Ads that make you want to break your TV

niva*sis · 06-11-2010 12:17AM

the harvey norman ads grrrrrr

niva*sis · 06-11-2010 12:20AM

irish-stew wrote: »

The birdseye ad. A polar bear in your frezzer telling you what to have for dinner.

FFS

:mad:

thats right katie, prawns!!!!!:D

darragh16 · 06-11-2010 12:23AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbujX4hXOg

not that i hate it.... more of a classic

stoneill · 06-11-2010 12:32AM

Senokot ad I think.

Some bird is sitting at home miserable because she can't ****. Takes the senokot or what ever and then the whole world become brilliant and the paparazzi are out taking pictures of her.
I have been pleased with some of the ****s I have had in my life but never so happy to have the paparazzi out to mark the event.

jmn89 · 06-11-2010 02:07AM

irish-stew wrote: »

The birdseye ad. A polar bear in your frezzer telling you what to have for dinner.

At the risk of being lynched, I quite like that ad! It's weird, trippy and original methinks.

My very LEAST favourites are Wymax and Go Compare... I don't know what I'm supposed to go and compare, but I do know that I rather want that moustached genetic catastrophe wiped out.

Johro · 06-11-2010 02:07AM

lionela wrote: »

WHAT ABOUT THAT TOOTHPASTE AD. IN THE SHOPPING MALL WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASKED TO TRY THE NEW TOOTHPASTE WITH ...PRO-ARGIN...WHAT THE F?>"&* IS PRO ARGIN.

Aww I so wish that would happen in real life, down the shopping centre and you'd get asked to try it, then told 'Now drink this iced water' and you'd sip it and go 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!! OH the F*CKIN PAIN!!!!! AWWWW YOU SADISTIC B*STARDS!!!!':D

**Timbuk2** · 06-11-2010 02:14AM

Overheal wrote: »

voted worst ad of the year stateside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7kjtnW8t4

That scared the crap out of me. Did not remember that I had my volume turned up really loud.

Edit: The more I watch it the funnier it gets. The facial expression of him when he says "I know!"

jubella · 06-11-2010 02:33AM

Spenglers!

For some reason it annoys the hell out of me when the kid says "but I don't wanna get changed in front of people"

The whole ad is just awful. The worst part is it's on ALL THE TIME :mad:

eddie the eagle · 06-11-2010 02:44AM

used to love this one

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

markesmith · 06-11-2010 02:50AM

Those "Scrappage News" ads. That was how the Govt. bailed out the auto industry.

You can see the desperation in the "news announcer"'s eyes, and smell the desperation off your tellybox.

PanchoVilla · 06-11-2010 02:55AM

All perfume and cologne ads, all feminine hygiene ads, all baby product ads, all car ads, all film ads because they're bollocks and nothing like the film, basically most ads on telly. That's probably why I haven't watched telly in a couple of years.

Mike Litoris · 06-11-2010 06:03PM

eddie the eagle wrote: »

used to love this one

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

Man I also remember that with glee. It's nuts, were ads just better back then or is it all just nostalgia?

There are little or no ads these days that I find entertaining.

Princess Peach · 07-11-2010 12:49AM

Has anyone seen the ad for the Harvey Norman sale?

Bedding Bedding Bedding

Harvey Norman Norman Norman

Kill me now

Scuid Mhór · 07-11-2010 12:50AM

the drink/driving ads used to terrify me but now i'm indifferent towards them.

cedissapointed · 07-11-2010 12:52AM

JOBFITS new AD on rte really pisses me off :mad:

They are stealing jobs off us that we could have and talking about thier brand of working for free and how that is a good thing even though it is like the FAS EMPLOYMENT SCAM ROBBING JOBS FROM US ALL!
:mad:

Cheap Thrills! · 07-11-2010 01:01AM

If I'm not quick enough on the mute button the odd time I hear that infuriating song from the Boots ad; 'here come the GIRLS GIRLS...here comes the GIRLS...' :rolleyes::mad:

Makes me want to poke out my eardrums with a corkscrew!
I've seen it before I know it features a load of bimbos getting ready for an office party in a state of fevered exitement.....evidently the poor cows only annual night out!!!

Celtise · 07-11-2010 01:06AM

All ads,thus why I don't watch tv.

bonerm · 07-11-2010 01:06AM

eddie the eagle wrote: »

used to love this one

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

Thanks for this one. I remember looking for it years ago and it wasn't to be found at the time.

Clearly it have had some inspiration from Gene Kelly in Singin In the Rain, so in that vein I'm going to post this as an example of a good ad....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs_T_cEoX6I

Ally Dick · 07-11-2010 01:12AM

I used to hate that bloody men's aftershave advert where the fella ran from the bathroom in the nip and you could see his @rse. I think it was for LaCoste. My wife used to think that I was overreacting. I bet if there was an advert featuring a woman's @rse, she'd be giving out

bonerm · 07-11-2010 01:17AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

I used to hate that bloody men's aftershave advert where the fella ran from the bathroom in the nip and you could see his @rse. I think it was for LaCoste. My wife used to think that I was overreacting. I bet if there was an advert featuring a woman's @rse, she'd be giving out

Yeah but that's only because you'd have unzipped yourself.

BillShorey · 07-11-2010 01:17AM

Princess Peach wrote: »

Has anyone seen the ad for the Harvey Norman sale?

Bedding Bedding Bedding

Harvey Norman Norman Norman

Kill me now

Yeah, it's the Harvey Norman Hardly Normal sale. Complete and utter tripe and I'm sick of that company showing up on every tv and radio channel, yet the grumpy old fart at the head complains about them making a loss here. Seriously? You're buying premium ad space all the time, at a time where the country simply isn't indulging like it once did (and certainly won't be in Harvey Norman when they can again) and are surprised that money isn't being made? The mind boggles.

Other ads that tend to annoy me are the ones for Vodafone and Meteor. Christ I am so sick of seeing these cool hip kids with their geek-chic plain pane glasses and skinny jeans everywhere lately. They all look like absolute eejits and yet they're being pimped in these ads as "cool" even though the idea they're pimping i.e spending your time at a party texting people (at the party??!) is clearly about as anti-social as you could get without staying home.

The 123.ie ads are pretty appalling but aren't at the level of Harvey Norman's yet. **** you Ivan Answer.

To be honest though, most of the time I'm watching tv I hit pause on the + box and let time run a while and fast forward through the ads. Life is much less frustrating like that, it's just a shame they don't have an equivilent for the radio.

Queen-Mise · 07-11-2010 01:27AM

i hate the wimax ad with a vengeance. Its the smarmy attitude and singing of your man. He is trying to tap into the miami coolness of jack johnson.
But your not cool, your bald singing an annoying jingle.

It is the most i have hated an ad in a long while

07-11-2010 01:27AM

Has to be the Wimax ad, unbelievably annoying and goes round and round in your head. Feel sorry for my mate who works for them cos apparently that 'song' is the ringtone on the phones there, now that would drive me mental!

BillShorey · 07-11-2010 01:31AM

But guys, it's a-comin' across the nation! It's the new sensation!

Queen-Mise · 07-11-2010 01:35AM

BillShorey wrote: »

But guys, it's a-comin' across the nation! It's the new sensation!

I hate you. And no i am not joking !!!

Well i suppose they are the new generation and a sensation too.

Awful_Bliss · 07-11-2010 01:42AM

I'll start with the obvious Go Compare ads. I was very close at one stage to throwing the TV around when it came on once. Also the Bulmers ads and its annoying tune, the 11850 ads with the two 1980's guys, the Wimax ads, any car ad.

BillShorey · 07-11-2010 01:44AM

The webuyanycar.com ads are fantastic though

x in the city · 07-11-2010 01:48AM

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Harvey fcukin Norman

/thread

go go go go go go gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ally Dick · 07-11-2010 02:02AM

I can't stand that new Fig Roll advert. The one where the two Dublin wacker gobsh!tes are dressed in red spandex and are supposed to be taste buds.
It's daft. Everyone knows that Fig Rolls are rotten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kEeqkZvY0

JupiterKid · 07-11-2010 03:56AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

I used to hate that bloody men's aftershave advert where the fella ran from the bathroom in the nip and you could see his @rse. I think it was for LaCoste. My wife used to think that I was overreacting. I bet if there was an advert featuring a woman's @rse, she'd be giving out

Oh, I love that advert.:D
But I hate most telly ads - espcially the mind numbingly depressing Harvey Norman ads.

Ads that make you want to break your TV

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