Weirdest add on tv at the moment.

BrokenArrows

Im sure everyone has seen the add for "three" mobile network.

You know the add where these women take out these balls that start playing music and then the cops storm the place......

How exactly does this have anything to do with a phone network and who in their right mind came up with this idea for the ad.

fade2black

They look like some kind of musical sex aid for men.

aidan_walsh

1) Television, or Advertising/Marketing.

2) It got you talking about it, and you remember what service its for. Job done.

Mossy Monk

just saw the ad now, at least they rang the doorbell before charging in but a very odd advert it is

Sparky

i hate those ads for burger king, 2 99er.

StupidLikeAFox

who saw the ad for amstel/stella (not sure which, about the irish boys discovering america?

robinph

And the one where the cherry starts singing to the little girl freaks me out as well. Not an ad to be watched when your not in a sane state of mind.

DoctorEdgeWild

Pointless attempted zaniness from some advertising suits whose craziest moments happened when the water cooler ran out of water. What a rush! What a day that was!

However, it has gotten a few people talking about it so perhaps they will have the last laugh. It's not exactly filling me with a burning desire to avail of theri service however.

Niall123

The M&M's ads are strange.

The ones like "Do you know why they are called M&M's, cos they've got M's written on them",
"Or you have to say what it reminds you of,....... Yellow submaire, baboons bottom........Chocolate",
"Someone in the house is stealin my M&M's"
or the one where they're in the cinema and yer man moves the packet (thats ones not too bad).

Althought I must agree that the 3 ads are very strange.

Sarky

I miss the old Tango ads.

Now, THERE was well researched incomprehensible nonsense. Ah, better days, better days...

Larianne

Sarky wrote:

I miss the old Tango ads.

Now, THERE was well researched incomprehensible nonsense. Ah, better days, better days...

Yeah what was that the orange dude said? Something about "Wee Willy Winkle" ??

Sarky

There was that, and the Napoleon fellow whacking people with a large orange kitchen glove, and the sprouts ad where someone gets kicked in the face by a donkey with orange slippers, and the clowns one, and the marketing people complaining about the clowns one...

Damn, there were a lot of them.

Larianne

Yeah the one where the dude got slapped and they replayed the action.

I do think the 3 ad is very odd though... I love the Cherry one.

whiskeyman

Larianne wrote:

Yeah the one where the dude got slapped and they replayed the action.

the original had victim getting a slap on each ear, but they had to pull the ad as kids copied it and one lad perforated his mates ear drum doing it
It was replaced with the "tango man" kissing his unwitting victims.

StupidLikeAFox

Sarky wrote:

There was that, and the Napoleon fellow whacking people with a large orange kitchen glove, and the sprouts ad where someone gets kicked in the face by a donkey with orange slippers, and the clowns one, and the marketing people complaining about the clowns one...

Damn, there were a lot of them.

Sarky old buddy, refresh your memory http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/

Theres a load of them on that


Also, ARMADILLOS! Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside!
Oi nuttah!

jonny68

Dunno if anyone on here is old enough to remember the classic Cinzano Bianco ads from the early 80's with Leonard Rossiter simply cannot be beaten absolute quality check them out fantastic

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/Videos.html

[Go To Cinzano Commercials]

Scratch Acid

ColHol wrote:

Also, ARMADILLOS! Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside!
Oi nuttah!

Holy ****, I forgot how hilarious that ad is.

DublinWriter

robinph wrote:

And the one where the cherry starts singing to the little girl freaks me out as well. Not an ad to be watched when your not in a sane state of mind.

3 are a Hong Kong company. A mate of mine was working over there when those weird 3 ads were originally shown on HK TV.

Apparantly they are hilarious over there because of the subtle word-play and double-meanings of the imagery which you don't get if you don't speak Mandarin.

DublinWriter

ColHol wrote:

who saw the ad for amstel/stella

ehhhhhhhhh no.

joejoem

I think they are deadly adds, I dont know why I love them but I do........


Oh god, I sang that line in my head, how sad.

Mossy Monk

ColHol wrote:

http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/

wow, nice background

scuba steve

ColHol wrote:

who saw the ad for amstel/stella (not sure which, about the irish boys discovering america?

"Oi Chris, there the land ova there!!", great ad

TCamen

I love the 3 ads -- especially the one with the women and the music sex toys

The other one I really like is the giant-hands girl who leaves her giant-hands village to play basketball in the big city, and then she gets collared just before she gets to slam dunk

The cherry one is my least favourite though, don't find it funny or interesting.

Sparky

anyone remember the jaffa cakes ad with the teacher eating the cakes in front of all the kids.
Full moon.....half moon....Total eclipse....and again.

TCamen

A weird ad that I *HATE* is the stupid Finches orange one that's on in cinemas at the moment "Pour l'amour de l'orange" or whatever.

It's the black+white one with the French girl talking about how things would never work because she's a woman and the person in the chair she's talking to keeps changing, from men to a dog and then a bottle of Finches orange (in colour)

And she rolls around the place laughing, with a subtitle for "ha ha ha ha" and drinks the bottle. It's very irritating and just weird in a stupid way.

Sparky

is that similar to the man in the french cafe with a bottle of finches and says something and the rest of the people shout back at him.

TCamen

is that similar to the man in the french cafe with a bottle of finches and says something and the rest of the people shout back at him.

Haven't seen that one, but if it's b+w, it's probably all part of the same annoying strand of advertising :mad:

Larianne

Sparky_S wrote:

anyone remember the jaffa cakes ad with the teacher eating the cakes in front of all the kids.
Full moon.....half moon....Total eclipse....and again.

Ha ha, I love it!! She was some ugly lady as I can remember.

Sparky

Larianne wrote:

Ha ha, I love it!! She was some ugly lady as I can remember.

Yes the poor kids. She was an ugly french lady.

panda100

My fav ad at the mo is the club orange with the two irish lads and there like-lets kick sumthing off-and then everyone starts skipping-i think its the music i like though.
My fav ad though has to be the supermacs ad that they show usally on rte during matches with the fella running into the supermacs and the referees outside raise the white flag-its so crap its good!

Stompbox

I love the Sure for men ad.

DublinWriter

TCamen wrote:

A weird ad that I *HATE* is the stupid Finches orange one that's on in cinemas at the moment "Pour l'amour de l'orange" or whatever.

It's the black+white one with the French girl talking about how things would never work because she's a woman and the person in the chair she's talking to keeps changing, from men to a dog and then a bottle of Finches orange (in colour)

And she rolls around the place laughing, with a subtitle for "ha ha ha ha" and drinks the bottle. It's very irritating and just weird in a stupid way.

It's a pastiche of all those arty Francis Trouffant French films of the early-60's.

It funny as a pastiche-piece, but a failure as an ad as the joke is lost on most of the lumpen proles there to munch popcorn and see whatever formulatic peice of bacteria that Hollywood has spewn out this time around.

Tiriel

love the cherry one.. just brilliant!! the music ball thingie just looks wierrrrd.. it kind of freaks me out!! :eek:

BrokenArrows

ya i like the cherry one too. the song goes very well with the ad.

Pigman II

DublinWriter wrote:

It's a pastiche of all those arty Francis Trouffant French films of the early-60's.

It funny as a pastiche-piece, but a failure as an ad as the joke is lost on most of the lumpen proles there to munch popcorn and see whatever formulatic peice of bacteria that Hollywood has spewn out this time around.

This coming from a guy who can't spell "François Truffaut"?

DublinWriter

Pigman II wrote:

This coming from a guy who can't spell "François Truffaut"?

Quick, call the spelling-police!

You knew WTF I was talking about. I'm glad to see thatyou're so on the ball - good work officer! A promotion from the spelling section to the traffic section is in order I believe.

Pigman II

DublinWriter wrote:

Quick, call the spelling-police!

You knew WTF I was talking about. I'm glad to see thatyou're so on the ball - good work officer! A promotion from the spelling section to the traffic section is in order I believe.

Lest we forget, you started the whole "more literate than thou" arc with your pompous crap about "lumpen proles" who 'don't get it'. I don't mind a typo or a misspelling in the slightest but the point was the way you spelt it wasn't even phonetically correct which only just went to show you didn't even know who you were talking about! Learn the verses before you start preaching.

luckat

Spelling police here: you're under arrest, young man. Consider your debt to society and don't do it again.

The ads I hate with a passion are the sadistic ones about what horrible things happen to you if you drink before driving, don't put on your seatbelt or step out on the road when texting.

They're pointless, since they don't approach the behaviour *at the time of its occurence* - the only thing they teach you is to do a flying tackle across the room for the remote to change the channel on the first bar of the music for each one. (Spoiled some nice songs, too.)

And they're so ugly - they show such an ugly side of the Irish character, the gloating detail in which the young people are punished for not obeying the rules.

BuffyBot

I think the 3 ads are great - really weird, stick in your head pieces of work. They're doing exactly what 3 want them to do - stick in peoples heads and build the 3 brand as being "different" from your other mobile networks. Hutchinson have a lot of experience in doing this - they previously owned Orange, which is now huge brand (so big, the current owners, France Telecom are thinking of merging some of their other brands under the Orange name).

If you look closely at the Orange TV ads since it's launch way way back I don't think they've ever featured an actual mobile in them, something which 3 seem to be copying.

Femelade

Sparky_S wrote:

is that similar to the man in the french cafe with a bottle of finches and says something and the rest of the people shout back at him.

yeah,, i actually like that one cos she calls in a "spanner"
(but in french of course)

johnny_ultimate

Those three ads scare the holy frickin bejesus out of me.
Worse than those though : The Kinder Hippo ads. They are pure and utter evil. A huge blue hippo - poorly realised dubbing - a bar which looks supremely dodgy - all these things make my cry with fear everytime the ad comes on. What are they showing the kids these days????

robinph

I'm liking the one where a couple are riding a bike along some country lane, the bloke reaches for something in the front basket (I think its a twix) and the bird on the back of the bike gets a smack in the head from a tree and lands on the road.

Sparky

robinph wrote:

I'm liking the one where a couple are riding a bike along some country lane, the bloke reaches for something in the front basket (I think its a twix) and the bird on the back of the bike gets a smack in the head from a tree and lands on the road.

oh yes thats a good one.

oh a note as well that sure ad for men is wierd, with the "over the top protection" LOL @ the biker smashing into the shop with a package only to find the reception man point out the no helmets sign

DublinWriter

Pigman II wrote:

Learn the verses before you start preaching.

*OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH*....

DublinWriter

johnny_ultimate wrote:

A huge blue hippo - poorly realised dubbing - a bar which looks supremely dodgy

...and the perfect Arian (ooohhh did I spell that right Pigman II?) family who are obviously on PCP as they don't seem to think it's odd that a big blue cartoon hippo suddenly appears out of nowhere.

The Kinder ads are historically freaky. Remember the ones for Kinder surprise? "Mummy Mummy I want chocolate and a surprise!". The mother should have just dipped her foot in chocolate and kicked him up the arse.

Sparky

DublinWriter wrote:

The mother should have just dipped her foot in chocolate and kicked him up the arse.

Ha ha,

Pigman II

DublinWriter wrote:

*OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH* Please Sir, may I have another *OUCH*....

Did the lumpen prole say that to you after you gave him an earbashing for not knowing who 'Francis Trouffant' was? :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

aidan_walsh wrote:

It got you talking about it, and you remember what service its for. Job done.

Then again there are those generic ads.

Like that one for an american company and their plans to revamp the premiership
extra time multiball and moving arsenal to the lake district
or the one where yer man is waiting in the cinema and the options that show up for the rest of the evening

The ads that show you a nice lifestyle and hope you associate it with the product. The best way it to treat them as a small film supervised by the ad agency and sold to the highest bidder.

gandalf

The latest Carling ad with Voodoo is brilliant!

Nimrod's Son

Those Three ads are freakish alright. My housemate says out of the blue one of the days when the ad is on: "I would so make love to that pink thing". He's a sick bastid!