ad that was in?i.i.r.c. it had the song "Always Something There To Remind Me" playing in the background.

Oh I loved that one. Been trying to find it but to no avail

Definitely Telecom Eireann btw.

An Riabhach · 21-10-2015 9:19pm

I may or may not have already posted this on another thread but anyway....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4YTB5FZeHQ

Iron Maiden-The Phantom Of The Opera.
That is one killer tune,really kicks ass!!

Ruu · 21-10-2015 9:41pm

Nice one, I remember the traffic light signals.

An Riabhach · 23-10-2015 9:13pm

Another one with a great soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwL_wP_Y2NU

Big Country-One Great Thing(alt.lyrics)

An Riabhach · 13-11-2015 1:37am

I hope Darkdubh doesn't mind me putting this one up here too as tis already on another thread,I think it deserves a spot here too.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOi3ADI7dEo

An Riabhach · 23-11-2015 3:59pm

Make it milk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnO0t9LXJk4

An Riabhach · 23-02-2016 10:29pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Can anybody help me with these two ads.....does anybody remember a beer ad when a man walks into a pub,buys a pint,walks out with the pint and walks down the road and then through fields and meets his friend at a wall and gives him the pint?

Found it!!
Buy that man a Bass.

Tis the last ad on this sequence,I used to love the music while he was walkin through the fields.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRyBPHspysE

darkdubh · 24-02-2016 2:26am

An Riabhach wrote: »

Found it!!
Buy that man a Bass.

Tis the last ad on this sequence,I used to love the music while he was walkin through the fields.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRyBPHspysE

That must be an edited version,I remember at the point at 2.01 where he holds up the pint there was a kind of strange short sequence where the barman saw the guys reflection changing in the mirror and looks scared and spins around,there was this kind of horror movie type sound effect when this happens.It was right after that point then where the guitar music starts and the guy walks out with the pint.I suppose that bit was probably considered too scary for kids who might be watching on a daytime slot so they had this slightly edited version.

An Riabhach · 24-02-2016 5:24pm

I used to love the scenery in that ad,too(still do)...It can only be Irish-the Ballydorn boat is the giveaway.Somewhere in Antrim or Down I think.

An Riabhach · 29-02-2016 2:34pm

Poor aul' "Mary O'Brien" falls victim to Aprés Match....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqz_HW3HC8U

Del.Monte · 29-02-2016 3:55pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I used to love the scenery in that ad,too(still do)...It can only be Irish-the Ballydorn boat is the giveaway.Somewhere in Antrim or Down I think.

I'd forgotten that Ad. Really good but shame about Bass - forever associated with Bertie. It was filmed in the Mourne Mountains by the look of it and the Ballydorn lightship is is anchored in Strangford Lough.

RTE ads from the 80s...

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