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

Max_Damage · 01-10-2007 08:35PM

Vauxhall Nova (Opel Corsa) advert for the mid-1980's. The panal beaters must have got good work from the ad!

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=B-euoQ67URQ

Song: Los Lobos - La Bamba

telecinesk · 03-10-2007 07:52PM

haha and speaking of bad ads and cars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGBR0ybCNRg

i want the evil kenevil stunt cycle...

and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H42IXrI304U

i doubt this was broadcast?

Ruu_Old · 04-10-2007 03:44AM

Hah, found this one from the early 90's. I can't find a link to the ad right now but there are snapshots here. Kept asking me for a username and password. Will look for the ad in the morning.

Degsy · 04-10-2007 07:08PM

The Metz ad...spooky and atmospheric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TUOPeNJCK8

Degsy · 04-10-2007 07:19PM

Batchellors savoury rice..now its TWICE as nice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA64He-g0ig

Rockee · 05-10-2007 01:21AM

byte wrote:

Hehe, bring back memories.

Reminds me a bit of the Scotch "re-record, not fade away"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffa1E9k3H4k

:eek: :eek: :eek: Thank you byte!

Rockee · 05-10-2007 01:28AM

Id love to see more of the old Irish ads from the 80s on Youtube. I guess its just up to whoever may have the ads lying about on VHS to upload them!! Stuff like Bob Geldof with his 'Phonewreckers are idiots' Dulux Weathershield, the Guinness surfing ad and for some reason I can remember 2 really creepy ads from Schweppes and Trocáire!!

Davedubh · 17-10-2007 11:43AM

Anyone have the kit kat one with the devil and angel?."Morning" "Mornin!".

FatherTed · 26-10-2007 03:39PM

Lyons Tea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I15pXyM0dl8
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OREoKutUMfk
Some old RTE ads here after 1:30 (Andrews/Pink Panther, Amex, Lucozade, Renault 5, Lyons Tea Escort giveaway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUxZq_eJRPA

Kit Kat, you cant sing, you look awful... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDEJpqljvIc

stovelid · 26-10-2007 06:40PM

FatherTed wrote: »

Kit Kat, you cant sing, you look awful...

Got to be one of the best ads ever.

Lizzykins · 26-10-2007 11:22PM

Everytime I see that Aer Lingus I want to cry! Thank God I never had to emigrate. Aer Lingus had anothr one in the 70s or 80s with a song in in that went like "Look to the sky... and then something about Ireland's oceans and we were born to fly. I'll have to root to find it.

ESB had another on with that guy Alan from TV3 I think who was a returned immigrant and there was his mammy making the dinner and putting on his electric blanket! Sob sob!!

Love the Guinness one with the snow in Dublin and the gorgeous music in it.

Gaspode · 10-11-2007 08:35PM

My daughter was making a birthday card yesterday for a boy in her class. On the front in big writing was 'A happy birthday to Toby'.
It instantly brought back the ad for topic bars, which I was very sadly able to quote verbatim to her. She was not amused.
Damn those ad writers, they certainly ingrained their catchphrases into our brains. That must be 15-20 years ago and I can still remember it. I cant hardly remember my own name some days.
It featured a creature called toby who chomped awway the bar bit by bit to reveal the catchphrase 'a hazelnut in every bite' (not a reference to squirrel poo tho') whilst trying to guess what it is as he
goes.

A happy birthday to Toby?
A hazelnut in the hand is worth two in the bush?
A hazelnut in time saves nine?
No, You'll just have to finish the whole bar
A hazelnut in every bite, Ah now I remember
Yes, funny how you always remember right at the end.

stovelid · 23-12-2007 11:36AM

Lizzykins wrote: »

Everytime I see that Aer Lingus I want to cry! Thank God I never had to emigrate. Aer Lingus had anothr one in the 70s or 80s with a song in in that went like "Look to the sky... and then something about Ireland's oceans and we were born to fly. I'll have to root to find it.

.

I remember one that went something like...."look up it's aer lingus..." ...then some thing about winging or flying away each day....

L1011 · 28-12-2007 08:59PM

Lizzykins wrote: »

ESB had another on with that guy Alan from TV3 I think who was a returned immigrant and there was his mammy making the dinner and putting on his electric blanket! Sob sob!!

Was that the one with some song about driving home on it, and the house was the only one visible all lit up for ages around it? Thats the ad I thought of when I saw this thread, but I can't find it...

Hermy · 12-01-2008 02:32PM

Lizzykins wrote: »

ESB had another on with that guy Alan from TV3 I think who was a returned immigrant and there was his mammy making the dinner and putting on his electric blanket! Sob sob!!

That's the ad that features Dusty Springfield singing Going Back.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, do any of you recall a strange ad for Seiko watches from the mid 80's that featured a man and a woman strapped into some strange looking chairs which at the time I took to be electric chairs. I don't know much beyond that but it frightened the S-H-One-T out of me back then.

tricky D · 15-01-2008 12:41AM

You could fry an egg on the rocks .....
Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you

Lizzykins · 19-01-2008 10:25PM

I've trawled the web looking for the ESB ad-yes it's the Dusty Springfield song alright. The only Aer Lingus ad I can find is the one from the 90s I think with the music from The Mission-Gabriel's Oboe.

Ruu_Old · 19-01-2008 10:30PM

Here are the Aer Lingus ones I've found.

'This is not just an airline' (people changing)
You're Home (Featuring 'Gabriel's Oboe' as soundtrack)

Lizzykins · 19-01-2008 10:31PM

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=p_i3iX6ozvI

This is the Aer Lingus ad-I hope!

Lizzykins · 19-01-2008 10:32PM

Sorry Ruu-you got in just before me!

08-02-2008 12:51AM

Lizzykins wrote: »

ESB had another on with that guy Alan from TV3 I think who was a returned immigrant and there was his mammy making the dinner and putting on his electric blanket! Sob sob!!

That ad had some lifespan, I remember seeing it up to about 1999 or so. There was also a version with an Irish slogan at the end, this was shown on TnaG quite frequently in 1996/97.

There was another ESB one with "Only You" by The Platters as the soundtrack, a father is woken up at night by his young baby and he has to get up and heat up a bottle for the child. I think they were both aired around the same time and I've had no luck tracing either of them.

I'd also love to find "if you're gonna have a cuppa have a Club."

08-02-2008 11:22PM

Decided I'd upload one from my collection...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCn_iV8Rx94

Lizzykins · 11-02-2008 03:24PM

Thanks for the Telecom ad Karsini-any idea what year it's from? I only ask because my OH works for Eircom and I can't remember when they changed the name!

14-02-2008 08:07PM

Lizzykins wrote: »

Thanks for the Telecom ad Karsini-any idea what year it's from? I only ask because my OH works for Eircom and I can't remember when they changed the name!

You're welcome.

It was from 1994, the news which preceded the weather forecast I got this from had a 1994 copyright date. TÉ changed to eircom in 1998.

Lizzykins · 14-02-2008 10:51PM

Seems like a hundred years ago! Now if only I could find those old ESB ads...

jmak808 · 20-02-2008 06:19PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkUymd38boE

defo my all time favourite

L1011 · 20-02-2008 11:12PM

Karsini wrote: »

There was another ESB one with "Only You" by The Platters as the soundtrack, a father is woken up at night by his young baby and he has to get up and heat up a bottle for the child. I think they were both aired around the same time and I've had no luck tracing either of them.

Remember that one too

Why did the ESB need to advertise when they were a monopoly and everyone with a TV clearly had electricity?

20-02-2008 11:13PM

MYOB wrote: »

Remember that one too

Why did the ESB need to advertise when they were a monopoly and everyone with a TV clearly had electricity?

Glad to hear I'm not the only person who thought that!

Degsy · 28-03-2008 03:07PM

MYOB wrote: »

Remember that one too

Why did the ESB need to advertise when they were a monopoly and everyone with a TV clearly had electricity?

Well OUR house refused to give in and powered eveyrthing in the place with a bank of car batteries we kept in the shed!;)

Roar · 31-03-2008 09:37PM

for the win...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

them bones them bones need calcium..

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