Old TV ads.

darkdubh · 03-10-2017 10:46am

I'd forgotten about this weird McDonalds advert till last night when they showed a clip of it in a BBC4 documentary where the song Mac The Knife was being discussed.

An Riabhach · 10-10-2017 4:39pm

Can anyone else remember the Northern Ireland ads from the 90s which had the slogan "You won't know unless you go"??

darkdubh · 11-10-2017 2:40pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

Can anyone else remember the Northern Ireland ads from the 90s which had the slogan "You won't know unless you go"??

I remember one that had two backpackers walking into a country pub and the locals staring at them menacingly like it was some kind of pastiche of The Slaughtered Lamb in An American Werewolf In London. It was a bit of a weird one, deffo didn't make me want to visit.Not sure if it had that slogan but it was about visiting Northern Ireland.

thesandeman · 12-10-2017 8:35am

I remember that one. One of the lads at the bar said something welcoming at the end and the place erupted with music and chatter.
I can't remember the tag line though. Maybe something about a different experience?

An Riabhach · 12-10-2017 4:42pm

darkdubh wrote: »

I remember one that had two backpackers walking into a country pub and the locals staring at them menacingly like it was some kind of pastiche of The Slaughtered Lamb in An American Werewolf In London. It was a bit of a weird one, deffo didn't make me want to visit.Not sure if it had that slogan but it was about visiting Northern Ireland.

They must have cut that part out of it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ExRQwfDda4

darkdubh · 14-10-2017 10:06pm

thesandeman wrote: »

I remember that one. One of the lads at the bar said something welcoming at the end and the place erupted with music and chatter.
I can't remember the tag line though. Maybe something about a different experience?

Yes I remember that.

An Riabhach wrote: »

They must have cut that part out of it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ExRQwfDda4

It wasn't that one,the whole ad was set around these two strangers walking into the pub. I think it might have been advertising some specific rural region in the North.

Shemale · 14-10-2017 10:10pm

jor el wrote: »

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Mr Majeika?

branie2 · 14-10-2017 10:18pm

Catweazel

Finne1993 · 01-02-2018 1:33am

Anyone know where I’d get a link to the Harp Ad that had the Mexican guy say the line “Hey Dusty, get this thirsty stranger a pint of Harp” I’ve searched the web high and low and can’t seem to find a copy of it. No problem finding all the rest of the famous Harp ads but for some reason this one is nowhere to be found!

Ralf and Florian · 06-03-2018 8:49am

Anyone remember a series of ads from the late 90's for a drink (might have been an alco pop?) that featured a cartoon animated cow? The makers of the advert clearly didn't do their research because while the cow was clearly intended to be male they gave it udders. One advert had it trying to chat up human females in a nightclub. The "cow" had an annoying one word catchphrase that I can't recall.

An Riabhach · 24-05-2018 12:48am

From the North of Ireland, 30 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKE4eleMITI

The Crowman · 25-05-2018 8:57am

An Riabhach wrote: »

From the North of Ireland, 30 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKE4eleMITI

We didn't have UTV but I remember the bit with the guy being kneecapped being shown on some RTE programme at the time, maybe Today Tonight. Must have been something about the North.

An Riabhach · 21-06-2018 9:45am

Was there somebody looking for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAazxm4_OBo

An Riabhach · 06-07-2018 11:14pm

Can anyone remember what series of ads had the line at the end
"You'll be glad you called"??

branie2 · 06-07-2018 11:52pm

Ads for an insurance company

The Crowman · 17-07-2018 2:32pm

Remember the one at the start of this? "The Symptoms", a pretty poor pastiche of the Simpsons. I think it came out around when Sky first started showing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QKg04QUkc

Lorelli! · 17-07-2018 5:10pm

That headwrecking Gold Blend couple!!

The Crowman · 17-07-2018 5:19pm

Lorelli! wrote: »

That headwrecking Gold Blend couple!!

They came across as so smug.

Lorelli! · 17-07-2018 6:22pm

The Crowman wrote: »

They came across as so smug.

They did!

And it was done like a "to be continued." There was a whole series of them.

The Crowman · 17-07-2018 7:35pm

I remember a UK ad from the early 90's that had a hippy-ish student visiting his grandfather and giving him some sort of ethnic mask after a trip abroad, I remember the line "it's a fertility mask grandad" to which the grandad gives a kind of gruff cynical reply then points at whatever the ad was for (it might have been soup) and says "it'll do you a lot more good than that thing ever will" or words to that effect.

The Crowman · 28-07-2018 8:00pm

Does anyone remember an ad with cartoon bears that had a voice over by Ronnie Drew, not the Calor Gas one? I think it might have been on one Christmas and possibly was for a Dublin department store. I just remember one line delivered in Ronnie's familiar growling voice "then they went to (name of the place) where they went mad altogether". Late 80's or early 90's.

cml387 · 28-07-2018 8:24pm

The Crowman wrote: »

They came across as so smug.

I never realised the actor in that ad was the prime minister in Little Britain, who had David Walliams as his permanent secretary ( which didn't end well as I recall).

An Riabhach · 29-07-2018 1:18am

The Crowman wrote: »

Remember the one at the start of this? "The Symptoms", a pretty poor pastiche of the Simpsons. I think it came out around when Sky first started showing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1QKg04QUkc

I actually used to think that one was really funny!

An Riabhach · 29-07-2018 1:21am

Lorelli! wrote: »

That headwrecking Gold Blend couple!!

My sister used to love those ones.She'd nearly treat them as episodes of Dynasty or The Colbys or something.

ann0 · 29-07-2018 1:33am

anyone remember the old christmas ad for pennys from 1996 cant get the video up

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

George White · 29-07-2018 9:43pm

One weird thing I've noticed is British sitcom actors coming over and doing ads. Lost in Translation-style.
Sometimes, they're riffing on their known image or doing it as themselves.
Patrick Cargill - https://ifiplayer.ie/kosangas-demonstration-man/
Frank "The Vicar of Dad's Army" Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyuFhugzEs (David Kelly also did this campaign)

Buut other times, they got Brits to play Irish.
Obviously, Vicki Michelle as Sally O'Brien. A friend was astonished that everyone presumed she was Irish, because although she hadn't yet done 'Allo 'Allo, she'd been doing numerous bit parts in various sketch shows and films, obviously perhaps not long enough to register, but she had had a regular role in Les Dawson's shows at that time.
Another odd one is this ad - with Christopher Blake either dubbed or doing a creditable accent. Blake is one of those actors who though now forgotten, worked consistently. Best known for his turn as Mollie Sugden's titular biological son in That's My Boy, but he had turns in various Sunday Classics, was the lead in another popular-though-derided 'com, Mixed Blessings. But here he is advertising Carling for Ireland.

I wonder how many of these Irish ads were made in the UK. Sally O'Brien was done in Ardmore and in the Harbour Bar, but one ad features London-based Dublin actor Paul Antrim, who had roles in quite a few films, Man Who Would Be King, a turn as a sort of poor man's Fulton Mackay in Wild Geese 2, but I know him as IRA man Dermot in mental BBC Brummie-Pakistani pulp crime series Gangsters

And most of the voiceovers were done by Fergus O'Kelly alias Father Barty Dunne, the laughing priest, whose career has mostly been based in England, and mostly in radio. Only 6 TV/film credits over a forty year period.
I think Kevin Flood, another Irish actor at the time in Britain did quite a few too.

The Crowman · 04-08-2018 11:39am

Some gems here, I especially remember the Biactol one, "John's soaps got a fancy name".

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

The Crowman · 04-08-2018 11:54am

George White wrote: »

One weird thing I've noticed is British sitcom actors coming over and doing ads. Lost in Translation-style.
Sometimes, they're riffing on their known image or doing it as themselves.
Patrick Cargill - https://ifiplayer.ie/kosangas-demonstration-man/
Frank "The Vicar of Dad's Army" Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QyuFhugzEs (David Kelly also did this campaign)

Buut other times, they got Brits to play Irish.
Obviously, Vicki Michelle as Sally O'Brien. A friend was astonished that everyone presumed she was Irish, because although she hadn't yet done 'Allo 'Allo, she'd been doing numerous bit parts in various sketch shows and films, obviously perhaps not long enough to register, but she had had a regular role in Les Dawson's shows at that time.
Another odd one is this ad - with Christopher Blake either dubbed or doing a creditable accent. Blake is one of those actors who though now forgotten, worked consistently. Best known for his turn as Mollie Sugden's titular biological son in That's My Boy, but he had turns in various Sunday Classics, was the lead in another popular-though-derided 'com, Mixed Blessings. But here he is advertising Carling for Ireland.

I wonder how many of these Irish ads were made in the UK. Sally O'Brien was done in Ardmore and in the Harbour Bar, but one ad features London-based Dublin actor Paul Antrim, who had roles in quite a few films, Man Who Would Be King, a turn as a sort of poor man's Fulton Mackay in Wild Geese 2, but I know him as IRA man Dermot in mental BBC Brummie-Pakistani pulp crime series Gangsters

And most of the voiceovers were done by Fergus O'Kelly alias Father Barty Dunne, the laughing priest, whose career has mostly been based in England, and mostly in radio. Only 6 TV/film credits over a forty year period.
I think Kevin Flood, another Irish actor at the time in Britain did quite a few too.

Another good example here near the beginning, Oliver Tobias of the Stud fame advertising the quintessentially Cork stout Murphys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvzccLRLj-M

An Riabhach · 04-08-2018 12:50pm

I should probably be going to the safety ads thread with this one,but can anyone at all remember an ad which showed someone washing blood from their hands under a running tap,but when they stop and look, both palms are still covered in blood.And the voiceover says "...... no matter how hard you try,you'll never wash away the stain".
It was definitely an Irish ad and definitely not an ad for washing powder because it was way too serious.
Can anybody remember it?

The Crowman · 04-08-2018 6:14pm

An Riabhach wrote: »

I should probably be going to the safety ads thread with this one,but can anyone at all remember an ad which showed someone washing blood from their hands under a running tap,but when they stop and look, both palms are still covered in blood.And the voiceover says "...... no matter how hard you try,you'll never wash away the stain".
It was definitely an Irish ad and definitely not an ad for washing powder because it was way too serious.
Can anybody remember it?

Yes I remember that, would it have been late 80's/early 90's? Imagine it must have been a road safety advert.

Old TV ads.

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