Worst/Best Radio Ads

NufcNavan

That flute noise in the background of the Aldi ad is doing my head in. Combined with the TV ads as well. You can just tell that every 'actor' they have in their ads is extremely desperate to be on TV.

Del.Monte

The awful "status quo" is now "status go" Ad is the one that really gets my goat at the moment and I genuinely cannot remember what it's selling. :mad:

Akabusi

Noticed the launderette add is back, the one where the guy is picking up his gimp suit, one of the better adds imo.

Del.Monte

Akabusi wrote: »

Noticed the launderette add is back, the one where the guy is picking up his gimp suit, one of the better adds imo.

You're not serious are you?

Grolschevik

Del.Monte wrote: »

You're not serious are you?

I like it!

Brendan Bendar

Del.Monte wrote: »

You're not serious are you?

Couldn’t be ... anyone who refers to an ‘ad’ as an ‘add’ could never be taken seriously.

Move on. Deal done... of no consequence.

whisky_galore

Del.Monte wrote: »

The awful "status quo" is now "status go" Ad is the one that really gets my goat at the moment and I genuinely cannot remember what it's selling. :mad:

That really is crap. Some sort of corporate pep talk outfit, who knows.

Newstalk have a new sports one, a golf panel show or sumat, but with an irritating tuneless postman's whistling going on in the background.

Akabusi

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Couldn’t be ... anyone who refers to an ‘ad’ as an ‘add’ could never be taken seriously.

Move on. Deal done... of no consequence.

I can be so stupid at times. I don't know why i added the second "d". Please take me seriously I swear i do know that there is definitely only one "d" in advertisement, I use the "dd" when i want to add as in addition.

It is one of the better ads btw!

80sChild

Any radio ads that use a car horn honking in them - give me awful frights while driving thinking they are really in my vicinity and then I feel like a tool when I realise

Brendan Bendar

Akabusi wrote: »

I can be so stupid at times. I don't know why i added the second "d". Please take me seriously I swear i do know that there is definitely only one "d" in advertisement, I use the "dd" when i want to add as in addition.

It is one of the better ads btw!

Good lad, glad I could shake you up and bring you round to reality.

Topper.

Akabusi

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Good lad, glad I could shake you up and bring you round to reality.

Topper.

Thank you, I have nothing more to add.

check_six

whisky_galore wrote: »

Newstalk have a new sports one, a golf panel show or sumat, but with an irritating tuneless postman's whistling going on in the background.

Is that whistling not the theme from Disney's Robin Hood with the anthropomorphic animals (Robin's a fox, etc.)? I quite like that tune to be honest.

Ol' Donie

check_six wrote: »

Is that whistling not the theme from Disney's Robin Hood with the anthropomorphic animals (Robin's a fox, etc.)? I quite like that tune to be honest.

It is exactly that.

The tune is comfortably the best thing about golf weekly.

"we're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a big one, swishy swashy swishy swashy swishy swashy " FFS - Do I want to hear this at 7.15am when I'm rushing out in the rain to get my train to work??? No EASONS I don't!

Put it on during the Parenting Slot or something ! Sorry for the rant :-)

Mr E

Ah it's kinda cute. I like it.

anewme

Dog Poo is Back!!!!!

Heard the first three notes and went FFS! It can't be, but it was, its back!

Dog Poo, Dog Poo, Dog Poo.

whisky_galore

check_six wrote: »

Is that whistling not the theme from Disney's Robin Hood with the anthropomorphic animals (Robin's a fox, etc.)? I quite like that tune to be honest.

Which has what to do with golf?

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

"we're going on a bear hunt, we're going to catch a big one, swishy swashy swishy swashy swishy swashy " FFS - Do I want to hear this at 7.15am when I'm rushing out in the rain to get my train to work??? No EASONS I don't!

Put it on during the Parenting Slot or something ! Sorry for the rant :-)

I love that ad. I want to download it to my Spotify. It's so soothing and fun, it's EXACTLY what I want to hear when I'm going to work in the rain, seriously!

"Oh no we've got to go through it!
Swishy swashy. Swishy swashy"

Love it! Have you heard the Grruffalo one (A Gruffalo?!)?

A1.

rubadub

ford fiesta wrote: »

There has been a few different Phoenix voiceovers on their ad's in the past 20 or so years...

new ad out is toned down a lot, still an odd inflection on 1 or 2 words, but nothing like the last one.

anewme

Heard one today about road rage. Started off with a bloke ranting away about people hogging the work toaster.

I laughed a lot, as I complain about the toaster being hogged.

SirChenjin

Right Price Tiles, awful ad!

plodder

The Electric Oyrlund guy is back.

Del.Monte

Synergy, Synergy.....and the sound of a record stuck in a groove. Ad is for Grant Thornton. A strong candidate for the most annoying Ad ever?

paddylonglegs

Ze German man talking about ze German power washer, ja? Ze accent is so over-ze-top it must come wit ze free liederhosen ja?

whisky_galore

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Ze German man talking about ze German power washer, ja? Ze accent is so over-ze-top it must come wit ze free liederhosen ja?

I vill haff you shot for ziz.

Grolschevik

"I take your point. Or, rather, points!"

**** off you pedantic prick.

NufcNavan

What about the one with two lads talking about parts for a van, or van repair etc. and they are both clearly putting on northside Dub accents. They both end up sounding like a bad Conor McGregor impression. It's absolutely cringe.

rubadub

NufcNavan wrote: »

What about the one with two lads talking about parts for a van, or van repair etc. and they are both clearly putting on northside Dub accents. They both end up sounding like a bad Conor McGregor impression. It's absolutely cringe.

I think I know that one, or similar,
"she asked me to put on a harness"
"for wha?!"

There was a newer one for tires, "me Da knows all the best places, best chipper, best pub, best place to get tyres" and a lad comes on who sounds the same age as the first guy and pretends to sound old like he was his father.

ButtersSuki

I didn't think Skoda could do an ad with a more annoying collection of VOs than the father and son from Drogheda hi with the added West Brit D4-head (his name escapes me at the moment but he souned like Jazz Alley's Donald Helme) from a few years ago but lo and behold they're done it with their new ad with a montage of exaggerated accents from I assume North, South, East and West.

It reminded me of this it was so bad:

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

To be fair though, I'm guessing Tom Cruise was out of their budget.

Mr E

I'd say it was the same guy doing the 4 accents too, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Really annoying though, you're right.