Ariston..and on...and on..[The Classic Ads Thread]

The Princess Bride

I've this ad stuck in my head all evening- anyone remember it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2QnG3DwVW0

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVtgX4S3y4

stovelid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0anq61rAFU

Access

Glad to see no one has posted this yet!...

It just came into my head today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcFm_L4GLs

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUWvOf3Iwk

Ainekav

I used to love the old ESB ad where the guy gets up to feed the baby in his stripy pyjamas and the song "only you" played.

It's not on youtube though

Ainekav

Ainekav wrote: »

I used to love the old ESB ad where the guy gets up to feed the baby in his stripy pyjamas and the song "only you" played.

It's not on youtube though

It is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNH6gKbew2o

unfortunately

Does anybody remember an ad from the late 90s which was for milk, I think. It was shot in black and white, and featured a good looking man in a suit undressing as he walks in a park. He is watched by a woman on a summer bench and he runs up and jumps over it. Eventually he is in his underwear and climbs up to the diving board of an outside swimming pool and dives into the pool of milk.

PS Sex can really sell anything!

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umNV6aMCjRk

garfieldsghost

Brilliant thread! Love the old ESB ads.

Here's another great 1980s TV commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT6TXD4_yDM

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkQij6lGJ4

Jordan 199

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

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CFhTuSgdtI

zztop

Seen that ESB ad this morning with Hughes guy.Excellent.

harry Bailey esq

bisto gravy. 'is trevor ever getting up?never in a month of Sundays' classic.

WindSock

Jordan 191 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CFhTuSgdtI

Is that Mrs Doyle (Pauline McGlynn) in the Clinic Shampoo ad @ 1:25? :pac:

Homestead: Fiúntas Ag Teacht Chun Tí

Anyone got a video of the Irish version? The English version is floating around YouTube but the only sign of the Irish one I can find was that it was uploaded to YouTube by a now banned user.

M.Pellet

Tab cola

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

Coke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSnjjdGh5M

Nimble Bread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NopAq6tUHVk

Trio bar

Doge

I would greatly appreciate if anyone could find an old NEC advert from the 80s for me.

Or if they can remember it also.

At a rough guess it could have been out in 1987 / 1988 when I was about 3 years old.


All I can remember is that it was some kind of animation, that featured a modern city, possibly built out of clay, or some sort of dough,
with high rise buildings, and with little clay cars driving down a high way.

The dominant colours would have been Blue, White and Grey iirc.

And the highway may have inclined high into upto the sky towards the end of the advert,

just before it fades into this NEC logo, which may have been white or blue:





Can anyone remember this advert?

I have a very vague but fond memory of it! Cheers.

Doge

You can see the exact logo at the end of both these commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFZWxyBt-f0

bitemybanger

bitemybanger

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Guy coming through customs, I think in Spain, gets bag checked. Guard finds something, tastes it, smiles. The line is "ees crispy, ees crunchy, ees confiscated!"

Anyone knoe what the ad is for?

Many thanks!

P.

I can't believe that this hasn't been posted yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpEVl-Q-Ks

And the 2009 remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZWv28YGyUo

Lyrics:

There’s a magical place, we’re on our way there
With toys in their millions all under one roof
– it’s called Toys ‘R’ Us!

Soon after bedtime when dark night-time falls,
Geoffrey & helpers stock up all the shelves,
From ceiling to floor; books, board games & bikes,
teddies, puppets & dolls,
bats, spaceships & trikes!

There’s millions says Geoffrey, all under one roof
– it’s called Toys ‘R’ Us, Toys ‘R’ Us, Toys R Us!

telecinesk

Check this. Has it all. politically incorrect bank ad, big glasses,moustaches and an ad for some awsome nightclub in Limerick.
Oh and the coolest Murphys ad I remember. Yerman from "the Stud" is in it. Some gruesome totp also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvzccLRLj-M&feature=plcp

darkdubh

There was this ad on in the mid 80's,not sure what it was for but it might have been life insurance.It showed a photo montage of a man from baby to death.The soundtrack was this kind of popping sound that would go pop,pop in time with the pictures changing and halfway through the ad a harmonica joind in the soundtrack.The photomontages were really funny and one showed him with his adult children one of the sons was a hippy who the next montage showed the hippy son with two "wives" with a load of children of their own including a black child.The last few montages showed the man alone and getting more bent over till the last shot was a tombstone.Anyone else remember this ad or know what it was for?

Rubecula

Anyone else remember this? Or am I just showing my age?

gammygils

darkdubh wrote: »

There was this ad on in the mid 80's,not sure what it was for but it might have been life insurance.It showed a photo montage of a man from baby to death.The soundtrack was this kind of popping sound that would go pop,pop in time with the pictures changing and halfway through the ad a harmonica joind in the soundtrack.The photomontages were really funny and one showed him with his adult children one of the sons was a hippy who the next montage showed the hippy son with two "wives" with a load of children of their own including a black child.The last few montages showed the man alone and getting more bent over till the last shot was a tombstone.Anyone else remember this ad or know what it was for?

That was an ad for Sony Trinitron TV
I loved that ad. One of my favourite Commercials of all time!

washiskin

Not an ad I know, but I used to love these old Public Information Films. Unfortunately, I can't find "John, did you put out the cat?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfyfY7PI3pg

And the perrenial :

BlaasForRafa

Anyone remember from before the celtic tiger when there used to be adverts for fertilsers and pesticides broadcast during primetime hours? Its used to put me right off me dinner when they'd be going on about things like Liver Fluke and ringworm in the middle of the A-Team or whatever.

gammygils

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember from before the celtic tiger when there used to be adverts for fertilsers and pesticides broadcast during primetime hours? Its used to put me right off me dinner when they'd be going on about things like Liver Fluke and ringworm in the middle of the A-Team or whatever.

Where as now we have ads for Fungal Nail

Puts me off my dinner! :eek:

kitakyushu

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

gammygils

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

Yes I remember them. I Black & White of course. Everything was on our telly.
And the buzz on the telly would change with every ad!

flanum

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

theres a few at the end of this clip..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cof7Eruqgc

flanum

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

Anyone remember from before the celtic tiger when there used to be adverts for fertilsers and pesticides broadcast during primetime hours? Its used to put me right off me dinner when they'd be going on about things like Liver Fluke and ringworm in the middle of the A-Team or whatever.

i remember "hi-bloom, hi-bloom, sure is a mighty feed, hi-bloom is the only feed that suckys need.." to the tune of "convoy"

also "go straight for net, you wont regret, great silage you'll be storing... something, something.. net nitrate, net urea"!!!!
!

and the nearest i could find for "triple a golden maverick" is a bit of a remake done by a fan!!!/....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFR06oru2vQ

RadioRetro

flanum wrote: »

theres a few at the end of this clip..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cof7Eruqgc

That card/voiceover ad for the wholesnack bar looks to have preceded the current boom in health bars. Ahead of their time!

Oracle

This Wrangler ad was a breakthrough at the time, combined a lot of 80's trends; electronic music, independent youth attitude and robotic dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3h5c8G015E

The Princess Bride

"Nick 'em....I bought 'em!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7baLLvGo8

kitakyushu

Popped into my mind just now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HICdIagTyn0

BlaasForRafa

kitakyushu wrote: »

Can anyone remember back to when a lot (I'd almost say 50%) of the ads on RTE were just simple cuecards and a voiceover?

I used to think they were terribly unimpressive at the time but truth be told I'd almost welcome their return in favour of the A.D.D. adverts that prevail these days.

UTV used to have that kind of ad on late night tv until fairly recently. They were usually for carpet shops on the Lisburn Road or for places like World of Leather (which probably isn't as kinky a place as it sounds)

stoneill

Here's a few more for you

kitakyushu

Trying to remember an ad from the 90's. It was black and white and done in sort of Kurosawa style. Can't remember what it was selling but it had an old man at the end sitting in the dirt crying.

Anyone know it?

Aglomerado

kitakyushu wrote: »

Trying to remember an ad from the 90's. It was black and white and done in sort of Kurosawa style. Can't remember what it was selling but it had an old man at the end sitting in the dirt crying.

Anyone know it?

Did it have "Old Man River" for music? I think that might have been a Guinness ad, but I am open to correction. I also remember that there was some graffiti on a wall in it: "life is a terminal disease".

Back to the 80s - McVitie's HobNobs - "One nibble and you're nobbled"
Still have the badge from that campaign.

kitakyushu

I found it. It was a murphys ad. It was in colour so that probably threw some people off. Not really that much like a Kurosawa film either now that I look at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmhmx3gEAEw

This one popped into my head today for some reason...

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

I seem to have a memory in the early 90s when cigar advertising was about to be banned (possibly the night before it came into effect), that Channel 4 showed a programme of cigar adverts. Is it just me or did this actually happen?

darkdubh

One of my favourite ads when I was a kid was one for these kind of space invader shaped spaghetti.It showed a big can of the spaghetti landing outside a school like a spaceship.The headmaster who was wearing a black cape and morterboard hat hits it with his cane and is vapourised to cheers from the pupils.I used to wish that the same would happen at our school.

kitakyushu

We got the cartoon classics bundle in our house for Xmas 1991.

I'd heard rumours it was coming for xmas and this very ad suddenly became about 50% anticipation 50% taunt for weeks in the run up to the big day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzUu5LYw1k

Honestly it was amazing!

Some of the things I remember... I'm only 28.

darkdubh

kitakyushu wrote: »

I found it. It was a murphys ad. It was in colour so that probably threw some people off. Not really that much like a Kurosawa film either now that I look at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmhmx3gEAEw

The reason for the confusion is that it was a follow up to another ad which was in black and white and was a tribute to Seven Samurai.It had these samurai going into a rural Irish pub and shouting out "Murphys".
Edit:Here it is http://youtu.be/r3jJzLaIgPM

I hope he/she doesn't mind me uploading this one, but it's an absolute gem. Cheers to Baps for sending it on to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYHLNW22mI

That jingle was burned into my head for 25 years, I remembered it perfectly.