ARGHHH....Daft Dave!!

SpitfireIV

Ok, maybe its just that I'm not in the best of form today, but whilst flicking through a number of radio stations I must have heard the 'Daft Dave' adverts 6 times so far, if not more. The adverts were funny about 3 or 4 months back, he was midly annoying, but funny 'travertine tiles......fiveee ni-ee-nineeeee', ok in small doses but now you cant listen to the radio without hearing him.

Now however the adverts are just plain stupid, and stupid for the sake of it. It seems that when they make a new advert, another couple follow within days, and now there are even TV adverts!! Monkeys in canoes, turtles in flip flops???

DOWN WITH DAFT DAVE!!

Are these adverts annoying anyone else, or like I said, maybe I'm in bad form and they're touching a nerve

Villain

As you say they were funny but are now overplayed and are even on the bloody telly now!! Someone just shoot the Monkey, please.

chamlis

It's alright. as long as The Monkey stays in uniform

junkyard

I thought it was "monkeys and gnu's" not monkeys in canoes"

Wertz

It's like everything else in Ireland; come up with something funny/popular/off-the-wall that appeals to joe public and next thing you know it's being overused/copied/adapted.

Podge and Rodge are a perfect example; RTÉ give them 2 shows a week, everyone and their mother thinks it's a howl...lo and behold it's on 4-5 nights of thr week, the material and quality suffers and the show becomes hackneyed and looses viewers/popularity. They did the same with the simpsons.
Gift grub is another example...a very successful format, it's now spawned similar slots on a couple of other stations, most notably nob nation on 2fm.

Originality is awarded with plagiarism and repetition and suddenly what was good about [whatever] suddenly gets diluted and spoils the whole thing.

I liked the right price tile ads and still kind of do, but hearing them every damn ad break on every station every bloody day wears very thin.
TV advert you say? If it's anything like H Norman's transition to the telly, then spare me please...

Sully

I thought they were funny, but the latest one isnt that good.

Tho I admit, having it now on a TV Commercial is over stepping the mark.

MarkR

Ah now lads. Don't shoot the monkey. Let him off with a warning. Or maybe a spanking. *snigger*

SpitfireIV

Wertz wrote:

TV advert you say? If it's anything like H Norman's transition to the telly, then spare me please...

Yep, a tv advert, its done as a cartoon, yellow background with Daft Dave, the 'normal guy' and the monkey as black silhouettes......adding to the mystery maybe, whooooohhh, as you cant see what Daft Dave looks like, he's a small fella though

Heard the advert again since I made the original post :mad:

Car Mad

wheres my monkey? lol are there not that bad.but i didnt see the tv advert yet

Owen

Well, Dave's having a half price sale, but the Turkish Travertine is still 29.99, where's the half price in that?

Wertz

ned78 wrote:

Well, Dave's having a half price sale, but the Turkish Travertine is still 29.99, where's the half price in that?

Right price tiles are famous for their permanent 50% off sale, something the office for consumer affairs seems happy to let them carry on with...


Glad to hear they haven't "spoiled" the mystery with the TV ads...I hate when you have mental images shattered by a "real" face...

Caliden

The gift grub pisstake of it was brilliant where he was stuck in the chimney.
if you havent heard it get it!

Sully

Our lecturer was making a comment about "Daft Dave" in class one day. Half way through his rant he realised we had a Dave in class, and he turned around and started apologising and got all worried! Twas funny.

(Different story tho. I know :P)

hiscan

irish1 wrote:

As you say they were funny but are now overplayed and are even on the bloody telly now!! Someone just shoot the Monkey, please.

shoot daft dave more like

Mossy Monk

Wertz wrote:

It's like everything else in Ireland; come up with something funny/popular/off-the-wall that appeals to joe public and next thing you know it's being overused/copied/adapted.

this is just an Irish thing then? Little Briatain springs to mind

Wertz

Mossy Monk wrote:

this is just an Irish thing then? Little Briatain springs to mind

No no, not just an Irish thing, but because we're a small nation it seems much more pronounced, to me at least.

_Kaiser_

The Daft Dave ads (like the DID "NEIN/NINE" ads before them) were funny the first few times, but quickly become repetive and grating.

(Still, I suppose the campaigns work as here we are talking about them, right?)

As for Little Britain.. can't understand the obsession with this. I thought it was stupid the first time, and given the "jokes" are the exact same every week, it only goes downhill from there..

Peyton Manning

I like to think Derek Mooney had something to do with these ads...

swingking

I am convinced that Brendan O'Connor is Daft Dave

They sound almost alike

constitutionus

while i will admit the daft dave adds are annoying, nothing comes close to the aural atrocity that is the appache pizza crazy frog add.

someone seriously needs to shoot the guy who came up with that for the sake of the gene pool

Wertz

I don't think I've ever heard that apache pizza ad...sounds like I'm blessed.

Oh and to whoever it was doesn't get little britain; couldn't agree more...very few parts I've ever actually laughed at and it certainly doesn't live up to the standard that BBC comedies have come up to down through the years....then again, very little of what the BBC comedy department come sup with is funny these days (IMO)

SpitfireIV

While we're on the topic of comedy, Little Britian and such, I have to say I never really watched that, just saw some of the sketches like 'Lou'? and Andy...."I wan tha one"..."yeah I know" etc etc, every second person you met was doing impressions of it.

But I find in the past couple of years that I cant stomach Irish comedy anymore, its 'stupid' comedy, like I sat down over Christmas and watched some father Ted and couldnt understand how I watched it years back.....its lame comedy, really :rolleyes:. All you need for Irish comedy is to swear constantly, talk about drink, getting drunk etc etc, make no sense and there you go :eek:

I prefer British comedy, 'The Office' was brilliant, dont know whether you'd call it a comedy but anyone watch 'Shameless', that does be pretty funny, and a new one I discovered 'Still Game', really good quality comedy, the Brits sure know how to make 'em and always have done, 'Bottom', 'The Young Ones', 'Mr Bean', 'Only Fools and Horses'........

Wow, I'm gone wayyyyyyy off point, ermm...DOWN WITH DAFT DAVE!!

Drax

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

I sat down over Christmas and watched some father Ted and couldnt understand how I watched it years back.....its lame comedy, really

Controversial! I think you may find a lot of people might disagree with you. I would regard Ted as classic comedy. As for the likes of Little Britain I never tune in ... but the Office was fantastic.

DOWN WITH DAFT DAVE!!

Couldnt agree more.... ! Unbelievably annoying.

Busterpuss

i would gladly shoot myself in the head than hear/see that daft dave ad one more time :mad:

scojones

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Ok, maybe its just that I'm not in the best of form today, but whilst flicking through a number of radio stations I must have heard the 'Daft Dave' adverts 6 times so far, if not more. The adverts were funny about 3 or 4 months back, he was midly annoying, but funny 'travertine tiles......fiveee ni-ee-nineeeee', ok in small doses but now you cant listen to the radio without hearing him.

Now however the adverts are just plain stupid, and stupid for the sake of it. It seems that when they make a new advert, another couple follow within days, and now there are even TV adverts!! Monkeys in canoes, turtles in flip flops???

DOWN WITH DAFT DAVE!!

Are these adverts annoying anyone else, or like I said, maybe I'm in bad form and they're touching a nerve

Absolutely does my head in. No matter what channel I'm watching it's always on when the ads come on - every bloody time. I don't care about the monkey, or whether he likes nuts or not!

kevmy

Ah now don't blame Daft Dave it's not his fault he's Daft. The idea of advertising is to get the message across that we're here and we have good products for sale. Now judging by the fact that more people on boards today seem to know Daft Dave better than David Ervine then I would say that the ads are successful. The problem is that the majority of the ads on the radio especially are so non-descript and samey that you don't even know what there advertising never mind remember them.

Anyway I'm not totally annoyed by them yet but then i don't listen to the radio that much.

Geek Nose

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

Ok, maybe its just that I'm not in the best of form today, but whilst flicking through a number of radio stations I must have heard the 'Daft Dave' adverts 6 times so far, if not more. The adverts were funny about 3 or 4 months back, he was midly annoying, but funny 'travertine tiles......fiveee ni-ee-nineeeee', ok in small doses but now you cant listen to the radio without hearing him.

Now however the adverts are just plain stupid, and stupid for the sake of it. It seems that when they make a new advert, another couple follow within days, and now there are even TV adverts!! Monkeys in canoes, turtles in flip flops???

DOWN WITH DAFT DAVE!!

Are these adverts annoying anyone else, or like I said, maybe I'm in bad form and they're touching a nerve

What do you expect when you listen to the radio? The radio is for sheep who need to be told what to listen to by naff DJs.

JungleBunny

Since reading this thread the only thing I can think of now is

MONKEY!!

I can't get it out of my head! Help!

DilbertPartII

Busterpuss wrote:

i would gladly shoot myself in the head than hear/see that daft dave ad one more time :mad:

hah!annoying indeed.:mad:

Red Hand

junkyard wrote:

I thought it was "monkeys and gnu's" not monkeys in canoes"

Monkeys and gnu's make no sense!:)

Of course its monkeys and canoes! They go together...like bears driving tiny dune-buggys in circles wearing Fezes.:)

Tiny dune-buggys!

connundrum

I went down the country at the weekend and as soon as I stepped into the pub, one of the lads shouted across - Look, its Daft Dave!!

And then that was the running joke for the night

Yes, my name is Dave, unfortunately!

It couldn't have been Petulant Pete could it?? NNnnoooo :mad:

johnp

Wertz wrote:

It's like everything else in Ireland; come up with something funny/popular/off-the-wall that appeals to joe public and next thing you know it's being overused/copied/adapted.

Podge and Rodge are a perfect example; RTÉ give them 2 shows a week, everyone and their mother thinks it's a howl...lo and behold it's on 4-5 nights of thr week, the material and quality suffers and the show becomes hackneyed and looses viewers/popularity. They did the same with the simpsons.
Gift grub is another example...a very successful format, it's now spawned similar slots on a couple of other stations, most notably nob nation on 2fm.

Originality is awarded with plagiarism and repetition and suddenly what was good about [whatever] suddenly gets diluted and spoils the whole thing.

I liked the right price tile ads and still kind of do, but hearing them every damn ad break on every station every bloody day wears very thin.
TV advert you say? If it's anything like H Norman's transition to the telly, then spare me please...

I don't think Gift Grub is the original of the species. Wasn't Scrap Saturday (late 80s) along the same lines? I'm not saying that Scrap Saturday was the original, but more that everyone will have a go at re-inventing a sucessful show/ad. If it works, they're on to a winner.

I'd say not many people knew that turkish travertine was a type of tile (I certainly didn't), but they do now.

Advertising works.

constitutionus

yeah but it can also back fire. take the appache pizza add i mentioned, i find it so annoying that i actively wont buy their product because of the nuisance factor of that add.

an adds function is to get you to know the product exists , but if the direct result is you wont buy the product it becomes counter productive.

irlirishkev

The Daft Dave ad isn't on the radio even half as much as Snow Patrol.. and they're equally as annoying..

Chopperdog

constitutionus wrote:

yeah but it can also back fire. take the appache pizza add i mentioned, i find it so annoying that i actively wont buy their product because of the nuisance factor of that add.

For anyone who hasn't heard this ad, it can only be likened to that crazy frog sh1t before he gets his daily dose of prozac.

Definitely agree with above poster that it would actively drive me away from Apache for using such a dumb ad campaign.:mad:

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

has to be the best advertising campaign on radio.

look we are all talking about it
everybody is talking about "daft dave" no amount of money can pay for that type of exposure and putting a thread up and talking ( good or bad ) about "daft dave" is promoting it even more and more.
so yes we are all part of the "daft dave" advertising campagne.
give yer selves a slap on the back for the best free advertising "daft dave" can get.

SpitfireIV

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

has to be the best advertising campaign on radio.

look we are all talking about it
everybody is talking about "daft dave" no amount of money can pay for that type of exposure and putting a thread up and talking ( good or bad ) about "daft dave" is promoting it even more and more.
so yes we are all part of the "daft dave" advertising campagne.
give yer selves a slap on the back for the best free advertising "daft dave" can get.

But if we dont vent our anger than no one will ever know how much we hate Daft Dave.....

.......but if we do vent our anger, resentment and hate then we are in fact serving the advert campiagn.

Bit of a Catch22 going on there :rolleyes:

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

CroppyBoy1798 wrote:

But if we dont vent our anger than no one will ever know how much we hate Daft Dave.....

.......but if we do vent our anger, resentment and hate then we are in fact serving the advert campiagn.

Bit of a Catch22 going on there :rolleyes:

i disagree, you are serving the advert by talking (good or bad) about the advert.
you in-fact are advertising the advert. :rolleyes:

SpitfireIV

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

i disagree, you are serving the advert by talking (good or bad) about the advert.
you in-fact are advertising the advert. :rolleyes:

What if I dont talk about it at all, either good or bad...........just think how much I hate Daft Dave? , I still hate the adverts and I'm not interested in Turkish Travertine....I prefer Turkish delight (:p )

**FORGET I TYPED THIS**

sioda

Daft dave or Harvey norman give me dave every time. Its better than this whatever is regulated by the financial regulator or good ol terms and conditions apply

jor el

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

i disagree, you are serving the advert by talking (good or bad) about the advert.
you in-fact are advertising the advert. :rolleyes:

But it's only good if people go out and buy the tiles. If they piss off their customers (or potential customers) to such a degree that they stop shopping there then it's hardly a good thing. They also seem to have the same price on everything for the last two years anyway so it can hardly be considered a sale any more either. Dave has run his course now, but as with everything it'll go way beyond that.

And if you want truly "daft" advertising I'd like to know what moron in Ulster Bank's advertising dept decided that a dog barking was a good way to advertise transaction fee free banking? WTF has a dog got to do with banking? The mind boggles sometimes. I wonder do advertising people actually live in the real world, or are they locked up in a cage after they finish coming up with the next "wacky" idea.

At least all the Christmas ads have finished now. If I'd heard the Centra ad one more time I swear the radio was going out the window.

Oh and on the OT portion of this thread, The Office was not funny, Little Britain is just sh*t and Extras is/was brutal. Fr. Ted is still funny though.

Nightwish

irlirishkev wrote:

The Daft Dave ad isn't on the radio even half as much as Snow Patrol.. and they're equally as annoying..

lol! I take it you're made to suffer Today Fm on a daily basis too!

SpitfireIV

jor el wrote:

The Office was not funny

:eek: :eek: blasphemy!! Haha, ah no, I honestly thought the Office was, and still is one of the best comedies I've ever seen, I'd love a boss like David Brent!

I did a quick google on 'Daft Dave' and found one guy/girl on Yahoo that is boasting about the fact that the guy who does the voice for Daft Dave is his/her father.........the majority of replies are 'Who the f*%$ is Daft Dave?'

The lemsip advert with that annoying slurping sound is starting to bug me now......

slipss

Ahh I like Daft Dave, I know the adds are stupid and immature but I always laugh, Daft Dave for Taoiseach I say, or at least one of those legends of boards things whatever they are.

Merrick

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, I've found somewhere to vent all the anger over that ******* ad!!!!
That is all, I'm feeling much better now.

Sizzler

Everybody has someone at some stage in their life that talks like Daft Dave havent they Next time it happens though he's getting a punch

admiralofthefleet

that cnut is back again. i really cant believe how right price tiles get away with having a sale every 3/4 weeks

lemansky

That bloody liquidator...............ahhhhhhhhhhh

EDIT:admiralofthefleet don't you know it's because daft dave goes around the world hunting for bargain tiles and he comes home every 3/4 weeks with his haul:eek:

MAYPOP

Daft Dave = Mario Rosenstock, let's hunt him down:)

Statso

Daft Dave is a legend!

Piste

o_O I have no idea who this "Daft Dave" is! What does he advertise?