Favourite Ads or the ones you hate

climaxer

What ads do you hate / like at the moment, heres some of mine:

Like:
Alpen - the one with the wife swap misunderstanding!
Yellow pages - the one with James Nesbitt & the bad haircut.
Irish Life (I think) - but its about a kid on the beach and they say a baby learns how to hear in the womb but can take years to learn how to listen. Just gets you thinking.

Hate:
Muzzy - ad for learning kids to speak french - hate this with a vengence
Food poisoning ad where the faces are blurred out!
Ocean bloody finance ads - they annoy the **** out of me

PBC_1966

Like:
The Felix cat-food commercials that have been running the last couple of years (cartoon drawing of Felix with various themes -- "Do you wanna be in my gang?" etc.) Are these screened in Ireland?

Dislike:
Most of them!

fizzynicenice

like:
None

dislike:
all
but especially thoses feckin ads for mobile ringtones and ****, like 57777 and they all have crappy jingles and they all say yo-yo's insted of euro's

::anger::

Cabaal

fizzynicenice wrote:

like:
None

dislike:
all
but especially thoses feckin ads for mobile ringtones and ****, like 57777 and they all have crappy jingles and they all say yo-yo's insted of euro's

::anger::

I don't watch enough TV to like some adverts except maybe the Drink Driving advert with the kid in the garden, yes I seems like I'm a sick person but I;m amazed how well this advert freaks people out, my girlfriend can't watch it at all

aggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh those bloody fruciin bastarrtooo ringtone adverts, god should kill them all and especially needs to kill channels that have them ala MTV

Mr E

Ads on TV are getting worse and worse.

Can someone please explain River Rock - "Water you wear" to me? I just don't get it..... Ringtone ads - if teenage twits stopped buying them, the ads would stop. Love the Club energy drink ad (gaelic football and hurling on a shallow lake). Hate the vodafone ad with the guy waiting for his girlfriend, making lots of stupid faces while doing things with his phone.


Listening to the radio all day, there are a couple of ads that catch my attention.

Bad: Harvey Norman: Go Harvey Go (back to Australia). Domestos Bleach: Its a kind of 'song', sung by someone in a camp stupid accent, ending with the line '...son of a bit<snip>'

Good: Xtravision Starburst Promotion: "Die Piggy Bank, Die".

RobertFoster

TmB wrote:

Can someone please explain River Rock - "Water you wear" to me? I just don't get it.....

Guy running and guy who left it in the washing machine mean they mistake the bottle for clothing because it's "water your wear" and they forget it's there. Notice the guy running is knackered, but still doesn't take a drink, because, why would you drink something you wear?

Guy and girl "trying on" the bottle have the same reasoning. The one with the guy trying it on really annoys me.

TmB wrote:

Bad: Harvey Norman: Go Harvey Go (back to Australia)

lol, cheers for that, made me laugh.

DukeDredd

The TV license ad's on RTE at the moment are so bad i want to hit the TV with something.

briano

The bud ads ("true") are pretty funny. Especially the topless one. I also loved that nutri grain ad ("feel great") but they've taken it off the internet.


The ad I hate the most is one of those finance ads, where they are all sitting in a cafe discussing how they could get more money. At the very end a smarmy english git turns round to someone sitting next to him and says "with that much money, you could BUY that horse of yours, never mind back it"

I swear, should I ever meet him, I shall deliver unto him a kick in the balls of such horrifying proportions on behalf of everyone who has had to watch that ad.

And another thing about those finance ads. Why is it that when they are in a cafe or bar they always end up agreeing with the bartender's financial advice. I've worked in bars for nearly a decade, and have yet to meet a bartender whose advice I would trust about which beer to drink, never mind about which re-mortgager I should let take me to the cleaners for the next 10 to 15 years.

Wow. Thats quite a load of my chest.

SantaHoe

Hate 'em all, I just channel-surf when the adds come on.
My "they should be shot award" goes to all ringtone adds and all finance related adds (which have ruined MTV and Discovery Channel respectively)... plus anything gross like toilet paper, constipation remedies, tampons, nappies and other things I don't want to look at while eating dinner.

DukeDredd

I wonder if theres any way to block ads like you can with certain web browsers. Like when theres and ad break your DVD player kicks in and shows a scene from the fast show or something...man that would be sweet!

SprostonGreen

I hate the ad, where the guy goes to collect his son from the creche and frets about the cost of college and so on. And then lo and behold, he is looking at the wrong kid, because men are stupid in the land of TV ads.

I also hate the TV license renewal ads, I applaud anyone who gets away without paying for that ridiculous thing.

I hate the bitch in the vodafone ad, the big impatient businesswoman, cant stand **** like that.

The less haste Alpen series isnt too bad.

Lozjm

Quite like the special K girl ( in the red skimpys )

Mr E

I just thought of another ATROCIOUS ad. New ad for Charmin Ultra toilet paper - 2 sisters sitting on a couch talking about bog roll. Sister 1 trying to convince sister 2 why her bog roll is better. Its absolutely cringeworthy....

SantaHoe

Actually I just thought of an add that I like... the "If Carlsberg did nightclubs" add, that girl DJ is such a babe

jill_valentine

Good Ads: The Classic "Sunfizz" Sprite Ad, which was so good I taped it, and still root it out now and then. Literally had me screaming with laughter. Perfect family sit around the sun soaked table while they all reel off slogans for "Sunfizz", a delicious fruit drink that the kids love. Suddenly the cheery little sun logo comes to life, explaining that its "because there's a delicious ray of sunshine in every drop." The family react not like the standard Sunny D folks, but much like you would if the logo from your soft drink suddenly gained a third dimension and started making conversation. The Dog bolts like its arse's on fire and the kids run, the mother close behind. The jolly little sun trots along in pursuit, failing to understand why the family are so afraid of him. Horror! The mother trips over a vacuum, and we zoom in on her expression of blind terror as she screams at the kids to go on without her.

The best ad ever. Also good are:

*Carlsberg Ads.
*Aforementioned "Less haste" ads.
*Channel 4 ones, where they ask celebrities questions.

Bad Ads:

*Senokot. What the f**k?
"Big day ahead? Stressed? Eggbound? Don't worry! Crap your cares away, with Senokot!"

*Ringtone ads.
*Po Faced "Aren't we lovely?" RTE ads.
*Erin Hot Cup ads, with the Irish singing and all the farms. Sorry folks, soup does not magically transport you to your nonexistant rural youth, no matter how much of it you drink. Cupasoup is in no way, ot even tangently, related to bales, or old men with tweed caps. Who the hell is this ad pitched at?

munkeehaven

Can someone please explain River Rock - "Water you wear" to me? I just don't get it

the bottle is really bendy and flexible so it can be squished.

i HATE that coke ad with the one singing and handing out cokes, i dont know why but i found it annoying.
also all carlsberg's ads and guiness ads.

don't think there are any ad's i like..maybe the new clarks one because the music is phunky .

SprostonGreen

TmB wrote:

Ads on TV are getting worse and worse.

Can someone please explain River Rock - "Water you wear" to me? I just don't get it.....

That add is crap.

Its water you drink! Boycott now.

jill_valentine

The Sprite ad about Sunfizz was, it transpires, directed by Spike Jonze. Unexpected. Anybody know if its available to download?

JBoyle4eva

Like:

• Heineken ad series were people try to smuggle Heineken into certain countries because it's 'illegal'
• The clarks ad with the girls who's got the hula hoops

Hate

• Ringtone ads
• YES! car credit
• RTÉ TV licence ads
• The Bounty ads(Men dressed in drag!)

The Song Thrush

climaxer wrote:

Yellow pages - the one with James Nesbitt & the bad haircut.

They completely ripped that off the american sitcom Grounded For Life! :mad:
And James Nesbitt is a tw** anyway.

Agent Smith

i hate the rigntone add's so so so so so much....

that ****ing dancing hippo!

mayordenis

i hate those f*cking sunny delight adds so f*cking much "there's some mundane cola, some purple stuff and om my f*cking god there's sunny D, thats amazing i just shat myself" who the f*ck wrote this pile of sh*t???

Hello Kitty

I dont mind the ringtone ad's,
there not that freakin bad!!:rolleyes:

I love the whiskas ad - funny!

blondie83

I like clever ads, like the heinekin ones, where they're smuggling it into the countries where it's not allowed, and the carlsberg ones are pretty good too. I like the bulmers ad, but only cos of the song on it!

Hate the food poisoning ads with the blurred faces, and those annoying ringtone ads they have on TMF the whole time. Surely someone must have made an official complaint about them by now? :eek:

ixoy

Like: A lot of the alcohol ones are well done. I really liked the Guinness ad with the artic explorer - really epic, and nice little touches (such as the music going from muted to loud as he imagines his pub).

Dislike: Vodafone ads but, in particularly, that new ad with that fucking tosser who is playing with his phone whilst waiting for his girlfriend. He thinks his ringtone makes him a rockstar? Asshole. Yeah that's a great version of Splinter Cell you have on your phone. Oh look here's his friend with an hilarious weather report. GO TO HELL AND DIE (sorry but I have to see this ad before every movie at the UGC and I can't escape it because it's show n just before the movie begins). Also, in the phone theme, ring tone ads are annoying. God I wanna smash my mobile now.

JBoyle4eva

ixoy wrote:

Like: A lot of the alcohol ones are well done. I really liked the Guinness ad with the artic explorer - really epic, and nice little touches (such as the music going from muted to loud as he imagines his pub).

I remember last year(2003) whe the galway races where on, they showed a version of this ad that was about 5-7 mins, long and I have to say it's the stuff of legends!

pork99

The Safestyle UK ad, so bad it's good;

The B.O.G.O. F. offer!

YA BUY ONE YA GET ONE FREE! I say, YA BUY ONE YA GET ONE FREE!

I did a website for a guy like that last year. It was an experience.

MrGump

ixoy wrote:

Like: A lot of the alcohol ones are well done. I really liked the Guinness ad with the artic explorer - really epic, and nice little touches (such as the music going from muted to loud as he imagines his pub).

I despise that ad, and the recent Guinness ads in general! They try too hard to be poignant. I like the song in the prague-heinken ad: Petr Novák's Knihovna. Also they're spin on the "serving heinken since" is clever.

Tivoli

like
smirnoff ice "the chad" and "i'm alex" one

hate
mcdonnalds ads, "i'm loving $hit"

palance

heres the sunfizz ad for download Link

more ad's here

Puck

I'll probably add to this tomorrow but for now:

Like:
That Clarke's ad with the hula-hooping little girl. That kid is so cool! Go little girl, go!

The Special K ad has a woman in it that I quite fancy, but that's it really. Mmmmm Special K woman.

Hate:
Well ringtone ads are fairly obvious and if I didn't HATE them SO much I'd leave them out.

The terribly amateur ambulance-chasing solictor ads. Especially that one with the guy with the bad mustache, his "special effect" is a pink swiss ball with something scrawled on it in black marker.

The Dominos Pizza add with the women supposedly acting like men. Oh yeah surely the defining characteristic of all men is that we burp and walk around with our arse-cracks showing.

Pretty much sick of adverts depicting men as stupid slobs.

JBoyle4eva

More ads I HATE:

• That classical greats album. It's been on for 6 years. who buys this cr@p?
• that one for the conservatoires(ThomasSanderson)

Ad I like!

• The guinness ad ixoy mentioned earlier!

will try and post more later!

Stark

The guinness ads are great, especially the songs. There are one or two crap guinness ads though, particularly from the "arthur guinness stories" series.

I love the one where they dump the TV up in a mountain somewhere and return to a TV-less pub where the bartender announces "now we've got something to talk about"

emptyspoon

Grr, I hate those McDonalds ones. Trying waaaay too hard to show that they're healthy... "This is Mary, she's an anorexic supermodel who never eats at McDonalds but we're paying her to put one of our fat-ridden pieces of crap in her mouth and then spit is out afterwards"
Or something like that...

And those Kando ones! The frog just wipes his arse in our face...Yeah I wanna buy that, it's got that scary frog who looks like he's on prozac. And it's got half naked kids, what more could you want?
"I can do a poo with Kando!"

And I think it goes without saying that everyone hates the Mobile Ringtone ones with the bendy phones and bad graphics... :mad:

Stark

Ah the Maccy D ads. "This is Bulemia who looks fine and healthy for our purposes, and joining her is her friend Binge and Purge who tends to arrive later."

Cork

I don't like the TV licence ads. It is RTE who should be ashamed with the dross the put on.

No offence to their "stars".

jill_valentine

palance wrote:

heres the sunfizz ad for download Link

more ad's here

God bless you Palance, my whole week just got better...

*Slash*

the greatest ad in the world by a LONGSHOT is a really old add 4 raisons wit the little boy bein asked, if u cud pick a colour 4 these raisons wat colour wud u pick. the boy answers "rwed". when ask why he replies "cos i like rwed"

jill_valentine

The "Go WALKING!" ads... I'm not sure whether they're good or bad, because they suck, but I love them, and their "Go BIKING!" counterparts...

Stark

I don't like the TV licence ads. It is RTE who should be ashamed with the dross the put on.

No offence to their "stars".

God yeah. "Mum, Dad, your grandkids are buried under the porch"
"That's okay son, what made you snap and do it"
"I got busted on my TV licence"
*Silence*

FFS.

Quatre Mains

- surpised it took so long for the McDonalds ads to be mentioned. Worst part of it all is its apparently had a positive effect on their sales, proving that people are stupid.

Ads I like include 'ride the juggernaut of rock', and the Irn Bru ads.

Ads I hate; Coca Cola ad with black woman singing(undertone:if you drink Coke it means you are racially tolerant). Most of the afforementioned ads.
The new My Little Pony ad, same song as old but listen to the voice singing it- makes me daydream of killing a child.
My current least favorite ads are on the radio, for 'the dublin pub' and the 'license granted' flop that is Madonna at Slane.

smoke.me.a.kipper

favourite ad ever has to be the milk one from the 80s...

scouse kid 1: "Ian Rush says if I don't drink enough milk, when I grow up I'll only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley"
scouse kid 2: "Accrington Stanley?... Who are they???!!"
scouse kid 1: "Exactly"

Stark

Coca Cola ad with black woman singing(undertone:if you drink Coke it means you are racially tolerant)

"Oh oh, ethnic minority person offering me an opened bottle of Coke, better drink it so as not to look racist"

jor el

That stupid fuking Eircom ad with the pansy hippy "Don't stop me now" soundtrack, where the hell did they get that from, or did they just spend a fortune having some muppets create it especially for them.
Sky One's own ads at the beginning/end of every ad break. Who gives a toss how many outside broadcast units they send to every Premiership game or what lame movie is starting on Sky Premier in 15 minutes.

The Carlsberg nightclub ad is pretty good, though if Carlsberg did perfect nightclubs, you'd think they boys wouldn't have been going home on their own now would they

ixoy

jor el wrote:

The Carlsberg nightclub ad is pretty good, though if Carlsberg did perfect nightclubs, you'd think they boys wouldn't have been going home on their own now would they

Heh good point! Unfortunately advertising regulations forbid them equating drinking Carlsberg with sexual success. Because clearly that's the solution to Ireland's booze culture. Then again I got my Guinness ad from them being forced to be creative.

daggeredge

LOVE the sprite zero ads...
quite hot...

jill_valentine

I kinda have to respect the Sprite Zero ads for their sheer nerve... Image is Nothing my ass...

anthonymcg

ixoy wrote:

Heh good point! Unfortunately advertising regulations forbid them equating drinking Carlsberg with sexual success. Because clearly that's the solution to Ireland's booze culture. Then again I got my Guinness ad from them being forced to be creative.

Yeah but maybe the girls just lived close to them or something and wanted to share a taxi. They didn't have to show them "roiding".

aidan_walsh

ixoy wrote:

Heh good point! Unfortunately advertising regulations forbid them equating drinking Carlsberg with sexual success. Because clearly that's the solution to Ireland's booze culture. Then again I got my Guinness ad from them being forced to be creative.

As opposed to "Bank with BoI and you can get it on in a taxi!"

jill_valentine

What? Goddamn! Give me the phone! To hell with you Ulster Bank!

Damn...power of advertising...

emmemm

Like the music on the BBC olympics ads(the one where the statue collapses ).Anyone identify the track please?